What's wrong with being a salted fish?

"Come and sit down, and get ready to admire your crude imitation." Lin Zhuo waved to Qi Hengshu who came in, signaling him to come over quickly.

Lin Zhuo bought several tickets for Xu Wenhao's fashion show online. After all, there was no way the other party would invite them.

So if they want to enter, they have to buy their own tickets.

Judging from the number of people attending, this fashion show was probably packed, but there was no way of knowing how many people came for the Xu family's reputation.

Qi Hengshu sat next to Lin Zhuo and greeted Luo Su on the other side.

The other party had been busy in City C for more than a month, and after coming back to rest for a few days, he rushed to admire Xu Wenhao's "feat".

"Is there enough new cloth?" Luo Su asked Qi Hengshu.

"Enough." Qi Hengshu nodded.

He also truly witnessed the wealth of the Duan family. New fabrics were shipped in as if they were free, and there were still a lot left after making a whole series of samples.

"We named it woven cloud brocade," Qi Hengshu said again.

When the new fabric arrived, it was welcomed by everyone in the design department. They brainstormed and gave it a name based on its characteristics.

Luo Su hummed twice: "That's great, we are already preparing to apply for a patent, I will submit this name later."

Qi Hengshu didn't care about this. After all, he was just a clothing designer and these things were not within his job scope.

"Where are Linlin and the others?"

Qi Hengshu saw that there were two empty seats next to Luo Su. Lu Qiao had something to do at home and couldn't come today, and besides, she didn't really want to see Xu Wenhao.

But what about Wan Linlin and Bai Li? They wouldn't miss the chance to see Xu Wenhao's ugly appearance up close, right?

"They went to pick out engagement rings today, and they said they would just come to laugh at Xu Wenhao when the time is right." Lin Zhuo shrugged, feeling helpless.

"So fast?" Qi Hengshu thought it would take some time.

"Bai Li has already brought Lin Lin to meet his parents. Bai Li's parents are easy to talk to and seem to like Lin Lin very much. They are urging Bai Li to get married quickly."

As he said this, Lin Zhuo covered his mouth and laughed. After they get married, Bai Li will have to inherit her family's company and start the life of a corporate slave.

For Bai Li, choosing an engagement ring is more memorable than witnessing Xu Wenhao's reputation fall to pieces.

Qi Hengshu nodded twice. Things like dating and getting married were still too far away for him, so he couldn't understand the feelings of a loving couple.

But today was equally important to him, as it was the first day he successfully avenged Xu Wenhao.

The other party’s failure represents your own rebirth.

It would be a lie to say that Qi Hengshu was not nervous. As he sat there, his heartbeat kept accelerating, but it did not show on his face, he remained very calm.

"Calm down." Lin Zhuo leaned back in his chair and crossed his legs.

He is not interested in the male protagonist's career, he has changed his own destiny, that's enough.

The main reason he was sitting here today was to help Wan Linlin witness Xu Wenhao's failure.

Although Xu Wenhao's fashion show was doomed to fail, it happened several months later.

What they planned was that Xu Wenhao's great career would come to an end before it even began, including the Xu Group.

Who made Xu Wenhao have such an impatient father who can't wait to die?

Lin Zhuo looked at the fashion show hosted by Xu Wenhao himself, with a sneer on his face.

"Xiao Qi." Lin Zhuo called in his heart.

"Hey, my dear host, what do you want from me?"

Because Lin Zhuo's days in this world were too leisurely, grass grew on 0617.

She stayed in Lin Zhuo's mind every day without moving, and only spoke a few words to Lin Zhuo occasionally.

"Has Duan's new product been released?"

“It was on all the platforms when this fashion show started.”

“Can you push the new product release to everyone’s mobile phone?”

"Leave it to me!"

0617 said that this is a piece of cake for it!

The time has finally come for its host to put it to use!

So 0617 twisted its body, dived into the world of information data, and pushed this message to the mobile phones of everyone present.

For a moment, faint ding-dong sounds were heard in the show, and some people did not mute their phones.

Xu Wenhao on the stage noticed it, but he still had to keep smiling and gestured to turn up the music backstage.

Many people were already looking down at their push notifications, and many were whispering in the venue.

Xu Wenhao almost quickened his speech to announce the start of the performance, drawing a lot of people's attention. Then he quickly stepped aside, ready to appreciate his masterpiece.

"OK host, I will push it directly to the hot search!" 0617 puffed out his chest with pride.

"Well done." Lin Zhuo praised it.

Free hot searches, don’t miss them.

"By the way, I didn't forget to post Xu Wenhao's imitations online. Netizens are discussing them heatedly now!"

"That's great, remember to lead the way online."

"Understood!" 0617 left again.

