In the early morning of December 31st, Guo Jingming apologized on Weibo for plagiarizing Zhuang Yu's "In the Circle and Outside the Circle" by the novel "How Many Flowers and Falling in Dreams" was copied, and said that he would use the royalties of "How Many Flowers and Falling in Dreams" and Zhuang Yu will be compensated for all the income.
It is understood that in 2006 the court ruled that Guo Jingming’s novel "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams" copied Zhuang Yu's novel "Circle Inside and Outside", the court made a ruling at that time: one is to compensate Zhuang Yu 200,000 yuan; the other is in "China The Youth Daily apologized publicly, or published the verdict directly in the newspaper.
In this regard, Guo Jingming said: “The vanity and resistance of my youth and frivolousness at the time made me choose to evade an apology and to perform legal punishment by directly publishing the verdict in the newspaper.”
Guo Jingming stated that he owed everyone an apology in the face of the harm he caused to Zhuang Yu, in the face of readers and partners.
"Ms. Zhuang Yu, I solemnly apologize for the harm caused to you, and I am very sorry."
Guo Jingming also apologized to all original authors, hoping to refuse plagiarism and respect creation.
At the same time, Guo Jingming stated that he would compensate Zhuang Yu for all the online and offline royalties and all the proceeds obtained after the publication of the novel "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams".
If Zhuang Yu is unwilling to accept, he will donate the money to charity organizations.
Zhuang Yu responded by saying that she accepted an apology. As for compensation, she hopes to combine all the online and offline royalties and all the proceeds obtained after the publication of the novel "Circle Inside Circle Outside" with the income of "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams" to form one. The anti-plagiarism fund is used to help original authors defend their rights and accept public supervision.
On the morning of December 31, Yu Zheng also issued a statement of apology to Qiong Yao on Weibo.
It is worth mentioning that recently, well-known screenwriters Song Fangjin, Wang Hailin and others have published an open letter on Weibo from 111 screenwriters, directors, producers and other film and television practitioners.
The open letter calls for copyists not to be role models and publicly boycott Guo Jingming and Yu Zheng as instructors of acting variety shows.
Editor in charge: [Liu Pai]