CHAPTER 478: CHAPTER 478

Jiang Moxi received a call from Xie Ling and thought Xie Ling was inviting her to a new product launch. She immediately said, "I don’t want to go to the product launch today, don’t bother me."

But Xie Ling said, "I know you definitely won’t come to the new product launch, when have you ever appeared at one in these years?"

"So why did you call me?" Jiang Moxi was reading a medical book that she found interesting and didn’t like being disturbed.

"I want to ask you, have your design drafts been seen by anyone before?" Xie Ling’s tone became more serious.

Having worked together for many years, Xie Ling understood Jiang Moxi’s character well. She was clear that Jiang Moxi would never plagiarize someone else’s work for profit.

"I don’t think so?" Jiang Moxi furrowed her brows, trying to recall, but couldn’t remember.

Because lately, she hadn’t been in the mood for designing, while Xie Ling kept pushing her to hurry up and produce new items for the fall-winter product launch in order to create a buzz.

Therefore, Jiang Moxi had taken a design draft from a few years ago to give to Xie Ling.

As for whether it had been seen by others during this time, she temporarily couldn’t recall.

"Maybe? Think again."

Jiang Moxi took Xie Ling’s overly serious tone to heart and paid more attention: "What’s wrong?"

Xie Ling informed: "The new piece you presented at the fall-winter launch collided with a finished garment from Weifeng. From the design to the fabric, they are almost identical. Now, the fans at the launch are demanding an explanation from us."

"Weifeng? Finished garment?"

Jiang Moxi hadn’t recalled who "Weifeng" was, sensing the severity of the matter, she quickly put down the medical book and picked up her computer to search for the Weifeng official website.

"Because you previously said not to bother with this studio, I stopped paying attention to them. If I had seen that this studio’s finished garment collided with yours earlier, I would have taken action first."

Listening to Xie Ling’s impassioned and indignant words, as well as the promotional images on Weifeng’s official website, Jiang Moxi finally remembered who Weifeng belonged to.

Jiang Weiwei!

On the official website of Weifeng, not only is Jiang Weiwei, the founder and chief designer, prominently featured on the homepage for promotion, but the model photos of the finished garments are also taken by her.

Jiang Moxi scrolled through several of the "designed" finished garments by Jiang Weiwei, noting that the best-selling sets were ones she had designed previously.

She then told Xie Ling about a past incident, "I lost a manuscript book at Jiang Family Ancestral Hall before, and never found it afterward. Now, it seems likely that it was taken by Jiang Weiwei and utilized."

That year, she had knocked out three teeth of a classmate. During a family meal back at the old house, Jiang Weiwei had unintentionally informed Jiang Tairan and Du Yuke.

Jiang Tairan thought she was unruly and punished her by confining her in the Jiang Family Ancestral Hall for a day.

During that day, having nothing to do, Jiang Moxi took out her sketchbook from her bag and casually drew a few designs.

Later, when Aunt Yao notified her that she could leave the hall, Jiang Moxi, eager to leave, forgot the sketchbook there.

After a while, when Jiang Moxi remembered the sketchbook, she went back to look for it but couldn’t find it despite searching the entire hall. She assumed it was thrown away as trash by the servants.

So after Jiang Moxi returned, she redrew those few drafts from memory.

But now it seems that those drafts were supposed to have been picked up by Jiang Weiwei, and she exploited them to the fullest.

"I also know that it definitely wouldn’t be you copying her, but her finished clothes have already been released ahead, and public opinion will definitely side with her."

Xie Ling was anxious and also asked Jiang Moxi, "Should we temporarily halt the launch event now?"

But Jiang Moxi said, "The launch event features other designers’ works as well, we can’t just cancel their chance to exhibit because of my personal issues. Plus, it’s her who plagiarized, not me. What do we have to be guilty of?"

"But I’m afraid that if the launch event continues, the situation will escalate and that will only generate more attention for Jiang Weiwei, that bitch," said Xie Ling.

"It’s okay, whatever we lose today, Jiang Weiwei will compensate us."

Jiang Moxi’s words inexplicably filled Xie Ling with confidence.

Just like when the two initially planned to start Yunshang, Jiang Moxi said, "We can definitely create a world-class fashion brand!" It invigorated Xie Ling as if she was on a high!

Later, Xie Ling ended the phone call and continued hosting the new product launch event.

But because the Yunshang launch event continued, the situation further escalated.

That night, some netizens even put on Weifeng’s finished clothes, and made comparison videos with the Yunshang new product launch models wearing Designer X’s new items, posting them online, questioning whether Designer X had plagiarized and demanding an explanation from Designer X.

Countless internet celebrities followed suit, purchasing Weifeng’s finished clothes, posting comparison videos, and ultimately concluding, whether Designer X plagiarized or not, being able to buy Designer X’s designs at the price of Weifeng’s finished clothes was truly amazing.

This conclusion spurred many netizens to start a discussion, some feeling that getting top designer’s work at a cheap price was incredibly sweet.

Many also called for respect for originality, stating that even though Yunshang was a big brand and Designer X was at the pinnacle of the design world, original work should be respected and Designer X should quickly apologize to Weifeng.

Due to the heated discussion, Weifeng also hit the trending searches, attracting a large number of customers to purchase the same products.

Jiang Weiwei herself took this opportunity to start a personal account on Weibo, then made a statement using elaborate and ambiguous language.

Saying how she has always considered Designer X her idol, understanding that every designer has their slumps, she can understand Designer X’s inspiration from her, and she hopes this matter will not be pursued further, also wishing that netizens would no longer mention it.

Jiang Weiwei’s generous handling of the situation led many keyboard warriors to suspect something fishy.

"Weiwei, if you’re threatened by Yunshang, just blink."

"Yunshang holds significant authority in the designer circle, especially Designer X. With just a word, they could crush Jiang Weiwei, the rising star in the designer circle, that’s why she doesn’t dare to quarrel with them."

These critiques of Yunshang and Designer X might have been insignificant, expected to soon be buried under various other comments.

But Jiang Weiwei just had to throw in an extra move by liking this kind of comments.

In the eyes of the general netizens, this confirmed that Jiang Weiwei and Weifeng were indeed suppressed by Designer X and Yunshang, hence didn’t dare to hold them accountable for plagiarism.

This strongly triggered the netizens’ sympathy for Jiang Weiwei, with many keyboard warriors even beginning to attack Yunshang and Designer X, demanding justice for Jiang Weiwei and Weifeng...