Chapter 26 The Truth Comes Out (2/2)

est of Rose. She checked her phone for new updates, when suddenly an update popped onto the screen.

Emily read the title of the news carefully, in puzzlement—

”The Truth Comes Out: Emily the Real Winner Was Framed!”

Emily couldn't believe what she was reading. She barely collected herself and continued to read the contents word by word.

The news was reported by Jinshi City's famous online newspaper, on its front page in one of its columns called ”Find Out the Truth”.

The news uncovered the ins and outs of Emily's story. Lately, the city had been abuzz whether Emily was a plagiarist or not. And it turned out Emily was innocent all along, while Rose, Emily's close friend, copied her work and claimed it as her own. With the help of a fraud, Rose not only remained impenitent about her misdeed, but she also invented a story to defame and belittle Emily publicly by saying Emily had bribed and seduced judges.

Emily even found a video recording from that day, with millions of comments below it. Emily had been searching these videos to prove her innocence, but due to Jack's influence, they were all deleted. This time, however, the video was released and reposted by lots of netizens at the same time and and so it could not be deleted.

Furthermore, the netizens also dug up all the secrets of the past that Rose desired to cover up—stealing from her college mates, bullying others in campus, compensated dating, and stealing her good friend's boyfriend.

The ”good friend” in the report was Emily.

The netizens who learned the truth soon changed their votes for Rose overnight. They believed that they should embrace justice and vote for Emily.

Emily didn't expect this to be such a roller-coaster of a day. Even just a few minutes ago she was far from proving her innocence to the people and yet here she was, finally declared innocent. What a turnaround!

Emily did not, however, lose her senses and over-indulge in excitement. She realized that somebody must have helped her with this.

But who was that ”somebody”?

Somehow, Jacob's face appeared in Emily's mind, and she was startled by the idea.

Could it be Jacob? But, why did he help her? Was it just because he was interested in Emily?

”There ain't no such thing as a free lunch”. Emily firmly believed in this old saying even more after she had encountered Jacob.

But, maybe the ”somebody” was Victor?

Although Victor was not as influential as Jacob, he still had a voice in the jewelry circle. Since Emily was his employee, any bad rumor about an employee would bring negative impact on the company. Thus, Victor not only had enough power to help Emily but he also had the motive.

The more Emily thought of it, the more she felt that the ”somebody” was Victor. Soon after, she put Jacob behind her and called to ask Victor for dinner, to express her gratitude.

This time when Emily sat opposite to Victor in the restaurant, she did not have as many butterflies in her stomach as she did before. She took out the business suit she had bought for Victor.

Victor raised his eye-brows slightly. He didn't accept the gift but asked,” What is it?”

”Your suit was ruined when you saved me from the acid attack the other day,” Emily smiled, and continued,” So I bought you a new one to make it up to you. I know it may not be as good as the previous one...”

”No, I don't need it.” Victor refused Emily without any hesitation.

Emily looked a bit dejected,” I see...”

To her surprise, for some reason, Victor added,” Let me have a look at it.”

There was light in Emily's eyes again. She passed the suit to Victor.

Victor opened the packaging, took out the suit and tried it on. The warm, grey color diluted his apathy and made him appear more gentle and mild.

”You look drop-dead gorgeous,” Emily sincerely offered praise to Victor.

Such a praise seemed to be nothing new to Victor. He treated Emily's words with indifference and said,” I accept it. By the way, I have recorded the money I lent you on the account book of the company, which means from now on you don't owe me, but you owe my company the money. I will deduct half of your salary every month as repayment. Got it?”