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Chapter 14\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 14\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under everyone\u2019s gaze, Regina forced herself onto the stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ten-minute improvisation period passed in the blink of an eye. All ten perfumers, including Regina, finished preparing their perfume blends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Staff members carried over the ten finished vials and arranged them carefully on a long display table draped in black velvet, inviting guests to sample the scents and cast their votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve stayed where she was, standing off to the side with a champagne flute in hand, composed and unhurried.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As Blossom Studio\u2019s chief assistant, Hannah had already drawn a dense crowd around her station.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOh my god, that opening is insane! Is that bergamot and pink pepper? It\u2019s so sharp, but it still blends perfectly together!\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the heart notes are amazing! I smell tuberose, but there\u2019s this cool cedar twist too. It\u2019s like a red rose blooming in the snow!\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is\u2026 refined. It\u2019s art!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The praises kept piling on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zachary\u2019s expression went dark. He refused to believe that a mere assistant could be this skilled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He pushed through the crowd, grabbed the vial labeled \u201cHannah Brooks\u201d, and misted a test strip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The moment the scent bloomed, his expression froze.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He recognized this fragrance. It was the exact fragrance that Regina had claimed she\u2019d crafted exclusively for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zachary looked up, fury breaking through. \u201cHannah, you stole it!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His shout cut through the room. The noise fell away at once, and every gaze swung toward him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hannah was taken aback. Instinctively, she looked at Genevieve, confusion written in her eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve had just given her the formula herself. How could this possibly be theft?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve set her glass down and walked over, unhurried and composed. She stopped beside Hannah and faced Zachary. \u201cMr. Lambert, if you\u2019re going to accuse someone, bring proof.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cProof?\u201d Zachary let out a cold laugh, then yanked Regina forward. \u201cShe\u2019s the proof!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He jabbed a finger toward Hannah. \u201cThis fragrance is Regina\u2019s work. She poured her heart into it. She made it just for me. And you? You\u2019re just an insignificant assistant! How dare you steal it and pass it off as your own! That\u2019s shameless!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Regina\u2019s mind went completely blank.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How could something like this happen? The fragrance was exactly the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had paid a fortune for that fragrance on the black market. They had told her it had been leaked from Cen\u2019s unpublished\u00a0<\/p>\n
archive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No one in the world should be able to recreate it unless they had stolen Cen\u2019s formula. But Regina didn\u2019t dare say that out loud.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zachary kept ranting, loud and indignant. \u201cI knew you couldn\u2019t suddenly be this kind. You\u2019re just jealous! Genevieve, you\u2019re jealous of Regina\u2019s talent, so you sent your lackey to pull something this underhanded!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
More and more people crowded in to watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBlossom Studio is basically at the top of the industry. I can\u2019t see them doing something as crude as plagiarism. Is this a\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 14\u00a0<\/p>\n
misunderstanding?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIsn\u2019t Regina his childhood sweetheart? I heard that Raymond sent her overseas right before the wedding. Why did she suddenly come back?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A sharp-eyed socialite covered her mouth and murmured to her friend, \u201cIsn\u2019t that Zachary\u2019s wife over there? That\u2019s Genevieve. And he\u2019s defending another woman right in front of her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Someone scoffed. \u201cYou don\u2019t know the half of it. I heard that Genevieve used tricks back then to force Zachary into marrying her. She tore apart a couple who actually loved each other!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve watched the scene coldly, her expression unreadable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGenevieve!\u201d Zachary snapped. \u201cApologize to Regina now!\u201d Apologize?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Chapter 14\u00a0 1\/2\u00a0 Chapter 14\u00a0 Under everyone\u2019s gaze, Regina forced herself onto the stage.\u00a0 The ten-minute improvisation period passed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-chose-her-so-i-married-better"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}