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    “But there’s nothing on my desk. Are you certain you didn’t misce it?” Charlie questioned with a frown.


    Before Ellie could respond, Joseph Ramos, the director, mmed his hand on the table, his voice steeped in anger. “Don’t think I’m unaware that you left right after the meeting yesterday! You’re too inexperienced to act professionally. All you seem to know is how toze around and deceive people!” His words were overly harsh.


    “I’ll let it slide this time since you’re new. But don’t expect such leniency again, Ellie!”


    Joseph dismissed her attempt to exin, turning his attention to another set of papers. He projected them onto the screen with a sigh of disappointment. “Since Ellie isn’t prepared, let’s review Akira’s draft.”


    Ellie’s eyes widened in shock as she saw the draft on the big screen. It was identical to her own design!


    Akira stood, addressing the room with the rationale behind her design. The draft’s excellence in both beauty and historical uracy swiftly garnered unanimous agreement.


    “Akira is truly a standout from Critport University. Despite her youth, she’s truly remarkable!” Josephmended Akira before turning his ire towards Ellie. “Learn a lesson from her, Ellie! You were tasked with this responsibility, yet your colleague had to clean up your mess!”


    “Sir, I have a question,” Ellie calmly interjected. “Given that I was assigned this makeup design, why did Akira prepare it?”


    “Ellie, not everyone is idling away just like you. I differ from you. Opportunities are reserved for those who are well-prepared,” Akira responded, seizing the moment she had been waiting for three years to humiliate Ellie.


    “Well-prepared?” Ellie pointed to the projection on the big screen, questioning, “Were you well-prepared for stealing my draft?” The room erupted into a mor.


    “Stealing? What is Ellie talking about?”


    “What stealing?”


    “What is Ellie implying?”


    “Ellie, are you trying to nder me because you failed to fulfill your duty? It’s bad enough to nder me, but fabricating such a ridiculous story!” Akiraughed, treating the usation as a joke. “Do you have any evidence to prove that this draft is yours? Do you have the original on yourputer?”


    Standard design drafts now require the use of AI, CorelDraw, PS, CDA, and other software. The makeup draft disyed by Akira was the result of aputer drawing.


    Ellie, turning on herputer, furrowed her brows slightly.


    Yesterday, she saved the design draft on the right side of theputer desktop, but now it disappeared.


    “You don’t find the original on yourputer, right?” Akira sneered. “Of course you don’t, because you didn’t draw the draft. I have the original!”


    Akira disyed the original draft on herputer to Joseph.


    Joseph swiftly admonished, “Ellie! Not only did you fail toplete your own work, but you also tried to im credit for your colleague’s work. You’vemitted a grave offense! You!”


    “Apologize to Akira immediately. Refrain from clinging to your position as deputy director and concede to her, or I will mark it as a permanent stain on your record!”


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