Chapter 107 The White-Cut Black-Hearted Younger Brother 7

Gu Yejue stared at Xu Qiuqiu's face, trying to see panic and tears on her face, before sarcastically remarking, "Disgusting, plagiarism bastard."

Xia Pingping continued to sob: "How could you do this, treating my hard work as your own..."

The general manager looked at Xu Qiuqiu with disappointment, "The company cannot tolerate designers who plagiarize, so you are fired."

Seeing how enthusiastically the two were acting, Xu Qiuqiu calmly said, "General Manager, don't be so hasty in drawing conclusions."

Seeing Xu Qiuqiu's completely unperturbed expression, Gu Yejue became furious. He hated that kind of expression of hers the most. Having suffered losses twice over, he couldn't help but shout angrily, "The facts are right in front of you, what else do you have to say!"

"Bai Qiu, you still won't admit your mistake? I'm not even asking you to apologize, how can you have no remorse at all..."

Xu Qiuqiu coldly watched the two of them singing in unison, "Are you done?"

Xia Pingping didn't expect Xu Qiuqiu to have such a strong mentality. Even now, she still hasn't reacted at all. She's completely different from the Bai Qiuqiu she knows. If it were the old Bai Qiuqiu, she would be devastated and would have to run away and cry because she couldn't produce any evidence.

As if deliberately trying to shut her up, Gu Yejue said with disgust, "I really didn't realize you were so shameless. You still don't have the slightest remorse. Is it glorious to be a plagiarist?"

Unable to bear listening to their rambling, Xu Qiuqiu took out her phone, logged into Weibo, and walked up to the general manager, handing it to him. "General Manager, I have a habit of uploading my finished drawings to Weibo. I uploaded mine earlier than Xia Pingping's entry into the competition."

I just don't understand why Xia Pingping's entry was exactly the same as mine. Maybe she saw my artwork on Weibo and used it directly, but I accused her of plagiarism..."

The general manager took the phone and checked the release date. It was indeed earlier than Xia Pingping's. He frowned and looked angrily at Xia Pingping and Gu Yejue.

Xia Pingping panicked. She never expected this. She had indeed seen Bai Qiu's draft beforehand and used it in advance, but she didn't expect Bai Qiu to have this habit. Her face turned pale instantly. "Perhaps, the date on Weibo can be faked..."

Xu Qiuqiu looked at Xia Pingping, whose face had turned pale instantly, and smiled. "Xia Pingping, you can fake the posting time on Weibo? Are you kidding me?"

Gu Yejue, who completely trusted Xia Pingping, had no reason to doubt her. He still yelled at Xu Qiuqiu with disgust, "It's possible you photoshopped the picture. This is definitely not real!"

"Enough!" the general manager snapped, his eyes blazing with anger as he looked at Gu Yejue. "Are you doubting my eyes?"

The general manager doesn't care about Gu Yejue's connections. Just yesterday, he was exposed for sexually harassing a female colleague, but the company suppressed the matter. In his eyes, Gu Yejue is just a good-for-nothing who lives off his family and has no ability whatsoever.

Thinking back to yesterday's events, he wasn't completely clueless about things just because he was in that position. He couldn't be bothered with the backstabbing and infighting in the workplace, but he genuinely loathed plagiarism, so he was truly furious about it.

When the general manager shouted at her, Xia Pingping trembled. Her face turned pale, and she wanted to argue but didn't know how to start.

The general manager looked coldly at Xia Pingping, "I don't care what you two do in private, but I hate designers who are dishonest. Xia Pingping, you're fired. I don't want to see you at the company this afternoon."

After saying that, he glanced at Gu Yejue again, "As for you, you'd better take care of yourself."

Gu Yejue felt a pang of anger at the general manager's gaze, but he wasn't so foolish as to argue back, so he had no choice but to swallow his anger and glare at Xu Qiuqiu.

"Alright, you can all leave now." The general manager returned the phone to Xu Qiuqiu.

Xia Pingping bit her lip, her face pale. "General Manager, please give me another chance. I don't know what happened. I didn't plagiarize!"

Seeing that Xia Pingping seemed unable to hold on, Gu Yejue also began to plead for her: "General Manager, Pingping would never plagiarize. Bai Qiu must have used some means to forge it!"

Xu Qiuqiu narrowed her eyes. "Fine, you want to play tea with me?"

She will use magic to defeat magic.

Her eyes instantly welled up with tears. "Director Gu, I know you hate me, just because I refused to have a relationship with you... you teamed up with Xia Pingping to retaliate against me... If I didn't have the habit of uploading my artwork... I would have to live with the word 'plagiarism' for the rest of my life..."

She paused, tears welling in her eyes, and glanced at the general manager with forced resolve. "General Manager, I really like Wan Si, but I can't stay here any longer because Director Gu is so powerful and intimidating. I'm sorry..."

The general manager hadn't believed Xia Pingping to begin with, but seeing Xu Qiuqiu so aggrieved—having been sexually harassed yesterday and then falsely accused of plagiarism today—he was truly in a terrible situation. He angrily said to Xia Pingping, "Not satisfied with the result? Do you want me to announce the reason for your dismissal to the industry later?"

One sentence shut Xia Pingping down, and she could only give Xu Qiuqiu a venomous look before leaving the office.

Gu Yejue glanced at Xu Qiuqiu with disgust, then chased after her.

After the two left, the general manager did not forget to comfort Xu Qiuqiu, "Bai Qiu, your work has always been very good. Staying at Wansi will give you a lot of room for improvement."

However, Xu Qiuqiu refused and resigned directly, bypassing her superiors and the general manager.

The female lead does have good design talent, but she's not the main character, and the male lead is still in the company; just seeing him annoys her.

After leaving the office, Xu Qiuqiu received a venomous glare from Xia Pingping. But as soon as Gu Yejue arrived, Xia Pingping's eyes turned pitiful again.

Everyone in the studio was quite confused. In the morning, there were rumors that Bai Qiu had plagiarized, so why was Xia Pingping the one who left?

Xu Qiuqiu sat back down. She would wait until she finished get off work before leaving, so that people wouldn't think that the two of them had been fired at the same time. She was a little impressed by Xia Pingping. It was unbelievable that someone would sue the original designer for plagiarism. Did she think the female lead was easy to manipulate?

As expected, the female supporting character in the novel is brainless, as is the male lead. The female lead only knows how to swallow her anger, but she won't let herself be taken advantage of like that. Since they want to mess with her again, she'll give them both a big gift.

After get off work, a new anonymous post appeared on the forums for designers in the industry and the company's forum. The title was: "The director of Wansi Design harassed a female designer but failed, so he deliberately retaliated by framing her for plagiarism, forcing her to resign in tears!"

(Since I wanted to write a pseudo-incestuous relationship, the male lead wouldn't interfere in the female lead's career. Otherwise, I could have continued to let the female lead win without lifting a finger. Oh well, I'll just treat this as practice writing how to punish scumbags. I discovered a problem: the reason I don't feel any satisfaction when I'm punishing scumbags is because I don't want the female lead to suffer any injustices, so there's not much satisfaction when I'm punishing scumbags.)