"The twelve design drawings were exactly the same ones that Sarah had used to participate in the design competition held in M Country.
What is going on here?
Plagiarism?"
One of the employees gasped. Another opened his mouth wide, his jaw dropping. "What is the meaning of this? Ashley stole Sarah's idea? What's going on? All this right after Sarah said that Ashley is such a talented designer!"
"This design drawing is truly similar to the one designed by Sarah, even the expression technique is the same."
Ida's face changed. She took back all the design drawings and put them in front of Sarah and asked, "Sarah, what's your take on them?"
Sarah took the design drawings from Ida and examined them. Her face was a blank wall with no expression. Finally, she approached Ashley in slow steps.
Ida also followed Sarah closely.
Seeing all this, Zena, who was hiding in the dark, smirked.
Zena felt a lot better now that she had witnessed everything that had happened. 'So much for Ashley's promotion now!
Ashley is just a cheap copycat, ' she thought to herself.
"What happened? Did she really plagiarize Sarah's designs?" Even a designer and an assistant who first had a good impression of Ashley were now full of doubt.
"This is as good as stealing. Didn't you see the design drawing just now? It's like she just printed the exact same drawing and passed it as her own."
"You're right. Sarah was grooming Ashley to be the next big designer. But I never thought that Ashley could stoop so low like this!" "Yes! What a way to repay someone's kindness! It's terrible!"
"……"
Ashley could hear some of the murmuring. She could feel the atmosphere in the room change. One minute they were singing her praises, the next they wanted her head.
Ashley could still remember how she meticulously tried to avoid copying Sarah's designs. She took great pains to make her own drawings based on her own distinct style. How could this have happened?
Lena was standing next to Ashley, and she also began to notice all of the commotion. "Ashley, what's going on? Say s
an employee spoke in low murmurs again.
"She's right! Ashley's a liar! How could Sarah give her instructions? She's too busy with other things to spare time for her! If Ashley is going to use an alibi, she'd better try a little harder!"
"Exactly! She should put a little more creative effort into her lying! It's so lame and obvious! She even dragged Sarah into this!" the people present were all against Ashley now.
"You disappoint me, Ashley," Sarah said, with eyes gone hard as stone as she fixed them on Ashley.
Disappointment and even some other negative emotions were written all over Sarah's face. She turned around to leave.
Ashley didn't expect that things would turn out like this. She had asked Ida whether Sarah had a slick designing on wedding dresses, but that was not what Ida told her.
Ashley suddenly looked at Ida and said, "Ida, I remember that this is not what you told me when I asked you. You told me Sarah was good at other sorts of clothes and you recommended that I design wedding dresses..."
Ida interrupted Ashley before she finished speaking.
She looked at Ashley, aghast and in disbelief. "When did I ever say something like that? I've worked for Sarah for so long. How could I forget that Sarah is the best at designing wedding dresses? By the way, I never told you to design any wedding dress! But, even so, why did you steal Sarah's work?"