Chapter 337: Defeat

After receiving Brian's call, Ruby Carter collapsed into her chair, the phone slipping from her hands and falling to the floor, her face turning ashen.

"How could this happen, how could this happen..." she muttered, her voice trembling. "I had planned everything so perfectly... success was within reach... as soon as I had the patent, it would be the end of Helen Blair... I planned everything so perfectly, how could things turn out like this..."

At that moment, her assistant rushed in, panic-stricken: "President Carter, it's terrible. There are problems with all the projects, and now the other party is threatening to sue us and demand compensation!"

Ruby's face flushed bright red, and she stood up abruptly, shouting at her assistant: "Tell them that our technology is world-leading and that it's absolutely impossible for such a situation to occur! Everything will be all right, everything will be all right!"