The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 435

After taking a bow, Marian grabbed the microphone. Her eyes were already moist before she could even speak, as if she was holding back tears.

The rustling from the audience ceased at her gesture.

Everyone looked at her with concern.

"I'm sorry," Marian sniffled, remorsefully addressing the assembly. It took her a moment to steady her emotions before she slowly started, "Standing here today, I want to formally apologize to Miss Sophia. Due to my cowardice, when my family mistakenly believed her work was mine, I failed to correct them immediately, leading to a whole series of misunderstandings."

Brandon's brows furrowed slightly as his gaze bore into Marian.

Marian didn't dare meet Brandon's eyes and shifted her gaze away, continuing softly," The company decided to launch this project three months ago, and as I'm an architect and the granddaughter, my brother wanted me..."

Brandon motioned for the microphone from a reporter next to him.

The reporter hesitated but quickly complied, handing the microphone to Brandon.

it to his lips and looked at Marian without a trace of emotion, "Excuse me for the interruption, but please mention your words, Ms. Barlow. Yolanda is

Sophia glanced at Brandon.

stated to Marian on stage, "Additionally, we hope Miss Barlow can give an objective account of the events

face, but she bit her lip and continued, "When the company decided to launch this project, Mr. Frost gave me a chance to try. But because my personal style is quite postmodern, I couldn't design something that satisfied Mr. Frost and Louis, and I blamed myself for that. One day, when I was at the office, I went downstairs to

was an adorable little girl sitting there playing. I thought she was cute, so I went over to make her laugh. She happened to be holding a bottle bag

Thinking it was discarded, I picked it up to throw it away. But when I unfolded it, I was blown

blueprint to

my bag. I didn't come across the little girl in the following days and slowly forgot about it. Until last month, when a friend's father had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, I rushed him

him. He was so surprised and touched. At that

the venue as people

bare her story under Brandon's unspoken pressure. Between the lines, she was justifying her actions as not wanting to disappoint her grandfather and then went along with the mistake. Following that impulsive decision, she was plagued by guilt and tried several times to come clean to Louis and Martin but always lacked the courage. Growing up as the exemplary 'child from another family,' she had never committed an error and found

that one and then confess my mistake. That's why I was burning the midnight oil trying to come up with a new design, but before I could finish, Martin registered the project, which

Marian pulled up the design