Chapter 90 Jiang He, I’m going bankrupt.
The feud between Gu Xia and Meiyi Home Furnishing started earlier than Li Mingchu thought.
That goes back five years.
It happened to be the National College Student Home Furnishing Creative Design Competition organized by Meiyi Home every two years. Gu Xia, who was in his sophomore year at the time, was recommended by the school to participate. He lived up to his expectations, and the modular sofa he designed was successfully selected as a finalist.
At that time, the designers who were shortlisted for the finals were required to explain their design concepts face to face to the competition's judging panel.
Gu Xia, who has no social experience, focused on "getting out his heart and lungs" during his explanation. He even gave the sketchbook that he usually used to record sudden inspirations to the panel of judges, and one of the judges praised it greatly. Yu also used his mobile phone to re-photograph a lot of hand-drawn sketches, saying that he felt that Gu Xia had the potential to win the special prize. "These sketches will be used for publicity when the time comes."
However, when the results of the competition were announced later, Gu Xia only won the third prize and a bonus of 2000 yuan.
On the day he received the bonus, Gu Xia threw a grand banquet for the guests. The group of people ate and sang. Not only did he spend all the bonus, he also paid five to six hundred yuan into it.
This competition is a turning point for Gu Xia.
The problem is that a year later, he went to the home furnishing market with his classmates to investigate, and found a finished home furnishing that was 90% similar to his hand-drawn sketch in the showroom of Meiyi Home Furnishings. It was also a complete set, ranging from a sofa to a six-drawer chest. Down to the decorative paintings on the vases, the design concepts are exactly the same, and even the innovative materials are highly transparent colored acrylic sheets that Gu Xia scribbled on sketches.
Of course Gu Xia couldn't bear it. He went to Meiyi Home Furnishing to argue, but the result was...no result.
"Student Gu, based on these few sketches, you have concluded that our Meiyi Home Furnishing Co., Ltd. has plagiarized your idea. Isn't it too hasty?"
The man in charge of receiving Gu Xia was a man in his 30s. He looked like a high-ranking professional elite. His words were extremely shameless, and he even planned to PUA Gu Xia.
"Young people should not be too arrogant. Classmate Gu, you are not a unique design genius. Although it is painful to admit this, it is the fact. I have read the files. In last year's competition, you only won A third prize, right? Haha, we have good intentions, but there are hundreds of professional home designers, most of whom have won extremely important home design awards internationally. Your creative pieces are fortunate to be with us. It’s normal for home products to overlap a little bit.”
"Fuck you!" The angry Gu Xia opened his mouth to curse, but before he could curse for the second time, he asked the security guard to "invite" him out.
Gu Xia has been thinking about "revenge" for quite a long time, but Mei Yi Ju's family has a big business and is willing to spend money, so the handle is not that easy to grasp. In addition, he is busy starting a business and being an Internet celebrity. Once the friendship started, this thought gradually faded away.
At the end of the year when he first became famous, he was invited to participate in the Super Celebrity Festival, and unexpectedly met Qi Qingyu, the second lady of Meiyi Home Furnishings. Miss Qi had no interest in inheriting the family business and only wanted to be famous. She was also a top-notch beauty control girl. , she saw that Gu Xia was pleasing to the eye, so she proposed cooperation, and the conditions she offered were quite generous.
Gu Xia was lying when he said he wasn't impressed, but he really didn't want to have anything to do with Meiyi Home Furnishings. Although Qi Qingyu had been claiming that all her achievements now were due to herself, "it has nothing to do with my family at all." ", but this is obviously impossible.
Qi Qingyu didn't know about the "festival" between Gu Xia and Meiyi Home Furnishing, and thought that Gu Xia felt that she didn't have enough weight, so she specifically asked her cousin who was in charge of the market at Meiyi Home Furnishing to lobby Gu Xia.
"It's true that you should treat each other with admiration after three days of separation, Boss Gu!"
The visitor's expression was as arrogant as three years ago. He was sitting in Gu Xia's studio, but he acted as if he was the master. "You can make whatever conditions you want, but don't be polite. Since you are the second lady's favorite, then Of course, everything is easy to say. But to be honest, if it weren’t for us at Meiyi Home Furnishings, I’m afraid there wouldn’t be Boss Gu today, what do you think?”
