Celeste held back the grin tugging at her lips and asked seriously, "Why do you think that?"
"I'll show you something," Lily said, unlocking her phone and pulling up the 'NewWave' online store. She clicked on the sales leaderboard, and the top product popped up-a pale pink beaded bracelet.
"This one's designed by IM."
"Yeah," Lily replied, tone turning a bit more serious, "I may not know jewelry like a professional judge, but from a buyer's point of view, IM's designs always hit the sweet spot commercially. They're smart and relatable. Unlike that artsy ‘Flowers in the Mist' theme from the quarterfinals, he got ‘flower' and went with ‘peach blossom'-boom, he made a charm bracelet for attracting love, and now it's blowing up."
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