Bethan was also stunned by the scene before her.
After a while, Bethan was the first to react. She walked over and helped Fiona up.
“How did you get them?”
Although she loathed Fiona, looking at her burns, Bethan could not help but soften her tone.
However, she did not expect that what Fiona said next would place Bethan in an unfavorable position.
Fiona bit her lips and carefully covered the burns on her stomach.
“I’m fine, Ms. Bethan. Although you were the one that caused this, I don’t blame you. I blame myself for insisting to send you coffee, and that was why I got burned…”
Fiona smilingly continued, “Although Brettley thinks that it’s serious, I feel that I brought it on myself.
You treat me so well–you definitely didn’t burn me on purpose.”
The entire meeting room was in silence.
Bethan furrowed her brows and looked at Fiona in shock.
President Calvin furrowed his brow and asked, “Ms. Blake, you said that these burns…were caused by Ms. Bethan?”
“Yes, I can be the witness.”
At that moment, one of the men in Bethan’s team stood up.
“As a member of Bethan’s team, I am clear of what’s happening. What Ms. Blake said a moment ago was all true. Bethan had always been keeping Ms. Blake by the side, not letting her partake in any of the designing processes. She only lets her run errands. Also, the burns on Ms. Blake’s stomach are caused by Ms. Bethan too. Many in our company witnessed it! “
Then, another woman also stood up.
“Yes, Ms. Blake is our president’s girlfriend. Technically, with her status, no one would dare to offend her. However, not only did Bethan bully her at work, but she also burned Ms. Blake. Bethan even spilled food all over Ms. Blake yesterday.
“Mr. Morrison demanded that Bethan apologize, but she was determined not to. In the end, it was Ms. Blake who persuaded Mr. Morrison let it go, and only then did this matter end peacefully.”
The man immediately chimed in, “Yes. Although Ms. Blake only runs simple errands, she’s always a helpful person. She’s willing to help her colleagues out. She heard that my kid has learning difficulties, so she immediately got Mr. Morrison to help me solve my problems. Ms. Blake is such a kind person, yet she’s being treated this way! “
The woman also nodded and said, “Yes. Ms. Blake is kind-hearted and friendly. She also heard that I had difficulties previously, so she helped me out. She even said that she hoped I ‘d put all my effort into the competition and not worry about money.”
Bethan remained in the same spot as she listened to both of them going on and on. Her head hurt badly a s if needles were pricking her brain.
All this while, she had been busy working. She worked late every day, hoping to perfect her work.
However, she did not expect that during this period, Fiona had infiltrated and bought over her people.
Bethan knew about the problems of the two people that stood up for Fiona.
The man’s child clearly did not have what it took, yet he insisted on enrolling his child in Banyan City’s best school. After the child was rejected, he complained that society was unfair.
The other woman only earned about 10,000 a month, yet she would spend thousands upon thousands on luxury handbags, incurring a huge load of debt.
Bethan chose not to help them because she felt that they needed to solve these things on their own.
She did not expect that this became the basis for Fiona buying them.
Upon what the two of them said, the other teams started commenting on Bethan.
President Calvin also furrowed his brows and looked at Bethan.
“Ms. Bethan, do you know that we require team effort in this competition? Every member of the team has to put in an effort in the design.”
Bethan gnawed on her lip and nodded. “Yes, I know.”
“But…”
It was not that she did not let Fiona partake in it. She gave Fiona some work in embellishing tiny details, but Fiona’s skill was terrible. She could not even do it properly.
Bethan could only let her run some simple errands.
“There’s no need to explain.”
President Calvin sighed. “I ‘ll contact Mr. Morrison of Morrison Group on this matter. We’ll investigate your team’s problem. If it was like what they said, that Ms. Blake didn’t join in any of the core work, we’ll cancel your right to participate in the competition.”
Then, he turned and left.
The others looked at Bethan condescendingly while packing up and leaving.
Bethan remained in the same spot. She felt something explode in her mind.
All this while, she had been confused why Fiona– who had been prepared to ruin the competition– would be so obedient recently, other than heading to her office the day before.
Bethan truly thought that it was because Fiona wanted her to earn the money for Brettley and leave as soon as possible.
However, she did not expect that… Fiona’s schemes were all here.
Fiona knew the rules of the competition, so she deliberately exposed Bethan’s so-called terrible deeds in front of everyone during the meeting that day, to get the organizer to try to disqualify her from the competition.
However, if she were to be disqualified from the competition, what did she work so hard for all this while?
Was all of her team members’ hard effort, who had been working day and night, all to waste?
“Director.”
Zayne’s low voice rang in her ears.
Bethan came to her senses and realized that only she, Samson, and Zayne were left in the meeting room.
“Fiona did it on purpose! “
Samson was infuriated. “
The competition is about to start. How dare she make things up to stir trouble! “
Bethan closed her eyes and sighed. She wanted to say something when her phone rang.
It was from Anne.
“Bethan! Go online now! You’ve been named! The entire internet is cursing you right now! “
Bethan was stunned. She immediately snatched Samson’s phone and opened Tweeter.
Everyone was insulting and overwhelmingly cursing her.
Someone posted a video of what happened in the meeting room a moment ago.
It was followed by a series of videos.
Some were of Brettley asking Bethan to apologize in the cafeteria the night before, but Bethan refused.
Some were of Bethan scalding Fiona aloofly in the office.
There were also videos of Bethan forcing Fiona and Charmaine to apologize and in the office half a month ago.
The videos came one after another.
In each of the videos, Fiona was so lowly and humble that it was heartbreaking.
On the contrary, Bethan was aloof and heartless in every video.
Someone even interviewed the doctor that treated Fiona’s burns.
In the video, the doctor agitatedly expressed that after Fiona was burned, the first thing she did was to defend Bethan!
At that moment, everyone was infuriated. Everyone was cursing Bethan online.
Bethan saw the videos again and again. Finally, she smiled mockingly.
She still remembered that she thought Fiona would complain to Brettley, yet she never did.
It turned out that Fiona had been scheming since then and had waited for that day.
Bethan did not know how Zayne and Samson sent her home.
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