As the music changed, the fashion show began.

The first model was wearing a pink short skirt with the hem stacked up like petals and a layer of tulle on top, which was particularly eye-catching under the light.

The model was wearing a pair of bright red long-sleeved gloves and walked forward with her hands on her waist.

However, the overly bright color and the sparkling skirt made the upper part of the whole dress look extremely dark. With the model's movement and the reflection of the light, the waist part of the skirt had several grey folds, which looked particularly eye-catching.

The whispers in the audience became louder, and some people even had strange expressions.

Lin Zhuo saw many people holding up their mobile phone screens to show their companions, trying to seek approval.

Lin Zhuo knew what they were looking at. It was the new product produced by Duan that was just pushed out on 0617.

Lin Zhuo hummed a little tune, opened his mobile phone, clicked on Duan's push, and found a pink skirt on the page.

It's exactly the same as the one the model is wearing on the catwalk.

It was made by Qi Hengshu's men. What Xu Wenhao got was a semi-finished product, so Xu Wenhao didn't know that the petal skirt of the skirt was not made of tulle but had patterns on it.

In addition, the entire skirt is made of woven brocade without any extra decoration, which makes the pink fabric not only soft and bright, but also the patterns on the skirt spread to the hem like waves under the light, like a blooming flower.

There is a huge difference between Xu Wenhao's imitations and the originals. It's like an expert in teaching his skills to an expert. There is no comparison at all.

The craftsmanship of the two skirts is different, and even an amateur can recognize which one is the superior one at a glance.

But Xu Wenhao is unaware of all this yet. He is watching the performance from the audience with a smug smile on his face.

Then the second one, the third one...

Lin Zhuo had to admit that Xu Wenhao had tried very hard to imitate it, but it was still not as good as the original one made of woven cloud brocade.

The voices in the audience suddenly became quieter, and then the atmosphere in the venue became very silent.

What happened?

Feeling that the atmosphere in the venue was a little weird, Xu Wenhao turned his head around to look at the audience, wanting to know what was going on.

At the same time, Xu Wenhao also noticed that the audience sitting near him, as well as several people who had a say in the design world, were looking at him with indescribable expressions.

Xu Wenhao looked confused, not knowing what had happened.

"Mr. Xu, didn't you see the news?"

At this time, the man sitting next to Xu Wenhao patted Xu Wenhao on the shoulder.

Xu Wenhao turned his head and looked at him. This man was a partner of his father. "What's wrong?"

The man blocked it with his hands and whispered to Xu Wenhao: "Duan released a new product preview at the beginning of the performance..."

After a pause, the man continued, "It's very similar to the clothes you are showing on the stage now."

“What?!” Xu Wenhao almost scratched his palm to suppress the roar in his throat, “He plagiarized me and he has the nerve to openly disclose it!”

The man was silent: ...

He didn't dare to respond to Xu Wenhao's words, for fear that the other party would vent his anger on him.

At the same time, the man was also marveling in his heart that Xu Wenhao was quite shameless. When the two pieces of clothing were put together, it was obvious who copied whom.

With Xu Wenhao's crude workmanship and rigid design, how can you have the nerve to accuse others of plagiarism?

Xu Wenhao quickly opened his mobile phone and saw the new product push from Duan.

His eyes were red and he clicked on the message with gritted teeth.

Xu Wenhao was particularly familiar with the twelve sets of women's clothing displayed on the page, because these were the design drafts he brought back from Qi Hengshu's office.

But judging from the page pictures and displayed videos, the two are completely different.

The fabric used by the other party can catch people's eyes without any decoration. It is undoubtedly top-notch in terms of both gloss and style.

Xu Wenhao boasted that he had chosen high-end fabrics, but he still couldn't match it.

Coupled with the exquisite patterns and extremely fine craftsmanship, the patterns seem natural and vivid.

One of the videos shows a black dress with a complete dragon embroidered in gold thread. What's magical is that under the light, the dragon seems to be swimming slowly on the dress.

Xu Wenhao thought he was dazzled and blinked desperately. He looked carefully and found that the golden dragon was still in place, but in the next second it began to swim slowly again.

This is...Qi Hengshu's design draft? ?

Only then did Xu Wenhao realize that what he got from Lan Yu was not even a semi-finished product, but a defective product at best.

Xu Wenhao was so angry that he even wanted to smash his phone, but he found that many people on the field were watching his every move.

He had no choice but to grit his teeth and maintain a smile on his face as he put the phone back.

"His expression seems very interesting." Qi Hengshu stretched his head to look, but couldn't see Xu Wenhao's expression clearly.

"Now that he realized he's been tricked, he must be furious." Lin Zhuo was calm and composed. They were only halfway through, and he hoped Xu Wenhao could hold on from now on.

