The Returned Heiress Who Had It All (Cassia) novel Chapter 167

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“Brie, the piano… was it really you who broke it?” Danica said, unable to accept the truth.

In her mind, Brie was like a saint. Sometimes she was so kind that it even got on Danica’s

nerves.

“It wasn’t me. I didn’t break it,” Brie said, her eyes filling with tears as she looked at Danica, then glanced in Kaleb’s direction.

“I noticed the piano seemed a little off the day before, so I opened the lid to see if I could fix it.”

That explanation sounded reasonable to most people.

After all, Brie had always been seen as the pure, innocent girl everyone adored. As for those unpleasant expressions in the surveillance footage, they were probably just caused by the camera angle.

Just as expected, that fake innocent girl would say something like this.

Seven let out a cold laugh.

Luckily, they had already anticipated it and prepared their counter.

At that moment, a teacher stepped out from the crowd.

“So you’re admitting that you were the one who damaged the piano?” he asked.

Shane Burton wore a pair of gold–rimmed glasses and a neatly pressed blazer. He was a highly respected professor at the school. Even Harold usually showed him a great deal of respect.

Everyone knew Shane. He was kind, fair, and upright, and the students trusted and admired him deeply.

Cassia was the only one who did not recognize him. She had transferred in late last fall, and Shane had been away on a long trip at the time. He had only returned today, so there was no way they had met before.

“I didn’t break it… Mr. Burton … it wasn’t me,” Brie said anxiously, tears trembling in her eyes, ready to fall at any second.

“You were the last person to touch the piano that day. You don’t know how to repair a piano, yet you opened it and messed around inside. How can you be sure you weren’t the one who broke it?” Shane said calmly, his reasoning clear and firm.

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The students began to feel that this might be the real truth.

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“I didn’t…” Brie pouted pitifully, looking like a fragile flower being bullied by the entire world.

“Then let me ask you this. Do you know how to repair a piano?” Shane said.

“I…”

Should she say yes or no? If she said yes, Shane would definitely ask her to fix a piano on the spot to prove it.

But if she said no, wouldn’t that indirectly admit that she had deliberately damaged it?

Just as Bric’s mind was in complete chaos and she did not know how to answer, Shane spoke again. “If you really knew how to repair one, you would have answered without hesitation. That tells me you don’t.”

After that, he continued. “If you didn’t know how and still tampered with it, whether it was intentional is hard to say. We’ll set that aside for now. But yesterday, when the teachers asked about the incident, why didn’t you step forward and say that you had touched the piano too?”

The question left Brie completely speechless, and even Danica did not dare to say a word.

The crowd began whispering among themselves, exchanging uneasy looks.

Yesterday, when Chris and the club’s music instructor had come looking for answers, Brie had hesitantly pointed the finger at Cassia.

At the time, everyone thought Brie had done the right thing, choosing justice over family. Now that they thought about it again, everything felt different.

Brie felt both panicked and confused. She had clearly deleted the surveillance footage, so why was this happening?

“There’s something else that’s very strange,” Shane said, rubbing his chin and speaking as if puzzled. “The other teachers and I checked the security system. Every other recording in the control room was intact, except for this one segment.”

He deliberately dragged out the last part, his tone carrying a hint of meaning.

“I remember that when you were sophomores, your computer class covered how to delete files. Brie, what do you think is going on here?” Shane continued.

The students mulled over every word Shane said. The more they thought about it, the more suspicious it sounded.

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“It wasn’t me. It really wasn’t me,” Brie said, looking like she had been holding everything in until she could not anymore. She gazed pitifully at everyone present as tears streamed down

her face.

Shane stayed silent.

With her innocent face, Brie’s act worked well. Quite a few people softened when they saw her

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