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The agent said coldly, “Do you think you still have a choice? You don’t even know who you’ve
offended. The producer of ‘Immortal Heroes’ has dropped you. The top-tier script that was handed
to you has also been taken back. If you keep being picky, you might not even get a role in a low-
budget contemporary drama.”
Andrew cried even harder and said, “I, I’ll choose a role with a favorable character image and
appealing styling…”
After the agent hung up, Gia’s call came in before Andrew could adjust his emotions.
Gia scolded him right away after he answered the call. “You caused such a mess,” she said. “Do
you think you’re being fair to me? I spent half a year styling your production team for free,
commuting between school and the set, only getting four or five hours of sleep a day, even failing
two courses, all just to help you get famous and rebuild my studio. And now that you’ve shown
some signs of achieving great sess, you ruined it all. Do you think you’re being fair to me?”
Since the end ofst September, she had been bringing her assistant and voluntarily serving as a
free makeup artist and stylist for the “Immortal Heroes” production team. Andrew’s makeup and
styling were all handled by her.
From the makeup products to fare, travel expenses, food expenses, and so on, she paid out of her
own pocket.
She had spent hundreds of thousands of dors. After a long wait, “Immortal Heroes” finally
became a hit. She was waiting for Andrew to endorse her studio and attract clients. In the end,
Andrew caused such a mess.
She was really frustrated.
Andrew had been a little scared of this smart and capable sister of his since childhood. He said
guiltily, “I was unlucky this time and got screwed over by my opponent. But hasn’t the issue already
been resolved? You don’t need to be so worried. As long as I still have my good looks, we will
continue to have a share of the market in showbiz.”
Gia said coldly, “Your face is good-looking, but there are plenty of good-looking people out there.
You don’t have the acting skills or works to back you up. If more negative newses out, you
could be a has-been overnight.”
“I understand.” After Andrew worked in this industry, he personally experienced howplicated
this industry was. He was also a little scared. “I’ll be more careful in the future. Please remind me
too…”
Gia said impatiently, “Alright. Enough talking. Come over now. I’ll style you and take photos.”
She hung up the phone, picked up a few styling options, and thought about which one would suit
Andrew the best.
Just then, the design supervisor rushed in, closed the door, and said in a low and hurried voice,
“Yaen, a major problem has happened.”
Gia had gone through a fair share of difficult situations. Not even raising her head, she said, “Don’t
panic when something happens. Take your time and exin.”
The design supervisor said, “I attended aic expo with costume y yesterday and saw a girl
wearing a hairpin that looked
very simr to our main style for this season…”
Gia said dismissively, “It’s normal for styles to be simr. As long as the core design is different, it’s
fine.”
The design supervisor tightened her grip on the design draft and said quietly, “The core design is
the same…”
Gia looked up. “Exin clearly.”
The design supervisor ced the design draft in front of her and unlocked her phone. “This is the
hairpin I saw at theic expo. Its design features a strawberry and a bug, which is very simr to
our design.”
Gia took her phone andpared it with her studio’s design draft. “It really does look simr. Did
we release ours first, or
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did they release theirs first?”
The design director said, “We released ours first, but there’s more to this issue than meets the eye.”
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She didn’t dare to look Gia in the eye and quickly told her what had happened, saying, “This series
was designed by Lily. She said that while sorting through thepany’s emails, she found a few
design drafts from someone else that had been submitted a year ago in the trash folder.
“She thought they were interesting, so she incorporated them into her work. I asked her whose work
she had used, thinking that maybe we could find the person and buy the designs. But she had
alreadypletely deleted that email, so we can’t recover it. She only remembers the sender’s
name, which is a rookie designer named Maria.”
“Maria?” Gia was too sensitive to this name. Her expression changed on the spot. “Could it be that
Maria who was fired from ourpany a year ago? Of all the people you all can associate
yourselves with, howe you all ended up associating with her?”
The design supervisor said uneasily, “Lily was sure that the sender was not well known. She wanted
to deny it initially, but when she found out that the hairpin worn by the girl in her costume y came
from Miss Yonder Studio, she got so scared that she confessed everything.”
“This matter is actually rted to Miss Yonder?” Gia was so shocked that she stood up. She ced
one hand on the table and pointed at the design supervisor with the other, feeling so angry that she
wanted to curse. “I’ve been out there working hard, leaving the studio to you to manage, and you
guys caused such a huge
mess for me?”
The design supervisor was about to cry. “We know we were wrong, but the priority now is to solve
the problem. Our works have just beenunched and we’re about to begin full-scale promotion. The
jewelry with a simr style on Miss Yonder’s end is about to hit the market too. We can’t afford to
wait.”
Gia shot her a few angry res, then suppressed her anger. “Go out now. Let me think about how
to deal with it.”
She thought, ‘Losing temper won’t solve the problem. Besides, I’m partly ountable for causing
this incident to happen. While I was working as the makeup artist and stylist for the “Immortal
Heroes” production team, I didn’t have time to focus on the studio’s affairs. I skimmed through
quickly the documents handed to me by the studio and signed them just as fast, never really looking
at the various design sketches carefully. Otherwise, I would have recognized that Lily had copied
the design sketches that Maria had submitted during her job application.’
After thinking about it for a long time, she made up her mind and dialed a phone number. “Zoe, the
level of yourputer skills is so high. I want to ask you for a favor.”
Two dayster, Miss Yonder Studio’s new collection was officiallyunched. Among them was a
budget-friendly series called “The Angry Bug”, which was very popr with girls, especially non-
mainstream girls. The order volume was good.
The series was designed by Maria.
She went online every day to check the order quantities and the reviews fromizens and
customers.
With each additional person buying and each additional person praising her design, she would get
so happy that she spun and cheered on the spot.
She did not get upset when someone criticized the design. Instead, she wrote it down seriously and
thought about how to improve.
She even took screenshots, printed out all thements, and kept them like treasures.
Although her work was not outstanding and the sales were not impressive, it was her first product
released to the market. It meant a lot to her.
However, her happinesssted for only two days before arge number ofizens pointed out that
she had giarized.
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Before she recovered from her shock, the news of her giarism made it to the list of trending
topics.
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Meanwhile, Miss Yonder Studio received awyer’s letter from Yaen Studio, which pointed out that
the design of “The Angry Bug” series had been giarized from the design of their works. They
demanded that Miss Yonder Studio make a public apology, paypensation, and recall all the
giarized products.
Upon receiving the news, Maria was so shocked that her face turned deathly pale. Her phone fell to
the ground, and she kept shaking her head, saying, “I didn’t giarize! I sketched every part of
these designs myself…”
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