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.

Marian without a trace of emotion, "Excuse me for the interruption, but please mention your words,

Sophia glanced at Brandon.

stage, "Additionally, we hope Miss Barlow can give an objective account

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

playing. I thought she was cute, so I went over to make her laugh. She happened to be holding a bottle bag with a blueprint inside. Curious about why such a young child would have it, I wanted

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

you were really concerned the little girl not finding it, I think handing the blueprint to the reception would have been safer," Brandon cut her off, leaving no room for

forgot about it. Until last month, when a friend's father had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, I rushed him to the hospital. Our families are old friends, so my family also came over quickly. Later, when we were

grandfather saw the blueprint and thought it was something I designed for him. He was so surprised and touched. At that moment, I didn't know what came over me, I just couldn't bear to

the venue as people murmured their varying thoughts-some sympathetic,

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 it difficult to admit her wrongdoing. Especially

was thinking I'd come up with a new design to replace that one and then confess my mistake. That's why I was burning the midnight oil trying to

up the design she had intended

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