Chapter 359: Chapter 359

Rose Payne became famous all at once, and her former classmates all congratulated her.

"Rose, you’re really amazing. You casually entered an art competition and won first place, and even sold the painting for a high price of five million."

"Yeah, yeah, Rose, you’re truly incredible. I just checked your microblog, and you have three million followers, everyone says you’re a person of both beauty and talent."

Rose smiled modestly, but internally she was very proud.

She had now started her own business, and when she had her own enterprise, she could proudly appear in front of Austin Xavier. She didn’t believe that when faced with such an outstanding her, Austin would still ignore her.

However, soon, Rose wasn’t happy anymore.

Because Penson’s new product hit the market again.

And the appearance of this new product was exactly the same as the rainbow robot in her painting "Rainbow".

Rose’s expression immediately turned ugly. The painting was hers and had won an award, yet Paige Sterling dared to use the design in a new product.

What is this, Paige? Openly plagiarizing me?

Or did Paige not watch her competition show?

No, how could Paige not watch? Paige sees her as a major rival and won’t let anything related to her pass by, so how could she not have paid attention?

So Paige did it on purpose? Knowing full well that she won an award with this piece, yet continued to use it, leveraging the fame of her and her artwork to boost his company?

How is this different from plagiarism?

To think Paige could be so despicable, she would never let him get away with this.

The justice she deserves, she will definitely reclaim it! But seeking justice, of course, couldn’t be done by herself, she had to wait for the uproar to make others start the commotion, and then she could pretend to be the victim. Wouldn’t that make her seem innocent?

So Rose logged in to her side account and started posting on her microblog.

"President Sterling, can’t you see? Your company’s newly launched product plagiarized the work ’Rainbow’, which won first place at the DQ Cup painting competition by Rose Payne. I’ve already tagged the original author and asked them. You copied her painting without obtaining her copyright consent. Penson is a big company trusted by the public, I never thought Penson would stoop so low, so shameless, to plagiarize someone else’s work so blatantly. Is this bullying the original author because she has no power? It’s really disappointing."

This accusation was righteous and confident, and every word Rose typed intensified the anger in her chest.

Soon after, people noticed the microblog post coming from Rose’s side account.

At that time, Rose’s painting made a sensational appearance, and many who followed the competition saw it and highly recognized Rose for her first place win.

Especially those in the art world, they all felt the painting deserved first place, and since it sold for five million, it further inflated the painting’s value.

Now, the painting was brazenly plagiarized by a big company like Penson, and the resulting robot product didn’t even alter the colors or proportions; it was a complete copy.

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Can a big company just bully people ?

One microblogger called Martial Artist Ronin, who was also somewhat famous in the art circle with a few notable works and around a hundred thousand followers, carefully compared "Rainbow" with Penson’s new product, and found that Penson was indeed completely plagiarizing.

Martial Artist Ronin couldn’t tolerate such behavior, even if he wasn’t the author of the painting, he couldn’t tolerate the existence of plagiarism.

But to confirm that Penson’s appropriation didn’t receive the original author’s authorization, he specifically messaged Rose on her microblog.

Rose quickly saw the private message sent by Martial Artist Ronin, and naturally denied any authorization, stating that she had never given Penson any authorization.

Martial Artist Ronin immediately expressed hope that Rose would step forward to hold Penson accountable.

Rose hinted through her words that she was scared and didn’t dare...

Martial Artist Ronin felt exasperated with her reluctance but understood that Rose was just a girl and fearing retaliation from a big company like Penson was understandable.

However, Rose was afraid, but he wasn’t.

Even if the artwork wasn’t his, he wanted to get justice for Rose. Such cases of plagiarism should never become normalized.

The situation developed as she had anticipated, and Rose was very satisfied.

Now, she was a person with fans and fame. Did Paige Sterling think she was that easy to bully? Thought her work was that easy to plagiarize?

This time, she intended to give Paige a harsh lesson, to make Paige realize that the world doesn’t revolve around her, and she’s not that excellent.

Martial Artist Ronin soon posted a microblog too, doing a detailed comparison between "Rainbow" and Penson’s new product, directly questioning Penson and hoping for a response.

However, Martial Artist Ronin didn’t expect that even with conclusive evidence, Penson’s official microblog response still insisted that the design of the new model robot was Paige’s own work, original, without any plagiarism.

The internet immediately exploded.

"Even though I’m a fan of Penson and God Sterling, this time I really don’t know which side to take."

"Feels like God Sterling might really crash this time, maybe God Sterling just made a mistake in the moment."

"Trust our God Sterling, maybe this piece wasn’t designed by God Sterling, it just carries God Sterling’s name. Even if it’s plagiarism, it must be someone under God Sterling who did it, definitely has nothing to do with God Sterling."

"Fans still making excuses and whitewashing for Paige upstairs? What’s the point of whitewashing when the plagiarism is so blatant?"

"What I hate most in life is plagiarism. I really didn’t expect my idol, whom I admire, would plagiarize someone else’s work. It feels like my belief crumbled..."

Rose kept track of the online situation, not only observing but also fueling and fanning the flames.

If Paige were willing to bow her head at this point, she might not necessarily intend to contend with her.

But at this point, Paige still refused to admit any wrongdoing, and since that’s the case, she wouldn’t hold back against Paige.

Since her work was plagiarized, there must be corresponding repercussions.

She didn’t believe that if this matter blew up and people across the nation knew Paige plagiarized, Paige could still survive in the research field.

Nor did she believe that with a plagiarizing boss, Penson could continue as before.

So at this time, under the frequent mentions and urging of netizens, Rose finally declared her intention to retain the right to pursue legal action against Penson.

This was a direct admission that she had never given Penson any authorization.

Rose’s statement pushed the matter to a climax.

Countless people came to sympathize with this talented and beautiful yet powerless person, who could only swallow her pride after being plagiarized.

Meanwhile, the people sympathizing with Rose were also the ones verbally attacking Paige the fiercest, although they were indeed a minority.