Chapter 40: Bold Ideas
"Yes, a powerful design." Pei Lingxuan repeated affirmatively.
Qin Song's brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and a certain plot from the original novel emerged intermittently in his mind.
The author of the novel only briefly mentioned this plot in a few sentences. Qin Song thought about it and pieced it together with difficulty, and barely pieced together a rough outline of the story -
In the novel, Pei Xingzhi's company was caught up in a plagiarism scandal on the eve of bankruptcy. The studio that reported the plagiarism was an internet celebrity with more than one million fans across all platforms.
At that time, Pei Xingzhi's company had already encountered some problems, and the entire leadership was in chaos. Therefore, when the reporting video was released, no one in the entire Pei Group could stand up to respond.
That studio was an expert at surfacing on the Internet. In order to spread public opinion as much as possible, they not only asked their employees to forward the reporting video using their private accounts, but also hired a number of internet trolls and marketing accounts to denounce the Pei Group.
The group was already in chaos. When Pei Xingzhi received the news, the reporting video had been posted online for two days.
"Plagiarism" has always been the number one taboo of the Pei Group. Pei Xingzhi couldn't believe it when he first saw the video. It was not until Ye Ci placed the suspected plagiarized products and review reports in front of him that he realized that his company had actually committed plagiarism.
He could not tolerate it and immediately convened a board meeting to order a thorough investigation of the matter. However, he did not expect that when the order was just passed to the specific department, his company went bankrupt.
This plagiarism scandal ended in nothingness due to the bankruptcy of his company.
"Wei Lan..." Qin Song vaguely remembered that the internet celebrity studio was called this name. She put the call on speakerphone, opened a certain audio app and searched for the studio's account, and sure enough, she saw the report video.
It has been more than two months since the incident, but Weilan Studio still pinned the report video on its homepage. Qin Song clicked on the video and glanced at the comment section. As expected, all the comments were curses against Pei Group and Pei Xingzhi.
"Heh..." Qin Song raised the corners of his lips slightly, and his eyes gradually turned cold.
If she remembered correctly, the largest shareholder of Weilan Studio should be Zhou Liming. Zhou Limin is the general manager of Qiangsheng Design.
Qiangsheng Design once received investment from Lu Yibai's company, so Zhou Liming became close to Lu Yibai.
What’s even more coincidental is that in the novel, only Lu Yibai knows about the relationship between Zhou Liming and Weilan Studio. Lu Yibai brought down Pei Xingzhi's company, and Zhou Liming created a plagiarism scandal on the eve of the company's bankruptcy to distract Pei Xingzhi's attention.
Putting these two things together, I'm afraid even a ghost wouldn't believe that it was just a coincidence.
When the author of the novel was writing this plot, he did not directly state who was behind the plagiarism scandal involving Weilan Studio. But readers of the novel can easily guess it.
Qin Song vaguely remembered that in the comment section of this chapter, Lu Yibai's fans and Pei Xingzhi's fans launched a battle of the century.
Lu Yibai's fans praised him for being worthy of being the male lead, and that he could come up with such a method to disrupt Pei Xingzhi's attention: Pei Xingzhi's fans praised him for being worthy of being the most disgusting fictional character of the 21st century, and that for the sake of his beautiful love, he actually caused an innocent supporting character to go bankrupt.
Qin Song agreed very much with the latter's point of view, so he joined the war fearlessly. However, he was once again scolded by Lu Yibai's fans and deleted his comments and ran away.
The painful memory once again surfaced in his mind, and Qin Song clenched his fists in anger.
"...Sister-in-law, why don't you speak?"
Qin Song's silence lasted too long, and Pei Lingxuan couldn't help but speak.
"...Ah? I was just replying to a customer's message." Qin Song came back to his senses and made up an excuse to deal with it.
"Oh..." Pei Lingxuan did not doubt and continued her previous topic, "Sister-in-law, I have received a trial position offer from Qiangsheng Design, and I can start work tomorrow!"
"That's great." Qin Song smiled, then asked politely: "Xiao Xuan, how many rounds of interviews does this Qiangsheng Design have?"
Pei Lingxuan: "There were only two rounds in total. Their last financial assistant resigned and left immediately, leaving them no time to recruit. They were in a hurry to hire, so the interviews they organized were very simple."
Qin Song asked again: "Who are the people who interviewed you?"
Pei Lingxuan thought for a moment and said slowly, "There is a supervisor, a director, a leader of the financial team, and a human resources person. Just these four people."
Qin Song: "The manager is not here?"
Pei Lingxuan: "Why is the manager here? They are hiring a financial assistant, not an important person, so the manager is too lazy to take care of it."
"Oh, that's right." Qin Song said, and a bold idea popped up in his mind.
"Sister-in-law, why do you suddenly ask this?" Pei Lingxuan felt a little strange.
Qin Song did not explain, but asked: "Xiaoxuan, do you have anything to do this afternoon?"
Pei Lingxuan: "No, what's wrong?"
Qin Song still didn't explain: "Then come to me this afternoon and we'll go to your brother's studio to discuss something."
"Ah?" Pei Lingxuan was confused, but she agreed immediately, "Okay, I'll come to see you this afternoon. Bye, sister-in-law."
"Bye-Bye."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Song opened the food delivery app to order lunch for himself, and then continued to edit the picture.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Pei Lingxuan came to her rental house as Qin Song requested.
Qin Song called a taxi on her phone, took the fruit she had prepared for lunch, and went to Pei Xingzhi's studio with Pei Lingxuan.
They didn't send a message to Pei Xingzhi when they went there, so they didn't expect to see Shen Yanhui in the studio.
And a whole bunch of police officers.
"What is this for?"
Qin Song stood at the door carrying something, looking at the person in front of him with a blank face.
"Xiao Song!"
Pei Xingzhi heard her voice and quickly squeezed out of the crowd: "Why are you here?"
Pei Lingxuan raised the fruit in her hand and said, "My sister-in-law and I are here to bring you some food. What's going on? Were you arrested for having an illegal gathering?"
"Not really." Shen Yan hugged her arms and walked towards Ye Ci in high heels.
Qin Song stared at her expressionlessly.
She was dressed exquisitely as always, with a smug smile on her perfectly made-up face. "I heard that I was almost hit by a black car two days before the trip, and there is still no clue about the murderer. I was very anxious, so I called the police again and asked them to come and investigate carefully."
"I heard?" These two words are interesting. Qin Song asked directly: "Who did Miss Shen hear that from?"
"It's not me." Pei Xingzhi immediately distanced himself from the matter, "I haven't mentioned this matter to anyone except Ye Ci."
Ye Ci ran over from the other side and emphasized loudly: "It wasn't me either! I have always kept my mouth shut and never mentioned Brother Pei to anyone else!"
Pei Lingxuan: "It's not me, because I didn't even know about this!"
Qin Song looked at Shen Yanhui with a scrutinizing look and said, "So, Miss Shen, from whom did you hear about this?"
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