F1 Champion's Perfect Crash: When Love Takes The Final Turn novel Chapter 135

My body stiffened, and I gritted my teeth and sat down.

Gwendolyn suddenly looked at me and crawled towards me, grabbing my pants, her voice desperate and on the verge of collapse, "Aurelia, I'm sorry. It was me, I was so wrong. I instructed Natalia to switch your design drafts. I knew her father was sick and needed money urgently. I bribed someone around my cousin and used his account to transfer money to Natalia."

"I naively thought that even if you found out it was my cousin, you wouldn't do anything to him. The company's surveillance video was also hacked by me. Everything was my fault. I shouldn't have been jealous of you, shouldn't have targeted you. I truly know that I was wrong. Please ask Lukas to spare me, please."

My expression was grim, and I sat there stiffly without speaking.

Gwendolyn desperately held onto my pant leg, her voice filled with despair, "Aurelia, you're a designer, and you know how important hands are to a designer, right? Can a designer still create things with just only one hand? I don't want to lose my hand, Aurelia, please! I beg you, please forgive me, for the sake of being fellow designers."

Both James and Lukas remained silent, and everyone in the private room seemed to be waiting for my reaction.

I felt my heart sink heavily as I looked at Lukas. "Can I talk to her alone?"

Lukas's attitude was cold, "As you wish."

I sighed softly and looked at Gwendolyn before speaking, "Did you join Strakovski Jewelry just to target me?"

Gwendolyn looked embarrassed and wiped away her tears, "Yes."

My eyes flickered as I continued, "Is this incident related to Olivia?"

Gwendolyn was taken aback and shook her head, "No."

To be precise, Olivia was aware of everything, and she even had the suspicion of incitement. She even provided information about the Morning Light Jewelry Competition. But in the end, everything was done by Gwendolyn herself, and it would be easy to prove.

I was somewhat surprised; it was not what I expected.

"Then, did you switch my design drafts because I slapped you when we were at Butterfly Pavilion?" I really couldn't understand. It was just a minor argument, there was no need to make such a big dispute.

I thought that the matter would end there.

Even if Gwendolyn got angry and wanted revenge, even if she sent someone to beat me, I wouldn't be too angry.

But Gwendolyn secretly switched my design drafts; that was something I couldn't accept.

If Lucas hadn’t discovered it beforehand, I would have won the Jewel of the Century Competition, but I came back empty-handed, and everyone would have doubted that my previous award was unworthy.

Gwendolyn looked up at me, her eyes red, "Do you really not know why I targeted you?"