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Chapter 124: Chapter 124: The Coffee Shop’s Idea Was Plagiarized!
Seeing the message from Lu Sheng, Lan Yu was stunned on the spot, her eyes widening like copper bells.
...What the heck?
What the heck heck heck!
Isn’t the information in these four short sentences huge?
So, the person in the photo sent by Lu Sheng is Li Muchen, the elusive tycoon behind the Li Group?
Damn, he’s too handsome!
So where did those netizens get their information from, saying Li Muchen was ugly and disabled? Spreading it as if it’s the absolute truth, it even fooled her.
Yet his face totally outshines all the male celebrities in the entertainment industry now, except for Lu Ziye—Lan Yu has always been smitten by Lu Ziye’s looks; she’s his little fan.
And when Lu Sheng says that Li Muchen was disabled, doesn’t that mean Li Muchen is no longer disabled now?
Also, Lu Sheng saying that Li Muchen climbed over the wall into her room, does that mean the two of them are secretly dating?
That means, right now, they are actually sleeping in the same bed!
This is so thrilling.
She really has stumbled upon a huge scandal!
Seeing Lu Sheng’s [Remember to keep this a secret for me], a strong sense of comradery welled up in Lan Yu.
Dating such a tycoon, Lu Sheng must be under a lot of pressure.
That President Li must not want his status and identity to cause her trouble, hence he chose to be with her secretly.
However, what Lan Yu doesn’t know is that, being together with Lu Sheng, Li Muchen is actually the one under more pressure.
Their sneaky relationship is solely because of Lu Sheng’s five brothers.
Facing five intimidating brothers-in-law, even a man of power and position would feel uneasy.
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After school that day, Lan Yu gathered everyone.
They all went to Lu Sheng’s apartment to discuss details about the school festival.
It was both Lu Youye and Huo Yu’s first visit there, and their first time meeting Juanjuan; Lu Sheng simply introduced Juanjuan as her old friend and that the apartment was also Juanjuan’s.
Lan Yu casually invited her, suggesting that Juanjuan also come to Shengjing next Wednesday to join the fair.
By then, the three girls would be responsible for brewing coffee at the bar, and the four boys would serve as waiters, using their charm, oh no, attracting customers.
When Lan Yu informed everyone that the Li Group had sponsored their project with $10 million and Master Li’s assistant had personally written a very detailed plan for them, only Lu Youye frowned.
"Some people are too nice; it’s just a way to please our Shengsheng!"
"Hmm, this Li Muchen really is scheming, even knows to send coal in snowy weather to win our Shengsheng’s favor."
"These rich and powerful men are the least trustworthy, Shengsheng, don’t be easily moved by him, okay?"
"I know, brother."
Seeing Lu Sheng obediently nodding her head, Lu Youye finally relaxed.
Lan Yu couldn’t help but throw a sympathetic gaze towards Lu Youye.
If he knew that his precious sister was already secretly dating that President Li, Lu Youye would probably make a fuss.
No, not probably, he definitely would.
Chen An’s plan was written in great detail.
Not only did he write the plan, but he even found specific people to arrange various matters for them.
On Thursday and Friday, all kinds of personnel were already in place, starting to purchase and set up everything needed for the event according to Lu Sheng’s demands.
Now all that’s left is to start decorating Shengjing High School’s sports field this Saturday and Sunday.
However, on Friday night, Lan Yu suddenly saw the hashtag #ShengjingHighSchoolFestival on Weibo trending.
Lan Yu’s first reaction was—Is Shengjing that prestigious, that even a school festival is trending in advance?
To her surprise upon clicking it, the top associated post was published by Lu Qianrou a few hours ago.
[Qianqianbaby: Next Wednesday at our school’s festival, I’m setting up a Doraemon theme café with friends on the sports field.]
[We’ve invited two super gorgeous sisters @Yao XuantongYAMI @Fu Siya to join us as waitresses, such an honor~]
[Thanks to a $1 million sponsorship from Fu Group for our event, all profits will be donated to children left behind in mountainous areas.]
[Welcome friends in Jiang City to visit our store at the school that day, looking forward to seeing you all~~]
Below this post, there were pictures arranged in a grid of nine.
The first six photos showed individual portraits of six people.
Popular influencers Yao Xuantong and CEO of Fu Group, Fu Siya, along with Lu Qianrou, Tang Yiyi, Lin Ya, Hu Yun, each dressed in Doraemon-themed waitress uniforms, posing in cute and playful manners.
Every photo was clearly edited to perfection, everyone so beautiful as if they were immortals, the skin smoothing was so heavy that the pores were invisible.
The last three photos were promotional images of their café setup and introduced some minor activities that would be held that day.
Lan Yu was dumbfounded when she saw this post.
Because the event Lu Qianrou was organizing completely collided with their own creative idea.
Their side used handsome boys as waiters to attract guests, theirs used beautiful girls. Even the theme of the café was exactly the same as theirs.
Originally, when Lan Yu submitted the project info sheet, she wrote down a Doraemon-themed café.
The boys would have various small gifts in their pockets to give to the girls visiting their café, which Lan Yu thought was very much like Doraemon.
Meanwhile, Lu Qianrou’s side had decorations and tableware all themed after Doraemon.
Several little activities were ideas they had suddenly conceived during the first class that day. Moreover, donating all the profits to children left behind in mountainous areas was an idea also brought up by Lu Sheng that day.
What a coincidence! From the creative idea to the theme, from minor activities to charitable endeavors, they all thought of exactly the same things!
Lan Yu didn’t even need to think to know what was going on.
It must be that Lu Qianrou saw the application form she submitted and plagiarized their team’s ideas!
Lan Yu was furious, could never have anticipated someone as shameless as Lu Qianrou.
They had already bought everything necessary for the café these two days, and now with all these overlapping elements, how were they supposed to proceed? n𝚘𝚟𝚙𝚞𝚋.𝚌o𝚖
Moreover, now that Lu Qianrou had publicly revealed their theme first, if they did everything the same as them, they would ironically be the ones accused of plagiarism.
These things don’t have patents applied in advance, so even if she claimed Lu Qianrou copied their ideas, there would be no way to prove it.
The only proof would be the project form she submitted first, but who knows if that form wasn’t directly destroyed by Lu Qianrou, the class leader.
Lan Yu angrily shared this post to their group chat of seven members.
[Dammit, our ideas were plagiarized by this Lu Qianrou, how can someone be so shameless!]
[Her post content is almost identical to the application form I submitted, and she even posted it earlier than us, I’m so pissed off!]
Lan Yu had only recently arrived in Jiang City; she didn’t know that this wasn’t the first time Lu Qianrou had done such a shameless thing.
Completely forgetting Lu Qianrou’s relation with Lu Sheng, Lu Youming, and Lu Youye, after ranting in the group, Lan Yu directly went back to Lu Qianrou’s post.
Upon opening the comments section, her blood pressure rose even higher, seeing nothing but praise in the comments.
