Chapter 1924: Chapter 1924: Mirror World (Part 1)
Chuzheng sat on the soft bed, staring at the person in the mirror opposite. Wearing pajamas, her face was pale, eyes dark and baggy, looking terrible as if she hadn’t washed for days. Her expression passed through a moment of blankness.
Who is this!
Wait a minute... Have I entered a game instance?
This feeling isn’t right.
Chuzheng called out twice to King’s Account, which sluggishly came online: [Missy, what’s wrong?]
"Is this the game world? Or have you transported me again?"
[Missy, we are in the mission world now.]
Chuzheng: "..."
Shit!
If I really haven’t gone out, is that group of people also going to think I’m just like their CEO?
You just can’t feel okay without screwing me over, can you?
[...] As long as you’re happy, I am just a weak and helpless System, what can I say?
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"Knock knock..." Someone knocked on the door outside: "Xiao Chu, are you up yet? You haven’t eaten for two days, please come out and have some food..."
"You can’t go on like this, it’s bad for your health."
"Xiao Chu?"
"Can you open the door?"
Chuzheng didn’t respond; the knocking continued for a moment, finally turning into a sigh.
The sound of footsteps gradually faded, and soon she heard the sound of a door closing, and the entire world fell into silence.
The floor was sprinkled with the fine, fragmented light of dawn, and the breeze lifted the pure white curtains to float in the air.
Outside the window was a tree with tiny white flowers. From her position, she could see the lush foliage interspersed with a few pure white treetops.
Looking into the distance, it wasn’t skyscrapers but a stretch of single-story homes, occasionally interspersed with two- or three-story houses.
Chuzheng withdrew her gaze and fell back into the soft big bed behind her.
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The original owner’s surname was Yuk, age 26, a renowned fashion designer.
But recently, the original owner faced some issues; firstly, her new work was exposed as plagiarism, and the plagiarist was a minor from ten years ago.
This not only left the original owner frustrated but also infuriated, as each of her works were original creations, how did it turn into plagiarism?
However, when she searched, she indeed saw the works published ten years ago by someone else.
Across ten years of time, she saw her own works.
That kind of scalp-numbing, unbelievable sensation tightly enveloped the original owner.
She couldn’t understand why.
Nor could she explain to others what was happening.
Those works didn’t have a name, and the original owner made no response, just replaced the set of works with others, so after a while, this incident subsided.
This might’ve been an accident, or someone might have been targeting her.
But a month later, the original owner was once again exposed for plagiarism.
It was exactly the same situation as before; her original work appeared on a newspaper report from ten years ago.
The last time it was only on the internet, it could be faked.
But how would you explain the newspapers?
One copy might be fake, but ten or twenty copies, discovered by different people, could they still be fake?
Finding newspapers from ten years ago might be hard, but newspapers certainly have archives, and some people have the habit of collecting newspapers.
So as more and more newspapers were found online, the original owner got caught in the public opinion of plagiarism.
Then her previous works were also dug out one after another, all labeled as plagiarism.
Before she even published them, someone else had already done so.
The original owner’s reputation in her circle was totally ruined, and she lost her job too.
But even at this point, she still couldn’t understand why.
Why did her works appear ten years ago as Yu Shi’s?
The original owner looked into the girl named Yu Shi and discovered she lived next door.
Despite the appearance of the original owner’s area, it was actually the city center and protected due to its historical architecture.
Many people wanted to buy houses there but couldn’t; prices were astronomical.
The original owner lived in a large three-story house. Yet, separated by a wall, there was a makeshift house where Yu Shi lived.
That plot was actually a public area. Years ago, people sympathized with Yu Shi and her father, allowing them to build a temporary house there; who knew it would last for many years.
The original owner and Yu Shi were almost the same age, but since they didn’t attend the same school, and the original owner went to college abroad, she didn’t know much about this neighbor.
Now she found out her works were attributed to Yu Shi ten years ago.
This left the original owner utterly baffled.
And that was not all. Soon, the original owner noticed Yu Shi’s changes becoming more significant.
She was once just a waitress, but unconsciously, she had become a designer in a company.
People’s impressions of her also underwent bizarre changes.
It felt as if she had always been a designer for the company.
When the original owner asked her parents, their answers surprisingly matched the impressions of outsiders.
Only the original owner soberly knew that she wasn’t.
Her previous investigations showed Yu Shi only graduated from high school, had to bear her father’s medical expenses, and didn’t attend college.
She worked various odd jobs over the years, none related to fashion design.
Yu Shi’s popularity gradually increased, not because she did something sensational, but somehow it seemed everyone knew her.
People in the circle hailed her as a genius, a goddess...
She even became a public sensation.
And the original owner?
Her reputation was already crushed due to plagiarism, with many of her works labeled as plagiarized.
Still plagiarizing the same person.
Then someone discovered they were neighbors, irresponsibly spreading the news online.
Claiming she plagiarized Yu Shi’s works from ten years ago.
Saying she bullied Yu Shi, who at that time had no background to fight her.
All kinds of dirt were thrown onto her.
Although the original owner knew there was something wrong with Yu Shi, she had no evidence, she could only watch as her reputation worsened.
In such an environment, the original owner soon developed severe psychological issues.
Several times, out of impulse, she confronted Yu Shi, only to be regarded as a lunatic.
In the end, her family couldn’t take the harassment anymore and moved her to a new place.
Even so, the original owner continued to see news about Yu Shi online, her psychological issues worsening, claiming to people that those were her works.
In the end, the original owner committed suicide.
When she died, she laid all her works on the floor, her blood staining the sketches red.
However, her death made people online believe she was ashamed of her plagiarism.
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Chuzheng stared at the dangling paper cranes on the ceiling, raising her hand to touch her forehead.
If it wasn’t the original owner’s memory being faulty, then this world is a bit... peculiar.
Why did Yuk Chuzheng’s works appear ten years ago, becoming the works that made Yu Shi famous?
Chuzheng lay down for a while then got up to walk to the window.
From her position, she could just see the makeshift house leaning against her home’s wall.
The current timeline was already late, with rumors of the original all over the internet, and the company had fired her.
