Chapter 1217: Flipped the Jealousy Bucket
The lawyers had always been eloquent speakers and were adept with their words. This was the first time that they were stumped silent by someone. This Miss Shen was sharp-tongued and argued well. He fought a lost battle.
The two managers stormed out in a fury.
The lawyer paused slightly. “Miss Shen, your request is simply too outrageous for a company with such extensive international influence.”
Shen Qianshu smiled politely. “Bye, I will not send you.”
The negotiation ended on bad terms.
Chen Wanwan clapped her hands. “Qianshu, you are too cool.”
“It’s no big deal.”
Yun An was immensely touched, yet he suppressed his temper slowly, stifling the heartache that rose up from the bottom of his heart. He was about to say thank you before he regained his senses. He told himself, What thank you? Did that have anything to do with you?
Chen Wanwan was very curious. “Why are you so concerned with Li Chen’s reputation? Are the two of you that close?”
In her impression, they did not have a lot of dealings with Li Chen.
“Sis Wanwan, you forgot that I’m AG’s CEO by name, and I need to help the company somehow. Li Chen is AG’s design department’s main pillar, and he is considered to be AG’s jewelry sales king alongside Xie Xiaomei. Recently, he’s been really popular globally. However, he had been targeted by some jewelry companies due to the plagiarism case three years ago. This affected him negatively.”
Yun An also knew about this incident. Jewelry designing was not such an easy case. Li Chen rose to fame in the country because AG was able to control public discourse, preventing the case of plagiarism to cause a commotion.
Furthermore, many people did not have a deep understanding of jewelry designing, and this was a very high-end and niche area, so normal people would not be able to enter the industry.
On the global stage, Li Chen was explosively popular this year and had held jewelry shows consecutively in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Soul. His design creations had also made AG’s name more prominent.
Some of those working in the same field then began to dig out his news and started blowing up his plagiarism incident, as well as doubting whether his creations were manipulated and supported by his team.
The media formed conspiracy theories, thinking that Li Chen had released too many creations in a year, which did not satisfy a high-end designer’s ideal and pursuit for a product. Some designers only had one creation per year or one creation ever three years; however, he had released more than ten creations in a year, and all were spectacular.
These theories kept entangling Li Chen.
The media also thought that Li Chen was being raised by AG’s jewelry designing team, feeding off the designing team’s creations, so the style of every creation was different as they did not come from the hands of a single person.
The public’s conclusion was that he was still a plagiarizing dog!
Yun An was very aggressive lately, most likely due to reading too many of these comments. Every day, he would roll up his sleeves and fight with these foreigners on his sub-account. Plagiarized, my foot!!!
Shen Qianshu said, “The fault lies in that our original design culture was not ideal, and only one creation became popular. After that, countless of similar creations appeared, and in addition to our poor awareness towards owners.h.i.+p rights, we let others take advantage of us.”
Chen Wanwan said, “Then what should we do?”
“Make them lose face. Let them widen their eyes and see how our designers in the country are like so that they will not villainize us and claim that our team was pulling the strings every single time a creation is released.”
Chen Wanwan raised her thumb. “My Sister Shu is so domineering.”
Yun An looked at her in confusion, and his heart started itching unbearably. Qianshu was not someone who would be nosy. She was not very close to Li Chen, yet she still involved herself in this incident. There must be something fishy.
Could it be that Fifth Brother told this to her?
Why?
What is Fifth Brother’s relations.h.i.+p with Li Chen?
Alarms rang in Yun An’s head.
“Yun An, what’s wrong with you?” Shen Qianshu looked at her best friend, who had been not being himself for the entire morning. Her inner thoughts were filled with a huge “What happened?”