Chapter 745: Be Quiet
Chapter 745: Be Quiet
“Emergency! Let’s have a meeting!” Mr. Watson shouted in his office.
In an instant, everyone in the design department was surprised. They all packed up their things and went to the conference room.
The conference room was bustling with people. Everyone was whispering, and the atmosphere was very tense.
“Be quiet!” said Mr. Watson with a serious face.
Everyone looked at him. For some reason, Heather seemed more uneasy.
“Now there is an emergency,” said Mr. Watson in a deep tone, his face looking very grave. “Our designs have been leaked!”
In a flash, the conference room was in an uproar. “What?!”
Heather’s pupils suddenly shrank. Was it possible... that Helena had leaked them?
There were their designs in the proposal that she had given to Helena yesterday. She had felt a little uneasy at that time. Afterward, she had heard Alexander had received the proposal, so she hadn’t thought much about it.
However, why did Helena do that as a secretary who had followed Alexander for years?
“Be quiet!” cried Mr. Watson, and everyone quieted down.
A Twitter message appeared on the screen behind Mr. Watson. It was from the official Twitter account of Skyline Corporation.
Its content was about their new fall clothes, with three designs. These three designs were all designed by Heather!
Skyline Corporation was kind of an established company and used to be outstanding in the fashion circle. However, it had been steadily outpaced by H & C Inc. since H & C Inc. entered the fashion circle, and it had languished in the last two years. And now they actually used this kind of cheap tactics to compete unfairly?
Now that Skyline Corporation had made the designs public, if H & C Inc. were to release the same designs again, others would have a preconception that H & C Inc. was plagiarizing!
Heather’s heart instantly sank. This kind of
feeling that her painstaking effort had been robbed really made her very uncomfortable! The people around her kept discussing, guessing how these plans leaked out!
“What went wrong? Who leaked these designs on purpose or by accident?” asked Mr. Watson furiously.
The voices in the conference room died down. Everyone was very puzzled. Having worked at H & C Inc for many years, they were well aware of the company’s rules.
Since their rival company had done that, how could the designs possibly be leaked by accident? It was obviously intentional!
“Mr. Watson, I have something to say,” Heather suddenly began.
“Heather Denmark?” Mr. Watson gave her a surprised look. “What are you trying to say?”
“While it is very important to investigate the person who knowingly leaked the designs, what is more important now is how we should deal with the situation,” Heather said.
“Yes, you’re right,” said Mr. Watson, nodding approvingly. “Look at me, I’m so angry that I forgot such an important thing!”
Everyone began to discuss again.
“We must send a lawyer’s letter to Skyline Corporation! They’re copying our works!” “What copy? This is clearly plagiarism!
They’re stealing! How hateful!”
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“I’ll ask the legal department to send a lawyer’s letter to Skyline Corporation,” Mr. Watson said.
“Don’t do that,” Heather spoke calmly. “Huh?” Mr. Watson looked at her in amazement.
“If you send a lawyer’s letter, Skyline Corporation is going to use it as a conversation piece,” Heather said, frowning. “It doesn’t have a lot of attention right now, and it hopes we can help it attract attention. There is a popular way to become famous. It’s called ‘notoriously famous.’
“Literally, even if it is notorious, it’s also famous. Moreover, if we go to court, it won’t be able to end in a short period of time. By the time the court rules, the fall will have passed, and Skyline Corporation will be making a lot of money.”
Everyone nodded, thinking what she said was very reasonable.
“But if we don’t go to court, won’t we be good to them?” said Mr. Watson, struggling. “We’ll go to court,” Heather said confidently. “We won’t send them a lawyer’s letter to create a conversation piece. We’ll sue directly. Besides, we don’t have much time now!”
“What do you mean?” Everyone looked at her in surprise.
“What has been leaked out shouldn’t be only the three designs. We must prepare for the worst. We can’t use any of the designs now,” Heather said in a serious tone. “Fall is coming. We must come up with new designs!”
Everyone stared at her in shock.
Heather’s courage really impressed them.
They were angry, but the designs were almost all her painstaking effort. If it were them, they would have been so angry that they would have done something unreasonable!
However, Heather actually calmed down so quickly and told them clearly and logically what they were supposed to do at present.
“What, what else?” Mr. Watson looked at Heather in surprise. He even felt that he himself was incompetent and should abdicate the right to Heather, who was wiser.
“... You can write a report, send it to the president, and let him make the final decision,” Heather answered helplessly.
“Yes, yes!” said Mr. Watson hastily. “You’ll be all at Heather’s disposal. I’m going to write the report now.”
The door was suddenly pushed open, and Helena strutted in from the outside. “No need!”
Mr. Watson looked at her in surprise.
“Helena.”
Heather narrowed her eyes slightly.
Helena caught sight of Heather at a glance, her eyes were full of defiance. Helena hadn’t expected that Alexander would happen to be away on a business trip. Even god was helping her!
She would definitely kick Heather out of H&C Inc. in the next few days with a reasonable reason so that even if Alexander came back, he wouldn’t be able to save Heather!
“Mr. Watson, I’ve known about the incident. But the president is abroad these days on very important business, so shall we not bother him with such a trivial matter?” Helena asked.
Trivial matter?
Everyone was immediately dissatisfied. How could plagiarism be a trivial matter? “Helena,” said Mr. Watson, a little sullenly, “it’s not good of us to keep such a great incident from the president.”
“We’re not keeping it from him. We’ll tell him when he gets back in a couple of days.” Helena frowned and said, “Do you mean your design department doesn’t have the capacity to deal with this trivial matter, and you’ll have to wait for the president to handle everything for you?”
Her words were rather unpleasant. The atmosphere in the whole conference room became very dull.
Helena’s face suddenly became very serious. “Besides, the most important thing now is to deal with the thief who leaked out the designs!”
“Thief?!”
The whole conference room was in an uproar.
Many people directly asked, “Are the designs really leaked on purpose? Who did that? Have you found the thief?”
Heather’s eyelids twitched as she had a bad feeling.
“She’s the thief!” Helena pointed at Heather and growled.
The conference room fell silent, and everyone looked at Helena in disbelief.
Heather was amused. The moment Helena spoke, she knew what she would say.
