After Bankruptcy, the Billionaire Asked Me to Marry Him!-Chapter 220: It Was Wrong from the Beginning

"You wouldn’t..."

"I’m the original designer of Lovesickness!"

The pride that flashed in her eyes as she mentioned Lovesickness faded as Wan Mingyi’s gaze landed on the gravel at her feet, and a bitter expression surfaced, "In August, he sent me a bouquet with a red bean in it. Not knowing that red beans needed to be misted with water, I watched the plump, red beans turn black day by day. Then one day, I had a flash of inspiration and sketched the design for Lovesickness."

"At the time, I was so pleased with myself. Even though it was just a rough sketch, I felt proud and took a photo to share on a forum to discuss it with like-minded people."

Ye Li looked astonished, "That ’Better safe than sorry’ was you?"

Wan Mingyi nodded.

Ye Li let out a long sigh of relief.

She knew she had seen it before.

As if she had not expected Ye Li to be one of the netizens she had discussed with in the comment section, Wan Mingyi’s gaze turned thoughtful as she continued, "Less than ten minutes after I posted it, he came back and told me, as designers, even the fleeting inspirations that pass through our minds should be carefully recorded. What I did by sketching it out was good, but there was no need to post it on forums. And then... I deleted it."

Like she had guessed who Wan Mingyi was referring to, Ye Li kept silent.

The light in Wan Mingyi’s eyes gradually dimmed, "He’s a graduate from the jewelry design department of Imperial University, comes from a well-off family, and is a promising jewelry designer. As for me, I’m just someone who taught herself a bit and got into this halfway through. According to him, a full bottle is silent while a half-empty bottle clinks loudly, prone to spilling if one is not careful."

"It was me who first suggested that we start our own design studio, to gradually refine our brand until one day, it would shine. It was a casual idea before bed, which I had forgotten upon waking, but unexpectedly..."

She laughed at herself, then turned to look at Ye Li, "He found a few talented designers in the industry and founded Shiny Studio together; they had registered everything before telling me, saying he didn’t want me to work too hard. He even said that when he became a great designer, he could buy a big house to support me!"

"Go to hell!"

Exploding with an obscenity, Wan Mingyi stood fuming as she faced the expansive sea, raising her voice, "I have talent and capability. Even if I don’t become a designer, I can support myself with any job. Why would I need his support? A shameless, plagiarizing scum!"

Ye Li’s eyes sparkled.

Indeed, great minds think alike.

Her opinion of Chen Jiayuan was the same as Wan Mingyi’s.

"That Lovesickness set, he copied it from you, and you didn’t confront him about it?"

Ye Li asked.

Wan Mingyi sighed, her expression downcast, "The draft is gone, and even if I did have the original, it’s on his computer, including the idea to swap red beans for rubies. Without the evidence, I can’t even complain to people, let alone prove he plagiarized my work. And not to mention, he was my boyfriend, oh, not right..."

Wan Mingyi corrected herself, "He’s my ex-boyfriend now!"

"Ye Li, they say it’s hard to know people’s true faces, but I didn’t expect that I couldn’t even see through the person beside me in my bed!"

Thinking about how he took her design of Lovesickness with rubies to the studio to show off, receiving others’ praises and flattery, and the nauseating attitude he had when she found out.

Wan Mingyi felt completely disheartened, "I was blind!"

"If I hadn’t fallen for jewelry design, I wouldn’t have met that scumbag, and without meeting him, I wouldn’t be feeling dead inside this very moment."

Her head bowed, tears slid from the corners of her eyes and quickly disappeared into the gravel.

Wan Mingyi spoke softly, "Maybe, from the very beginning, it was all wrong!"

"No, you weren’t wrong!"

Ye Li’s voice was resolute. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Wan Mingyi suddenly lifted her head.