Chapter 326 Resolve The Matter
“Is that so?”
His words caused an uproar in the exhibition hall.
“I took a whiff of that ‘Siberian Butterflies‘ just now, and it did smell very good. In fact, it was unexpectedly fragrant. Did she really add something that she wasn’t supposed to?”
The reporters waited in anticipation as they zoomed in to Melanie’s face, not sparing any subtle changes in
her expression.
Melanie remained composed as she retorted, “I must ask. President White, how do you know the ingredients
of my perfume?”
“You mentioned it in your industry association report!” John insisted.
“But I didn’t mention tonka beans in my report. How can you be so sure that I hid the addition of a particular
ingredient from the public, and that it was specifically tonka beans?” Melanie asked.
Everyone else could sense the absurdity of the situation, and all looked toward John for his answer.
Melanie continued asking calmly, “President White and I are in the same industry. I probably won’t tell you
something that’s considered highly confidential, will I? Did you plant a spy by my side, or…send someone to
add tonka beans in my perfume?”
“Don’t change the subject! Just tell us the truth: are the tonka beans in your perfume or not?!”
John realized he had fallen into Melanie’s trap. To prove his innocence, he started yelling in panic.
“Of course not.”
Melanie signaled her assistant to hand the official ingredients‘ verification certificate of ‘Siberian Butterflies‘
to the policemen.
“This is the certificate issued by the certification center, which proves that the ingredients used in the perfume matches with the report that I submitted to the association. I’m willing to undergo another verification and will
cooperate fully without hesitation where necessary.”
Melanie’s words were confident enough for doubtful voices to die down. The tension in the atmosphere eased. She looked at John, and said, “Since everyone is around, I’d like to show everyone a video recording.”
With a wave of her hand, the lights at the exhibition hall dimmed. The projector screen unfurled in the vast exhibition hall and everyone shifted their attention to the video recording playing on it.
The recording was filmed in the fragrance blending room in Jones Enterprise’s office building. It was filmed one week before the exhibition started, which was the day Melanie arrived at Willowfort for exhibition
preparations.
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“This is the bottle of perfume into which some unknown liquid was injected.” Melanie said. She turned around
and pointed at the perfume bottle on the tray that her assistant was holding. “We’ll now hand it over to the police as evidence.”
“This is the verification certificate of this bottle of perfume that had something maliciously added to it, which proves that tonka beans were a component of this bottle of perfume.”
The exhibition hall, which turned quiet just seconds ago, broke out into a frenzy once again. There really were tonka beans in the perfume!
Melanie remained the most calm and collected in the scene.
“Now that things have come to this point, it begs the question: why does President White know about
someone maliciously adding tonka beans to my perfume to frame me?-I had to find out through the surveillance footage of the perfume blending room. President White, did you know about it even better than I
do?”
“…….”
John didn’t expect things to unfold this way.
His subordinate clearly said that he had dealt with the surveillance cameras in Jones Enterprise’s office
building, and there was no way he could have been caught on camera. What was going on?
“I have no idea what the surveillance cameras in Jones Enterprise’s building caught. I simply inferred that
there were tonka beans in your perfume by its scent!”
John started to deny his involvement in the situation. Although Melanie had proof that someone was framing her, she couldn’t prove that he was the one behind it. Thus, he decided to just deny everything.
“Oh, I see.”
Melanie sneered.
“One of my colleagues followed the person who snuck into our perfume blending room, and saw him getting into a car after he left. My colleague followed him in his car, and saw him parking at the basement car park of White Group’s office building. My colleague saw two people coming out of the car. One of which is your assistant, President White. What do you have to say to that?”
Melanie’s words were backed by the photos that were projected on the screen. John started to panic as his
eyes darted around, trying to think of an excuse to exonerate himself.
Melanie raised her hand, and cut him off.
“President White. Are you going to say you’re blind to how vicious and ruthless your assistant is, just like how your previous assistants were regarding the nasty things they did, while you remain ignorant about his wrongdoing all this while?”
Everyone else began chuckling at the turn of events. John felt awkward, but he gritted his teeth and tried hard to keep a straight face. “That’s precisely it!”
Melanie sighed. She even started feeling embarrassed for John.
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However, she knew John and Jacob were very careful in doing such underhanded things and never got their own hands dirty. Time and time again, they made their subordinates take the blame for their shenanigans.
But this time, pushing out a subordinate as scapegoat was probably not enough for them to resolve the matter.
“If that is really the case, I would need to trouble the police to investigate things. From what channel did President White’s assistant and that culprit who broke into our perfume blending room get the tonka beans reagent? Isn’t it a prohibited substance?”
John’s face turned white at Melanie’s words, his hands fidgeting restlessly out of panic.
“We’ll get to the bottom of this,” one of the policemen assured her.
She nodded, and expressed her gratitude to them before facing the cameras once more.
“Friends from the media, do keep an eye out on this case too. Everyone has a part to play in keeping our country crime–free!”
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