CHAPTER 481: CHAPTER 481

Jiang Moxi was fiddling with a game on the computer when she saw the message from Li Tinglu, meanwhile casually inquiring about Wang Yao on a forum.

Wang Yao had been part of that organization for many years, and even though he had withdrawn now, he was still in contact with the organization and was considered a highly dangerous individual.

As the saying goes, know thyself, know thy enemy, and you will win every battle. Jiang Moxi planned to figure out Wang Yao’s current social ties first.

But Li Tinglu’s message distracted Jiang Moxi.

Jiang Moxi checked the message, and then replied: "Don’t get involved in this matter."

At first glance, this response seemed somewhat cold and heartless, but Li Tinglu knew that it was Sister Moxi’s way of protecting her.

So, she replied to Jiang Moxi: "Sister Moxi, I don’t want to get involved either. I just can’t stand seeing Jiang Weiwei steal your design and then pretend to be an innocent victim, and I can’t bear the family favoring her."

Li Tinglu then asked Jiang Moxi: "Sister Moxi, if I told them that you’re the designer X, do you think they would stop blatantly favoring Jiang Weiwei?"

Indeed, after the video call ended, the more Li Tinglu thought, the more she felt it necessary to reveal Jiang Moxi’s identity as designer X to stop the Jiang family from favoring Jiang Weiwei.

But Jiang Moxi quickly replied: "There’s no need for that. I became a designer not to seek their approval. Whom they favor doesn’t affect me at all; I’ve already severed ties with them."

Li Tinglu understood Jiang Moxi’s point, realizing there was no need to interact with them since their relationship had been severed.

Yet, Li Tinglu couldn’t bear to watch her idol being wronged by so many people.

"But I’m worried that Jiang Weiwei and the Jiang family will take advantage of you. They will certainly use the plagiarism scandal to do something else."

Jiang Moxi reassured her: "Don’t worry, even if they have other plans, I have the ability to deal with it."

Then Jiang Moxi inquired about Li Tinglu’s recent study situation, to which Li Tinglu told Jiang Moxi: "Knowing that you are in Emperor City, I’ve applied to be an exchange student at Emperor City University, and I should be there soon."

Jiang Moxi warmly welcomed Li Tinglu’s arrival, telling her that if the school couldn’t arrange it, she could look for her.

Li Tinglu was pleased and excited, chatting with Jiang Moxi for a while longer before bidding her good night.

However, after putting down the phone, Li Tinglu secretly felt relieved that she didn’t end up revealing Sister Moxi as designer X.

Otherwise, she would have really caused trouble for Sister Moxi.

On Jiang Moxi’s end, after the chat with Li Tinglu ended, she saw new messages about Wang Yao on the forum.

"Brother Wang has recently come to Emperor City, it seems he has some business to discuss."

This message caught Jiang Moxi’s attention.

She immediately began working on the computer, searching for traces of Wang Yao in the vicinity of Emperor City.

However, strangely, after a long search, there were no traces of Wang Yao to be found.

Jiang Moxi was slightly puzzled, so she continued to ask the person on the forum who had answered her earlier.

"Are you sure he’s in Emperor City?"

The person replied, "Very sure!"

Jiang Moxi’s eyes narrowed.

This person on the forum didn’t belong to any organization, but had a very complex information network and knew a lot.

There were some things that even though they couldn’t be found on the web, could still be learned from him.

Since Jiang Moxi had helped him out before, he often shared information he knew with Jiang Moxi unconditionally.

Previously, Jiang Moxi had also obtained many important clues from him and had never been wrong.

This time, if the information he provided had no issues, then Wang Yao might have a formidable hacker behind her.

Otherwise, with Jiang Moxi’s capabilities, it would be impossible not to find any trace of Wang Yao...

The next day, Jiang Moxi was asked out for a meal by Xie Ling.

The plagiarism scandal continued to ferment, and both Yunshang and Xie Ling were finding it hard to cope.

So last night, Xie Ling even contacted a platform to divert netizens’ attention by digging up some dirt on popular female celebrities.

In the latter half of the night, the intensity of the situation did indeed die down quite a bit.

However, this morning Jiang Weiwei posted on Weibo: "Our Weifeng’s new ready-to-wear pieces will be coming out next week, I really hope no one else will copy our designs again."

When Xie Ling read the original Weibo content to Jiang Moxi, she even imitated a green tea bitch’s expression, which made Jiang Moxi laugh.

This really pissed off Xie Ling: "You’re still in the mood to laugh! Don’t you know how much business she has snatched away from us since the new product launch?"

The key issue is that many daughters of wealthy families in Emperor City are quite proud and disdain those who play tricks for money.

Thus, as ardently as they used to chase after Designer X, now the backlash and the withdrawal of their fandom is equally intense.

In addition, Jiang Weiwei is also a well-known wealthy heiress, and would even make house calls to take their measurements, agree to tailor-make personal attire for them, and sometimes invite them out for afternoon tea and the like.

This is indeed much more approachable compared to Designer X, who has never shown their face and still, to this day, has not clarified whether they are male or female.

So there has been a lot of fans un-following recently, not only are Yunshang’s stores very quiet, but even stores that displayed Designer X’s works for promotion have been splashed with paint.

Xie Ling was also implicated; her big G parked on the roadside yesterday was splashed with paint, the reason being discontent with her sheltering a plagiarist.

"If this issue isn’t resolved, I feel like even my personal safety has become a major concern."

After complaining a lot, Jiang Moxi poured her a cup of tea and soothed her, "It will be resolved very soon."

"How soon is very soon?" Xie Ling was still somewhat downhearted.

"They, Weifeng, will be releasing new items next week, right? Next week, my work will also be released," said Jiang Moxi.

Xie Ling frowned: "Could it be that she plagiarizes the designs again?"

Xie Ling felt that Jiang Weiwei, this scheming bitch, would definitely not pass up such an opportunity for hype.

Especially after tasting success the first time, she would definitely play a similar trick a second time, attempting to bleed Designer X dry again.

But Jiang Moxi said, "I’m actually quite worried she won’t go for a copycat move!"

Xie Ling had a vague sense that Jiang Moxi was probably planning to pull some sort of stunt at the release event, so she immediately contacted Yunshang’s official website to release the news.

"Designer X’s year-defining masterpiece will be released next week."

As soon as this message came out, many netizens began discussing it again.

"It’s strange, Weifeng just announced the release of new garments next week, and Designer X also closely announced the release of a new piece, is this a head-to-head challenge?"

"I feel there must be something else behind this, Designer X has not been so diligent in releasing works in recent years. This seems to be a deliberate competition with Weifeng!"

"This might be an attempt to divert attention."

"No matter what new piece Designer X releases, I will still shop at Weifeng. The price is reasonable for one thing, and on the other hand, Jiang Weiwei is really beautiful and gentle in private. Just yesterday, she took my measurements for a tailor-made outfit and invited me for afternoon tea!"

"Yes, I’ve also been invited by Jiang Weiwei for afternoon tea. So pretty and empathetic, calling her a little angel is not an overstatement; hence, I decisively turned from a passerby to a fan."

As the netizens discussed more and more intensely, the plagiarism incident once again took over the top trending searches, and Jiang Weiwei herself also gained a wave of followers by flaunting her persona.

However, what Jiang Moxi and Xie Ling didn’t expect was that, while they were dining, Jiang Weiwei and several Emperor City heiresses came to eat here...