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Chapter 23 Dawn - Early Spring
After doing the math, Jiang Limei's cultural and creative company has been established for four years.

Now looking back at the reasons for resigning and starting a business, it is somewhat reckless.

She was 24 years old at the time, had just graduated from university for two years, and was working as a visual designer in a big Internet company. Wu Yusi was behind her, working on UI.

As a functional department, the design department often does not need to memorize so many KPIs, but it does not mean that the workload and troubles are less than other departments.The most frustrating point is whether you will encounter some incomprehensible requirements, such as "I want this icon to be larger, but smaller." "The background of this poster should not be gradient, but the upper half should be pink, and the lower Half green."

Jiang Limei directly put out two color blocks: "Is this so?"

"No, no," the man shook his head: "It should be done step by step, from pink to green."

Jiang Limei: "Isn't that just a gradient?"

For a while, the cyberpunk style was popular in the design circle, and cyberpunk elements can be seen everywhere online and offline. The project team next door came to raise a demand and asked to design a cyberpunk festival event poster for an app.

Jiang Limei was puzzled: "You guys are doing early childhood education. Cyberpunk is too hardcore, isn't it suitable?"

The other party's tone was not good: "Do you not understand fashion? I don't need your aesthetics, as long as we do it according to our needs."

In the end, Jiang Limei couldn't resist, and made a poster according to the other party's request, but the effect of the event was not good, and Jiang Limei had to follow suit.

There are so many things like that.

Once drinking, Wu Yusi hugged Jiang Limei's arm and yelled: "I can't make it to class B for a day. Where do you come from? They dare to say that my aesthetics is not good. Am I the designer or are they the designer? In the end What came out was like shit! I'm too embarrassed to put it in my portfolio!"

Jiang Limei didn't speak, she just drank her head down, and after finishing her meal, she said to Wu Yusi with the strength of the drink: "Or, let's resign."

Resign, start a business, take orders by yourself, and be your own boss.It may be difficult at the beginning, but after all, you are working for yourself. After you become famous in the industry, you will have the right to choose and screen customers.

The two of them just made a decision hastily and rashly.

But the facts are much more serious than imagined. Their company has been established for four years, but they still haven't been able to achieve the original goal of "screening customers", and now they still get angry from time to time when they are asked by some strange customers for their stupid demands.

Bow down for the money, as always.

The only good thing is that her income has increased by a small level compared to before. Sometimes Wu Yusi would buy an expensive gift to reward herself when she gets angry with a client. Although luxury therapy is crude, it is useful.

This time, the curatorial company's list, in Wu Yusi's words, is afraid that she will have to buy three LVs to heal her inner wounds.

In the early spring of March, they provided the other party with the final design draft of the cultural and creative products of the Comic Expo. Most of the products are peripherals of electronic products, compatible with the animation IP and the tonality of Party A's company.But when the design draft was submitted, the other party rejected it for the Nth time, and the feedback given was ambiguous, and finally told Wu Yu Siming: They want to make a blind box for decoration.

Blind boxes have been popular for several years, and it is not a new idea in the field of cultural creation.

When Wu Yusi told Jiang Limei, Jiang Limei directly refused.

"You tell them that we can still play around the edges with peripheral products, and make character portraits or decorations, that is a blatant infringement."

Wu Yusi was also a little embarrassed: "They said, it's not for sale."

"It doesn't work if you don't sell it. If the original IP is sued, they will be responsible, and we will even sit down," Jiang Limei felt that something was wrong. This time, Party A has been raising some strange demands since the beginning of the cooperation. She told Wu Yu Si: "You told Party A to ask them to go to the Japanese company to ask for a power of attorney. Without a power of attorney, they will definitely not be able to do it."

In fact, most of them will not come.

Big ip authorization is not cheap, and Party A is not stupid.

Someone outside the door knocked on the glass door: "Takeaway! Tail number 6080!"

Jiang Limei stood up: "Give it to me, thank you."

She ordered snail noodles for lunch, and the company opened a new one downstairs. As soon as the box was opened, the whole office was smelly, and there were wailing sounds one after another:
"Boss!! You are eating snail noodles in the office again! It stinks!!!"

Jiang Limei casually rolled her hands, tied her long hair into a bun, and sniffed: "Our company does not welcome people who oppose snail noodles. I should write this in the recruitment. Besides, how can snail noodles be considered smelly?"

She took the packing box and went to the cubicle for the phone: "I'll just squat here and eat."

The old employees who have been with Jiang Limei for several years are no longer surprised, and the new interns stretched their heads to look into the cubicle.

Jiang Limei wears black shorts with suede over-the-knee boots, and an apricot sweater cardigan on her upper body, which is just suitable for the cold spring in March. A small red four-leaf clover necklace is attached to the slender collarbone, making her complexion fairer. It seems to wear spring roses on the body.

Such a stunner-like sister was squatting on the ground tearing up the seasoning packet, squeezing chili oil into the snail noodles with a look of anticipation.

Wu Yusi went to the bathroom and smelled a strong smell of snail noodles when he came back.

"She's eating snail noodles again, isn't she?"

Someone nodded and lifted their chins toward the cubicle.

At this time, Jiang Limei's first mouthful of snail noodles hadn't even entered her mouth.

The phone rang, and it was Ye Qi who hadn't contacted for a while, talking in a mouthful of soup:
"Boss Jiang, are you free?"

Ye Qi's family has a strong family background, her maternal grandfather's family is in business, her parents are both university teachers, and her family is highly educated, but Ye Qi was raised by such a bastard, who worked as a shopping agent in college, opened a vintage clothing store after graduation, and later went on to become a shopkeeper. To be an original trendy brand, I lost all my savings.

During the time I was with Jiang Limei, it seemed that I was studying to open a bar with my friends, but the bar didn't open until we broke up.

Jiang Limei was upset: "Speak up if you have something to say."

"Tsk, look at your attitude, isn't it time for you to beg me?"

When Jiang Limei was in the hospital, he asked him to help deliver things, which made him look down upon by the doctor. He still remembers it to this day.

He and Jiang Limei have conflicting personalities, and they are actually not suitable for dating. I forgot how it started. In a friend's drinking party, it may not take much thinking time for an adult man and woman to see each other. It's also fast.

It was also because we didn't take our minds off that we broke up cleanly, and we could still be friends afterwards.

Jiang Limei patiently picked out the coriander and peanuts in the snail noodles one by one, holding her mobile phone to her shoulder: "Tell me quickly."

"I'm not looking for you to please, I'm here to send you business."

Jiang Limei paused with her chopsticks: "Tell me in detail?"

The line that Ye Qi led Jiang Limei was an ancient architectural museum in Ling City, which included cultural and creative products in the new year's work plan, hoping to shorten the distance with young people, increase the popularity of the museum, do science popularization, and generate income along the way .

Jiang Limei's first reaction was: "Is this a government project?"

No matter how hard it is for a small studio like theirs, which is just starting out.

Ye Qi's explanation for this is: "The person in charge is a friend of my parents. I listened to it casually and thought that this is what you do. Of course, it's just to help you set up a line. You still have to bid according to the normal process. Yes, if you think it's okay, I'll make an appointment for you to have dinner together tonight."

(End of this chapter)