"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?

her head. "You know her too, Lucy. She used

Lucy immediately remembered the name as one of the comic

what

was always smiling and enjoyed helping others. Why did she end up doing something like this? Mabel

this company to me and introduced me to your company without hesitation. It was also around the same time that Mr. Leon was recruiting

reminded of how her best friend had talked about the company culture. "When she recommended this company to me, I thought she was working here. But by the time I joined the

think much of it, but I never expected things

was too upset, and her tears fell from her eyes. She cried for quite a while before she was able

eyes and said, "Thank you for listening to me,

not do anything much for Mabel. The only thing left for her to do was to take back the rights of

off, and Mabel returned to

left, Lucy returned to her desk and she went

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