"Has Ms. Darcy not reviewed these submissions?" Noe remembered the pieces she handed in.
Darcy should have seen them! There’s no way Darcy would have reviewed her pieces and still
allowed Oriana''s submissions to go through.
Ingrid shook her head quickly. "Not yet. Ms. Darcy said she wouldn’t handle the submissions herself
to avoid any bias. I collected them and submitted them together."
"Then let''s show them to Ms. Darcy. These sketches, if I''m not mistaken, are mine."
Noe had submitted these pieces early to apply for course exemptions. And now, Oriana''s name
was on them.
Faced with such an interesting situation, Noe couldn''t help but smirk.
Raising an eyebrow, Noe said, "Ingrid, as future designers, we should absolutely detest
giarism, right? How would you feel if your designs were stolen?"
Ingrid felt as if her own creations had been snatched away! "I get it. I''ll go to Ms. Darcy right now!"
With ss starting in ten minutes, Ingrid couldn’t wait any longer and rushed out of the ssroom
towards the faculty office.
Darcy was preparing for ss and looked up as Ingrid entered.
"What''s the matter?"
"Ms. Darcy, Noe said these are her works. Could you take a look?"
Ms. Darcy took Ingrid''s phone and scrolled through thepetition entries. The more she saw, the
deeper her frown became. She opened her drawer and pulled out the works Noe had submitted
to her, finding several pieces that were identical, even down to the materials listed for each
gemstone!
Seeing these, Darcy frowned. "They are indeed the same. Get Oriana and Noe here."
Ingrid was stunned! She hadn''t expected Oriana''s shocking submissions to be giarized from
Noe''s work. These pieces had dazzled everyone, making them believe they were prize-winning
material. Because of these designs, Oriana had been the talk of the department recently.
Rushing back to the ssroom, Ingrid solemnly called Noe and Oriana to Darcy''s office.
Seeing Noe, Oriana felt a twitch in her eye. She had been deliberately avoiding Noe, hoping to
steer clear of any confrontation. ncing at Noe now, Oriana spected that Darcy intended to
address their past conflict, perhaps expecting an apology. As if!
Noe was dressed simply in a hoodie and jeans, her legs long and slender. Her hoodie bore a
discreet Azure logo, clearly thetest from Master Azure. One couldn''t just buy this outfit; it was said
that only Master Azure''s clients could reserve one!
Oriana couldn’t hide her aversion for the Schnabel family, convinced that they couldn''t measure up
to her esteemed schrly lineage!
Jealous and bitter, Oriana internally rolled her eyes. Once she won the departmentpetition and
gained fame, she wouldn''t have to consider Noe a rival anymore!
Thinking of her submissions, Oriana''s smile twisted slightly.
Darcyid out Oriana''s and Noe''s submissions on the desk. "These two sets of submissions,
please exin. I recall Noe submitted hers to me first, and Oriana''s cameter. Something
doesn’t add up."
Oriana, feeling guilty, insisted, "Ms. Darcy, my designs are original. I don''t know when Noe copied
mine..."
Noe raised an eyebrow. "These pieces, I drew themst year. Yourpetition was this year.
How could I copy your design?"
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Oriana pulled out her phone, showing a pre-recorded timeline of her designs, purportedly fromst
January.
"Ms. Darcy, my drafts were also fromst year. I created these drafts in Januaryst year. Was
Noe’s also drawn at that time?"
The video smoothly demonstrated the production cycle of eachyer of Oriana''s work, and the
timestamps below indeed showed January ofst year.
This was something Oriana prepared well in advance!
Oriana had already investigated. Last year, Noe was still in Tranquility City, a remote and
insignificant city. She didn''t have the chance toe into contact with these things at all. These
drafts might have been bought by the Schnabel family through connections!
With this thought, Oriana became even more convinced. There wouldn’t be any problem with the
predetermined timeline she arranged in advance!
Darcy watched carefully, but found no obvious issues. Yet, these designs matched what Noe had
submitted earlier!
Oriana said with a smug tone, "Ms. Darcy, this proves my innocence, right? These are my designs.
As for when Noe copied me, I can''t say. After all, being from the Schnabel family, there''s hardly
anything she couldn''t acquire if she wanted, right?"
Noe chuckled lightly. "Ms. Darcy, may I use yourputer for a moment?"
"Sure, go ahead."
As Beckett''s sister and also her own sister’s boss, she couldn''t believe Noe would giarize.
However, as a teacher, she needed to remain impartial.
Noe''s fingers danced across the keyboard, dissecting Oriana''s so-called proof.
Oriana smirked triumphantly. She had splurged a fortune on that video, and there was no way
Noe could dissect it! A country bumpkin from the boondocks, thinking she’s some sort of
computer whiz? What a joke! All those drafts she had seen before were handwritten. She refused to
believe that Noe could produce such video evidence!
A momentter, Noe stared at the screen, then swiveled the monitor towards Darcy.
“This video is a fabrication. The initialyer was added justst week, but it’s been manipted to
appear as if it’s fromst January. Altering metadata is a piece of cake. Like with this photo,
originally from Monday, just a few tweaks in the coding, and vo, it’s from next year. The design
couldn’t possibly have been drawn next year, right?”
Noe’s fingers danced across the keyboard, swiftly restoring the earliest images andyers. The
very bottomyer, the one Oriana was certain she had erased, was right there.
Seeing those images, panic visibly washed over her.
How was this possible! How did Noe manage to recover the supposedly deleted originalyers?