The Princess and the Paupers

Chapter 701

She felt like she’d been struck by lightning, unable to believe that her idol, the Queen Abby she’d worshiped and desperately wanted to meet, had been by her side all along.

Arabella watched her with amusement. Hadn’t she claimed to have seen it all to be able to handle any surprise?

Well, it didn’t look like she’d quite recovered from this one yet.

Molly was stunned. She thought back to the sketches she’d given Arabella. With just a few strokes, Arabella had always managed to transform them into something even better.

She had noticed that Arabella’s design style was similar to Queen Abby’s, a daring, unique expression.

She had even asked Arabella, in a whisper, whether Queen Abby was a man or a woman and if she was old.

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Back then, Arabella had told her that Queen Abby was a woman and that she wasn’t old. She had even asked Arabella if she’d ever met Queen Abby.

that the famous master

for Arabella, her

as a small–time designer, she’d had no chance of meeting

encouraged her to enter the competition. She remembered how the contest required an assistant, but she had no reputation or confidence, and her colleagues didn’t want

didn’t want to embarrass themselves at a

the courage and confidence to submit her

great help on her journey as a designer, not only helping her revise sketches and giving her advice but also clearing

given her the chance to show in a live stream how she had come up with

surveillance footage in the stream of Oscar sneaking into Arabella’s office to steal her design, clearing her own name, and bringing heat and orders to the

insisted on treating Arabella to a barbecue when Myra sent a gang to cause trouble. Arabella had been injured while protecting

because of Arabella that she was standing here today, representing her country in an international competition.

the start or

tears, gratitude, and emotion filling her gaze as she

smiled slightly, thinking, “You dummy, why are you crying now?”