"Lin Xuan, don't forget the promise you just made! You clearly promised not to do anything at the celebration banquet! Now that you have, aren't you afraid of being called untrustworthy?" Jiang Shuqin said coldly.
Having been the chairman's wife of Star Glory Group for so many years, and coming from a business family herself before marriage, she knew all too well how much companies value reputation.
A boss like Lin Xuan, who goes back on his word, would undoubtedly raise doubts among consumers and partners once word got out, greatly impacting the company.
"Did I do anything at the banquet? From the moment this incident erupted until now, I haven't said a single word. I've just been watching the show," Lin Xuan shrugged and said.
Jiang Shuqin's face stiffened.
Damn it!
Lin Xuan was playing word games with them here!
"Xiao Xuan, you're lying to me, you must be lying to me. You weren't involved in targeting my company, right?" Lin Qingwan grabbed Lin Xuan's arm, her expression particularly agitated.
"Miss Lin, do you think I have any reason to lie to you?"
Lin Xuan gave a cold laugh and shook off Lin Qingwan's hand.
Lin Qingwan stumbled back a few steps.
Her face turned ashen.
Lin Xuan spoke coldly, "Lin Qingwan, I was the one who brought Jiang Yutong here. Who arranged all this? Isn't it perfectly clear?"
"Stop deceiving yourself."
Lin Xuan had no other thoughts; he just found Lin Qingwan's hypocritical, affected posture utterly disgusting.
"Let me tell you plainly, I've been cooperating with Jiang Yutong for a long time," Lin Xuan mercilessly revealed the truth. "That skincare product was developed by me and my team."
Lin Qingwan bit her lip. "So it was you."
No wonder she had always tried to poach the person who developed the Supreme Series skincare line but found nothing. It turns out these products weren't developed by someone in her own company, but by Xiao Xuan.
If Xiao Xuan had such capability, why didn't he help his eldest sister's company, instead aiding an outsider?
Lin Xuan continued, "I used a misleading ingredient in that skincare product, precisely to guard against plagiarism."
Lin Qingwan thought of Zhong Yan's words and spoke, "It's the Qilin Grass!"
"Correct," Lin Xuan said with a smirk. "When Qilin Grass mixes with other ingredients in the skincare product, it produces a potent toxin that can disfigure a person. It also has a deceptive property: initially, no problems appear on the face. But with prolonged use over time, it leads to disfigurement."
If problems appeared on the face immediately,
Lin Qingwan would have halted production, and the impact on her company wouldn't have been severe. How boring would that be?
What he wanted was to drive Lin Qingwan's company into a corner.
"Actually, when some people's faces started showing problems initially, I secretly sent people to treat them with ointment. That's why they didn't come to you," Lin Xuan said.
Lin Qingwan suddenly remembered what her manager had reported earlier about issues like facial redness and severe breakouts.
She had thought it was just an allergic reaction at the time, so she didn't take it seriously.
Thinking back now, problems must have started emerging from that point...
If she had discovered the issue earlier, all of this happening now could have been avoided.
Lin Xuan added, "Also, Dean Zhong Yan was invited by me. He carries more authority. Having him expose this ensures you can't possibly cover it up later."
Every step in this was his arrangement and design.
Reborn, he wanted to take revenge with his own hands.
To push the Lin family step by step into a corner.
Once he made his move, he would absolutely not allow the Lin family any possibility of recovery.
"Xiao Xuan, why? Why would you collude with an outsider to frame me?" Lin Qingwan said, choking up. At first, she thought this was Jiang Yutong's scheme; she had never suspected Xiao Xuan.
Thinking about it now.
How could a fool like Jiang Yutong have the brains to design all this?
Before, when she plagiarized products from Jiang Yutong's company, Jiang Yutong couldn't do anything about it.
Luring her to plagiarize Jiang Yutong's skincare product, using misleading raw materials in the formula, letting her invest heavily in promotion after production, then initially suppressing the fact that the product could cause disfigurement, waiting for it to explode one day, ruining their skincare line's reputation.
This incident would surely become widely known. Jiang Yutong could use this event to heavily promote her own skincare line.
Believe it or not, if Jiang Yutong's company's skincare products have no issues, they'll become popular nationwide, even internationally, before long.
These tactics are exactly the same as those Xiao Xuan's Tianmu Group used against Star Glory Group back then, aren't they?
Lin Xuan smiled, "Miss Lin, you brought this suffering upon yourself. If you hadn't plagiarized another company's skincare product, how would you have encountered these subsequent events?"
"No," Lin Qingwan said, her eyes reddening. "Xiao Xuan, I plagiarized her skincare product for the sake of the company and its employees. I wanted the company to grow, to support all the employees under me. If the company collapses, they'll lose their jobs too. I had no choice."
Lin Xuan shook his head.
Lin Qingwan and Lin Chang were truly father and daughter, both fond of plagiarism and justifying it so grandiosely.
They probably even believed these excuses themselves.
"Xiao Xuan, even if I was wrong, I am still your eldest sister. How could you treat me like this?" Lin Qingwan said, sobbing.
This was what Lin Qingwan found hardest to accept. She had treated Xiao Xuan with all her heart, yet he schemed against her, destroying years of her hard work in an instant.
If someone else had plotted against her, it wouldn't have been so painful, so agonizing.
Lei Hui shook his head, clicking his tongue.
"Truly shameless. The whole Lin family is a bunch of thick-skinned scoundrels."
Jiang Yutong couldn't take it anymore either. She stepped forward and sneered, "Lin Qingwan, 'treated Xiao Xuan with all your heart'? How can you even say that? Have you forgotten how you treated him when he was in the Lin family?"
"Shall I remind you?"
Lin Qingwan gritted her teeth. "Shut up! Jiang Yutong, you shut up! This is my company's celebration banquet. It's not your place to comment here!"
Jiang Yutong continued coldly, "You turned a blind eye to everything Xiao Xuan endured in the Lin family. When he was falsely accused of stealing, you joined in blaming him."
"You joined the other Lins in forcing Xiao Xuan to kneel in the snow, making him sick for three days and nights."
"Xiao Xuan painstakingly brought you food, and you didn't even look at it, just threw it straight in the trash. You thought he embarrassed you, unwilling to acknowledge him as your brother."
"And also..."
Just as Jiang Yutong was about to continue,
"Stop it!"
Lin Qingwan's emotions were in complete collapse.
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