Before Felipe could say more, Rayna interrupted him, “Mr. Saunders, as a perfumer, you should know that a perfume has to be popular before it can be called a success. However, everyone prefers the perfume from my company and dislikes yours. The reason is that you have stolen it from us but failed to discover the exact ingredients to recreate the scent. Therefore, you resorted to replacing it with a different ingredient.”

“Bullsh*t!” Felipe defended himself. “It’s clear that you were the ones who stole our product and modified it. And now, you’re attacking us, the original creators?”

Marcelo added, “Ms. Garland, you said you would provide us with an explanation. Is twisting the truth in front of the reporters supposed to be it? You accused our perfumer of stealing the perfume, but how did he do it?”

“Mr. Saunders knows very well where he got it.” Rayna flashed a slight smile before flipping the document on the table open.

It showed the record of Felipe accepting a delivery last month, which was sent from an old residential area in Norwal City. The delivery man had also noted down that the package contained perfume.

The sight of the document contents caused Felipe to panic as he explained nervously, “It was just a delivery of perfume I bought on the internet. How could you accuse me of plagiarism based on something like that?”

“What about this?” Rayna retrieved a recording pen from her pocket.

Once Rayna played it, Felipe’s drunken voice rang out. He was telling someone that he had struck gold in a delivery that he had received.

The sound of his own words drained the color from Felipe’s face. “Ms. Garland, you’re really despicable to—”

“Take a listen. That’s your own voice. I didn’t force you to do anything.” Wearing a faint smile, Rayna said to the media, “Glory has never stolen any of Egret Scents’ products.”

One of the reporters asked curiously, “If you didn’t plagiarize them, why were they the first ones to bring the product to the market? Mind explaining it to us, Ms. Garland?”

“I’ll do so in a while.”

Ella brought forward another document, and Rayna opened it to show everyone. It contained the formula for the perfume Felipe was holding, Glory’s purchase contract for it, and a non-disclosure agreement.

friend of mine a sample of the perfume. Unfortunately, that friend sent the sample to Mr. Saunders of Egret Scents in an attempt to sabotage me.” Rayna proceeded to bow sincerely in front of the cameras.

turn of events, Marcelo berated Felipe, “Didn’t you claim that you formulated it

of a way to fix this. Otherwise, the company will suffer and my reputation will take

Why didn’t

come up with a new product. I was

“Shut up!”

took priority at that moment. In less than a minute, he

spoke to the reporters, he

a perfume sample sent to him by someone.

hoping to resolve the matter

instead of being grateful, he spurned

You should have known the consequences of using something that doesn’t belong to you. If he had only reverse-engineered the product, we would be willing to let the matter slide if you would give up the profits. Unfortunately, he added his name to the product and sold it through the Egret

“I’ll have the products pulled from the shelf at once and release

you know how much damage you have caused to

“It was your mistake to give your new product

admit that the error is mine, but that doesn’t give your company the right to profit from

was dumbfounded by

apologize to my company publicly. Otherwise, if this matter ends up in court, I’m sure you know better than I do who’s

balled his fists in

evidence in Rayna’s hands, settling with her right now was a small price to pay in contrast to going to court, where the reputational damage would be huge. With the speed of present-day media,

cons of the matter,

to be removed from sale and issue a letter of

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