Chapter 174: First Round of Humiliation
The totem on Zhou Xintang’s piece had the three stars concept in it.
Professionals from the industry knew that it belonged to the same series as the design drafts that Ji Heng had brought. They were all by the same person.
Tao Jing could not be bothered to speak further and simply passed the tablet to Qi Songyan as he said icily, “I hope that after looking at these drafts you will still be able to say that the piece was designed by Zhou Xintang.”
Looking at the tablet, Zhou Xintang was flustered as she pursed her pale lips tightly. Gu Mang really presented the evidence. What should she do…
There were so many reporters and she did not wish to bring disgrace and ruin upon herself.
Qi Songyan had made up his mind the moment Ji Heng had appeared. With trembling fingers, he took the tablet and scrolled through its contents. Before he had even finished looking at the drafts, he broke out in a cold sweat. All eleven drafts were better than Zhou Xintang’s substandard piece. So Gu Mang was the mysterious designer of Lan Ting who never showed her face?!
Seeing Qi Songyan’s expression, the school leader knew that the situation was unfavorable. She subconsciously squeezed her fingers together tighter.
When he scrolled to the last piece, Qi Songyan’s face was tense. He stared daggers at Zhou Xintang and was filled with rage. “You truly let me down!”
Zhou Xintang brought her shoulders to her ears while being berated.
The lights from the camera shutters illuminated the dim opera house.
Her mind was blank.
Over. It was all over…
All the words that she had said earlier became blades, cutting her body to shreds.
Qi Songyan glared at Zhou Xintang and harrumphed. He passed the tablet back to Tao Jing with fury and turned to leave. Lu Yang blocked his way by standing up in the aisle.
Qi Songyan looked up to see a shadow in his way.
The young man was really tall and skinny but he was still strong. He looked down at him with a brash look and a half-smile on his face. “Teacher Qi, don’t be in a hurry to leave. The show is just starting.”
How dare he leave after scolding Sister Mang! How could he get away so easily!
Qin Yaozhi laughed too and lifted her chin like a fox masquerading as a tiger. “Come, come, come. Who earlier said that my Sister Mang was pretending to be Lan Ting’s designer?”
Hearing these words, Ji Heng looked at the people now surrounding him. His eyes were cold but there was a smile on his face. “Listen up, everyone, the name of our Lan Ting’s designer is Gu Mang, also known as God G in the industry.”
His words were simple, yet, they slapped the faces of Experimental High School’s leaders.
In the audience seats.
Experimental High School’s students could not clearly hear what they were talking about and could only see their school leaders’ faces turning red with embarrassment. The students of Ming City High School were stretching their necks in a bid to see what was going on.
When Gu Yin’s performance ended, she had returned to Class One’s seats.
Not long after sitting down, she heard Gu Mang slandering Zhou Xintang for stealing her design. However, unable to come up with evidence, she was verbally attacked by all of the students from Experimental High School.
Gu Mang truly bit off more than what she could chew. Zhou Xintang was a genius designer who shot to fame in her youth. It was normal for Ming City High School to lose but she had actually set herself against Zhou Xintang!
Afterwards when Zhou Xintang left the stage and removed her microphone, they could not hear anything from the back as the opera house was huge.
She looked at Jianghuai and gently asked, “What’s happening?”
Jianghuai did not respond but the students from other classes said, “Go look it up on Weibo. It’s front page news.”
Gu Yin was shocked for a moment before taking out her phone and accessing Weibo.
The top trending topic had a scarlet word, ‘Explosive,’ behind it with over a hundred million views. Zhou Xintang’s new piece was copied from Lan Ting’s ‘Twelve Legends of Vientiane’s Three Stars.’
