Chapter 499: Chapter 499: The Face-Slapping Comes Faster and Fiercer than a Tornado!
Gu Shiyin was still brooding over the loss of her Silver Alliance Hierarch status, and didn’t take Qianshan’s response seriously at all.
With the color palette already out, the evidence is conclusive. What else could they possibly pull?
That Qianshan, just making a futile struggle.
Gu Shiyin calmly and composedly opened her phone’s Weibo page.
However, when she clearly saw the content of Qianshan’s response, the composure on her face could no longer be maintained!
Qianshan’s response was shockingly simple—
"Sorry, the part you claim is similar was actually written in my comic book under the pen name ’Wu Ming’ twenty years ago."
"So, please explain how I supposedly traveled from twenty years ago to plagiarize your book today?"
The two lines sparked a flurry of heated comments from netizens.
"What? Qianshan started drawing twenty years ago? And already came up with such impressive and classic lines back then?"
"Oh my god, I always thought I was a fan of a newcomer, but turns out they are an ancient treasure!"
"As a passerby, shouldn’t Shen Ying come out and explain how she has the nerve to copy Qianshan’s lines from twenty years ago and still have the audacity to strike back?"
"Shen Ying, come out and explain!"
"Shen Ying, come out and explain!"
#Shen Ying come out and explain#
#Shen Ying, you’re the real plagiarist and green tea witch!#
The fierce flood of posts quickly took over the trending searches.
The socialites at the party patted their chests, still in shock and said: "Thankfully we didn’t tip Shen Ying hastily earlier, oh my, she’s the real plagiarist!"
Gu Shiyin’s face almost turned green.
She had indeed sought inspiration by flipping through old comics from twenty years ago, but that obscure comic was utterly unknown and its artist wasn’t famous at all, plus, most crucially, the artist called "Wu Ming" had long since stopped drawing, fading into obscurity.
She thought it was a clear opportunity to plagiarize without consequences.
Who would have thought it was such a coincidence that the old comic was actually drawn by Qianshan?
This face slap was as sudden as a tornado!
Wait, she can’t lose her composure.
Her "Fu Xi and Nuwa" is so popular, and no one has come to challenge her until now, why did "Wu Ming," the original author, suddenly pop up tonight, could Qianshan be bluffing?
Gu Shiyin hurriedly logged onto Weibo, prepared to question Qianshan herself, only to find that the second wave of evidence had already been released—
"To avoid doubt, here’s the notification of entry into the finals of the Empire Comic Contest from twenty years ago, proving it wasn’t someone else’s work but mine."
"I am Wu Ming, Wu Ming is me."
Short and powerful, not a word was wasted!
Gu Shiyin inexplicably felt that the tone of Qianshan’s statement, although casual and lazy, was sharp and incisive, seemed particularly familiar, as if it was...
Before she could delve deeper into her thoughts, she saw the attached image below, and her heart was thrown into chaos!
The image clearly displayed Wu Ming’s notification of entry from back then, with the classic lines from the comics marked in red and compared to today’s so-called color palette.
This comparison showed Shen Ying’s key lines were almost identical, copied directly from the comics of Wu Ming back then.
The color palette was a joke!
The audacity of a plagiarist to falsely accuse the original creator is laughable!
The netizens, who had been played all day, were furious.
The formerly massive fan base supporting Shen Ying’s rights now matched the sheer size of those abandoning her.
The crowd spontaneously swarmed to Penguin Reading to give Shen Ying bad reviews and negative ratings... Shen Ying’s original ten million fans were rapidly unfollowing, plummeting numbers.
Gu Shiyin’s phone kept ringing incessantly.
She answered with slight annoyance, "Hello?"
Not far at the bar.
Xi Rubao, enjoying watching the drama unfold, sighed, "It would be nice if that Shen Ying gets exposed. Her Ma Jia is hidden so deeply, even though everyone online looks down on plagiarists and green tea witches, it doesn’t affect her being so dignified in real life. Just thinking about it is frustrating!"
Zuzi’s red lips curved slightly: "What, Little Crucian wants to see the Ma Jia exposed?"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
"Alright then, Ancestor will satisfy your curiosity on the spot just once."