"Maple?" Lucy called out gently to Mabel.

Mable wiped away her tears and quickly gave Lucy a nod of her head. "I'm sorry. I didn't cry on purpose, Lucy. I'll get back to work right now."

Lucy stopped her in frustration. "It's fine. Just rest here for a while. If you don't mind, how about telling me what exactly happened?"

She was a little hesitant about getting Mabel to tell the truth.

It would make Mabel feel better to tell the truth, but at the look of Mabel...

The concerned look on Lucy's face must have been too obvious because Mabel eventually revealed everything, "We knew each other back in high school. She's two years older than I am, and she enrolled in art college first.

"We could talk about anything under the sun, and we told each other everything, including our ideas for comics. However, the closer we got, the more we realized how similar our drawing styles were.

"It never occurred to me that she was the one responsible for plagiarizing my comic this time. She was the reason I joined this company."

Mabel with a stunned look on her face. "She was the reason? What do

"You know her too, Lucy. She used

a name, and Lucy immediately remembered the name

to remember what

woman had strong ethics. She was always smiling and enjoyed helping others. Why did she end up doing something like this? Mabel

me to your company without hesitation. It was also around the same time that Mr. Leon was recruiting on campus,

culture. "When she recommended this company to me, I thought she was working here. But by the time

but I never expected things

began to fumble at the end. It was clear that Mabel was too upset, and her tears fell from her eyes. She cried for quite a while before she was able to force herself

said, "Thank you for listening

thing left for her to do was to take back the

off, and Mabel

her

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