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Chapter 4

Penulis: Fierce Sleeping Dog
Cindy’s final, sisterly plea, which was broadcast live, shattered the hearts of the nation.

The livestream’s chat erupted in a collective wave of heartbreak and fury.

[What nonsense! This is brutal! The little sister is begging for her life, and the big sister is sitting in a cell doing absolutely nothing!]

[Victoria is a monster. An absolute monster! That’s your sister!]

[I’m disgusted. How did someone like her ever become Chief Engineer? Investigate her immediately!]

[Go save them! Don’t wait till it’s too late!]

Insults and accusations surged over me like a tidal wave.

Linda seized the moment perfectly.

With a dramatic thud, she fell to her knees once more. Though this time, her performance was not for me. It was for the media cameras that had swarmed the detention center’s perimeter.

She wept as if her heart were being torn apart. Her sobs were loud enough to echo through the space.

“Please, Victoria. If you go and save Cindy, I-I’ll have her sign over all of the Locke family’s inheritance to you! We’ll give up everything!”

As she spoke, she really pulled a pre-prepared Asset Renunciation Agreement from her bag.

Cindy’s signature was already on it.

It only needed my consent to be complete.

What a performance.

She had perfectly cast herself as the heroic mother who would sacrifice everything for her child.

I looked at her and smiled.

Then, under the stunned gazes of everyone present, I uttered one word.

“Okay.”

Linda was stunned. She clearly did not expect that I would agree.

I curled a finger at her. “Bring it here. Let me take a look.”

She hesitated for a moment, then slid the document through the gap in the bars.

I took it, gave it a perfunctory glance, and nodded slowly.

“That’s quite an offer.”

Linda’s eyes brightened with desperate hope. She blurted out, “Does that mean you… You’re going now?”

I tossed the agreement onto the table beside me and settled back against the wall. “I said I’d consider it. I never said when I’d go.”

Her expression hardened into a mask of pure fury.

“Y-You’re messing with me!”

I closed my eyes and ignored her.

Another thirty minutes slipped by.

Every second was torture for those trapped in the deep sea.

For my father, it was no different.

Finally, he played his last card.

He stepped up to the bars and fixed his gaze on me intently as he forced each word out through clenched teeth.

“Victoria, if you leave now to save your sister, I’ll give you sixty percent of Locke Corp.’s shares.”

Locke Corp., the business empire my mother built from scratch, was worth over 100,000,000,000 dollars.

Sixty percent meant absolute control.

Locke Corp.’s most elite legal team arrived at the detention center with dizzying speed. They were holding a thick stack of equity transfer documents.

I gazed at the document in front of me and took note of the astronomical figures laid out in stark black and white. I then picked up a pen.

Just as the tip of the pen was about to touch the paper…

A sudden burst of cheering erupted from the livestream.

“We’ve got a connection! The remote signal went through!”

“Commander Noah did it! He actually did it!”

“There’s been a major breakthrough in the rescue!”

I smiled.

The fish had finally taken the bait.

This time, they had walked straight into the trap I had laid for them.

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    My father’s legs gave out. He crumpled into his chair and breathed in harsh, labored gulps of air.Linda and Cindy crumpled on the floor like spent rags. Their eyes were vacant as if all the life had been drained out of them.I walked toward my father.As I looked at the man I had called “Dad” for over twenty years, my gaze held no warmth.“You think your sins are just adultery, raising your secret daughter, stealing my inheritance, and trying to have me killed?”My voice was low, but the microphone carried it with crystalline clarity through the hall and across the livestreams.“Twenty years ago, did my mother, Charmaine Locke, the founder of Locke Corp., really jump to her death because she was depressed?”I produced my final piece of evidence.It was my mother’s old diary, along with a new witness statement from a former neighbor, secured by my lawyers when we petitioned to reopen the case.The diary was projected onto the main screen.Page after page was turned.In it, m

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    Cindy suddenly started screeching at me like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.“Vic, how could you fabricate a video like that to slander Noah? He saved all of us! How can you do this to him?”Her voice was trembling with grief. Her eyes were brimming with the agony of being betrayed by her sister. That was her final attempt to salvage the situation.As I watched her terrible acting, I could not even be bothered to respond.I pulled a USB drive from my pocket and tossed it onto the stage.“Slander him? Inside that drive is the result of a three-month investigation I commissioned from a private detective. Noah, Cindy, you two have been secretly transferring the ownership of 17 deep-sea technology patents from under my name for over a year, using a shell corporation registered in the Kayman Islands. “You planned the whole thing. If I died in this ‘rescue mission,’ you would inherit all my intellectual property without a hitch. My life’s work would become your greatest triumph.

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    Every live camera in the room, like sharks scenting blood, swiveled to focus on Noah. His face had gone white as a sheet.Beside him, the smug and triumphant expressions on Cindy’s and my father’s faces froze. Clearly, none of them had expected me to strike at the very height of their glory.After a brief flicker of panic, Noah, who was a seasoned, media-trained scientist, regained his composure.He smoothed out his expression, forced a calm smile, and addressed the cameras in a confident, professional tone.“Victoria, I know you’re mad about what happened before, but you shouldn’t just deny everyone’s hard work and the scientific miracle we achieved just because you’re bitter. I’ll admit this: the standard remote-control interface you designed was indeed locked.”“But…” he said, pivoting smoothly with a glint of intellectual triumph in his eyes, “I utilized the sub’s auxiliary quantum-entanglement communication module, bypassed your physical lockout, and wrote an emergency cont

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    A stunned silence fell over the detention center.Linda was the first to move. She lunged like a feral animal and snatched the contract from my hands. Then she tore it to shreds.She jabbed a finger at my face. Her expression was twisted with unconcealed hatred.“Victoria, don’t even think about it! My daughter is safe now! You won’t get a single cent! Rot in prison for all I care! You monster!”As I watched the scraps of paper flutter to the floor, my smile only widened.No one knew that I had come back through time.In my first life, I piloted the rescue pod into the frigid, lightless abyss. It was there that Cindy and Noah, who had been working together, breached the hull and sealed me inside the cockpit. I watched the oxygen gauge fall to zero.After I died, they pinned everything on me. They claimed I had sabotaged the mission just to set up my sister because I wanted to seize the chief designer position, only to perish in the accident I created.More than twenty of my stu

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