Chapter 647: 0637 can never be a plagiarist Chapter 647: 0637 can never be a plagiarist This baffled everyone!
Su Ran glanced at Song Guan indifferently, “What kind of explanation does Director Song want? What I’m doing is for the benefit of the organizers!”
“For the benefit of the organizers?” Song Guan laughed angrily, “Good, good! I want to hear it, how is Miss Su doing this for the benefit of the organizers!”
Su Ran lifted her gaze, her eyes sweeping over his face, ultimately settling on Su Xinyan’s face.
“Her design is suspected of plagiarism. Is the organizer really not hitting its own face by awarding the trophy to a plagiarist?”
Su Ran’s voice was light, unhurried.
But it was this unhurried statement that, like a thunderclap, left everyone unable to recover their senses.
Su Xinyan’s face, filled with anger and ferocity, instantly lost all color, and her expression froze.
She staggered backward, shaking her head repeatedly with a pale face.
“No, I am not a plagiarist, you are!”
At this, she seemed to remember something, hurriedly snatched the document from Su Ran’s hands, pulled it out, and displayed it before everyone.
“The evidence is here, I am not a plagiarist, you are! Sister… no, Su Ran, you’re the plagiarist, you won’t get away with framing me!”
Su Xinyan stood on the stage, her entire being crying out to Su Ran in heart-rending anguish.
Her face bore a restrained expression, full of boundless grievance, making it hard for many to look away.
Weng Manyuan included!
She stepped forward from the crowd and said in a deep voice:
“Miss Su, Heart is my disciple, Weng Manyuan. Even if she is not as skilled, she would never commit plagiarism!
As for you, Miss Su, first you smashed Xinyan’s trophy for no reason, and now you’re wrongly accusing her of plagiarism without any evidence. Even if you are Elder Zhou’s disciple, my disciple and I will not be bullied so easily!”
Su Xinyan felt a great relief in her heart when she saw Weng Manyuan come forward to speak for her.
Her greatest advantage tonight was Weng Manyuan and Song Guan.
Now that both of them were on her side, she naturally had nothing to fear.
Song Guan, watching Weng Manyuan speak with such certainty, felt slightly relieved as well.
He had already offended Gael, and he feared there might no longer be a place for him in the Fashion Association in the future.
But conversely, if it turned out that the champion of this competition was implicated in plagiarism, then Gael, as the president, would inevitably be blamed for dereliction of duty.
Perhaps this could even be used to pull him down from the presidency.
“Miss Su, it has been confirmed that you plagiarized Heart’s work five years ago, and yet here you are at the award ceremony, slandering her for plagiarism. Do you have no sense of guilt at all?
We at the World Design Competition have always upheld fairness, integrity, and transparency. People like you, who poison the design industry, lack moral conduct, and turn black and white upside down, should have their awards revoked and be completely expelled from the design industry!”
Hearing this, Su Ran looked at him, her expression half smiling, half mocking.
“Fairness, integrity, and transparency? Are you sure?”
Song Guan looked at her with disdain and said contemptuously:
“Of course, that is the mission of our Association. However, this time a person with a history of plagiarism has won the championship, and I have to wonder if there’s something fishy going on here?”
Song Guan, as if accepting his fate, glanced subtly and intentionally towards Gael standing aside.
Gael’s complexion was dark, but Su Ran calmly patted his shoulder.
She approached Su Xinyan and began:
“Are you sure it was me who plagiarized your work, not you plagiarizing mine?”
Su Xinyan clenched her hands tightly, still feeling somewhat nervous, but the anger boiled within her when she thought about Su Ran stealing the championship that rightfully belonged to her.
“I did not plagiarize, on the contrary, I have always been against plagiarism! I never wanted to make a big fuss about it, wanting to save face for you as my sister and for the Su family! But now, not only do you show no remorse, you’re also framing me !”
“Sister, how have I wronged you? What have I done to deserve this? Five years ago, you plagiarized my manuscript. Because we were family, I didn’t make a big deal out of it and even asked grandmother to help suppress the matter! But how did you repay me? Not only did you return kindness with ingratitude, but now you’re slandering me for plagiarism at such an important occasion? Do you really not feel a shred of guilt?”
The angrier Su Xinyan became, the more it seemed she herself was caught in the web of lies she had spun.
In her heart, she was convinced that Su Ran was the one who plagiarized her work and was now shamelessly smearing her.
Hearing Su Xinyan’s words, Su Ran couldn’t help but curl her lips. With just an offhanded question, this fool kept digging herself deeper into a hole.
She wasn’t afraid of smashing herself to pieces!
But that was exactly what Su Ran wanted.
Upon hearing this, Gael stepped forward, “Are you sure you’re not the plagiarist?”
Su Xinyan scoffed, “I could never be a plagiarist! It’s my sister Su Ran who plagiarized my work, I am Heart, the apprentice of mentor Weng Manyuan; plagiarism is something I would never do!”
Su Xinyan’s emphatic manner earned a flash of satisfaction and appreciation in Weng Manyuan’s eyes.
“I don’t know why you all want Heart to admit to plagiarism; she is my apprentice and doesn’t need to copy the work of an unknown nobody. Your actions today have impacted her reputation, we expect a perfect explanation from you all!”
Gael looked up, his gaze briefly meeting Su Ran’s.
He shook his head, resignedly saying, “Heart, I have already given you a chance!”
Su Xinyan tilted her chin up, “I don’t need chances; you should give that chance to my sister here. Anyone in the country can tell you what kind of reputation she has. She is obviously jealous of me, jealous that I’m better than her, so she wants to intentionally ruin my award ceremony!”
“She’s the champion of this edition, does she need to be jealous of a runner-up?” Someone in the crowd called out.
With anger turning her around, Su Xinyan snapped, “She’s not the champion! She’s a fraud! It was her! She plagiarized my work!”
With that said, she suddenly let out a cold laugh.
“It’s a fact that she plagiarized my work five years ago, and now… ha, the champion of the World Designer Competition turns out to be a habitual plagiarist, what a joke!”
Su Ran’s starry eyes narrowed dangerously, her frosty gaze chilling to the bone.
“Are you so sure I can’t produce evidence of your plagiarism, that you dare be so brazen before me?”
Su Xinyan felt a tightness in her chest, as if she remembered something, she suddenly laughed softly, drew closer to Su Ran, and in a hushed tone said:
“Yes, I’m certain you can’t provide evidence. You couldn’t prove your innocence five years ago, how will you prove it now? Besides…”
She stepped back, raising her voice.
“The World Designer Competition is a place that values fairness and evidence. Since you claim I plagiarized your work, sister, then produce the evidence, show the evidence that I stole your designs. Otherwise, don’t blame me for using legal means to protect my reputation!”
Director Song stepped forward as well:
“That’s right, Miss Su, please present your evidence. We seek fairness and evidence, not your assertive nonsense clouding right and wrong here!”
Su Ran looked at the two confidently with a mocking sneer.
“You want fairness and evidence? Fine, I’ll give it to you!”