Chapter 225
“Next, we need to address this issue.”
As soon as Arabella finished speaking, Dean handed over an iPad, “Ms. Bennett, I’ve done some research. These are the past award–winning designs of the designer from SY Fashion.”
Arabella took a quick glance. The competitions she participated in were relatively unknown, and her award–winning styles were different from Molly’s fresh and ladylike style…
“Everyone, take a look. You can clearly see that this designer copied Molly’s work.” Arabella placed the iPad on the conference table.
Everyone took a look and found it was indeed the case.
“His design style is more chic and neutral, not at all like Molly’s!”
“It does seem like he copied Molly’s design…”
“But he’s such a famous designer. Why would he copy a newcomer’s design?”
Arabella found this amusing, “Famous?”
“Yes, he has won hundreds of awards over the years…”
Arabella was unimpressed, “It depends on what awards he has won. Some awards are so prestigious that one is enough, while a hundred of others are not even comparable to one.”
“But Molly hasn’t participated in any competitions. After graduation, she has been working in our company, constantly designing. How would he know about her existence and her designs?” someone asked in confusion.
“That’s why I’m saying, someone inside our company must have leaked the information. He got the design drawings, produced and launched them before we did.” Arabella stated firmly.
“This mole is way out of line! How dare he betray his own colleague!”
“If I find out who the mole is, I won’t let the person off!”
“He must have received quite a bit of benefits…”
“Ms. Bennett, what’s the point of discussing all these now?” Oscar couldn’t help but scoff, “Our focus should be on tomorrow’s new product release! If you can’t solve it, please don’t waste time…”
“Who said I can’t solve it?” Arabella raised an eyebrow, full of confidence.
Everyone was taken aback. The situation was already so bad, could Ms. Bennett really have a solution?
Oscar was stunned, clearly unconvinced, “Then tell us, what’s your plan? How can you prevent the company from losing money and reputation, and even turn the situation around?”
Everyone thought it was impossible. There would definitely be financial and reputational losses. How could there possibly be a turnaround?
Mr. Oscar was really making things difficult!
“Indeed, there is a way to prevent the company from losing money and reputation, and even turn the situation around…”
Hearing Arabella say this, everyone was shocked. Really??
If Ms. Bennett really had a solution, she was not only amazing, she was practically a god!
“What’s your solution then? Stop keeping us in suspense!” Oscar didn’t believe she could come up with a good solution.
Arabella stood up, “I’ll figure it out! Meeting’s over!”
Everyone was shocked. Could Ms. Bennett really handle it on her own?!
Even if she could perform magic, she couldn’t possibly conjure up that many new outfits, could she?!
As Arabella walked out of the meeting room, Dean quickly caught up with her, “Ms. Bennett, are you just messing with us? Do you really have a solution? Our company has hundreds of retail stores with a large number of pre–orders. Many customers on our official website have already paid and need their orders shipped tomorrow. And then there are our partners and overseas channels. If we can’t deliver…”
“Who said we can’t deliver?” Arabella turned to look at him, smiling, “Tomorrow’s new product launch will proceed as planned!”
She already had the answer in her mind. The issue was definitely related to Oscar!
She was confident that she could expose his dirt today!
“Ms. Bennett… Do you really have a solution? That’s 110,000 new items we are talking…”
“We don’t have to sell 110,000 items all at once, no need to rush.”
Arabella raised an eyebrow, and the hope in Dean’s eyes died out once again.
Ms Bennett was just messing with him…..
They were done for tomorrow!
Just as Arabella was about to enter her office, she saw Molly standing at the door, looking wronged but still trying to hold on.
“Ms. Bennett, I…”
Arabella knew why she was here, “Come in and talk.”
Molly quickly followed her into the office, shut the door, then wiped away her tears and said, “Ms. Bennett! It wasn’t me! I didn’t copy Jason’s designs!! didn’t even know who Jason was before! The 23 new designs are all my own work! I swear!”
“I believe you.”
Molly was taken aback. She still had a lot to say, but Ms. Bennett just believed her like that?
“I trust you, and more importantly, I trust your character.” Arabella’s voice softened, “Sit down.”
Molly carefully pulled out a chair, “Ms. Bennett, before I designed these drafts, I looked at a lot of Master Queen Abby’s works and received your guidance, which led to these designs…”
She could guarantee that these designs were unique, and would not resemble any other works….
“Now, think carefully. Who has seen these designs?”
Molly thought for a moment and said, “These designs have been seen by everyone in the design department because department head Samual projected all the drafts for everyone to vote on, and my 23 drafts got high votes, so they were all adopted in the end,”
“So, everyone in the design department has seen your work…” Arabella tapped her long fingers lightly on the table.
Arabella remembered. One day, Molly came to her with red eyes and showed her the drafts. When she asked why, it was because someone had dumped trash on her father’s grave….
Later, Molly was worried about her mother’s accident, so she took a temporary leave. Arabella happened to have a partner to meet and asked Dean to drive them…
“The draft was on the desk at the time, and when I returned from handling some business, I was going to revise it before giving it to you. I remember you had a pink dress on the top of the pile, right?”
“No, no.” Molly recalled, very certain, “The first one was a pure white dress because I was most satisfied with that one, so I put it at the very front…”
“A white dress?” Arabella thought for a moment, “The last one I saw was the white dress.”
Both of them suddenly realized something.
“There must have been someone in the room.”
Molly was shocked. Someone dared to barge into the CEO’s office without permission?
“Well, can’t we just check the surveillance system?” Molly quickly found hope.
But Arabella casually said, “If this person looked at the drafts, even took them, and then just waltzed out of this door, there will only be two possibilities. One is that they turned off the surveillance system, and the other is that they deleted the surveillance records…”
