Lu Jin Sheng took in a deep breath as he tried to calm all the mixed emotions he was feeling.
"Firstly, it"s because it was easier to match the clothing with the model. As you can see, my models are in pairs except for the queen"s dress. Since An An is the amba.s.sador for Rise, I believe that she should be the one that wears the most important design. Hence, instead of having the king"s outfit, having the queen"s outfit would be the best."
"Secondly, because An An is an actor, she would be able to bring out the queen"s true aura. Most of us here personally know the queen, and An An is one of us that knows the queen"s different sides. Hence, she would be the best candidate to wear the queen"s outfit as well. That being said, An An had to go through a lot of practice to bring out the feeling that you guys are getting today. Even though An An knows the queen, it is not easy to imitate the queen"s aura. What you guys are feeling now is probably less than half the feeling that you would be getting when the queen truly wears it."
"Thirdly, the king"s aura is hard to imitate, even for professional actors, because not many people know him personally. If we were to find someone to imitate the king, it would probably be disastrous because they could only bring out one percent of the king"s true aura."
"Fourthly, it is the reason why I didn"t ask the queen to be the model, which must be what you guys are wondering as well. The queen, as you all can see from the dress, she has a lot of responsibilities. She has a lot that she has to handle, and the last thing that she wants to do was to expose herself. Because that would put everyone around her in danger, and that is why none of us revealed her ident.i.ty. She is doing her best to protect everyone, so we want to do our part to lessen the burden she has. This also helps to reduce the king"s burden, and they could focus on other more important things. However, that doesn"t mean that we aren"t grateful for having the king and queen, and that is why the king and queen"s outfit are made."
"Lastly, the queen is very important to me, and I want to let everyone know what she is like. As mentioned, we are all very grateful for having the king and queen, but the queen is extra important to me. Without her, I would not be here, and perhaps some of them would not be here as well."
Another judge then recalled the interview that Lu Jin Sheng had during the release of the National High School Examination"s results, "Is the queen the person that helped you regain your confidence?"
"Yes. That is the queen."
"When can we get to meet either of them? I would love to see how they look like in your designs! More importantly, I would like to see who is the queen that gave you so much confidence, and the king that protects the people and loves the queen so much!"
"Soon. We should be able to see them very soon," Lu Jin Sheng answered while he looked at Mo Xi.
Mo Xi smiled as she felt her heart being warmed up again because of Lu Jin Sheng"s words. That was the feeling of having a family member supporting her even though she was away and not around most of the time.
"Great! However, I will have to minus some marks for not showing us the king"s outfit."
The other judges laughed and nodded their heads as they agree that they would minus marks for not revealing the king"s outfit. Although they knew that the queen"s outfit was supposed to be complete on its" own, they still felt that it was incomplete as Lu Jin Sheng had already designed the king"s outfit, and yet he didn"t show it.
It wasn"t really the feeling of the queen"s design being incomplete that bugged the judges. In fact, the queen"s design was perfect, and incomplete would never be the word to describe the dress. It was more of the feeling that it was a pity that they couldn"t get to see it even though they knew that the king"s outfit was already made. It was the feeling of not being able to see both together that made the judges felt that it was incomplete like their hearts don"t feel completely contented.
The judges then proceeded to give Lu Jin Sheng the scores for his designs. Meanwhile, Lu Jin Sheng and the others then left the stage and went to the sit at the front seats where Jiang Xue Zi and Ning Hua"s team were.
Although Ning Hua was supposed to be sitting over there with his team, he was held by the guards as he was unstable. He was furious earlier on and had attempted to run to the stage to pull Wen Ting Ting down. Hence, the judges feared that he would attack the other partic.i.p.ants or the models, so they made sure that he was kept a safe distance from the other teams.
The a.s.sistants then quickly cleared the stage, and once they were done, they flashed the current score of the three teams on the screen. They wanted to reveal where the three teams stood before they carried on with the other components of the compet.i.tion, which includes the onsite and online voting.
Lu Jin Sheng got a score of 99.5 points. The highest score so far in the National Fas.h.i.+on Designing Compet.i.tion.
When the score was revealed, everyone gave Lu Jin Sheng and the others a standing ovation.
Although those marks weren"t the final scores, everyone still gave Lu Jin Sheng a standing ovation because no one had received such a high score in the National Fas.h.i.+on Designing Compet.i.tion before!
"Lu Jin Sheng! Lu Jin Sheng!"
"Designer Lu!"
"Rise!"