Bethan nodded.
“Even if they were not the last to go on, we have to stay until the end of the competition.”
She promised Joey that she would come to watch him be a judge, then wait for him to have dinner together afterward.
Bethan and Joey have not seen each other for a few years. Joey kept referring to her as his master. She could not refuse Joey.
The competition officially started.
Anne did not understand design. When it started, she was still excited. Later on, she groggily leaned on Bethan’s shoulder and fell asleep.
Bethan hugged the sleeping Anne while furrowing her brows. She looked at the team after team presented their work.
When it was the penultimate team, Bethan’s suspended heart was relieved.
The Morrison Group team would definitely be champions.
“Hello, I am Fiona Blake from the Morrison Group’s jewelry design department. I’m the leader of the team. The name of our work is titled Rebirth.
“I wonder what would you all think when I say rebirth? I would think of the relief after despair and disappointment…”
Fiona memorized Bethan’s script fluently. She even said with emotions.
After introducing the work, the entire crowd applauded rapturously.
They applauded her emotional delivery as well as the extremely gorgeous set of jewelry.
“Hold up.”
Right when everyone was excited, a man from the jury panel stood up.
It was the competition’s most important jury, Joey Charles.
When they saw Joey stand up, the other juries stood up as well.
The host on stage asked timidly, “Mr. Charles, is there any problem?”
“Of course, there is.”
Joey sneered and strode to the stage.
He swept a cold glare at Fiona and the other eight team members behind her.
“Is there only nine of you in your team?”
Fiona pursed her lips and immediately nodded. “Yes, Mr. Charles. May I ask if there is a problem?”
Joey smiled. He took the laser pointer from Fiona and pointed at a circle of hexagrams by the side of the jewelry.
“Who designed these?”
Fiona was stunned. She subconsciously looked at the people behind. Zayne furrowed his brows and shook his head at Fiona, saying that the person who designed that was not in their team.
Fiona was stunned.
“Mr. Charles, is there a problem?”
“Yes! “
Joey harrumphed coldly.
“When you mentioned the reason and insights of designing the hexagram, as well as the arrangement of the hexagrams, even the drawing technique, is the same as my teacher and master, Moon! “
The more he said the more agitated she got.
“I would be able to immediately recognize my master’s work! She has a habit of designing hexagrams instead of pentagrams. She would also place the hexagrams on the outer side as embellishments! Not only the hexagram. A lot of other places in your work plagiarize my master’s designing habits and concepts!
“Here, here, and here! All of them! “
Then, Joey coldly glared at Fiona.
“Since you’re the person in charge, tell me, who in your team is the one that completely plagiarized my master’s work?”
Upon Joey’s words, the entire crowd was in an uproar.
Although Moon has already retired, she was still very famous in the designing world.
Before Joey pointed out, no one would have thought that the team from the Morrison Group, all newcomers, would plagiarize.
However, the moment Joey pointed it out, the entire crowd was stunned.
It was truly plagiarism!
At that instant, the jury and the contestants erupted in an uproar.
Some were jeering, some were infuriated. Some demanded that their team be disqualified.
Fiona stood there in the same spot. She was flustered. What was going on?
She looked at her team members behind once again.
One of the men that Fiona bought over furrowed his brow and said in a suppressed tone, “All the plagiarized places were designed by Bethan.”
Fiona furrowed her brows, her eyes sparkled instantly!
She instantly stood up and said, “Mr. Charles, please calm down. I just asked my team members. The person that plagiarized Moon’s work is not from our team.”
Then, she immediately pointed at Bethan sitting among the audience.
“It’s her! “
The audience all looked in the direction in which Fiona pointed at Bethan.
Joey furrowed his brows and looked at the woman with a cap and mask. He slightly furrowed his brows.
“Who is she?”
The woman looked rather familiar to her.
Fiona harrumphed coldly, “She was the initial person in charge of our team! She had been in charge of these projects previously, but because of her terrible character, she had been bullying the people in our team, she was disqualified from the competition. I became the person in charge in the end! “
Fiona glared at Bethan and gritted her teeth.
“I previously thought that she only had a bad character, I never thought that she, as a designer and a creator, would commit such a heinous crime. She would actually dare to do such shameless things like plagiarizing! “
Fiona pointed at Bethan.
“A designer like her should be canceled by the entire industry! “
Looking at how hostile Fiona was, Bethan could not help but laugh.
Those that did not know would think that Fiona was upright and honest. However…
Fiona was actually just using this opportunity to go up against her, right?
Bethan’s smile infuriated Fiona even more.
Fiona took a deep breath and stood in the center of the stage. She said righteously, “We would never be able to achieve the fame and accomplishments that Moon had. Although Moon has already retired, we should still pay her respects. If anyone dares to plagiarize Master Moon, we have to be firm and boycott them!
“Today, the work of Morrison Group’s team has elements of plagiarizing Master Moon’s work. The Morrison Group has made the wrong decision to hire her, but she has been fired from our group. The Morrison Group would not bear the brunt for her!
“To express our sincerity in stopping plagiarism, I suggest that the entire industry boycott this designer, Bethan! “
In the Morrison Group’s president’s office.
Jude was looking at Fiona on the computer screen. He furrowed his brows hard.
“Wow, she’s going all out. She wants to boycott Bethan?
Jude lifted his eyes and looked at Brettley.
“Do you feel that your darling Ms. Blake is no longer as kind-hearted and adorable as she was in the beginning?”
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