Chapter 57
CG Gems‘ Legal Department issued a cease–and–desist letter with the caption, “What’s not yours will never be yours.”
The higher Freya had risen, the harder she fell.
Netizens flooded their official X page and their official short–video account, bombarding them with sarcastic comments about the plagiarism scandal.
[Look at this nobody company. It’s small in size but big on ambition, thinking they could lead fashion trends. Yet, they get a slap in the face so soon.)
[Honestly, your jewelry used to be so beautiful and unique. I even told a bunch of people about it. Can’t believe you screwed up like this. What were you thinking?]
[If they put that energy into designing jewelry, they might’ve actually come up with a few decent pieces.]
Freya hurled her phone onto the desk, sending papers and her cup flying to the floor. The office was in chaos in seconds.
She thought angrily, ‘What’s Skylar’s deal with CG.Gems? No way that design is CG.Gems’s new collection.”
Every single incident piled up, and every time Freya thought about them, it felt like another bomb went off inside her, making the pain almost unbearable.
Freya called Skylar, her voice shaking with anger. “Are you satisfied now? The whole internet is tearing me apart. This must be exactly what you wanted, right?”
“Quite pleased, actually,” Skylar said coolly.
Freya demanded, “Are you a designer at CG Gems?”
“No,” Skylar replied curtly. Not ready to reveal her identity yet, she denied it right away.
Freya snapped, “Then how did you get your hands on CG Gems’s latest design drafts?”
Skylar said, “She’s a close friend of mine. I know a thing or two about design, so I helped review the drafts. Is that a problem?”
Freya’s eyes were bloodshot. She snapped, “Did you show me those designs on purpose?”
Skylar retorted sarcastically, “Don’t pin this on me. I had no idea you were so fascinated with the junk in my room.”
Freya’s eyes blazed with fury. “Skylar!”
Skylar quickly pulled the phone away from her ear as Freya’s shouting nearly burst her eardrums. “Freya, if you have time to argue with me, maybe you should focus on cleaning up this mess instead.”
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Skylar swiftly hung up, rolled her eyes at her phone, and muttered, “She gets caught plagiarizing and still tries to blame me. What a dumbass.”
Freya hurled her phone again in a fit of rage. This time, her phone wasn’t as lucky as before. The screen shattered into a spiderweb of c
Freya stomped madly on the scattered papers and glass shards on the floor.
In her fury, she slipped and crashed to the floor, landing hard on her lower back.
Freya screamed in pain, “Damn, that hurts.”
The secretary rushed in at the painful cry. “Ms. Lambert, why are you on the floor?”
Freya’s temper flared even hotter when she saw her secretary frozen in place. “What are you waiting for? Get over here and help me up.
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“You’re so stupid. I have no idea who the hell hired you. Tomorrow, both of you get the hell out.”
Pale–faced, the secretary helped Freya to her feet, pleading desperately, “Ms. Lambert, please give me another chance. I swear this won thappan
Freya tried to shake her off, but without the secretary’s support, she couldn’t even stand.
Freya’s face contorted with anger. “Fine. One last chance.”
Freya lay sprawled on the sofa, phone in hand, drafting a statement.
VanLier: [This incident was caused by a designer’s misconduct, and the designer has been terminated. Going forward, we will strengthen our review process to ensure originality. We hope you’ll give us another chance.]
She spent millions hiring paid trolls to flood the comments every few minutes and then shelled out another fortune to scrub all traces of herself from the trending topics.
She even went so far as to hire paparazzi, shelling out millions to buy some earth–shattering news and put it out there, all to divert netizens‘ attention.
In total, she spent over 3 million dollars, all charged to Blake’s supplementary credit card.
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