President Davies and Selena left.
Lucius looked at me and asked, “is this work really yours?”
“Yes.”My answer was very short.
Lucius was helpless. He could only nod, “okay. You can stop working recently and think about how to prove that the design is yours. Come to me if you need my help.”
I agreed.
When I got back to the office, my colleagues were all gloating at me.
When Billie saw me come in, she came over happily.”June, why are you so stupid to plagiarize? Now you may be fired. It’s no use even if the leader doesn’t want you to go.”
I ignored her.
I just sat and packed. I was thinking about how to cut down my working hours recently and concentrate on finding evidence that the work belonged to me.
Billie was a little upset to see that I ignored her.”Why don’t you talk? Is President Lucius going to fire you?”
“You are noisy.”
I took a look at her.
Billie was stunned for a moment, but she said, “you are very proud now. You will not be proud if you are dismissed in a few days.”
I felt quiet after she left.
All the colleagues in the office except me were eliminated in this competition.
They were all gloating.
I didn’t care. I made a schedule and contacted several clients and people in the engineering department. After I set the time, I began to work.
I met with clients, people in the engineering department, and supervision department during the day.
I modified my design in the evening.
I reduced the workload of a week to four days.
On the fourth night, after I communicated with the engineering department, I checked all my previous work plans.
Then I went back to the office and turned on my personal computer. I began to think about how to prove that this work is mine.
I looked at the work on the computer and began to worry.
How to prove it?
I couldn’t just have a draft.
I opened the design drawing. Although there were layers and details in it, they could be imitated.
I couldn’t prove it was mine at all.
It took me two days to meditate.
Every time I came up with a way, I denied it.
One day later, I would prove to my colleagues in the conference room that this work was mine.
But I didn’t make progress.
In fact, I understood that even if Selena couldn’t fully prove that this work was hers, others would believe her.
As I sat in front of the computer thinking, my cell phone rang.
It was Daniell.
After I answered the phone, he apologized, “I’m sorry. I thought you didn’t make it to the semi-final, so I didn’t pay attention to that website. I only saw that notice today.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
In fact, if Daniell didn’t comment on my work, I couldn’t pass the preliminary.
Daniell asked me, “now how do you want to solve this problem?”
I hesitated for a moment and told him I was going to PK with Selena in the conference room tomorrow.
At the same time, I told him what I was doing.
I couldn’t fully prove that this work was mine.
After hearing this, Daniell was silent for a while and said, “I’ll think about it for you.”
In fact, at this time, I had no hope.
I just said thank you.
By 11 o’clock in the evening, I had been sitting in front of the computer for a day, and I couldn’t think of any good way to prove that this work was my own.
I was so depressed that I went to sleep.
The next morning, I woke up and looked at the computer on and regretted it.
If I didn’t sleep, maybe I could come up with a good way.
But now it was no use regretting.
I took my laptop to the Giant group.
Lucius was already waiting for me when I got to the gate of the company. Today, he was wearing a black suit with sequins and looked very advanced.
When he saw me, he immediately asked nervously, “are you confident to persuade everyone?”
“Let’s go first.”
This debate hadn’t started yet, so I couldn’t lose faith.
Although at this moment, I seemed to have seen the result.
Lucius was even less reassured.”What? Do you have any confidence? Is this work yours? Don’t disgrace me then!”
“…”
I was so anxious that I didn’t want to talk.
Lucius said, “if it’s not yours, we’d better leave right away.”
“What’s the matter? Are you in conflict before the debate begins?”
When Lucius asked me, I heard a woman’s shrill voice.
I looked up and saw President Davies and Selena standing at the door of the elevator.
The meeting room was on the 7th floor.
We could only take the elevator.
Lucius was a little guilty when he saw them. He could only pretend not to worry. He straightened his back. He said calmly, “this work is June’s. We are well prepared.”
“Really? I’m looking forward to it.”
President Davies took a look at me. Her eyes were filled with contempt.
The four of us got into the elevator together.
On the 7th floor, there were already many people sitting in the meeting room.
I saw many unfamiliar people and several familiar people.
One was Brenda and the other was Luke.
I knew Brenda would come.
Luke was Sean’s assistant.
I was a little confused about why he was here.
The meeting started at 9:00. It was only 8:30 now.
As we sat and sorted, Lucius kept asking me, “do you have any confidence? If you disgrace me, I’ll fire you!”
“Don’t worry, President Lucius. The work is mine. I didn’t plagiarize.”
I didn’t know what to say to Lucius.
Finally, it was 9 o’clock.
Luke stood up and went to the middle of the meeting room and said, “Hello, I’m assistant to President Jessop. My name is Luke. President Jessop has something to do this morning, so I’m in charge of this meeting for the time being.”
Lucius, President Davies, Brenda and a few others were all very polite to Luke.
At the beginning of the meeting, Selena couldn’t wait to turn on her laptop. She started showing draft and 3D modeling of her work.
I was shocked to see that.
The draft was clearly drawn by herself, but the model she showed was exactly the same as mine.
She must have got my original document directly.
This was more than plagiarism.