Jiaochen

Sun Yijia glanced at the phone in her hand and had a quick thought before saying, “I got some inside information.”

Ji Qingying’s eyelids didn’t quiver even the slightest.

Sun Yijia’s smile grew slightly, “Lin Xiaoshuang doesn’t seem to want to participate in the international competition.”

“Oh.”

Ji Qingying icily replied, “I already knew that.”

Sun Yijia was taken aback by her attitude, “You’re not angry?”

“I am.”

Then Ji Qingying leaned against the wall, “But what can I do?”

Sun Yijia kept staring at her for a few more moments before hesitating for a moment and then finally saying, “You could beg me.”

“…What did you say?”

Sun Yijia smiled and said, “Aren’t you desperate to prove your innocence with what happened when you were in college? If you beg me, I just might give you a copy of the documents that have been painstakingly hidden for many years.”

Ji Qingying looked at her, “What do you mean?”

Sun Yijia continued to be amused, “You know I’ve always disliked you even then, that’s why I didn’t even bother to speak up for you at the time, right?”

She continued, “However, people eventually have to grow up.”

Sun Yijia's smile grew even more, “And right now, between you and Lin Xiaoshuang, I dislike the latter more. Although your personality is still as annoying as ever, I still want to have a fair and honest competition with you.”

When her words fell, she stuck up her chin and stated, “As long as you beg me, I’ll give you a copy of something that everyone during our college days failed to think about.”

The two looked at each other silently.

They still didn’t move even after the elevator arrived on the ground floor.

It was only when someone urged them to exit did Ji Qingying blinked and came back to her senses. She walked out first.

Sun Yijia waltzed out behind her, still looking at her, “So? This deal isn’t that bad, right?”

Ji Qingying walked forward with her head down. After they walked out the lobby, she turned and looked at Sun Yijia, “You have the surveillance video of the dormitory building from that time?”

Sun Yijia's expression froze.

“I hit the bullseye.”

She spoke with conviction.

Enemies know each other best.

Sun Yijia returned the smile on her face and she looked at her proudly, “So what if you guessed right?”

Ji Qingying smiled slightly as she shook her head, “Oh nothing much. I just think it’s quite good. It seems that on the brink of despair, heaven always gives a way out.”

The smile on Sun Yijia’s face froze, “Do you think I’ll give up to you so easily?”

“Even if it isn’t easy, you’ve already said you’ll give it to me.” Ji Qingying glanced at her, “So, I’m pretty sure you’ll eventually do.”

Sun Yijia: “……”

The two of them were at an impasse as the atmosphere around them was eerily quiet.

Sun Yijia looked at her and asked, “Aren’t you going to ask me why I didn’t take it out at that time?”

“I already know why even without asking.” Ji Qingying was calm. “You hated me back then and you couldn’t wait to tear me to pieces. It’s already great that you didn’t throw stones at me back then too, so how could I expect you to help me?”

In matters like this, Ji Qingying never blamed others.

Sun Yijia was speechless.

All her thoughts were correctly guessed by Ji Qingying so she couldn’t refute her at all.

“You’re that confident that I’ll give it to you?”

Ji Qingying nodded and looked straight at her, “Although you’re very annoying, at least you still have the basic decency of keeping a professional bottom line.”

Sun Yijia rolled her eyes at her, “Don’t put me on a pedestal.”

She threw something at her from her bag, “If it weren’t for Lin Xiaoshuang’s face being so annoying, I would never have given that to you.”

Ji Qingying stretched out her hand and caught it before fiddling with the USB flash drive now in her hand, “Thank you.”

She grew serious, “I really appreciate this.”

Sun Yijia pursed her lower lip and proudly said, “I hope you can deal with this as soon as possible. I’ll see you at the international competition. What I want is a fair competition.”

“Okay.”

After Sun Yijia left, Ji Qingying stared at the USB flash drive in her hand for quite a while. When she was about to leave, her phone suddenly rang.

She glanced at the number and was slightly surprised as she answered, “Are you finished there?”

Fu Yanzhi replied, “Yes. I have a bit of free time right now.”

He then whispered, “Cheng Zhan mentioned that he saw you in the hotel, so what happened?”

As soon as he finished the surgical procedure, he saw the message Cheng Zhan sent him. Thinking of Ji Qingying’s expression when he last saw her, Fu Yanzhi wasn’t feeling at ease.

Ji Qingying smiled and said softly, “It was nothing.”

She continued, “That person just wanted to talk to me.”

Fu Yanzhi paused for a moment before following up his question, “So you two finished talking?”

“Yes.”

Ji Qingying lips curled up into a smile, “I plan to go home now, so you can work at peace. I’ll be waiting for you at home.”

“Okay.”

After hanging up, Ji Qingying took a taxi home.

When she arrived, Ji Qingying found herself alone.

She turned on the computer and plugged in the USB flash drive that Sun Yijia gave her. Before she managed to open it, Ye Zhenzhen called.

Ji Qingying was stunned for a moment, looking very surprised, “Zhenzhen?”

“Senior Ji!” Ye Zhenzhen’ anxious voice sounded on the other line, “Senior Ji, you’ve gone viral!”

Ji Qingying was stunned, “What do you mean?”

Ye Zhenzhen quickly clarified, “Go to Weibo and take a look. On the general and school forums, it was revealed that the designer who just won the national design competition… was a plagiarist.”

Ji Qingying tightened her grip on her phone, as she felt that she was hit with cold air. She suddenly felt it hard to even make a sound.

Her throat had dried and her voice grew a little hoarse, “Is it still ongoing?”

“Yes. I don’t know why, but it appeared on the hot news right away.”

Ye Zhenzehn continued to talk to her while she scrolled through Weibo, “Everyone’s looking for any information about you right now. And many are also… scolding you.”

Ji Qingying replied, “It’s okay. I understand.”

She took a deep breath and said, “I’ll check it out myself.”

Ye Zhenzhen softly replied, “Yes, yes. Senior Ji, I believe in you. You definitely wouldn’t do such a thing.”

Ji Qingying forced herself to smile, “Thank you Zhenzhen. I’ll hang up first.”

“Okay.”

Ji Qingying also had a Weibo account, though rarely used. She would only occasionally post about her works and about her daily life. She didn’t have that many followers, only around a few thousands.#PLEASEreadthischapteratfoxaholic.com

But at that moment, even though the number of her followers didn’t increase, the number of comments on her last post exploded instead.

When she opened it, it was full of insults, mostly saying that she wasn’t qualified to be a designer.

She inadvertently closed her eyes before going to the trending searches.

She was ranked first.

The headline of [Design Competition Winner A Plagiarist!] had easily caught the attention of netizens everywhere. Without even digging any deeper, they had begun to verbally attack her.LEASEreadthischapteratfoxaholic.com

Saying that she wasn’t qualified.

Saying that she was disgusting.

Some were even saying that maybe she had bribed her way to victory, even insinuating that she offered sexual favors to the juries. Every word out of their mouth was filthy and unseemly.

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