And among those rough drafts, a few designs stood out starkly.
Weren't they the exact three sets Hailey had presented?
They were absolutely identical!
The person in the footage, overwhelmed with excitement upon realizing what she had found, shoved the stack of sketches into her coat.
Then, like a thief in the night, she tiptoed out and scurried away from the storage room.
The room in the footage was undeniably the Wynn family's storage room.
And the person caught on tape was Hailey!
Hailey stared in absolute disbelief, eyes wide and jaw slack, as if she had been struck by lightning. Her mind went completely blank as she watched herself on the giant screen.
*Where... where did this footage come from?*
*How on earth did Serena get this?*
*It was just a dusty storage room for junk!*
*Why would there be a security camera in a storage room?!*
*Besides, wasn't Serena kicked out of the Wynn family? How did she have the access to pull their security footage?*
"Miss Wynn, do you have anything else to say?" Daphne paused the video, her voice cold and authoritative.
Hailey was pale and trembling, yet she stubbornly refused to give up. "W-what does this prove?"
She stared at the paused frame of herself, grinning with pure greed as she stuffed the sketches into her clothes.
Gritting her teeth, she continued her
pathetic lie. Those drafts were
mine! I drew them right after I
moved back to the Wynn estate but one of the maids must have accidentally packed them away in the storage room. I looked
everywhere for them. Is iba crime to be excited when I finally found them?"
"Heh." Daphne scoffed, clearly expecting this exact reaction. "I knew you'd fight to the bitter end."
With a click of the mouse, she opened another folder.
The large screen clearly displayed high-resolution digital scans of three design sketches.
The timestamps on the digital files were prominently displayed-they were dated from six years ago!
And those three drafts.
They were virtually identical to the
cloud collarbone necklace Hailey had gifted Brianna Blackwood for her coming-of-age jenset she was currently
the
Wearing to promote Isabella Jewelry, and the Thorny Rose piece she had just entered into the competition!
"These are the three original drafts Queen created back then. Every time she finishes a piece, she scans it over to me and backs it up on the cloud." As Daphne spoke, she pulled up the old chat logs with Serena, showing the entire history of the file transfers.
She turned her sharp gaze back to Hailey. "Miss Wynn, the drafts you stole from that storage room might have just been rough scraps my mentor didn't want, but I have the digital scans for every single one of them right here. The dates are crystal clear."
A cold smile touched her lips, and
the look she gave Hailey was bone-chilling. "Cloud backups cannot be tampered with. Of course, if you still have any doubts, Miss Wynn, I am fully prepared to hand all of this over to the authorities and let a judge determine its authenticity."
Hailey was absolutely dumbfounded.
The indisputable timestamps on each scan completely shattered any remaining hope she had.
Her legs gave out, and she collapsed heavily onto the floor, her eyes glazing over.
*It's over... it's all over...*