Chapter 1400: Chapter 1400: Florienna Ellis Does a Live Broadcast to Seek Sympathy
Florienna Ellis’s live streaming link was instantly pushed to the trending topics.
Major media outlets rushed to post on social platforms, and within just a few minutes, millions of people flooded into Florienna’s live stream room.
Of course, most of them were just curious onlookers.
Charlotte Thompson certainly wouldn’t want to miss out on this either, so she clicked into Florienna’s live stream.
However, due to the overwhelming number of viewers, the broadcast was lagging slightly. Still, this didn’t significantly affect Florienna’s upcoming performance.
"I believe the netizens watching this live stream must have already seen the news circulating online."
Florienna sat calmly in her chair, with several clothing racks behind her. It appeared that the garments hanging there were from her shop.
"I never imagined that something like this would happen to me, and even more so—it was done by someone I have always deeply respected."
At this point, Florienna seemed momentarily unable to control her emotions, leading her to cough briefly.
But the vast online audience was eager to know what had happened, and in the live chat, many were urging her to continue and explain everything clearly.
Florienna naturally didn’t disappoint them and began recounting her story:
"Actually, when I first started my online shop, many people asked me... ’Why would you leave your position as a designer at Riley Group to open a clothing shop like this?’"
"Now, I want to address the doubts of those people—if I could, I wouldn’t want to face this choice at all. But at this point, I truly have... no way out anymore."
Florienna looked earnestly at the live feed interface and continued speaking:
"Ever since I was young, I loved fashion and clothing design. So when I went to college, I chose to study fashion design, and even right after graduating, I started working as a professional fashion designer."
"Getting the opportunity to work at Riley Group—it felt like the greatest honor in my life. Later on, my supervisor became none other than the famous Joy Thompson, Charlotte Thompson."
"I always regarded Joy Thompson as my idol, but I never expected that the glamour she carried was just a façade. When you truly work alongside her, you realize what kind of person she really is."
Florienna spoke slowly, and naturally, her last words became the focal point of everyone’s attention.
"I never thought that someone hailed as a ’genius designer’ in the fashion world like Joy Thompson could be such a person behind closed doors. She deliberately suppressed me. Even though I made only a very small mistake, she humiliated me in front of the entire company and went so far as to bully me in various ways in the office."
At this point, Florienna seemed to recall the most painful moments, her eyes turning visibly red.
"But those things—I could endure. For the sake of my dreams, I was willing to keep striving at Riley Group. But after what happened today, I truly cannot bear it anymore."
"So I decided to go live and tell everyone that every single design in my shop is my original work. Yet, I never imagined that my drafts would be stolen and plagiarized by Charlotte Thompson! These designs were painstakingly prepared over a long time, only to be easily taken by someone else."
"Before this, I even felt secretly pleased when Miss Thompson looked over my drafts. I thought her compliments were genuine. But what I didn’t foresee was her using that as a pretext to steal my designs!"