Chapter 203
The words were undisguised mockery.
A slap directly knocked Zhong Zhiwei out of her mind, and her ears went deaf for a moment.
Before she could react, Ke Huizhu raised her hand again and slapped her on the left side of her face.
“Don’t you see if you’re worthy of it?”
Ke Huizhu was hitting with full force.
With these two slaps, Zhong Zhiyan’s cheeks were swollen and the corners of her mouth were broken.
People around stopped, from all countries, pointing at Zhong Zhiyan.
“Ms. Ke.” Mrs. Zhong’s expression went down cold and she shielded Zhong Zhiyan behind her with one hand, “You have gone too far.”
Although this matter had brought shame to her face, she wanted to reprimand Zhong Zhiyan.
But Zhong Zhiyan was her daughter after all, how could Ke Huizhu slap her like that in front of her?
“I’ve gone too far?” Ke Huizhu sneered, “You’re her mother, right? You taught your daughter, didn’t you?”
“Your daughter has single-handedly ruined our Ke family’s Huaxiu, I didn’t kill her, I just slapped her twice, that’s not bad at all!”
In the imperial capital, although the Ke family was only a medium-sized family, it was still enough to rival the four powerful families in Shanghai City, and had many properties.
In Ke Huizhu’s generation, the only daughters were her and Madam Mu.
When Madame Mu married into the Mu family, she did not take over the Ke family’s properties, which is why Huaxiu came into Ke Huizhu’s hands.
The better properties of the Ke family were taken away by her other brothers.
Ke Huizhu had wanted to take advantage of this fashion design competition to make Huaxiu soar and become an international design brand.
But now, it is unknown whether anyone will buy Huaxiu’s products!
Ke Huizhu looked down at the mother and daughter with contempt.
Mrs. Zhong’s face was ugly, an unprecedented humiliation filling her head.
Her chest heaved twice as she angrily scolded, “Zhong Zhiyan, don’t apologise yet!”
“I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry!” The tears Zhong Zhiyan had held back all night finally fell, she cried so hard she couldn’t catch her breath, “I didn’t know, I didn’t know anything.”
“Joke!” Ke Huizhu felt disgusted to even look at her one more time, “I don’t believe you don’t know that you plagiarised, stop putting your horse’s behind here, I’ll tell you what, as long as the Ke family still has one person in the imperial capital, you’ll never set foot in the imperial circle in your life!”
“And the loss of Huaxiu, you’ll have to pay for that too.”
Ke Huizhu finished releasing these two sentences and pulled the youth at the side to walk ahead.
After walking a few steps, it was like she remembered something again.
She stopped, turned back, and laughed sarcastically, “Zhong Zhiyan, this dress you are wearing, the price is at 900,000, count it as well.”
Zhong Zhiyan only cried, not daring to say anything.
But the youth laughed: “Auntie, why don’t you give her to me ……”
“Shut your mouth!” Ke Huizhu was in a fit of anger and slapped him on the back, “That little star you got out, I haven’t settled the score with you yet.”
Also at this time, Luo Ziyue ran out with her skirt in her hand, panicking, “Ke Shao, help me, please you must help me, they are picking up my black material, if you don’t help me, I won’t be able to stay.”
Hearing this, the youth was not greedy for colour and directly skimmed off the relationship, “Auntie, let’s go back to the imperial capital quickly.”
He also ignored Luo Ziyue and followed Ke Huizhu to the car.
**
Imperial Capital, Mu Family.
Mrs. Mu had already rested when she received Ke Huizhu’s call, her heart jumped.
She hurriedly tore off the mask on her face, opened her phone and downloaded a microblog from the app shop.
As soon as she entered, there were those few hot searches.
Madam Mu’s complexion changed in an instant.
With a cold face, she put a call through to Zhong Manhua.
“Manhua, that niece of yours, that niece of your mother’s family, she really has a lot of guts, lying to me, I wanted to give her a chance to enter the imperial capital, but who knows that she has thrown people all over the world.”
“You get Shenzhou to your family right now, no matter how bad the character of that adopted daughter of yours is, she is still better than a copycat, there is no way I will let my son come into contact with such a person again.”
Without waiting for any response from Zhong Manhua, Mrs. Mu hung up the phone, worried.
With this kind of thing happening to the Ke family, it was impossible for the Mu family not to know about it.
A few days ago, as Mu Heqing’s spokesperson, Mu Cheng had personally said that Mu Heqing was going to choose an heir.
She was afraid that this matter would have any effect on Mu Shenzhou.
Madam Mu couldn’t sleep now, put her shawl on and walked out of the room.
**
The next day.
The movement on Weibo was only big.
The matter was international and the netizens were concerned.
Soon, Zhong Zhiyan’s information was picked up.
This picking up, netizens were shocked.
