novelraw Chapter 610: Turmoil (6)
Chapter 610: Turmoil (6)
The right area was much more chaotic, like a wholesale market. All the fabrics were piled haphazardly on a giant table, looking like a small hill from a distance.In addition, the far left row displayed some items like jewelry buttons, zippers, and threads in various colors and textures, but at least they were organized clearly.
Qiao Mo didn’t rush to choose, thinking that since she was already late, a little more time wouldn’t make a difference.
She first walked around both areas, getting a general idea of the fabrics and their prices.
It had to be said that the budget for the competition was indeed tight, so if anyone wanted to use jewelry inlays to catch attention, it was basically impossible.
After calculating the money in her hand, Qiao Mo started rummaging through the heap of small hills since the fabrics here were sold by the pound, not by the yard or meter, making them much cheaper.
However, the quality of the fabrics was mixed, varied in size, and extremely irregular in shape. Thus, it fully tested a designer’s ability to discern the material and reassemble different fabrics.
Qiao Mo stood at the table for a long time, feeling her legs become a little numb. She had only managed to pick out three or four pieces of black and gray fabric.
With a sigh, she had to admit that she had come a little too late. Almost all the good fabrics here had already been picked over.
But looking at the human-sized pile in front of her, Qiao Mo was somewhat undeterred. Seeing only a few salespeople inside the mall, she simply took off her shoes, disregarded her appearance, climbed right onto the counter, rolled up her pants, and began to search through the heap.
Though she had come late, she refused to believe that she couldn’t find two pounds of what she wanted in such a large pile of fabric.
The salespeople nearby were somewhat dumbfounded, their gazes falling on her.
At first, Qiao Mo felt a little embarrassed, but as time went on, she didn’t even have the time to pay attention to them, completely immersed in the heap of fabrics...
She stayed busy until midnight. Gradually, she had selected a significant amount of fabric she needed, stacking it on one side of the table.
While Qiao Mo was bent over searching, a few footsteps quietly approached from afar.
Feeling dizzy and seeing stars, Qiao Mo didn’t notice until she heard a mocking laugh: "Tsk tsk, let’s see what our Miss Qiao has found."
Alina still dressed like a rebellious girl, yet with an incredibly sexy and hot figure.
Qiao Mo met her gaze, felt her heart tighten, and had a bad premonition.
Immediately, she wanted to retrieve the fabrics she had just found, but Alina was faster, snatching away the pieces Qiao Mo had painstakingly selected for hours: "I didn’t expect to find quite a few nice pieces in this pile of trash."
Alina laughed as she handed the fabrics to a companion nearby, mockingly looking at Qiao Mo: "Thanks so much, Miss Qiao, for picking them out for me. Now I don’t have to put in any effort."
"These items are clearly what I selected, or do you just like getting things without effort?" Qiao Mo furrowed her brow.
But Alina laughed and said, "Where does it say these things are yours? These fabrics are on the table for anyone to select. Since you didn’t have them in your hand, how can you prove they are yours? Besides, how am I getting things without effort? I selected these fabrics from this table."