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484 Wheels of Fate
"Of course," Ace replied with a laugh.
Ace's laugh didn't quite help to lighten the mood as my mind still struggled to process this sudden turn of events. I was surprised but it also felt like we had a special connection ever since back then.
"I see. So that comrcial was sothing that you made for the Ashford competition back then. I really liked it just like I told you before so I'm glad that you managed to get your way with the comrcial," I said before I found myself smiling.
"It honestly makes
feel good to hear you say that, but I have to say that you've got so peculiar taste," Ace said almost teasingly.
"What do you an?" I asked.
"Well, you're probably one of the very few people that I know that actually liked that comrcial," Ace admitted.
"People...did not like it?" I asked softly because I found it hard to believe.
"Yup. That comrcial was a major flop. It wasn't well received at all by the public and even the Ashford committee mbers had a hard ti connecting to it," Ace said before grinning wryly.
"Oh..." I murmured without knowing what else to say.
"Do you rember what I said to you when you told
about the comrcial during your interview?" he asked.
"Umm...you said so pretty harsh things about it. I think you said sothing like...what's the point of the comrcial if people can't even tell what it's supposed to sell..." I replied as I recalled the harsh response that Ace had to one of my responses during my job interview.
My eyes widened when I felt like I had finally connected the dots and understood what he was trying to get at.
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"Now do you get it? The comrcial might have been touching and inspiring to you, but it sucked at getting across the main ssages that it was supposed to help sell," Ace said with a helpless shrug of his shoulders.
"I see..." I murmured.
I didn't even want to imagine the harsh reality that Ace must have gone through when the comrcial was launched. After going through so much trouble to get his way because he truly believed that it was the best way, he had to deal with the failure of the comrcial. Nothing turned out the way that he wished and expected that it would. I bit down on my lower lip when I realized that Ace must have been blad by everyone in his team or even in the company for how things turned out.
"It was a ss, I assure you. It was a ss all around when the comrcial's performance data started coming in. The entire team was disappointed and frustrated. My father was outright mad because he had invested precious money. Everyone in the company was shocked," Ace said quite emotionlessly.
He must have lived through that nightmare on repeat for a while already, so I was glad that he seed to have gotten over it to a certain degree even if not completely.
"I'm so sorry..." I whispered as I felt like my heart was about to break for him.
"It's not your fault, Rina. It was my fault for being cocky and overly confident in my ideas. The world doesn't turn the way that we want and sotis there's just nothing that we can do about it. I was still new in the industry, and I have to admit that that was a big blow to my ego at the ti. I don't regret what I'd done but I made sure to learn from it," Ace explained.
"It must have been so hard on you. I can't even imagine...going through sothing like that," I murmured sadly.
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"Honestly, I wanted to quit. I doubted myself and what I was doing. What I thought was great was greatly criticized instead. It was overall a very difficult ti; however, it also made
realize what I wanted to do," Ace said before he smiled.
"Is that why you decided to leave the company to start your own businesses?" I asked after figuring out that that may have been the reason behind Ace's sudden withdrawal from his father's company.
"Correct. Actually, sothing made
realize that I might have been right even though it felt like the world was against ,” he said before coming to a pause.
"What is it?" I asked curiously.
"One day while I was sitting here with my very stressed out colleagues, one of the team mbers alerted that soone had sent an email to our central project email to praise the comrcial," Ace said before grinning at .
I blinked a couple of tis in disbelief. It was so long ago and that minor action that I had undertaken at the ti had totally slipped my mind. Now that I thought back on it, I supposed I did send an email like that. From the way Ace was looking at , I could tell that he was probably referring to the email that I had sent. It was so long ago that I no longer rembered exactly what I had written. Of course, I never truly thought that soone would actually read the email that I had sent, let alone for that person to be Ace of all people.
Why else would he be telling
this?
"Don't tell
that you don't rember. After all, you did sign your na at the end of the email," Ace said as he stared at
intently.
"I guess I sort of rember..." I murmured while feeling slightly embarrassed.
I honestly never thought that Ace would end up reading the email that I sent. My mind was suffering and lagging a little from the sudden information overload. It was hard for
to piece everything together.
"How long have you known?" I asked.
Many things that I thought were re coincidences ca flooding back to . That ti that I t Ace at the park next to the office where he gave
loads of cash before suddenly stealing a kiss from
in return. How I t him later during my job interview. All the things that he said to
after I ntioned the comrcial that inspired
and changed my life.
--To be continued...
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