The eldest daughter of the Zhong family in Shanghai.
First in her grade at Qingzhi High School.
She had a family, good looks and wasn’t bad at school, but why did she take such a path?
The Zhong family is a bit familiar. A few months ago, did they have some kind of betting agreement with a foreign company?
I remember… I remember. Yao Zhi sent jade stones from the Jadeite Zhai.
[I also remember that Zhong’s betting agreement was won because of their cousin, so I’m just wondering why this young lady would do such a thing instead?
As Zhong Zhiyan thought, her big name spread directly to various countries overnight.
On the Internet, there were also comments about her from various media outlets.
One part pity, nine parts disgust.
Luo Ziyue is still not much known, but her situation is no better than Zhong Zhiwei’s.
Netizens picked up all the evidence of her playing big shots in Youth 101, bullying contestants in her dorm room, and cheating on her votes on the final night of the group.
In one night, it flew all over the internet.
Without the Ke family peddling, these hammer-like black materials could not be suppressed at all.
Luo Ziyue’s company also quickly terminated her contract and cleared her relationship.
This time, she was completely banned.
Nie Chao still remembered the name, he had always been quite vindictive and was in a great mood at the moment, “Seventh youngster, big brother, you guys see if she deserved it, let her steal my chair, humph!”
As he said that, he turned around and found that across the table, both people were ignoring him.
They didn’t know what they were doing, and they were quite close together.
Next to him, Dudu pouted his little pink nose: “Hmph!”
Nie Chao: “……”
He felt like the pig was taunting him, but he had no proof.
But ……
He rubbed his chin, were these two finally making some progress?
However, what Nie Chao didn’t see was that the girl had her phone in front of her.
On the phone was a voting interface with quite a few pictures of celebrities on it.
“Have you voted yet?” Ying Ziyi clicked on the poll again, “Every hour, you’ll get twenty votes, make sure you remember to vote, you can’t get overtaken.”
“Okay.” Fu Yunshen leaned back, his handsome face was as upside down as ever, his eyebrows were scattered and he hooked his lips, “Little friend, you really only bully me.”
Only she, too, dared to let him sit on these things.
Ying Ziji propped her chin and tilted her head at the words, but didn’t deny it.
The girl’s eyes were misty and brimming with light.
Like a cold spring, they swayed and glowed in the moonlight.
Her beauty was aggressive, but not in a demonic way.
But when she gazes at you with these very cold, clear eyes, she has no emotion, yet she is completely confusing.
It does not give anyone the strength to break away easily.
A willingness to sink.
“When are you leaving?”
“Day after tomorrow, no need to bring anything, it’s all there.”
“What what what?” Nie Chao pricked up his ears, “Where are you two going? You’re going on your honeymoon now?”
“Honeymoon? I don’t know.” Fu Yunshen slowly and methodically rolled up his sleeves, his voice low and slow, his narrow eyes deep as night, shimmering, “You will be beaten, I know.”
“……”
**
Elder Zhong hadn’t brushed up on his Weibo today.
Because of a batch of goods unintentionally brought by Shang Yaozhi, Zhong’s group’s business had been doing well for the past few months.
Originally, at Elder Zhong’s age, he was all set to retire.
But for some reason, the more he worked, the more energetic he became.
At noon, he came home.
As soon as he entered, Zhong’s housekeeper said anxiously, “Master, something has happened, Missy has copied someone else’s design and it has all gone to the outside world.”
Master Zhong’s expression changed, “What’s going on?”
Butler Zhong handed him his mobile phone as he briefly recounted the matter.
Master Zhong heavily slapped the table.
He was not just angry, but more worried: “Where is Evening Night now? When did she go to O Chau? Why did she even go to the design competition?!”
Mrs. Zhong said at the time that she saw that Zhong Zhiyan had been under a lot of pressure from her studies recently and wanted to take her out for a break, so she took a few days off from school.
Master Zhong agreed to it.
“Eldest Miss should still be in O Chau.” Housekeeper Zhong was busy saying, “I called Madam just now, but there was no answer there.”
Master Zhong was so angry that his hair fainted and he covered his heart, “Tell them to come back quickly.”
He was worried that Zhong Zhiyan, with Madam Zhong’s urging, would do something that he would regret.
But he didn’t expect that it would come so quickly.
Moreover, this matter involved the Ke family, Primeval Media and designers at home and abroad, Zhong Zhiyan had blocked her way, and he couldn’t even protect her if he wanted to.
In an instant, Master Zhong seemed to have aged several years.
“Yes, Master.” Butler Zhong nodded his head and hurriedly went down again.
Master Zhong opened the hot search and was reading the new news.
[@TheBestBreakingNews on the net: a keen netizen has submitted a story, saying that this time the designer of Huaxiu is a repeat offender, she has done this kind of thing before, stealing her own cousin’s work, and what happened is as follows.]
