Chapter 334 – Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family

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After manipulating the surveillance on her phone, Mirabella noticed that as Penny passed by the box of silver diamonds, her right hand, hidden in her long sleeve, seemed to pour something liquid onto the box.

Zooming in further, they could vaguely see that in her hand was a small white bottle.

Soon, the police rummaged through Penny’s belongings but–found no useful information. Then, they checked the trash can and found a bottle of Vitamin C that Penny had recently discarded. Upon opening it, they indeed found traces of the HN2C–liquid, which, if not looked closely, could have been mistaken for water.

With such concrete evidence, Penny on stage was so scared that her legs turned to jelly, and she collapsed on the ground.

Why was she found out so quickly?

Who exactly was Queen Abby, and how did she know so much?

“So it was you.” Isabella pointed to Penny, “You just misled everyone, saying that I had a grudge against Molly. You are really scary.”

Mirabella looked at the girl on stage, who was shaking her head desperately.

“No it’s not like that, let me explain.”

The police slapped cuffs on her, obviously not giving her a chance to explain.

“No, I haven’t finished the competition. I haven’t gotten the rank.

All the way, Penny was still rambling.

“I just didn’t want to lose, and I didn’t mean to do bad things. She would only be in pain for three days, and this poison wouldn’t take her life. Let me go, and the judges haven’t scored yet. I was manipulated, poisoning wasn’t my intention.

As Penny was led away by the police, the venue fell silent, with many people looking at Mirabella. They didn’t expect that at such a young age, she first diagnosed what poison Molly had been given and then helped the police catch the culprit.

The key was that she remained very calm from beginning to end, showing no panic.

She had excellent mental strength, arguably the best in the field.

“If I remember correctly, there was only one minute left till the end of the competition.” Mirabella calmly said.

At that time on stage, all the contestants had completed their work, only Molly was too slow due to the pain and only managed to modify the hem part of her dress.

She had sewn many fluttering butterflies on the hem; the last butterfly was just sewn, but she didn’t have time to tie the knot.

While it looked good overall, it didn’t manage to snag the first place.

Mirabella announced her scores, and the other judges snapped back to reality and started scoring too.

Because Hans left early and couldn’t score, only nine judges gave scores.

Isabella was shocked to find that she was the champ after calculating the total score of the three founds.

The runner–up was a contestant from Dawnstar, Anna.

The third place went to Molly.

But everyone there knew that if it weren’t for Molly passing out all of a sudden, she would have been the overall winner, especially considering she got a high score just for modifying the skirt part in this round.

As Mirabella presented Isabella with her award, Isabella felt heavy–hearted because she knew better than anyone that this championship wasn’t meant to be hers.

“It’s not fair to contestant number one.” Isabella suddenly said.

Whatever the reason, everyone had to accept the outcome.

1 believe contestant number one is looking forward to seeing you in the next competition.” Mirabella comforted Isabella.

Isabella saw encouragement and affirmation in Mirabella’s eyes, and she could hardly believe it. When she looked–again, Mirabella presented the award to the next contestant.

After the award ceremony, Mirabella addressed everyone, All of you competing today are outstanding talents from various countries. Just being on this stage proves your exceptional ability. You’re way ahead of most designers in this industry. Although many of you didn’t get to take a trophy home, losing is not disgraceful. Those who caused trouble backstage and were taken away by the police, they are the ones who really disgraced their countries.” Mirabella’s words were firm and powerful, “As long as you have the talent, you’ll be noticed and recognized someday. Those who think they could win the trophy, we’ll see you in the next competition.”

The whole place erupted in applause.

Mirabella left the stage and didn’t go to the hospital to visit Molly until the competition was over.

Meanwhile, Hans was by the hospital bed, waiting for the person on the bed to open her eyes.

“Where is this?” Molly’s mind was still foggy.

“You’re in the hospital.” Hans saw her wake up and asked softly, “Do you feel better?”

“Why am I in the hospital?” Molly’s mind was chaotic. After a while, she suddenly realized something, “I was still in the competition.”

She tried to get out of bed but felt weak and fell into Hans’s arms.

Luckily, Hans caught her in time. Otherwise, she would fall off the bed.

“It hurts.” Molly tugged at the needle in her hand and gasped in pain.

“Are you okay?” Hans looked down at the girl in his arms, realized they were too close, and quickly let go of her, allowing her steady herself, “The competition is over.”

“It’s over? What about me?” Molly tried hard to remember, and she seemed to not to have finished her work.

The last butterfly, she didn’t even finish.

“How did it end so quickly? Did I place?” Molly saw Hans didn’t answer, and she wanted to pull out the needle from her hand.

“You can’t pull it out. Just as Hans spoke, Molly had already reached to tear off the medical tape on her hand.

Hans quickly grabbed her hand, saying, “You’re going to bleed.”

Yanking the needle out like that, she was not only going to bleed, but might also cause a blood clot, block blood vessels, make it harder to get another needle in, and the pain’s going to be through the roof.

“Mr. Collins, I need to get back to the competition.” Molly said frantically, her face and voice filled with urgency.

She had been looking forward to and preparing for this international competition for three whole months, and there was no way she was going to end it all in haste.

“Ranking isn’t everything.” Hans tried to comfort her.

“It IS!” Molly quickly corrected him, “I’m here representing Solterra today. I can’t just quit halfway like this!”

Seeing her hesitate, Hans couldn’t help but ask softly, “What else?”

Molly couldn’t hide the disappointment and sadness in her eyes, and she was on the verge of tears.

“I’m about to officially take over the family business. If I could win this, at least most people would accept my leadership. But now.”

It was all over.

How can the family’s clothing company accept a loser who can’t even rank to manage it?

She was still so young, and there must be quite a few board members who disagreed.

She wasn’t Mirabella. Winning was the only solution she could think of.

Tears welled up in Molly’s eyes, “Mr. Collins, is the competition really over?” “Yeah.” Hans pointed to the clock on the wall, “It’s been half an hou

At that, all the light left Molly’s eyes.

Hans said, “You should get some rest.”

Molly didn’t know how she got back to bed, she was heartbroken, she couldn’t believe she had worked so hard for three months, only to end up like this. Two tears silently slid down her cheeks.

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