Chapter 47 She Plagiarized My Work
"Yes, it's really beautiful. Director, the clothes are out. Can you give us the internal price?"
"If I give this to my girlfriend, she will definitely like it."
Even my male colleagues liked this dress very much. Everyone was immediately convinced that the design was really beautiful, especially since we had only seen the first picture.
"Now everyone should understand why they lost. The design industry doesn't rely on seniority; it needs fresh blood. You've been here too long, and your design ideas have become rigid. Everyone's designs are pretty much the same. When I saw Mu Nanyan's design, my eyes lit up."
Liu Dahai said, his eyes looking at Mu Nanyan, the praise in his words should not be too obvious. He shifted his gaze and looked at Chen Wenyue and said:
Chen Wenyue’s design this time is also good, but I feel that your design style this time is a little different from the previous ones.”
Chen Wenyue felt a little timid under Liu Dahai's stare, but she still said with a stiff upper lip:
"People still need to make progress, so I want to challenge a different style."
"What does Sister Yue's design look like this time? I really want to see it."
"Yeah, let's take a look, what's the different style."
Everyone started to chatter, wanting to see Chen Wenyue's new work. Liu Dahai looked at his assistant and said:
"Let everyone see it, you can all learn from it."
The assistant operated on the computer for a while, and another design drawing appeared on the projector. Everyone saw the design draft. Maybe because they had just seen Mu Nanyan's, they felt that hers didn't seem so amazing, but everyone found that the styles of the two design drafts were quite similar.
"Is this style popular this year? Sister Yue and Nan Yan both drew this style?"
"No, shouldn't there be any styles?"
"But Sister Yue's designs used to be mostly in the socialite style, so why are they going for the Ruili style now?"
Everyone was still discussing in a low voice. Mu Nanyan stared at the design drawing on the projector, a little bit unbelievable, because that drawing was one of the drafts she had drawn on Monday.
She had always thought that the waste drafts were taken away by the aunt who collected garbage, and she didn't pay much attention to it. How could she suddenly appear here? Chen Wenyue is an intermediate designer, why would she steal my design drafts? Mu Nanyan was afraid that she was mistaken. She stood up and looked at Chen Wenyue and said:
"Sister Yue, did you design this draft?"
Chen Wenyue felt a little guilty when she heard this, but she was still very confident in her heart, because she knew that Xiao Wei and Yao Yizhou's design styles were not like this, and they could not design such clothes, so the design drafts she picked up were from those design assistants. Even if they knew that their works were plagiarized, they dared not say a word, because Chen Wenyue was already a veteran of the company. If she offended her, her future design career would probably end here.
"I drew it, what's wrong? Can't I change my style?"
Mu Nanyan didn't talk to Chen Wenyue, but turned to look at the design director Liu Dahai.
"Director, can I see Sister Yue's other design drafts?"
"sure."
As soon as Liu Dahai finished speaking, his assistant had already pulled out all of Chen Wenyue's other design drafts. Mu Nanyan looked closely and saw that they were all the drawings she had drawn that day. Any designer would be disgusted with plagiarism, even if it was their own drafts.
She looked at Chen Wenyue angrily and said forbearingly:
"I'm asking you one last time, did you draw this design?"
Everyone in the conference room stared at Mu Nanyan, not knowing what had happened and why she suddenly got angry, especially towards her senior.
Chen Wenyue was a little impatient with her question:
"I already told you I drew this, Mu Nanyan, what on earth are you going to do?"
Mu Nanyan didn't expect that Chen Wenyue would still lie at this point. She found that she had no way to communicate with Chen Wenyue, and turned to look at the design director.
"Director, the works Chen Wenyue submitted are all my designs. She plagiarized my work."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. How could Chen Wenyue plagiarize the work of a new artist? What a joke! But Chen Wenyue's style this time seemed quite different. Everyone thought about it and came to their own conclusions.
Chen Wenyue was also shocked when she heard what Mu Nanyan said. She didn't expect that the manuscript she picked up was actually Mu Nanyan's, but how could she admit it? She stood up, glared at Mu Nanyan, made a victim's expression, and said:
"Mu Nanyan, what nonsense are you talking about? I'm a mid-level designer, how could I possibly plagiarize your work? You really have no self-awareness at all. Who do you think you are? I even said you plagiarized my work. I now seriously suspect that you designed clothes in this style because you saw my designs."
Mu Nanyan was so angry at Chen Wenyue that she laughed. She actually bit her back.
"My design and Chen Wenyue's design, which one is better? I think everyone should have made up their minds. Isn't it clear who plagiarized whom?"
"I designed these designs on Monday. I wasn't very satisfied with them, so I didn't want to keep them. They were my scraps, so I just left them on my desk after get off work on Monday. When I came to the office the next morning, they were gone. I thought the cleaning lady had taken them away."
Mu Nanyan explained the general situation. Everyone thought what Mu Nanyan said was reasonable and well-founded, and Mu Nanyan's design was indeed better than Chen Wenyue's. Everyone believed Mu Nanyan's words and looked at Chen Wenyue with strange eyes. After all, everyone was studying design, and what they hated most was plagiarism. It would have been fine if Chen Wenyue had plagiarized, but she actually plagiarized other people's works.
Chen Wenyue naturally couldn't ignore those people's strange looks, but she absolutely couldn't admit this matter, otherwise her career would be over and she would never be able to do design again.
"How do you prove that this design was yours? And you said you lost the design drafts, who can prove it? And how can you prove that these design drafts are the ones you lost?"
"Mu Nanyan, I've been in this company for so many years, and you've only been here for a short time. Even if I wanted to plagiarize, why wouldn't I plagiarize Yizhou's design? He's a senior designer. What reason do I have to plagiarize your design? You're just someone without any reputation at all."
Chen Wenyue's questions left Mu Nanyan speechless. She had only sketched those designs casually, leaving no personal mark. She was new to the company and didn't have any close colleagues. She hadn't told anyone she had lost her designs, and no one had proven she had lost them. She also couldn't understand why Chen Wenyue had plagiarized her designs, given that her own designs were clearly more sophisticated.
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