Chapter 901: Things are like a snowball

Chapter 901: Things are like a snowball

The letters sent by Editor-in-Chief Zhang did not cause any sensation at first.

It was not until a magazine in Beijing submitted the evidence to a well-known author under their command.

This author attaches great importance to copyright and hates plagiarism.

The group of people under Wu Hongcai just happened to violate his taboo.

The author took the matter to court at lightning speed.

Later, Wu Hongcai and his authors became defendants because of this incident.

Wu Hongcai's new issue of magazine had just been published and the sales were extremely poor. He was already spending more than he earned.

But he didn't expect that he would be sued when he was in the most difficult time, and the person who sued him was a well-known author.

As far as Wu Hongcai knows, this author is very famous and has great influence in their circle.

Once this incident happened, no matter how exhausted Wu Hongcai was, he had to respond actively.

He still wants to stay in the literary circle and wants his magazine to revive, so he can't let this matter go on.

However, all the evidence now shows that the other party has complete evidence, and the plagiarism on their side is too subtle to be excused at all.

Originally, Wu Hongcai could have pushed the person who plagiarized out, and at most he would have been accused of not doing a strict review.

However, the person in trouble happened to be his relative, and he couldn't just stand by and watch him die.

With no other options left, Wu Hongcai had no choice but to go ahead.

He put down the work at hand and went to respond to the lawsuit, hoping to turn the matter around.

On the day before the trial, Wu Hongcai rushed to Beijing with his authors.

Only when he arrived at the place did he realize that the other party was well prepared.

Not only did he provide a detailed chain of evidence, but he also hired a lawyer to defend him.

The other party is a professional and every question he asked was very sharp.

At first, Wu Hongcai was able to bravely defend himself, but later he was sweating profusely and was afraid to even speak.

The other party anticipated her prediction, and no matter what he said, he could block it.

Wu Hongcai could basically do nothing except getting anxious and wiping his sweat constantly.

When the other party finished speaking and asked him if he had anything else to say, Wu Hongcai really couldn't utter a word.

In order to save his relative's reputation, he had no choice but to admit defeat in this matter.

Wu Hongcai first admitted that he did not review the manuscript strictly, which led to the big mistake.

In order to compensate the other party for their losses, he was willing to withdraw the article and compensate for the economic losses.

In addition to these demands, the other party also asked them to apologize in the newspaper.

Wu Hongcai had no choice but to agree to these extremely unreasonable demands.

In the end, he made a series of concessions and lost a large sum of money before he finally settled the matter.

Wu Hongcai breathed a sigh of relief when he came back. He rolled up his sleeves and prepared to get to work.

But how could Editor-in-Chief Zhang let him have his way?

In order to reduce the impact of Wu Hongcai's apology in the newspaper, he specially bought a small page and asked the newspaper to print the font in a very small size.

He thought that in this way he could escape the disaster and the matter would be left unresolved.

However, he didn't expect that Jiang Wan had already guessed his idea and asked Editor-in-Chief Zhang to buy the pages of several major domestic newspapers.

When Wu Hongcai's apology letter was first published, it was immediately synced with other major newspapers.

As a result, Wu Hongcai originally wanted to quietly end the matter, but he didn't expect it to get worse and worse.

Wu Hongcai didn't know about this matter at first. Three days later, he accidentally glanced at the newspaper and was immediately scared to death.

Wu Hongcai was furious after reading the information about his apology which was prominently displayed in the newspaper.

He simply crumpled the newspaper into a ball and threw it to the ground.

Wu Hongcai jumped up and stomped his feet hard on the ground.

"I'm so angry, I'm so angry, who on earth did this?"

"I clearly only bought a small space, and I didn't apologize to this newspaper. Who published it for me?"

"I originally thought that this matter could just be passed over in a low-key manner, and I could just apologize and be done with it, but I didn't expect that I would be tricked!"

"Once such a large apology is published, many people will definitely see it."

"What should I do if someone else comes to defend their rights?"

While Wu Hongcai was reading the newspaper and thinking about countermeasures, the court summons had already been delivered.

During the days when he didn't read the newspaper, many writers outside saw this apology.

Some people bought some magazines from their magazine, and some people recycled some second-hand magazines from their magazine.

After reading their magazines, many authors and readers found problems.

Half of the magazines recently published by the magazine company that Wu Hongcai works for contain plagiarized content.

Even those that were not plagiarized were shoddy and poorly written.

Under such circumstances, many people were greatly disappointed and regretted buying their magazines.

Those readers who found something wrong sent the evidence of plagiarism they found to various magazines.

When Editor-in-Chief Zhang sent the evidence for the first time, some magazines pretended not to have seen it because they didn't want to cause any trouble.

Now that so many readers have gotten involved, and even the author himself has noticed it, they have to pay attention.

The attitudes of many magazines have undergone a 180-degree change. They went from being uncooperative in the beginning to actively helping to collect evidence now.

Some magazines even directly sued their authors in court.

As more and more people took the case to court, Wu Hongcai went from not caring at first to gradually developing a sense of fear.

He never expected that the matter would turn out like this.

Even if he was a small boss of a magazine, even if he had some abilities, he would have no way of dealing with such a difficult situation.

Wu Hongcai was so anxious that sweat poured down his forehead.

He was so panicked that he was almost scared to death.

As early as when he saw the newspaper, he felt that something was wrong.

At that time he was just a little scared, but not as scared as this.

He didn't expect the matter to develop in this direction. After losing the case and writing an apology letter, the whole thing snowballed until it became completely out of control.

Wu Hongcai sat down on the ground in fear, his whole body limp.

All the influential old people in the magazine have left, and even Xiaomei, the front desk clerk, was poached because she was reliable.

The rest are his own people, they have no special abilities and only move when they are told to.

Wu Hongcai used to think that they were obedient and that his subordinates just had to be obedient and did not need to use too much brains.

Now that he really encountered trouble, he remembered how good Editor-in-Chief Zhang was.