Fake Daughter Is The Real Legend (Iris Sutton) novel Chapter 169

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Nick jumped in surprise. He clearly hadn’t expected Yonki to still be working this late.

“It’s nothing. You’re still here too, Vice President Saunders?”

Yonki frowned.

“Don’t you normally use Elevator Two? What are you doing standing outside the executive elevator?”

Nick glared at him. “Can’t I just walk around? Your daughter’s already out of school, and you’re still worried about what I’m doing?”

Yonki glanced at the time. He really was running late.

Not wanting to argue, he hurried into the elevator.

Still, something didn’t sit right with him.

Just to be safe, he sent Iris a text message.

At that moment, Iris and Bella were buried under a mountain of documents.

Neither of them noticed the vibration of Iris’s phone.

Two hours had already passed since everyone else had

gone

home.

Julie had just finished her own schedule and arrived downstairs at Venus. She’d come alone, leaving her assistant behind.

Pulling out her phone, she called Iris.

“I’m here. Send someone down to get me.”

Iris placed the last document neatly on the pile.

“Just take Elevator Three. It’s the executive elevator. It’ll bring you directly to my

office.”

“No problem. Just give me access.” Julie entered the building and signed in at the

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reception desk.

After hanging up, Iris glanced at the time on her phone.

Only then did she realize how late it had gotten.

Her eyes shifted to Yonki’s unread message.

The moment she read it-

Her pupils contracted.

She immediately called Julie.

The instant the call connected-

A terrified scream erupted from the other end.

“Help!!”

Iris dropped everything and sprinted out of her office toward the executive elevator.

Just as she’d feared…

The elevator display now showed an emergency fault indicator.

“Julie!”

“Stay calm!”

“How are you?”

Julie was nearly hysterical.

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Several seconds passed before she managed to answer, her voice trembling with sobs.

“I…”

“The elevator was almost here…”

“Then it suddenly dropped!”

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“It stopped now…”

“But the doors won’t open…”

Bella had already run off to call emergency elevator maintenance.

Iris stared at the floor indicator, her palms slowly growing damp.

If she were trapped inside…

She might still find a way out.

But Julie…

Julie wasn’t physically strong.

She couldn’t afford for anything to happen to her.

“Go crouch in the corner.”

“And don’t hang up.”

The moment she finished speaking-

Iris turned and headed straight for Nick’s office.

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The lights in Nick’s office were still on. He was sitting comfortably behind his desk, quietly waiting for good news.

Instead-

The office door burst open.

Iris strode in with an icy expression.

His face instantly turned ghostly pale.

‘How…? Shouldn’t she have been inside the elevator? Shouldn’t it have fallen already? Why is she standing in my office?‘

“President Zero…”

“What brings you here?”

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Unable to understand what had happened, he forced himself to stay composed.

With trembling hands, he poured her a cup of tea.

“Would you like to try this Darjeeling tea?”

Expressionless, Iris accepted the cup.

The next second-

Crash!

The cup shattered against the floor.

Scalding tea splashed everywhere.

Before Nick could react, she seized him by the collar.

“What happened to the elevator?”

She had already spoken with the maintenance team on their way over.

Based on the symptoms alone…

They were almost certain the malfunction had been caused deliberately.

Fortunately, the sabotage hadn’t been completed.

Had the process finished as intended…

The elevator would have plunged straight into the basement.

No one inside would have survived.

The look of utter shock on Nick’s face when she’d entered had already told her everything she needed to know.

He hadn’t expected this young woman to overwhelm him so completely.

For a brief moment… he actually felt fear.

Even suffocation.

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Iris stared directly into his eyes.

“What.”

“Happened.”

“To.”

“The elevator?”

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Nick suddenly laughed. “So anxious, President Zero? I heard someone tampered with the elevator’s operating system. No matter how worried you are… it won’t help.”

So…

Someone important was trapped inside.

If that person died…

The consequences for Venus would be devastating.

It was the first time he’d ever seen Iris lose her composure.

Following that mysterious person’s instructions, he’d rewritten the elevator’s control program.

Even experts wouldn’t be able to crack it.

Unfortunately…

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The moment she heard the words operating system…

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Bang!

She pulled a USB drive from her pocket and plugged it into his computer.