Strike Back, Proud Goddess! - Chapter 398 - Lost All Reputation

Chapter 398: Lost All Reputation

Translator:HenyeeEditor:Henyee

Qin Xinying reached out to snatch Vivian’s cell phone, but the latter put her cell phone into her pocket and looked at her with a faint smile. “I just contacted two fashion editors, telling them I have an important statement to make. Now it’s time for you to return the honor to Miss Tang. You shouldn’t keep what doesn’t belong to you.”

“Vivian, I won’t let you off!” Qin Xinying glared at Vivian with bloodshot eyes and screamed, “You ruined my career! I swear I will make you pay the price! Do you think Tang Xi and the Qiao’s Group will appreciate you for what you do? No, they won’t! But you’ll have to take my retaliation!”

“Are you threatening me?” Vivian looked at Qin Xinying and smiled. “You’d better pray I won’t have anything wrong happen to me. If I do, it must be done by you!” Then she ignored Qin Xinying, looked back at the models and said with a smile, “Xiao Wen, Ju’er and girls, please forward this post. I want this matter to be known by the public. We shouldn’t tolerate a plagiarist.”

The models all nodded and began to take out their cell phones to forward the post from Vivian. Qin Xinying almost vomited blood in anger, but she couldn’t do anything to stop them. She gave a dark look towards Vivian and coldly said, “Let’s wait and see!”

Then she turned around and walked out without looking back.

Vivian looked at Qin Xinying’s receding figure and her eyes had a gleam of disgust. After Qin Xinying left, Vivian looked back at the models and smiled, saying, “I’m sorry to have you see this. Let’s continue to try on the clothes.”

…

When Qin Xinying walked out of the show field, some media had called her. Qin Xinying wanted to hang up the call, but her hands trembled and the call was accidentally connected. A man’s voice rang…

The journalist, “Miss Qin, is it true that you plagiarized someone else’s work?”

Qin Xinying hastened to hang up the call, but her phone immediately rang again. She hung up the call again and felt panicked. What should she do now? What could she do? She couldn’t lose everything she had owned! She couldn’t lose everything she had owned!

Qin Xinying blocked all strange numbers and her phone didn’t ring again. She heaved a sigh of relief when suddenly her cell phone rang again. She took a look at the caller ID only to find it was from her father. She paused and picked up the call, asking, “What’s up, Dad?”

“Xinying, we’re in big trouble! Why did that matter become exposed?! Didn’t you notice someone was secretly shooting videos of you when you met with Tang Xi?” Qin Benyuan’s flustered voice was heard.

Having no idea of what to do, Qin Xinying grew even more upset when she heard Qin Benyuan’s words. She said grumpily, “Of course I didn’t! Otherwise, I wouldn’t say those words to Tang Xi!”

She was too careless. She forgot that Tang Xi would definitely be followed by paparazzi because she disappeared for a long time. But now it was too late. The video had been released. She could do nothing about it!

Hearing Qin Xinying’s words, Qin Benyuan sighed. “I don’t know why, but every time we mess with The Tang family people, something bad will happen to us. Those people who kidnapped me hadn’t been caught by the police yet! Damn it, if I find out who they are, I must kill them! And Tang Xi and that old man, I won’t let them off too!”

Qin Xinying rubbed between her eyebrows and remembered her father was still lying in the hospital. She took a breath and said helplessly, “I don’t know what I should do now. The video has been released online. People will go ask Tang Xi about this matter, and I don’t think she will cover up for me. I’m afraid the stock price of the Qin’s Group might also be affected.”

“Now only Tang Xi can help you.” Qin Benyuan paused and said, “You got this trouble because of her. Go talk with her and play pitiful. Persuade her to come out to deny that you stole her work. Then nobody will say anything about you.”

Qin Xinying’s eyes lit up when she heard this. She murmured, “Yes, I just need to talk with Tang Xi and ask her to clarify for me. She will surely help me.”

…

At this time, Tang Xi was going back to the hotel with Qiao Liang. Xiao Jing had taken He Wanyi and Ning Yan to the hotel and Tang Xi asked He Wanyi out for lunch to discuss how to shoot the promotion clip. She casually took out her cell phone and browsed in the Microblog. Suddenly she glimpsed two hot hashtags…

[Qin Xinying plagiarizes]

[Qin Xinying and Tang Xi]

Tang Xi clicked on the first hashtag and saw the video. She raised her eyebrows and looked back at Qiao Liang, asking in surprise, “Who shot this video?”

She remembered it was the day when she met Qin Xinying in the cafe, but she didn’t know someone secretly shot a video of them. Qiao Liang wasn’t there that day, so it couldn’t be Qiao Liang. And she didn’t take any friends with her that day. Then who shot this video?

Qiao Liang took a look at the video, raised his eyebrows and said, “Maybe Qin Xinying was too shameless and even a stranger couldn’t stand her.” Then he added, “The video is well shot. You look beautiful in it.”

Tang Xi laughed, but then she looked suspiciously at Qiao Liang, asking, “Did you shoot the video? Or you had someone else do it?”

Qiao Liang shrugged and didn’t answer her question. Tang Xi smiled and clicked on the hashtag [Qin Xinying and Tang Xi]. Then she saw many photos with her and Qin Xinying in that were released by some Microblog celebrities, under which many netizens sighed that Qin Xinying was really good at stabbing her friend in the back…

“Oh, where did these Microblog celebrities get these pictures? I don’t even have all of them.” Tang Xi looked at the photos and a sad gleam flashed through her eyes. She didn’t expect Qin Xinying who she treated as a good friend to do those horrible things to her. She gave Qin Xinying her own design drawings, just because she took Qin Xinying as her friend and she didn’t mind it. After she came back to life, however, she felt what she did for Qin Xinying wasn’t worth it.