Chapter 45 Where The Audacity?

Someone quickly passed the microphone to Callista.

She took it but remained seated, responding in a calm, detached tone, "I won't accept your gratitude because your achievements are the result of your own effort and have nothing to do with me."

The crowd was taken aback, thinking, 'Bianca is genuinely expressing her thanks—why is Callista being so cold? Is she secretly jealous of Bianca?'

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