Chapter Eighty: Weather Change (1/2)

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: Yes?

[Lil’ Ye-Zhou]: Chairman Yan’s strategy sure is extraordinary.

The sarcasm-filled sentence aroused the anger within Xiao Yu as all of the fur on his body stood on end.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: Oh? How so?

[Lil’ Ye-Zhou]: I didn’t expect Chairman Yan to have recruited the mystery designer preemptively. That’s such a brilliant feat.

Xiao Yu snorted disdainfully at the sentence while cupping his chubby little face.

Hah. I didn’t expect that a scheming fellow like you would fail to notice that the owner of this account would actually be the very mystery designer you’re talking about.

Xiao Yu even thought that after the Autumn Release Conference, Lin Zhou would have realized that something was suspicious about Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both. He did not expect Lin Zhou to be stupider than he thought.

[Lil’ Ye-Zhou]: Although it seems like the mystery designer under you had an unfair advantage over the competition.

Oh. I take it back.

A few months ago, when Xiao Yu had logged into Yan Jin’s account and duped Lin Zhou into adding his own account, the hamster then discovered Lin Zhou’s plot again and accidentally received the draft for Moonlit Manacles. With that, he successfully outshone himself at the Ragnarok competition.

With the private order for the overseas billionaire, Xiao Yu made full use of his knowledge about the future and amended the original design. Putting aside Lin Zhou’s opinion, not even human Xiao Yu would have recognized that the drawing was amended from someone’s original draft. However, it was different this time.

Xiao Yu did not completely change the Moonlit Manacles’ design. Anyone could had derived that conclusion just from the fact that both Lin Zhou’s work as well as his own were couple rings.

If Xiao Yu really did not intend to arouse Lin Zhou’s suspicions, he could have changed the couple rings into something else. The first problem was that nothing could replace a design as specific as couple rings. Secondly, those were the couple rings that the mystery designer had presented in his previous life.

In his previous life, it was after this conference, or more like after the Ragnarok competition, that the human Xiao Yu realized there was a possibility he was being plagiarized.

Xiao Yu was not shocked that Lin Zhou would come to the same conclusion. Of course, there was also the possibility that the human Xiao Yu told Lin Zhou about it privately, thus allowing him to realize that.

The question now was, how should he pull it off?

If Lin Zhou realized that Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both used the draft that he had sent, things may not be as easy to resolve. In the worst case scenario, Lin Zhou could discover his identity as the mystery designer.

Initially, Xiao Yu was not particularly worried about that. After all, for more than half a year in his previous life, his attempts to find out more about the mystery designer’s identity were completely futile. At the very least, he was sure that his identity was not revealed in the design circle.

However right now, after Xiao Yu had made some changes to the storyline in his previous life, he felt slightly panicky.

Hold on, I merely added Jade Court into the picture. The Moonlit Manacles were exactly the same as what the mystery designer had presented in my previous life. Shouldn’t that mean… maybe… perhaps it’s okay…?

As Xiao Yu pondered, he replied very cautiously.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: You’re referring to?

[Lil’ Ye-Zhou]: The work that the mystery designer sent in for the voting process was like a different approach, but equally on par with mine.

Xiao Yu gasped in disbelief.

Fuck, I’ve seen all kinds of shameless people, but this guy takes the cake. ‘Equally on par with mine’? Ignoring the fact that your ‘design’ was a stolen work, your style was entirely different from the mystery designer, got it?

This guy had such confidence. It was he who plagiarized. On the other hand, the mystery designer… In a certain sense, he wasn’t plagiarizing, but simply using his ‘own’ creativity.

Then again, it was impossible for Lin Zhou to admit that he had plagiarized his company junior’s work. By pointing it out, he would admit that he had plagiarized someone else’s work.

Thankfully, Xiao Yu was not afraid of Lin Zhou saying that. In this incident, Lin Zhou was the one who would not approach the topic of plagiarism.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: So, you’re saying that Mr. Mystery copied your design? Do you have any evidence?

Of course he didn’t have any. Even if he did, Lin Zhou wouldn’t dare to show it.

The draft did not belong to Lin Zhou, but he sent it. If an investigation was conducted, the person in trouble would surely not be Mr. Mystery.

[Lil’ Ye-Zhou]: You misunderstood me, Chairman Yan. I did not say that.

[Lil’ Ye-Zhou]: If it wasn’t because the mystery designer’s work was evaluated first, I naturally wouldn’t have lost the bet with you.

Xiao Yu realized that the situation was a little different from what he was expecting. Lin Zhou seemed… unaware that Xiao Yu had used his draft?

If that was really the case, it would be the best outcome. Other than this incident and the mystery designer’s identity, Xiao Yu had no other information that could be used against himself.

But the question was, bet? What bet?

Had he bet with Lin Zhou before?

Luckily, Xiao Yu’s memory was not that bad. After pinching his chin and recalling his memories, he remembered.

Lin Zhou should be referring to the time he showed Xiao Yu the draft and mentioned that if he could enter the top ten, Yan Jin would allow him to join YL.

Xiao Yu was unsure how the promise was formed, but he didn’t really care. After all, Lin Zhou did not fulfill the conditions.

Plus, even if Lin Zhou got lucky and managed to enter the top ten, Xiao Yu was not Yan Jin. He could simply delete his account and disappear.

The Xiao Yu right now did not realize how stupid it was to act on the assumption that others judged by his standards.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: And so you’re using this as an excuse to act dumb?

Xiao Yu was prepared to harshly humiliate Lin Zhou the very moment he acknowledged that. Too bad Lin Zhou did not give him that opportunity.