Drama Novel
Chapter 166 Champion
Chapter 166 Champion
"The scoring system ranks submissions from 0 to 100. Each of the five judges will give their individual score and the average score will be determined as the contender's final score. Then, each contender will be ranked based on their scores.”
The rules were simple and clear, then came the scoring session.
Susan ranked first during the voting match, so she was the first to be assessed in this round.
To be the first contender standing at the center of the stage, Susan could not help but feel a little nervous.
She did not think that the result would be determined using the scoring system, and she had no idea how many points she could score.
Among the five judges, she had the least hope for Julian’s score.
Because of the rumors, he should give her a lower score.
Just as Susan was thinking to herself, the first score was out.
"Lanyard's chairman, Mr. Shaw: 99 points."
Susan looked up in shock, she was dumbfounded. 1
What? 99 points?
Not only did Julian not give her a lower score, but he also gave her a really high score.
Susan was stunned.
The other four judges also looked at Julian.
"Mr. Shaw, 99 points? Isn't this a little too high?" A judge could not help but say.
If Julian wanted to be biased, he should at least do it discreetly. That was way too obvious.
"Nope, I think it’s worth this score," Julian looked at Susan proudly.
The other judges were speechless.
Why did they feel like Julian was Susan's fan?
"Worth this score? I think, among all the other submissions, Susan's design was the worst," the second judge snickered coldly and gave Susan 76 points.
Julian glanced at her. This judge was a female designer who had an exclusive contract with a huge construction company, so she was not really intimidated by Lanyard's power.
After giving Susan a low score, she even glanced at Julian provocatively.
She despised people like Susan. She was already forty-five years old and was just merely securing her reputation in the field. Susan was not even thirty years old, so what did she do to deserve such a high
score?
Julian raised his brows and looked away, "I don't talk t o blind people." 2
The female judge was speechless.
Blind! Julian called her blind!
The female judge wanted to get angry, but Julian was not even paying attention to her, so she could only force herself to calm down.
Susan watched closely from the center of the stage.
She told Julian so many times in the car to keep it low -key and avoid the rumors.
Yet, not only did this man not keep it low, but he also gained everyone’s attention.
If they were characters in a comic strip, Susan would definitely draw two trails of tears on her face.
The first two judges gave 99 and 76 respectively. The next judge was Jojen, who gave 89 points. The remaining two judges gave 94 and 95 points each.
Susan's final average score was calculated to be 90.6.
The next contender entered the stage. Julian gave an objective score of 90 points, and the lowest score was given by Jojen - 70 points. The scores given by the other judges were all above 85 points.
Then the third, fourth contender.
After all ten of the contenders received their scores, the crowd realized that, among the ten scores he gave, Susan was the only one who received a score above 80 from Jojen. All the other scores fluctuated around 70, and the lowest was just 60. 1
Everyone looked at each other.
Was it not true that Jojen did not like Susan? Why would he give her a score of 89 points if he did not see her potential? The second-highest score he gave was only 75!
A huge difference of 14 points.
When the scoring session was over, Susan was the only one who had a final score of over 90 points, so she was crowned as the champion straightaway.
Did she... really become the champion?
Susan was still stunned when she held the trophy and the million-dollar check in her hands.
"Mr. Reeds, among the 10 contenders, who do you want to be your student?" the host asked.
All ten contenders could not help but feel a little hopeful. Susan did not dare to have too much hope since Jojen had never given her work very good remarks. Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org
"Susan," Jojen answered without hesitation.
Susan, Susan again!
Everyone turned their heads to look at Susan.
Susan was dumbfounded again.
Did Mr. Reeds really choose her?
Seeing Susan’s shocked reaction, a smile crept onto Jojen's face, "You don't want to be my student?"
"I do, I do. I want to be your student!" Susan was afraid that Jojen would change his mind, so she quickly changed how she addressed him, "Mr. Reeds, I look forward to learning from you."
Jojen smiled with a look of satisfaction on his face.
He quite liked this student. Not only did she have a natural talent for design, but more importantly, she also had a very good attitude. She was not defeated by her failures, nor was she overconfident with her success. Besides, every time he gave her some criticisms, she would absorb it and improve. She nearly never committed the same mistake twice.
She had great potential.
Once Jojen picked his student, Susan became the spotlight of the night.
Once the results of the competition were out, some people already called Julian.
"Mr. Shaw, I heard your wife won first place, congrats!”
Julian's smile was almost unnoticeable, "It's nothing. Actually, my wife's design is so natural and lively, it is perfect from both the bigger picture and the smaller details, so it’s kind of unfair to the other contenders."
The person who called was speechless.
When he heard Julian said, "It's nothing," he wanted t o say that Julian was being too humble. But, now...
He wanted to flip the table - he had never seen anyone who praised their own family like that before.
"Hahaha, yes yes yes yes, it's unfair to them," the person hung up.
Soon, someone else called.
Julian continued to boast about Susan calmly.
Susan was listening at the side - she was so embarrassed she felt like she could never look at these people in their eyes ever again.
Finally, she caught the chance to grab Julian's phone," Hey hey hey, can you not be so overconfident?”
"I'm just saying the truth," Julian said.
He really felt that Susie’s works were the best of the best.
"Stop it," Susan said embarrassedly, "Didn't we agree t o avoid attention? Why did you give me such a high score?"
"I did! I wanted to give 100," Julian frowned, seemingly regretting that 1 mark that he deducted.
"You..." Susan did not know what to say anymore.
"Some people still don't know that you got the champion's seat, so give me a moment to make a few calls," Julian took his phone and started calling
people.
"Hello, Mr. Walsh. My wife is the champion of the interior design competition. Yep, yep, it was really easy."
"Good Evening, Director Reinford. My wife is the champion of..."
Julian called everyone one by one to boast. Susan was so embarrassed that she wanted to bury herself in the ground.
Julian managed the company for so long, and his achievements were way bigger than hers.
She just became the champion of one interior design competition. Did he need to show her off like that?
In the middle of the night, all influential figures in the Ningcheng City received a call from Julian. So, everyone knew that Susan was the champion of the contest.
At first, Susan still tried to stop Julian. In the end, she just gave up and stopped listening.
After making a series of calls, Julian was still not satisfied. He asked Susan excitedly, "Susie, to celebrate you becoming the champion, let’s arrange a party at our house tomorrow night?”