My Great Escape Led Me to You novel Chapter 357

The school would have to handle this with the utmost seriousness.

The Dean of Students pressed her lips into a thin line, hands clasped behind her back as she fixed Emily with a cold, almost cutting gaze.

“The administration’s decision is this: you must publicly share all your social media accounts, issue apologies to Isabella Austin on every major platform, and, in your statements, make it clear that the school had no involvement in this incident. You need to say these were entirely your own actions, independent of the school, and that any consequences are solely yours to bear—no blame on the school or anyone here.”

Not that the Dean needed to say it—Emily Blair had already decided she’d distance herself from the school as much as possible.

But apologizing to Isabella Austin…

Emily listened in silence, her face and eyes utterly unreadable, so calm she seemed almost detached—a bystander in her own life. Her voice was steady, almost icy: “Is there anything else you need me to do?”

For a moment, the Dean’s gaze softened, tinged with pity and regret.

Anyone paying attention could see the truth: in this entire spectacle between Emily Blair and Isabella Austin, Isabella was far from innocent. In fact, to put it bluntly, Isabella was the only one truly at fault—she’d manipulated public opinion to paint herself as the victim.

When Isabella’s plagiarism was exposed, she’d immediately shifted the spotlight to her “voluntary” decision to relinquish her Starlight Piano Competition trophy, making sure the media splashed the story everywhere. The drama over the trophy quickly eclipsed the plagiarism scandal.

Then, Isabella announced she was suffering from depression. The combination of abandoning the trophy and her illness drew all public attention away from her wrongdoing, replacing outrage with sympathy and concern.

And through it all, Emily Blair had been utterly blameless.

She was, in truth, the only innocent party.

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