Chapter 59:The audience was deep in thought, especially the contestants who had not been classified.

Murmurs spread as doubt began to take hold.

Maybe the contest wasn't as fair as they thought.

Melany is right.

Scarlet Snake came out of nowhere years ago, making waves in the perfume world.

How could someone who has been away for so long be just a young woman, one person murmured.

After losing that year, I did everything I could to locate the finalists.

I hired private investigators, spent a fortune, and still found nothing.

The first contest wasn't supposed to be confidential.

How could a judge recognize a contestant unless there was a violation of the rules or, worse yet, intentional cheating.

added another voice.

It was moments like this that revealed the darker side of human nature.

It was easier for them to believe in conspiracies in a supposedly rigid and fair competition than to admit their own shortcomings.

Melany knew exactly how to stoke those feelings, how to twist people's insecurities.

And now, Allison was caught in the middle, tainted by association, facing hostility no matter what she did.

Especially since she had no hard evidence to clear her name.

Rebecca, upon hearing these unfounded accusations, threw her wine glass on the floor, breaking it into pieces.

lies without any proof Let's see if you're so bold when you get slapped with a letter from

after such audacity? Rebecca had seen a lot of nonsense in her life, but to face such audacity It lit a fire in his

visibly bristling at Melany's accusations, clenched his fists, his face flushed

to protect someone who

would accept them as a

dares to question my

to see

this girl

I gave her a

regulations, the judges must not

me, eager

for her incessant

of those rare once-in-a-lifetime talents that just needed a little push to

been exciting, but who could have predicted that a minor incident would turn into

struck a

a man of his stature would not risk his reputation with a lie, especially when there were other, more

audience wavered, caught between the conflicting

anger before turning to Mack, offering

that you were dragged into this because

straightened, and his gaze fixed on Melany with an intensity that sent a shiver down everyone's

fact

I have

scoffed, her

That's impossible.

.

.

Allison's unwavering gaze made her instinctively

her imagination, but for the

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