The other party's shamelessness completely angered Gu Xia. Gu Xia not only refused to cooperate with Qi Qingyu, but also made up his mind to add some color to Meiyi Home Furnishing. Therefore, when similar expressions with creative elements that were not even borrowed appeared, , he suddenly lost his temper.
"Jiang He, I'm going bankrupt." Gu Xia suddenly said after being silent for a while.
He raised his eyes to look at Jiang He. There was a layer of trembling tears on his bright black eyes. Jiang He looked in his eyes, his face seemed calm, but his heart trembled uncontrollably.
Gu Xia's eyes pretending to be pitiful was a foul play.
Jiang He has never felt that he is a person who cares about his appearance. "As a man, whether he looks good or not is secondary. What's on the inside is more important."Jiang Xiaoping sneered at this, "Most men are 'failed', and all of them have first-class acting skills. You can find nothing serious about your inner self, you might as well look at your face!"
"Jiang He, you are my last life-saving straw. If you don't care about me, I...and SUM, it will be all over."
"Um... I don't think it's at this point of desperation, right?" Jiang He knew that Gu Xia's current situation was not good, but was he "bankrupt"?It's too exaggerated.
"We're here, really." Gu Xia raised his head slightly after saying that. He knew that he had better squeeze out a few tears now. In that case, he could enhance the atmosphere to the best state. But the more he squeezed, the less tears he had before. The tear film has dried up.
Jiang He folded his arms and looked at him calmly, obviously unable to hold back his laughter.
"This little kid is really interesting. Are you sure you don't want to talk to him?" Jiang Xiaoping suggested sincerely while chewing the apple.
Jiang He looked at her mother in disbelief. Just as he was about to criticize her mother for her too frivolous view of love, her grandma, who had been paying attention to them, also came over.
"He'er, you can't ignore Xiaoxia!"
"Oh, grandma, you really praise me so much." As soon as Liang Xiujing intervened, the nature of the matter changed, and Jiang He immediately decided to draw a clear line with Gu Xia.
"Our boss Gu, a tens of millions of Internet celebrities and the founder of the independent home furnishing brand SUM, has a revenue of over [-] million a year?" Jiang He paused and looked up at Gu Xia, his tone a little hesitant.
"...More than that." Gu Xia corrected.
"Did you hear that? It's more than [-] million! You still asked me..."
Jiang He stopped, and she couldn't help but look up at Gu Xia again, "Why is it so easy for you to make money? You basically earn it from being an Internet celebrity? Oh, just... the one who speculated on CP you mentioned last time Seriously, can you really have millions of fans in a month?"
"It's not a big problem." Gu Xia said firmly.
"Oh." Jiang He touched his chin thoughtfully, "Then this matter is still..."
"The first 20 episodes of the script are almost finalized. We just need to finalize it. I'll send it to you later?" Gu Xia asked tentatively, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.
"I just want to take a look." Jiang He said in an attempt to cover up, then slapped Gu Xia on the back and looked at Liang Xiujing with burning eyes.
"Grandma, you are right. I can't ignore Gu Xia. We are now a team and a family. Naturally, we share blessings and share hardships!"
"...Mom, did I just act a little...a little too money-obsessed?" When the four of them went downstairs to drive, Jiang He looked at Gu Xia who was carrying large and small bags in front of him, and couldn't help but ask Jiang Xiaoping.
"That's [-] million. You've already made your mother proud without jumping up to kiss Gu Xia passionately." Jiang Xiaoping said from the bottom of her heart.
"Boss Gu, can anyone be an Internet celebrity? Is it good to be one? Do you think... can I do it?" Zhang Jiefang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked while driving to Xiong Yunhao's house.
"Of course. Andy Warhol once said, 'Everyone has 15 minutes to become famous.' Aunt Jiefang, if you find the right direction, you can definitely do it." Gu Xia vowed.
Jiang He, who was driving, glanced at Zhang Jiefang through the rearview mirror. Regardless of whether Gu Xia really thought so, at least his answer gave Zhang Jiefang enough emotional value.
(End of this chapter)