[ENG] Opium [Vincenzo FF] - HIATUS

The Pride

"What makes a brand expensive and luxurious? It's a respectable designer who takes pride in their design."
-- Now we are breaking up

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Getting off the bus, Cha Young beats her head which is still dizzy from the effects of the alcohol she drank last night at the barbecue party. As she was almost at the company building, she saw Hwang Min Seong kissing a man in the car.

"Ouch... my eyes..." she immediately turned her face the other way.

"Cha Young-ah!!!" Min Seong ran to her.

"Put the darkened window film on your boyfriend's car."

"Why? Are you jealous? So, go on a date!"

"That's Kim Tae Oh, right? I thought you guys broke up."

"We're backstreet from my mom."

"Then why are you kissing in front of the company building? Adrenaline-challenging, or idiot?"

Min Seong just chuckled.

"Oh yeah, I heard Tae Oh is now working at The One, huh?"

Min Seong did not immediately answer. Their conversation is interrupted by a greeting from another employee, and Cha Young forgets to ask for the answer, rather doesn't really care.

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2 days before Han So Hee's photo shoot, Julia Park created a piece of content on her YouTube channel to review the three dresses she was wearing. She called the dress the latest design from a designer of The One which will be sold to the public in the spring of this year.

The designer team at Beauty K was surprised to see the dresses that Julia was wearing because they were supposed to be worn by Han So Hee. The dresses for Han So Hee are not lost, they are still stored in a special wardrobe, but the designs of the dresses that Julia is wearing are 90% similar to those dresses. Not only the model, but also the colors used, even the swarovski layout on the chest of one of the dresses is exactly like the picture designed by Cha Young.

"How did this happen? How did our designs leak all the way to our opponents?" Choi Myung Hee raged.

"We're still checking it out, Hoenjangnim," said one of the employees.

"We have to sue Julia Park and The One for plagiarism. Lawyer Jang, prepare the prosecution file," ordered Choi Myung Hee.

"We can't sue them, Hoenjangnim," said Lawyer Jang Joon Woo.

"Why not?"

"They have already registered the copyright of the design as their own. If we sue, we will most likely lose."

"Aish, damn it!"

"Hoenjangnim," the IT employee entered the meeting room, then handed a file to Choi Myung Hee.

The woman's eyes widened, then turned to Hong Cha Young.

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In the meeting room, only Hong Cha Young and the director were left. Cha Young stared in shock and couldn't believe the file that the IT team had given her, that a few days ago her e-mail sent pictures of her designs to a designer of The One.

"How could that be???"

"Yes, how can that be? Only you can explain, Designer Hong."

"I didn't send it, Hoenjangnim."

"Then your computer turns on itself and sends e-mails automatically, huh?"

"There must have been a mistake. Trust me. There's no way I'd be sending my own design to an opposing company."