Chapter 874: The Taste of Sneaking a Peek at the Exam Paper Before the Test

Mrs. Qin was solely concerned about Qin Wenrou, paying no attention to the happenings in the guest seats in the distance, nor did she see Si Daren’s face. At this moment, she was wholeheartedly watching the scores.

Nervously searching the big screen for Qin Wenrou’s name.

To become the empire’s top designer, it turned out to be such a promising thing; she increasingly hoped Qin Wenrou could get a good result in this competition.

"Rou’er, how do you feel?"

"Don’t worry, Mommy, my teachers all say I have talent."

Qin Wenrou was quite confident.

This competition seemed to be tailor-made for her.

When she saw that the exam topic was centered on the design of Imperial University’s reconstruction, she felt as smug as a student who had peeked at the exam paper beforehand.

Because recently, she had coincidentally found an old design album in her home study, filled with architecture designs that were very novel and beautiful, yet elegant and graceful. There were also some unfinished semi-complete ideas, such as turning a teaching building into an all-transparent intelligent greenhouse, smoothly connecting beautiful scenery with teaching functions, and perfectly controlling the temperature with the seasons, producing economic crops and providing experimental materials...

At that moment, she was utterly amazed.

Such a vast intelligent scene was as exciting as a prediction of the future world.

In the examination room at that moment, she unhesitatingly took the concepts from that design album and used them.

After all, the album had no credited author.

It was an old book with no publisher, probably a draft by a frustrated designer that no one knew about; the original author probably disappeared into some corner long ago.

As for why the album appeared on the Qin Family’s bookshelf... she guessed it was because Mr. Qin was previously obsessed with books, buying them by the carload, especially old books, probably without even looking, some messy drafts got mixed in by the bookseller.

So, Qin Wenrou contentedly copied the ideas from the design album, becoming one of the first to submit her work.

No wonder Mrs. Qin asked her how she felt about the competition, and she was so confident.

As the scores gradually appeared on the big screen.

The top ten scores were placed in the first row.

The mother and daughter eagerly looked over, only to see that Qin Wenrou’s name was not among the top ten.

How could this be?

Qin Wenrou panicked and couldn’t help but run towards the judges’ table. Did the judges lose her design drawing?

Or was she omitted in the scoring?

Mrs. Qin quickly followed after her: "Rou’er, wait for me, wait for Mommy, Mommy will speak up for you..."

Mother and daughter arrived at the judges’ table, out of breath.

Just then, a judge holding a microphone said, "Wait a moment, I have another drawing here, a rare masterpiece of the century. I think it could win today’s championship."

Other judges looked over: "Ah, there is another one?"

Nalan Ye Jue slightly frowned and said in a deep voice, "Bring it over for everyone to see."

Qin Wenrou’s heart was racing.

When she saw in the judge’s hand the design she personally drew, she almost floated with delight.

Her shining moment had arrived.

She was a pearl buried in dust, destined to shine brilliantly one day.

Especially when she saw Nalan Ye Jue’s long fingers pinching her design, she was so excited her heart couldn’t take it.

After all, she was a heart disease patient; how could she withstand her brother-in-law’s perfect fingers gliding over her design?