Short And Smooth

#Province Y_an office_

"Green"

"Y-Yes?"

It was a private room with few tables and chairs surrounded by glass wall. Each table would fit for four people. The room apparently was designed for when the staff of the company meeting their client for a discussion.

At that time, there was a young girl sitting at a chair, facing a man who was clearly older than her. Chen Ziyi thought that her mother would be sitting along with her in the room. However, her mother and a woman who seemed to be an acquaintance of her mother left her to a man, who was currently shared some of his past work to her.

The man who called Lin Cheung, introduced himself as the one who would be in charge solely for the interior design of her bedroom. From his stories, Chen Ziyi could tell that the man seemed had a lot of experiences with designing interior for bedroom, and on top of that, most of his past work revolved around bedroom for woman.

Lin Cheung could be considered as relatively new in the field compared to his seniors in the company, but his skill was a remarkable one for always able to satisfy his clientele. He was known as someone who would make one imagination breathe and his design would surpassed of what one request that most his clientele were extremely happy for his work.

His clientele were mostly woman, not kids or teenage girls. It was not that he never got a client from that range of age, but those group of clientele were never passed to him. His seniors would took all the job as he was still new. They said, he need to have high tolerance skills if he got a kid as his client.

It was not uncommon but quite rare for kid get to decide his or her room design on their own, but few parents allowed their children to do so.

Kids' decision usually would be influenced by their friends or a fad, and sometimes they would keep changing their mind about the design, thus making people find it was difficult to follow up with them.

Their company rarely accept those type of client usually, but sometimes they could not declined the job if it came directly to the president's door. Lin Cheung never had such experience so he was kind of nervous when his direct superior suddenly assigned him to Chen Ziyi.

After contemplating of how he should start his first meeting with Chen Ziyi, he decided to ignore the fact that she was a fifteen year old kid, instead he should view her as one of his normal client. His seniors cheered for him before he walked into the room to meet Chen Ziyi.

With a shaky heart, accompanied by his superior, he greeted both Chen Ziyi and Chen Rumin. When the mother left the room with his superior, he felt awkward by just sitting there alone with Chen Ziyi.

It was his first meeting with a client which was a young girl. Looking at how both mother and the daughter appeared, they did not looked like from an influence family that their president could not dare to decline the job. He assumed the mother could be a good acquaintance of his superior by looking from how friendly his superior entertained Chen Rumin. His superior and the president was brother and sister, so their president could also have good relationship with Chen Rumin. With that, Chen Ziyi became his first teenage client.

When his eyes landed on Chen Ziyi, his eyes instinctively studied the young girl in front of him. At first, his eyes observed how the girl dressed herself, how she smiled when she greeted him, how she sat with a good manner, and how she look awkward when they were both left alone in the room. Then, while they were discussing, he observed how she act, her body movement, her choice of words, how she explained her preference, how she use a direct and simple word, and how she talked to him.

The girl before his eyes clearly had her vision and she was able to explain clearly to him. He could not help but to be impressed.

It was like he was talking to a mature girl instead of a fifteen year old girl. To him, all girls at that age should have a little childishness in their choice and preferences, just like his younger cousins. They usually would have difficult time to specifically mention of what they wanted. As they did not know specific terms and items, their explanation could be sometimes vague that most of the person who was assigned to the job would have to put extra effort to assist them to decide.

However, as he listened to Chen Ziyi's choices and preferences, he could not help but felt the smoothness of the discussion. He was amazed of how she could directly and correctly telling him every item and even show him few examples.

Although the girl looked a bit like she had a temper, but apparently she did not mind to show that side to him. He felt good that he could able to see those as all that were indeed needed when he was to make the design later. The reason his design could make his clientele's preference breathe and exceed expectation was because he incorporated his view on his clientele personality into his work.

"I would like a combination of green, soft yellow and wood for my room. You can play a bit between this soft green and a darker shade green. Not too dark please. Like this tone colour. The colour of the curtain should be cream or soft beige at most. Something like this. Simple, not too crowded with design and not too dull. For the material, please consult with my mother. I do not know much about the material. I love it to be soft but it must be good match with the room." Chen Ziyi explained.

Lin Cheung at first was caught off guard when Chen Ziyi easily answered him when he asked what was in her mind about the room, but he then jotted down every details and preferences that Chen Ziyi said. He made sign on every picture that Chen Ziyi pointed with a sticker label for his reference later.

"I want this type of study desk. Large enough for me to at least have a space to do my homework, a laptop and a book. Two drawer that I can lock. Bookshelves must be on my right side. Other things like dressing table and wardrobe, I will rely on you. Make them in tune with my preference just now. The mirror should be not too small like this. Just large enough that if I stand, I can see my body," Chen Ziyi continued her explanation.

"Bed size?"

"Normal Queen size."

"Wood frame?"

"Should be. Simple like this one." Chen Ziyi said while showed the picture she download from internet to the man. The man eyes studied the picture and he seemed like he was thinking about something.

Lin Cheung nodded his head after his eyes looking back at all his notes. "I can get the rough image that you wanted. But we still need to go to the site to have a better picture. We can have further discussion upon we arrived there. Just in case you will get more ideas. Have you went to the site?" The man asked.

"Not yet. My mother said that it would be better for me to give you a rough image of the kind of bedroom I have in mind first, so when we go to the place later, at least we have the basic idea as a starter," Chen Ziyi answered him.

"Sure. Cool. We are done here. I believe we can call your mother to get move to the place?" The man asked her, making sure Chen Ziyi truly had no things to add for the time being.

After Chen Ziyi nodded, he closed his notebook and sorted back all the catalog and magazine into one place. It was a short discussion and he felt it was smooth unlike what he expected. Although Chen Ziyi had few other things that she did not specify what she liked for certain part of the bedroom, but she instead clearly mentioned her dislikes.

The man excused himself then came back brought her a refilled drink. Then, he excused himself again to his work desk to take his things like measurement tape and small flashlight. He put all those kit and his notebook into his tote bag before he went back to Chen Ziyi. He did met with his colleagues who stopped him asking about the meeting, and he just smiled at them giving them a vague response.

Both of the man and Chen Ziyi met with Chen Rumin and his superior at the lounge before they moved to the place with a car.