The following is accompanied by a picture, transferred from the campus forum of Qingzhi High School.
Chapter 204
The date is 2am this morning.
Qingzhi Campus is an anonymous forum, so the students don’t know who posted this thread.
[Title]: Zhong Zhiyan took advantage of the privilege of being the student council minister and took the words written by Ying Zidian.
[Content]: Do you remember the art festival in March? The school invited many masters in the field, even the head of the festival came.
At that time, Lin Xi said that Ying Zidian had copied Wei Hou’s work, and in the end it was proved that Ying Zidian had written that pair of characters too.
People must have wondered why Ying Zidian’s words had Wei Hou’s seal on them.
The truth is that Zhong Zhiyan saw Ying’s writing before the prize was awarded and, fearing that her first prize would be taken away, she took Ying’s entry and went to Wei Hou.
Wei Hou is also a habitual thief, and it was disgusting to see two thieves working together.
If there hadn’t been that photo of the pageant director at the time, their aim would have been successful.
I guarantee on my own that the revelation is absolutely true, it was given to me by Wei Hou and Lin Xi themselves, both of them can testify.
This Weibo post triggered a new round of melon eating frenzy.
[Fearing that your first place will be taken, you steal other people’s words, what kind of operation???]
Now I get it. The gentry are competing for favour, but why would you compete with a cousin? There’s no conflict of interest, can’t we just be sisters in harmony?
[No, no, no, no, no, there’s still a problem. The cousin is not a relative, she’s adopted by the Ying family, so it’s even more irrelevant.
While netizens were talking about it, the Chinese Calligraphy Artists a*sociation, which has never tweeted much, retweeted the revelation.
[@ChineseCalligraphyArtistsa*sociationv: The situation is true.
Because Zhong Zhiyan had dared to blatantly plagiarise at the international fashion design competition, netizens had little reaction to it.
But Qingzhi’s campus forum blew up.
[F*ck! I’m blind, I actually worship such a person as a goddess, my youth has been fed to the dogs.
[I didn’t know that Zhong Zhiyan had such a vicious heart?
[I suddenly remembered that Zhong Zhiyan used to talk about how Ying Zidian was, is this intentional?
[What? Is she the only one who can say that about me?
[Worshiping Ying Shen, 730 in every exam!
Stop it. Is there a group to buy incense burners? Do you think I’ll be chased if I go to cla*s 19 and take a picture of Ying Shen and print it out to hang on the wall?
[Yes, you will be beaten in a sack by Brother Burn on a dark and windy night.
After replying to this sentence, my little brother was indignant: “Zhong Zhiyan really went too far, luckily there was evidence at that time.”
Ying Ziji was leaning against the window sill and resting her eyes.
At that, she opened her eyes and her eyes fell on Jiang Yan and Xiu Yu: “You guys?”
“Definitely not.” Xiu Yu knew what she meant and spread his hands, “Neither Jiang Yan nor I knew that there was this hidden agenda behind this.”
Jiang Yan took a sip of water and a pill, suppressing his annoyance, “If we knew, wouldn’t we have put her in a sack and beaten her up already?”
Ying Ziji averted her eyes and didn’t bother to look into it.
She leaned against the window and looked at her phone with her head slightly down.
Because the number Coke Milk Tea Fries had caused a lot of turmoil on the nok forum, she wasn’t going to use it anymore and registered a new small number.
id: 指路人
Level: a
Ying did not brush up on her growth value either, she went straight in.
This number, the Divine Reckoner, was one of the original four numbers on the nok forum and had great privileges, allowing her to put in other accounts at will.
Since she had already moved it and caught the attention of some old friends, it didn’t matter if she used it again.
Ying Ziyi clicked into the trading section.
This section was different from the bounty section, where most hunters at the top of the list wouldn’t come and open it unless they had a special need.
The trading section is where users buy and sell things, and less rare herbs are also placed here.
Ying thought about it, then made a post.
[Trading].
Selling the following products:
Whitening mask, seven days to see results, 1,888 yuan for a course of treatment.
Hair growth shampoo, works in three days, RMB 199 for one bottle.
The pills for kidney deficiency, five-day effect, a box of 6666 yuan.
The prices are not particularly high and the users of the nok forum are not short of money.
This is an everyday product, and a thousand copies were sold in no time.
Because most users chose to hide their identities, for transactions made in the trading area, the seller needed to first send the item to a place designated by the Hidden Alliance Society, which would then dispatch it.
It is said that the courier service of the Hidden Alliance Society is very good, the order is placed in the morning and it arrives in the afternoon, and it is still delivered to your door.
Ying was about to go offline when a box popped up on her screen.
[10]: Why are you still opening a small number?
[Pointers]: ?
