CHAPTER 176: CHAPTER 178: THE TWO MISSING PAGES

Her voice echoed in the meeting room like a melodious violin: "The criteria for ordinary consumers choosing a camera are different from yours. For example, aperture—they always think the larger the range, the better, without considering any long-range distortion issues. If you narrow the aperture range because of this, they might think your camera isn’t as high-end as others.

"And the few manual modules you mentioned, those modules were meticulously designed by our engineers to be like this. Although they’re not the optimal modules, they were chosen after extensive market research by our Blade Group as the most suitable for our target consumers. You can’t use your standards to judge others.

"In fact, I think the current modules are too complicated and not user-friendly enough. I suggest the engineers make some improvements to make them more intelligent, more suitable for consumers with zero experience."

Many people in the room deeply agreed with her words.

Yun Xi provocatively glanced at Su Xingyu and said, "Did you hear that? Learn more. Who do you think you are, some big deal photographer? It’s really funny." She hadn’t managed to snatch the window-side desk from Su Xingyu the day before, feeling resentful, taking every chance to jab at Su Xingyu.

Su Xingyu, however, had understood Zhuang Heng’s point, realizing that they were approaching the meeting with a more market-oriented mindset.

This was precisely what she, a young girl fresh out of college with little work experience, lacked the most.

She gently exhaled and chose not to argue with Zhuang Heng this time.

The agenda became clear, and everyone followed Zhuang Heng’s train of thought, nodding frequently. Zhuang Heng even proposed that the price could be increased for this ordinary-performance camera because of its compact and attractive design, which looked both fashionable and high-end.

Su Xingyu listened in silence throughout, without saying much more.

It’s not that she won’t admit her mistakes, but she will humbly learn about her deficiencies.

After the meeting, everyone gradually left the meeting room.

"Xingyu!" Fang Luohua, the "mentor" assigned to Su Xingyu, hurried a couple of steps to catch up with her, his clean baby face full of confusion and puzzlement, asking, "Didn’t you look at the test forms I gave you this morning?"

Su Xingyu was slightly stunned for a moment: "I did, isn’t this it."

As she spoke, she handed the two test sheets in her hand to him.

Fang Luohua’s expression changed: "Just these two?"

"Yeah," Su Xingyu, puzzled, "When Anna handed them to me, there were only these two. What’s wrong?"

"I sent a total of 4 sheets and asked Ranran to help print them," Fang Luohua said. "The last two were detailed instructions on the testing standards. Didn’t you receive them?" He knew she was a newcomer without experience, so he meticulously wrote out the key points in the test sheets, even attaching previous cases he had done. If Su Xingyu had received them, she wouldn’t have made such mistakes during the meeting—he had clearly written about the target consumer group and positioning in the instructions he gave her!

Su Xingyu was stunned: "I didn’t receive them."

Where did the mistake happen? Could it be that Xia Ranran framed her?

Over there, Xia Ranran was walking closely beside Zhuang Heng, chatting and laughing.

"Ranran!" Fang Luohua couldn’t help but call out.

Xia Ranran and Zhuang Heng halted their steps and looked in their direction.

"What is it?" Xia Ranran pouted, walking a few steps forward reluctantly. Although she disliked Su Xingyu, her relations with Fang Luohua were still okay, and she didn’t want to make a scene.

"Ranran, didn’t I ask you to give four sheets to Xingyu this morning?" Fang Luohua questioned with the two sheets in his hand. "Where are the other two? Why didn’t Xingyu receive them?"

A flash of panic quickly passed through Xia Ranran’s eyes, but she soon regained her composure: "What, accusing me? I printed all four sheets just as you asked, Luohua. If you don’t believe me, you can ask Zhou Kai in the admin department; he saw me using the printer." With that, she cast a glance at Su Xingyu, "Could it be that she lost them herself?"

"I only received these two," Su Xingyu said. "Anna brought them this morning."

"Anna!" Fang Luohua called out loudly again. He couldn’t keep things to himself, and before Anna came close, he asked loudly, "How many forms did you give to Xingyu this morning?"

"Two," Anna replied while walking over, "just those two that Ranran placed on my desk. She called me earlier saying she had something to do this morning and asked me to pass the sheets on my desk to Xingyu, saying you told her. What’s the matter?"

Fang Luohua was puzzled: "Ranran told you there were two?"

Anna had already reached them: "Ranran didn’t specify the number, but there were only two on my desk."

Next to them, Xia Ranran spoke softly: "Anna, I clearly placed four sheets on your desk, it’s really strange, where did the other two go?" She said this while hiding a hint of smugness in her expression.

This was why she didn’t hand the items to Su Xingyu personally—an extra step meant an extra error!

"Yes, where did the other two go?" Anna realized she hadn’t given all the sheets to Su Xingyu, turning to her, "Were they something important? Oh, I’m really sorry, I didn’t know there were two more."

Seeing things getting murkier, Su Xingyu shook her head: "It’s not your fault, forget it."

Xia Ranran’s fleeting panic and hidden smugness didn’t escape her eyes. Intuitively, she realized there was a problem with Xia Ranran. But even if she exposed Xia Ranran, what would that achieve? Demand compensation? After all, the meeting had ended, and arguing over this would make her seem petty and unable to handle setbacks.

Besides, how could such a matter be easily clarified?

Anna still looked guilty: "It’s all my fault."

Fang Luohua also sighed: "Ah, it’s my fault, I shouldn’t have..." He glanced at Zhuang Heng and swallowed the sentence "I shouldn’t have left Xingyu to accompany Miss Zhuang for a photo shoot." Accompanying Zhuang Heng was something he volunteered for, thinking that organizing instructions for Su Xingyu into text would prevent mistakes, but a large oversight still occurred.

Earlier, he had originally planned to send the electronic version of the material directly to Su Xingyu’s email, but Zhuang Heng said to him: "Xingyu has just joined, and may not know if her computer system is properly set up yet. It’s best to have someone print it out for her; Ranran is in the office these days, let her handle it."

Fang Luohua didn’t think much of it and asked Xia Ranran to help.

It must be fate, right?

Over there, Xia Ranran looked at Su Xingyu with a heart full of vengeful pleasure. Yes, she deliberately lost the information, only placing two sheets on Anna’s desk. But who could prove it? Ha-ha, these small issues could always be excused as a mishandled transfer, the only one suffering was Su Xingyu, who got "educated" by Zhuang Heng in front of everyone at the meeting for the lack of necessary documents! "It’s important for people to recognize their own limitations," she said to Su Xingyu with a smile, "Someone like you, not even heaven is on your side."