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Chapter 377
Time flew by, second after second. After forty minutes, Leanna finally began sketching.
Everyone who was feeling nervous for her outside the room breathed a sigh of relief when they saw her
moving her hands.
Aidan, on the other hand, sat calmly in his seat, his slender legs crossed as he looked at her.
Meanwhile in the room, Leanna wasn't designing a new piece of work. Instead, she was sketching a
creation of hers which she designed previously.
It was the necklace she sent to the Barnett Family at their charity dinner. However, the necklace went
missing and had not been found till now.
The theme for this round of the competition was that it had no theme.
From the rules of the beginning of the competition to its subsequent developments, and to the final
round now, all of them exuded an overall message—to break through any existing constraint and not
be limited by any themes. The crucial point was to be daring enough to come out with bold innovations.
Hence, it meant that no matter what designs that the contestants handed in, they were all in line with
the theme.
The previously designed pocket watch necklace had never been shown to the public. Other than
Leanna herself, Harvey was the only one who had seen it.
That being the case, if anyone questioned her design now, it meant that the stolen necklace was in the
hands of that person.
Despite this, she still made some changes to the minute details of the design, but the changes she
made were difficult to be noticed by anyone other than herself.
The competition's three-hour time limit was quickly reached. Leanna put down her stationery and took
a deep breath.
After the staff took their designs away, Leanna and the two other contestants exited their room.
The panel judges who were seated stood up and entered the meeting room that had been prepared for
them.
Before Violet left, she deliberately took a glance at Leanna and snorted, seemingly expressing that she
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtwould not let Leanna have her way.
Georgina, on the other hand, behaved more maturely. She maintained her composure throughout the
competition, with a slight smug look on her face.
When Leanna found Aidan, she was surprised to see him sitting in the reporters' area, whereby the
reporters were standing in a corner, looking around and trying hard not to be noticed.
She found them behaving weirdly.
Aidan approached her at this point and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Why did they…"
"Perhaps they're uncomfortable sitting for that long," he replied slowly, not even turning his head.
After a few seconds of silence, he took Leanna's hand in his and said, "Don't be bothered about them.
Let's grab something to eat."
She indeed felt hungry after being in the room for that long. However, she wasn't sure of leaving. "But
the competition isn't over yet."
"They need another hour to get the results. You can't do anything by sitting here anyway," he
responded.
He has a point.
"Let's go, then."
Their departure caused speculations in the remaining crowd.
To them, Leanna appeared to be completely confident to be able to leave at this point of time.
But in fact, she did not feel confident at all. For her, the design had been handed in, and there was
nothing she could do about it. Thus, she would rather have a nice meal than waste time waiting for the
results and doing nothing here.
While they were eating, she asked, "How is Louis doing at your place?"
"He's fine, eating and sleeping well," Aidan answered as he poured water into her glass.
"I'm asking about his injury."
"He didn't break any bones, and the person who was beaten up wasn't him either. He has long since
recovered."
As Aidan spoke about this, Leanna furrowed her brows and asked further, "Do you have any news
about Ron yet?"
To that, he gave a disappointing answer. "He wouldn't have lived until now if he could be easily found."
Hearing that, she went silent without refuting what he had said.
Aidan then added, "As I've said, you don't need to be concerned about that. I will take care of it."
"But you are also in a mess now."
"What mess?"
"The Pearsons began making new moves recently, didn't they?"
If they didn't, Aidan would not be so busy now.
He smiled when he heard her words. "That's nothing new to me. I'm used to it."
The Pearsons were doing nothing more than convening a board meeting and making some
unreasonable demands.
Though he said it casually, Leanna knew it wasn't as simple as he made it sound.
After a while, she opened her mouth again. "Ms. Fletcher…"
"What?" Aidan raised his gaze and looked at her.
Leanna quickly dodged his gaze. "Nothing. I'm just wondering if I can pay her a visit once this busy
period is over."
"You can."
Leanna only wanted to test the waters at first, but he agreed to her request so quickly that she was at a
loss for words. After a brief pause, she decided to bring the topic back to Louis. "What is Louis doing
these few days? Did he go out?"
"He leaves early in the morning and returns late," Aidan answered, and Leanna was perplexed by this.
"What has he been up to?"
"Anything is fine as long as he is not committing heinous crimes."
Hearing Aidan's relaxed tone, Leanna was assured that she had nothing to worry about.
Louis would most likely not act rashly again now that he had learned his lesson and was living together
with Aidan.
They finished their meal in no time. When they returned to the competition venue, there were still
fifteen minutes until the results were announced.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmJust as Leanna sat down, some reporters approached her for an interview.
Many people predicted that either she or Queenie would win. Adding to that, Leanna was also backed
by powerful people. Even if they didn't say it out loud, everyone knew that the organizer would more or
less show Aidan some respect.
As such, Leanna is most likely to win.
This was why the reporters were so eager to interview her right now.
However, Leanna merely smiled and responded politely, "Let's wait until the competition is over."
Accepting the interview now would be a shame if she wasn't the winner later.
After being rejected by her, all of the reporters walked away regretfully.
Aidan, on the other hand, asked in a soft tone, "Are you not confident in yourself?"
"I simply feel that it is better to be humble," she casually responded. "Besides, if I lose the competition,
it won't be my fault. I'm just taking the bullets for you."
He looked at her doubtfully when he heard that.
"I heard that wealthy families are normally close with one another, and their daughters gather
frequently for relaxing activities like afternoon tea or facials, right?
"Yes."
"So, President Pearson, do you think the two ladies you've previously offended would team up with the
other ladies to target me?"
Aidan pursed his lips in response. "You are the one who offended one of them," he said after a few
seconds.
Leanna scoffed at that.
B*stard.
He then held her hand and said graciously, "It doesn't matter if you lose the competition. I will provide
for you."
She, however, did not even want to play along with him and immediately took out her phone to reply to
Zoe's message, which she had received just minutes ago.
Regardless of the outcome, Leanna had put in all of her effort and hard work, which was why everyone
in the studio had planned to have a meal together after the competition ended.
After considering for a while, Leanna then sent a message to Daphne, asking if she was free tonight.
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