[10]: Sorry, not only did I delete myself as a friend but I also chopped off my hand.
After a few seconds, the other side didn’t hold back again.
[10]: I said, when can I meet up.
[Pointers]: ?
[10]: I’m sorry, I forgot you were dead.
**
It was seven o’clock in the evening when Zhong Zhiyan returned to Shanghai.
On the way, she didn’t dare to look up at all.
Even though most pa*sersby didn’t recognize her at all, she still felt that they were all looking at her with strange eyes.
This feeling was unprecedented.
When she got back to Zhong’s house, Zhong Zhiyan’s nerves were finally relieved.
But before she could sit down, she was greeted by another slap.
“The slap was crisp and loud.
It was from Madam Zhong.
Zhong Zhiyan covered her face and bit her lip, silently shedding tears.
“Look at it! What has it become now?” Madam Zhong let out all the anger she had been holding back and gave a head-bashing reprimand, “Zhong Zhiyan, you are already ruined do you know that?!”
What was the purpose of her careful training of Zhong Zhiyan?
Wasn’t it to get Zhong Zhiyan into the real celebrity circle?
But now that Zhong Zhiyan’s plagiarism was widely known, how could she get along in the imperial capital?
“All my hard work has gone to waste!” The more Mrs. Zhong thought about it, the angrier she became, “Zhong Zhiyan, can you live up to me? How can you live up to all the years I have spent-”
“Shut up!”
An angry shout came from upstairs.
Madam Zhong’s heart jumped and she looked up sharply.
Old Master Zhong came down from the first floor: “How dare you say that? She’s so young, what kind of thoughts have you instilled in her?”
Mrs. Zhong was instantly silenced.
She barely managed to squeeze out a smile, “Old master.”
“Haiyan is simple and was set up by you in the first place.” Master Zhong looked at her lightly, “I let you stay for the sake of Evening and because I couldn’t bear the thought of the child being motherless not long after it was born.”
Zhong Haiyan, the third son of Master Zhong, was also Zhong Zhiyan’s father.
Mrs. Zhong’s head “buzzed” for a moment.
“Don’t think that you are so well disguised that I don’t know anything.” Master Zhong shot to his feet, “I know everything. Now, apologise immediately.”
Madam Zhong’s face burned, “But what’s the use of apologising when things have become like this?”
“No apology if it’s useless?” Master Zhong was exasperated, “It’s because of you, a vain mother, that Evening has come to this point.”
Zhong Zhiyan was still crying, but when she heard this, her heart was a little more hopeful: “Grandpa ……”
Yes, Elder Zhong must have a solution!
However, Elder Zhong didn’t say anything else and turned his head to walk away.
Housekeeper Zhong followed behind and sighed, “Eldest Miss, reflect well, the old master has done all he can do, this time, there is no way to protect you.”
**
Even though such a big thing had happened, school still had to be attended.
Zhong Zhiyan knew that if she didn’t even go to school anymore, she was really left with nothing.
At least by studying, she would still be able to enter the Imperial University.
After a few more years, the public would forget about it and it would no longer affect her.
So she quickly gathered her thoughts and went to school the next day with her schoolbag on her back.
But as soon as she entered her cla*s, Zhong Zhiyan noticed that something was wrong.
Her cla*smates all looked at her strangely, especially the few girls she was close to, and they were unabashedly disgusted.
Zhong Zhiyan’s heart jumped suddenly: “You guys ……”
“Zhong Zhiyan, I really regret hanging out with you.” The girl at the same table moved her own table directly to the back, “Who knows if you’ll stab me at some point.”
“Isn’t that so? Calling your cousins cousins on the surface and stealing people’s words on the inside.”
“Such a person doesn’t admit that she is the head of our cla*s.”
Listening to the words of the cla*smates, Zhong Zhiyan finally understood what was going on.
It was about the art festival in the first place!
She violently grabbed the phone of a boy next to her, her fingers trembling as she began to read the post.
In an instant, the blood rushed to the surface and the veins on her neck were exposed.
What was going on?
Why had this whole thing blown up!
“Why are you just taking my phone?” The boy was angry and sneered again, “You really were faking it before.”
Zhong Zhiyan took a step back, her face turning even whiter.
Her original admirer would actually look at her with such eyes.
Her good friends, too, all turned away from her like trash.
Zhong Zhiyan couldn’t stand it any longer, so she packed her things and headed out of the cla*s.
Just as she left, she bumped into Ying Yuexuan, who had come back from collecting water.
Ying Yuexuan was stunned: “Zhiyan, why are you leaving again? School isn’t over yet.”
Zhong Zhiyan held back her tears, ignored Ying Yuexuan and walked straight ahead.
But suddenly, she stopped, turned her back on Ying Yuexuan and spoke in a cold voice: “That post was you, wasn’t it?”