Chapter 54: The Design Was Lost

“As long as it’s the clothes I designed, they must have my trademark. As for other clothes, I don’t care.”

Xia Keqing smiled, “So it shouldn’t be considered my exclusive processing factory.”

“I think Director Zhang’s factory wouldn’t only produce clothes designed by me, right?”

This was also a probe.

But Zhang Xia had a car, Xia Keqing guessed that her factory shouldn’t be very small.

Unless Zhang Xia was someone who was content with a small fortune.

She had a small factory, made a little money, and then immediately bought a car.

But Xia Keqing still believed in her own judgment.

This Zhang Xia looked very steady, she didn’t seem like that kind of person.

So she guessed that her factory might be a decent size, and the reason why she was so eager to buy the design blueprint might be because the factory’s profits were declining year after year, and she was looking for a new way out.

This coincided with her idea.

If she could cooperate with her, it would be a win-win situation.

“I don’t care who you sell the clothes to either.”

“Of course, I will have some demand for my own designed clothes, this shouldn’t be a conflict for you.”

Zhang Xia thought about it, that’s true.

Her big factory couldn’t possibly only produce one or a few styles of clothes.

It’s just adding the other person’s trademark, it’s really nothing.

Xia Keqing’s guess was also correct.

Zhang Xia’s clothing factory was not small, and it could compete with “Xuefei” in the early years.

But Xuefei kept innovating, her factory, under her father’s leadership, had always been stubborn and conservative, and the profits in recent years had been declining year after year.

And more and more people started to enter the clothing industry, to grab a piece of the “cake”, it was getting harder and harder to make money.

Even Xuefei was like this, otherwise they wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of holding such a designer competition, and invited people from newspapers and TV stations.

How much money would that cost?

But the effect was also gratifying.

At least, in Zhang Xia’s eyes, Xia Keqing was a hidden gem.

She was eager to buy her design, lest someone else discover it.

Compared to closing down, what did it matter if the clothes produced had someone else’s trademark? At least she wasn’t asking for trademark usage fees!

Zhang Xia’s personality still had some humor.

She gritted her teeth, “Okay, I’ll do it your way!”

The dinner was a pleasant one for both host and guest.

After dinner, Zhang Xia was eager to go to Xuefei to get Xia Keqing’s design, but when she got to Xuefei, she found that the design was gone.

Zhang Xia immediately panicked.

“The designs are all on the bulletin board, how could it be gone?”

The people from Xuefei didn’t want to take responsibility, “We held a designer competition to select the winners, and the works were all publicly displayed, we tried our best to ensure fairness and justice, but we are not responsible for keeping these works, maybe someone took it when no one was looking.”

They even pushed the responsibility onto Xia Keqing, “You’re the designer of that work, right? Since you want to sell that design, why didn’t you keep the design safe?”

“We just displayed it, we didn’t say that designers couldn’t take their own works.”

Yu Hong was angry when she heard their tone of shirking responsibility, “What do you mean by that?”

“My niece wouldn’t have left such a precious work in the factory if she didn’t trust Xuefei, now the work is gone, how dare you push the responsibility onto her?”

“Do you think she’s young and easy to bully?”

The people from Xuefei saw that Yu Hong was standing up for Xia Keqing, seeing that she was a little older and looked like trouble, their attitude softened a lot.

“Hey, don’t worry, don’t worry!”

“Let’s look again, maybe it accidentally fell somewhere.”

The people from Xuefei searched everywhere but couldn’t find it, but they noticed that many works were missing from the bulletin board, he suddenly thought of something, “Little girl, you wouldn’t have taken the design yourself, trying to blackmail our Xuefei, would you?”

Yu Hong immediately widened her eyes, “What are you talking about?”

The people from Xuefei: …

“I’m just making a reasonable suspicion, look for yourselves, several works are missing, who would care about these things besides you designers? Maybe your niece took it herself.”

Although this was shameless, it was true.

For designers, every design is like their child.

The people from Xuefei thought more and more that the design was taken by Xia Keqing herself.

“Didn’t your niece want to sell the design for money? She must have taken it herself, otherwise, why don’t you look for it elsewhere?”

He also looked at Zhang Xia, and said pointedly, “You never know about these young people nowadays, maybe they can make a lot of money from one design.”

Xia Keqing immediately heard the implication, this time she didn’t wait for Yu Hong to speak, she said with a serious expression, “Comrade, you need to have evidence when you speak.”

“You said I took my design and sold it to several people, do you have any evidence?”

The staff member from Xuefei, a middle-aged woman, immediately became anxious, “How would I know where you put your design?”

Xia Keqing laughed instead, “Since I don’t know, why are you slandering me and saying that I sold one design to several people?”

The middle-aged woman was stunned, she was a little embarrassed and angry, “You lost your design yourself, I’ll say it again, Xuefei is not responsible for keeping your design, since it’s gone, you must have taken it and sold it, now that the truth is out, you want to push the responsibility onto our Xuefei.”

Xia Keqing had never met such a shameless person in her two lifetimes.

There were quite a few strange people in such a big clothing factory like Xuefei.

“Okay, you mean, I took my own design and sold it to several people, and I’m also slandering your Xuefei, right? If you don’t have any evidence, I can sue you for defamation!”

The woman was so anxious that she stomped her feet, but she was still bluffing, “Go ahead and sue, I didn’t take your design, I’m not afraid of you!”

“If you don’t sue me, you’re a coward!”

Xia Keqing: …

“Okay, I’m going to call the police now.”

Hearing that Xia Keqing was going to call the police, the other staff members from Xuefei panicked.

Xuefei is a business, they couldn’t have the police come knocking because of one employee, if the competitors heard any rumors, it would seriously affect Xuefei’s overall image.

If Xuefei Clothing Factory’s reputation is damaged, and they don’t have any business, what will happen to their jobs?

“Don’t, don’t! Don’t call the police, little girl, it’s better to leave a way out for people, you’ll need it in the future, why do you have to be so ruthless?”

Xia Keqing sneered, “I don’t want to be ruthless either, she forced me.”

“My design was lost, it was originally on the bulletin board, if it’s really lost, I can’t do anything about it, besides, I can draw it again, but she pushed the responsibility onto me, and slandered me, smeared my character, how can I accept that?”

The other people from Xuefei looked sheepish.

Actually, they all saw Sister Chen arguing with people just now.

But who told Sister Chen was the factory director’s relative?

She’s always been a sharp-tongued person.

They thought the little girl was easy to bully, and they thought that she would be shut up by Sister Chen’s words, and the factory wouldn’t have to take responsibility, but who knew the little girl was so powerful.

Now that it’s related to their own interests, everyone came to plead.

Yu Hong and Zhang Xia heard Xia Keqing say that it was okay if the design was lost, she could draw it again, and they immediately felt relieved, and they didn’t intervene in this matter.

That Sister Chen was also forced to apologize to Xia Keqing seriously.

…

At this time, in a certain motel, a man stretched out his straight and slender legs, leaning slightly against the headboard, holding a piece of paper in his hand, it was the design that Xia Keqing had lost.

The man stared at the design for a while, but he couldn’t understand it.

He just thought it looked good.

He would go back and give her more money, he heard that drawing is very expensive.