It should just be a passerby.
But her back was so familiar, like he'd seen it somewhere.
Calvin squinted for a few seconds, but couldn't think of anyone who matched that back, so he finally stopped thinking about it and continued to chat with his dad, mom, and sister.
Ten minutes later, Violet put down Ayra from her arms, "Honey, it's almost time for the competition, you take the two kids back to the villa first."
"No, mommy, I want to stay here with you." Ayra hugged her leg and wouldn't let go.
Although Calvin didn't say anything, he had the same idea.
Violet looked to Stanley.
Stanley pulled the little girl away, "We'll wait for you in the break room, and after the competition, we'll go back together."
At those words, Violet's heart softened and finally she nodded, "Alright then, you guys go to the break room first, I'll go to you later."
Stanley nodded.
Violet waved at them and turned to avenue.
As she walked to the door, she saw that there were ten minutes left and planned to the bathroom.
In order to guard against cheating by the contestants, they were not allowed to the bathroom in the middle of the competition.
And with a competition going for a few hours, she should go to the bathroom first.
So Violet turned to the bathroom.
Just as she entered the cubicle, the next cubicle door opened, and Pennie came out of it, her eyes slightly narrowed as she looked at Violet's cubicle door.
Although Violet didn't say anything, when she locked the door, the door lock seemed to have some problems and Violet made a puzzled sound.
That voice was heard by her, so she instantly recognized it as Violet.
Pennie didn't expect such a coincidence that she met Violet in the toilet.
In that case, don't blame her.
Pennie's mouth curled up in a sinister arc as she tiptoed to the door of the cubicle where the cleaning tools were placed. She opened the door and took out a broom from inside.
She looked at the long pole of the broom, then at the width of the cubicle door.
After Pennie gave a dark cold hum, she walked to Violet's cubicle door and gently placed the broom across the hook outside the cubicle.
After doing that, Pennie took a step back and clapped her hands, laughing coldly in her heart.
Now, she would see how Violet would come out.
Ten minutes were to go until the competition.
As long as Violet didn't make it back within ten minutes, she would immediately be kicked out by the organizer.
By then, Violet would be the first designer in the history of international competitions to be kicked out for being late, and even the country behind her would be disgraced because of her.
She could already imagine what would happen when Violet was hacked by the nation's netizens all over the internet.
Thinking of that, Pennie left with a smile.
From the beginning to the end, her movements were in so low voice that Violet didn't even hear them.
By the time she was ready to open the door and go out, she found that she could not open the door.
That meant the door was either broken or tampered with.
The former was impossible because the door was still in good shape when she came in and the lock wasn't broken.
So the biggest possibility was that the door had been tampered with.
Violet's face went grim.
She hadn't actually noticed it at all when she'd been locked in.
She was too careless.
Taking a deep breath, Violet suppressed the anger in her heart, took out her phone, and called out to Linda.
Linda's voice soon came, full of anxiety, "Violet, where have you been? The competition starts in five minutes, everyone is here. What are you doing?"
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