SWNOVELS Chapter 129: Because, I am Q!
The other judges initially thought that Tina was just trying to provoke Sean and then use the perfume formula left by her mother to hype herself up, so they were unwilling to even try her perfume. However, upon hearing Vivienne Blaine's words, the other three judges each picked up Tina's scent strips, smelled them repeatedly, and after confirming multiple times, their faces displayed shocked expressions. "It's really Fathom!"
The entire hall erupted once again, and all the news media cameras turned towards Tina, all speculating why the perfume she concocted was Fathom. "Impossible!" Sean exclaimed from the stage. How could Tina possibly create Fathom? The formula for the illusion was something he hadn't even managed to extract from Lily Fawkes, so how could Tina have it?
He turned and glared at Tina, asking her in a stern tone, "Did you secretly keep my master's perfume and swap it with the one you mixed just now?" "Swap?" Tina laughed. "Otherwise, how do you explain it? Don't tell me it's your concoction; do you think I would believe that?" Sean challenged.
Tina's eyes lifted slightly, speaking slowly and deliberately, "Because-I am Q!"
A wave of noise immediately surged in the auditorium, nearly lifting the roof. Everyone was whispering and pointing at Tina, discussing fervently. "Tina is Q?" Marie also exclaimed while pinching Jared Farrell's arm, "Why didn't you tell me earlier! If I had known, I would have asked her to mix a truckload of Fathom for me!"
Jared Farrell, "...",
Could he say he didn't know either? What other secrets could this young girl possibly have that would surprise him?
"You're lying!" Sean's face turned ashen, and he pointed at Tina shouting, "You are not Q! How could you possibly be Q! You were only how old five years ago?" But then he suddenly thought of Lily Fawkes, the twelve-year-old genius perfumer. "Just because you can't, doesn't mean I can't." Tina looked at Sean, her clear eyes revealing a chilly glint.
She moved back to her perfume station, quickly mixing two more bottles of perfume, which were then delivered to the judges' table, "Q only ever mixed twenty-one bottles of Fathom, twenty sold and one gifted to a student. Apart from that, no more Fathom exists in this world, and only Q knows the formula. Only Q can make Fathom."
Indeed, there were others like Sean who suspected Tina had secretly replaced her work with the real Fathom perfume. But, of course, that was impossible since everything Tina did at the station was projected onto the big screen, visible to all; she had no chance to cheat.
At this moment, a judge pointed at two perfumes Tina had just concocted, astonished, "These are Abyss and Old Dream!" If one bottle of Fathom wasn't enough to prove Tina's identity, then adding Abyss and Old Dream left no room for rebuttal. These three perfume formulas had never been disclosed and could only come from Q. Thus, Tina truly was the legendary perfumer, Q.
"Are you really Q?" On the judges' panel, Vivienne Blaine looked at Tina with a face full of surprise, and apart from Henry White, the other three judges' gazes were filled with suspicion. Tina took out a ring and placed it on her left index finger right in front of them, the projection on stage enlarging the Phoenix Blossom pattern engraved on the ring several times on the big screen. "Q's ring!" Henry White exclaimed, "She really is Q!"
"The legendary perfumer!"
No one had imagined that the girl they had underestimated from the start could actually be the legendary perfumer Q, who had taken the world by storm five years ago. After calculating, Tina would have only been fourteen years old back then? To dominate the world with three limited edition perfumes at fourteen was a rare talent indeed!
Suddenly, Tina turned her head to look at Sean, who was retreating step by step, trying to sneak away, "Running away? Didn't you say you were my student, is this how I taught you to treat your teacher?"
Instantly, everyone remembered that Sean had always claimed to be Q's student, but he didn't even know that Tina was Q and had presumptuously wanted to take her on as his student, even accepting Tina's challenge. If they were truly mentor and student, how could such a disparity exist?
In no time, all eyes full of doubt converged on Sean, whose face changed from white to green as he had reached the edge of the stage. Having confirmed that Tina was indeed Q, he wanted to slip away while no one was looking. "Still want to leave?" Tina's lips curled into a mocking smile, "If you can make me happy today, maybe I'll consider truly taking you as a student." "Imposter!"
"Liar!"
"Shameless 'Perfume Prince"!"
Angry curses from the audience battered Sean like a storm. Sean's legs were so weak he could barely stand, he desperately comforted himself that it was okay, Lily Fawkes was still in his hands. He could change his appearance, adopt a new identity, and continue to release new works using Lily Fawkes.
If only he could move the siblings before Tina found out that Lily Fawkes was imprisoned by him. Unfortunately for him, Tina would not make it easy. Her expression darkened as she stepped forward, confronting Sean, "You better explain to me, why did perfumes concocted by my student Lily Fawkes end up as your work, sold in the market? Your first perfume, Forrest, was one I personally directed Lily to make!" "What are you talking about?" Sean forced a smile, "Although I did use your student's name, all my works are my own inspiration!"
"Is that so?" Tina's eyes narrowed coldly.
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At that moment, the electronic screen at the back of the stage flickered, and the display suddenly switched to Ensford news. The scene showed Sean's mountainside villa, where Quentin and Lily Fawkes siblings were being escorted by police into an ambulance. "Due to an explosion caused by illegal substances, the Ensford police came to this villa for inspection, rescuing a sibling pair from the basement. According to them, the girl is named Lily Fawkes, a deaf-mute child with a talent for perfumery, who was imprisoned by the world-famous 'Perfume Prince' Sean to produce perfumes for him..."
Following a breath of silence, the hall erupted with roaring curses.
"Oh my God! Not only is this man a fraud, but he's also a criminal!"
"A twelve-year-old deaf-mute girl, how could he do such a thing!" "Scum! The scum of scum!"
Many students in the audience, some of whom had brought snacks, stood up in fury, hurling their milk teas, cakes, ice creams, and more at Sean, cursing as they threw. "And I admired him so much before! I was so blind!"
"I bought all his perfumes! And it turns out they were that poor girl's creations! Yet all the money went into his pocket!"
Feeling that wasn't enough, many surged onto the stage, grabbing Sean and beating him.