Xu Wenhao didn't know what mood he was in as he sat in the audience and watched the performance.

The gazes of the people staring at him were about to melt him.

Xu Wenhao was sweating profusely but couldn't leave. He was restless and wished he could disappear from this world in the next second.

After waiting for a long time until the show was over, the models stood in a row on the stage wearing the imitations. They didn't know what was going on, they only knew that the audience were looking at them strangely.

But Xu Wenhao didn't want to go on stage at all, he just wanted to leave as soon as possible.

However, he did not expect that someone in the audience was watching his every move.

The moment he moved, the reporters in the audience could no longer hold back and rushed to him with their equipment and surrounded him.

The microphone was about to hit Xu Wenhao's face.

"Excuse me, Mr. Xu, have you seen the new products released by Duan?"

"Mr. Xu, many people on the Internet are comparing your designs with Duan's and saying that you are plagiarizing. What do you think?"

"Mr. Xu, please speak..."

"May......"

......

Seeing Xu Wenhao being surrounded by reporters and in a panic, Lin Zhuo and Qi Hengshu laughed out loud at the table.

"Let's go. It's time for us to kick someone when they're down." Lin Zhuo motioned Qi Hengshu and Luo Su to follow.

Just as Xu Wenhao was yelling that Duan Yunqi had plagiarized him and that he knew nothing, he heard a male voice coming from the crowd.

"Isn't this our talented Master Xu? When he went abroad with our Xiao Qi's award to gild his reputation, wasn't he feeling quite proud?"

The reporters smelled the scent of melon and spread out to both sides, revealing a passage.

Lin Zhuo brought Qi Hengshu along the corridor and came to Xu Wenhao.

"It's you!" He and Duan Yunqi are in the same group!

Lin Zhuo chuckled: "It seems that you have a good memory and still remember who I am."

"Oh, you want to stand up for Qi Hengshu, right?"

Xu Wenhao glared at Qi Hengshu, who was standing expressionlessly behind Lin Zhuoshen, with gritted teeth.

Well, Qi Hengshu is really brave! He doesn't think he can take revenge on me this way, does he? It's just a foolish dream!

“How can you call him out?” Lin Zhuo lowered his eyes to look at Xu Wenhao’s feet that were about to move, and said coldly: “Xiao Su, hold him down.”

"Okay, brother!" A dark shadow jumped out from behind Lin Zhuo, and the next second Luo Su pressed Xu Wenhao to the ground.

Lin Zhuo kicked Xu Wenhao's ankle: "Mr. Xu, why do you still want to run? Are you feeling guilty?"

"Bullshit! I don't know what you are talking about! Why should I feel guilty?" Xu Wenhao turned his head away.

Lin Zhuo didn't say anything, but clapped his hands, and an oil painting suddenly appeared on the background screen of the booth.

Xu Wenhao was very familiar with it; it was the work of Qi Hengshu that he plagiarized when he was in college.

"I heard that Mr. Xu has a very high artistic talent. He won a silver medal for this painting when he was in college, and then went abroad for further studies."

Lin Zhuo waved backstage again, and soon several men brought a table up: "I don't have any other intentions, I just want to ask Master Xu to paint a picture so that I, a layman, can take a look."

"Bah!" Xu Wenhao spat on the ground. "Who do you think you are? I'll draw just because you ask me to? You idiot! You just rely on Duan Yunqi to back you up!"

Lin Zhuo was not angry, instead he covered his mouth and laughed: "Oh, from the tone of your voice, you seem quite envious?"

"Are you sick? I envy your mom! I envy her!"

Lin Zhuo's smile faded, and he put his foot on Xu Wenhao's leg: "Today, you have to draw whether you want to or not!"

Lin Zhuo's aura was so strong that the noisy crowd nearby shut their mouths and looked at him silently. Even the reporters didn't dare to say a word, but just asked people to hold up equipment to record.

"Don't even think about it!"

Lin Zhuo said coldly: "Could it be that our Master Xu can't even hold a paintbrush? Then who painted this picture?"

"You're talking nonsense! My name is written all over this painting! What evidence do you have that it wasn't painted by me?!"

Xu Wenhao insisted that the painting was from his hand. He was so confident because he was sure that Lin Zhuo had no evidence.

"Why don't you take a look at this?" Lin Zhuo stretched out his hand and motioned everyone to look at the big screen.

Xu Wenhao's eyes widened: "No, no... How is this possible?!"

Xu Wenhao was dumbfounded the moment he saw the screen, because the surveillance video clip playing on the screen was exactly the process of Qi Hengshu drawing this painting.

This is impossible!! I deleted all the surveillance videos myself!