INICIAR SESIÓN“You’re already slandering me to cover up the truth, and now you’re even dragging reporters into your lies. You really will stop at nothing.“You’ve said all this just because you don’t want to admit you copied Z’s ideas. You could’ve said it outright. Why go through all these theatrics?”Admitting any of this would mean admitting to a crime. There was no way she would do that.She wasn’t stupid. Even with evidence laid out in front of everyone, she could still deny it outright. No one truly cared about the facts anyway.What they cared about was whether this press conference could bring them profit.If it couldn’t, they would cancel their cooperation with Vanguard without hesitation.That was the ugly truth of human nature.Profit always came first. Everything else was just background noise—forgotten as soon as it passed.After Mindy’s words, the reporters immediately regained their confidence and went after Autumn even more aggressively.“I think she’s right. If you have nothing to h
Because Autumn had instructed them to password-protect all data for the new project, Mindy could only photograph what Autumn wanted her to see.That image circulating on the trending list was something Autumn had deliberately leaked to Mindy.The goal was to draw out the real mastermind behind the scenes. She didn’t expect the bait to work so quickly.It went even more smoothly than she’d imagined.Mindy stared at the big screen in panic, but her expression quickly settled back into forced composure.She hurried to explain to the crowd, “Don’t believe her. This video is AI-generated. The person in it couldn’t possibly be me.“Autumn, you were supposedly dead for days and suddenly show up alive. I seriously suspect this is all staged by you.“And that video just now—it must be AI too. With your technical skills, fabricating a video like that would be effortless.”She believed that as long as she denied everything outright, no one could touch her. What she said sounded plausible enough.
With just a few words, Mindy dragged the topic back to plagiarism. The noise below died down at once.Everyone held their breath, cameras raised high, unwilling to miss Autumn’s response as the person at the center of it all.After all, everything up to that point had been speculation. The truth still had to come from Autumn herself.Holding the microphone, Autumn smiled at Mindy. “I’m actually quite curious. Why would you abandon a proper job just to do things like stealing and scheming?“And that day you ran into me and smashed my laptop—along with today’s trending headlines—you weren’t uninvolved in any of it, were you?“You went to great lengths to get your hands on our new project’s core data, so you took advantage of Nathan’s inattention and snapped photos of a set of data.”She paused briefly before continuing. “But because you never had access to our core data, you didn’t know that what you photographed was already obsolete.“You thought you covered your tracks perfectly, but i
Seeing Autumn return safely made him genuinely happy. The actual person in-charge was finally back, which meant this stand-in could step aside and cool off somewhere.That was great.Autumn smiled at Nathan. “Everyone’s worked hard these past few days. Once this is over, Ethan will organize a team trip. You’ll all get to relax and have some fun then.”“Leave things here to me. Just stand back. What happened today wasn’t an accident. It was a deliberate smear.”“Don’t worry. I have evidence of their collusion. Not a single person who framed us today will get away with it.”After she jumped into the river, a fisherman rescued her. Because she was injured, she stayed at his home for several days to recover.Perhaps from days of hunger and too much time spent in the water, the pain in her stomach had begun to flare up more often.So she wouldn’t be joining the team trip, and her surgery had to be moved up. Otherwise, she wasn’t sure she could hold on.Before coming, she took several paink
Everyone turned toward the entrance at the sound, and once they saw who it was, their faces froze in expressions of sheer disbelief.Mindy especially looked as if her jaw were about to hit the floor. Weren’t they saying Autumn was already dead? Then who was the person standing right there?What shocked her even more was that behind Autumn stood Wilson and Edwin.Ever since it was revealed that Edwin was Z’s mentor, the two of them had become almost godlike figures in the tech world.With both of them backing Autumn, her plan was almost certainly going to fall apart. What was she supposed to do now?She lowered her head, opened her phone, found a contact on Messenger, and sent a message. After thinking it over, she sent another one.“Am I hallucinating? Isn’t that Autumn Lewis, the one who was supposedly silenced? And Mr. Lee and Professor Shaw are behind her? What is going on?”“I must be seeing things too. I see them as well. Did they get word of what’s happening in the livestream and
Or rather, even if they released the data from their new project, it would have been a mistake to begin with. After all, who would publicly disclose commercial secrets?That was exactly what she wanted—to watch Ethan humiliate himself, to force them into doing what they never wanted to do.She even wanted to see them completely ruined.After all, the media reporters stirring things up had already been bought, and those who didn’t know the full story only cared about whether their money would go down the drain. No one cared what happened to Ethan.“Yes, we support this lady. Mr. Sharp, if you have nothing to hide, then release your new project’s data to the public and let us all see whether you plagiarized or not.”“Since you claim the data used in your new project is different from what’s online, you shouldn’t mind making it public and letting everyone take a look. After all, this is your only chance to clear your name.”“Mr. Sharp, we only signed with your company out of respect for







