A trace of doubt emerged in Charlotte's mind. But before she could continue eavesdropping, the elevator arrived with a ding. Elaine stalked into the elevator and turned around to face the front. Right at that moment, Charlotte hurriedly spun around.

She did not want Elaine to see her, especially not now.

Unfortunately, Elaine did just that.

However, she didn't seem fearful of being exposed. Instead, her lips curved upward into a sinister smirk.

The elevator doors closed and broke off the women's eye contact. Charlotte looked up at the clock on the wall and realized it was already an hour past midnight.

Where would Elaine be going so late at night?

"Oh no, something's come up with the patient in Room 888!"

A trainee nurse came rushing into the on-call room. Very quickly, a doctor stepped out and headed toward Room 888.

Instinctively, a bad feeling brewed in Charlotte's gut. There was no way that her father was the patient she was talking about, right?

She didn't allow herself much time to overanalyze. She simply followed behind to take a look for herself.

Sure enough, the patient of Room 888 was her father, Timothy Emerson.

Charlotte stood by the door in a daze as she watched the medical staff rendering resuscitation efforts.

Seconds felt like minutes until she finally saw the heartbeat on his vital signs monitor return to normal.

As she stood by the door and watched from the outside, tears streamed down her face. She hastily stopped the doctor before he could leave and urged, "Doctor, what... what's wrong with him? What illness does he have?"

The doctor stared at Charlotte with a sense of skepticism as he asked, "Who are you?"

'T m his, his..." Daughter. She was his daughter, but she couldn't seem to enunciate the word.

was reminded that the relationship between herself

heart attack. He needs good rest and should be kept from

left her a simple explanation, the doctor

ready to

doctor's advice, she

they last met. Would he still consider her his daughter? Charlotte remained standing

shutter of a camera clicked, capturing an image of

he sent the photo he had taken

the day of the bidding arrived

had set the venue to

the design team followed Christopher to

dismay, Charlotte bumped into Elaine, who was here as the representative

Emerson Corporation.

routine formal attire, but sans the hefty

view, which made her appear

an immaculate white dress. Her hair was scattered naturally on her shoulders and her face was caked exquisitely with make-up

pristine, unpainted face, she seemed a little tacky in

exchange a disciplined glance before they located their respective

round's bidding had managed to

company's order of appearance was

was allotted last with Emerson Corporation's turn just before

ticked past, each company utilized their time to the

round of applause and up next was Emerson Corporation. As their proud representative, Elaine Emerson slowly

lingered on her face and everyone in the audience could tell she was certain she would

crowd and the moment her gaze landed on

behold! Emerson Corporation's design concept. We call this

wordings displayed on the PowerPoint projection

the same

the following few slides that revealed Emerson Corp's design prints blew every member of NC's team off their

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