Vickie panicked, her tone turning sharper. "What are you talking about? Evelyn, after ruining my reputation, are you going to frame me again?"
"Whether it's a frame-up, the evidence in my hand will explain everything. Actually, you're quite smart, it's just a pity that the people you hired are too incompetent. I called my dad, and he had someone look into it. They found out easily."
Taking a stack of documents from a manila envelope, she held it out toward Vickie. "Vickie, do you want to see how clumsy this setup of yours is?"
"You're talking nonsense! I arranged it so perfectly, you couldn't possibly trace it to me!" Vickie shouted loudly, then immediately silenced herself.
She had accidentally let the truth slip.
Evelyn curled her lips into a faint smile and said lightly, "I indeed didn't trace it to you. It's not that I couldn't find anything, like you said, but rather there was no need. The case is already solved."
She loosened her grip on the papers, and the white sheets immediately fluttered in the wind, scattering like dancing butterflies. They were completely clean. There was nothing on them at all.
Vickie didn't expect Evelyn to trick her. She almost lost her mind. In a moment of emotional loss of control, she failed to grip the railing and fell right off.
"Ah!"
Vickie's scream, mingled with the shrieks of the crowd, pierced the sky.
The moment Vickie's figure disappeared, Evelyn's first reaction was to rush forward to grab her, but it was ultimately too late. She only grasped empty air.
At that moment, her mind went completely blank. She was surrounded by deafening noise, but she couldn't hear a single thing.
In a daze, she felt like she was back in the summer when she was eighteen.
School had already let out, most of the students had left, and it was another rainy day, leaving the campus very empty.


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