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Chapter 173

Author: Tang Eighteen
With a scowl, Matthew snatched the sketch right before Lucy’s eyes and flung it at Richard’s face. “No, absolutely not! This sketch is unacceptable. Redesign it.”

Richard took the sketch off his face with confusion as if he was seeing Matthew for the first time. “Why not? Isn’t the sketch nice?”

He was truly puzzled.

Matthew had just said that everything was up to him and that he trusted his vision. Why was it that as soon as Richard finished his sketch, Matthew said that it was unacceptable?

Matthew glared at Richard and said, “What’s so nice about a draft that took 20 minutes to draw? Go draw another one.”

That was not what he said earlier!

Lucy was getting even more confused. She thought that the dress was pretty nice.

Despite the sketch only taking 20 minutes, the design incorporated fashion elements from all over the globe, which Lucy quite liked.

Lucy glowered at Matthew, but there was nothing she could do to refute him.

The Italian man was perplexed by the American man’
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