Chapter 5 — The Truth Will Always Be Proven One Day

"Miss To Dao."

"Personal cloud-hosted history with fully editable timestamps."

"From a legal perspective, this document cannot be considered decisive evidence."

To Dao's eyes immediately turned red. She raised her head and stared at the arbitration panel.

"That's why I affirm..."

"...data on the corporation's server has been modified by someone with higher authority!"

"If the last saved version in the system was really written by Le Nac..."

"...then why should I risk my life to commit suicide by cutting my wrists?"

"Am I crazy?"

"Am I going to risk my health and future to slander her?"

The whole courtroom was dead silent. Chairman Chu's face also became much more serious.

"Miss To Dao."

"I ask you to stay calm and comply with the referee's discipline."

To Dao bit her pale lips.

"Excuse me, Mr. Chairman."

"I'm just...so frustrated."

She turned her wheelchair around, pointing straight at the thousands of cameras streaming live.

"I know..."

"The corporation's legal department will use ten thousand reasons to say that my chain of evidence is not complete."

"I still have the last card in my hand."

As she spoke, she trembled and put her hand into her shirt pocket. Finally, take out a super small USB.

"Inside..."

"...is the original snapshot of the edit log in the corporation's internal security system."

"I spent a huge amount of money hiring a cybersecurity expert to restore it."

"The system log shows that, on the exact night of filing the patent application, the core author's name was initially listed as To Dao, and the project category was software language modeling."

"But only eleven minutes later, an account with the highest authority forcibly changed all information, changing the author's name to Le Nac."

The entire auditorium immediately erupted. Sitting in the audience, my parents' faces simultaneously turned pale.

"How could a corporation's internal diary be leaked?"

"If this screenshot is real... isn't Le Nac's uncle finished?"

The press area immediately buzzed. The flash kept flashing. Chairman Chu signaled the judicial police to take the USB and plug it into the court's computer. The large screen flickers slightly. Immediately after that, two photos of the edit log at the system level appeared clearly. First photo: Submitted by: To Dao. Project type: Software language model. Source code contribution rate: 99%. Second photo: Submitted by: Le Nac. Project type: Software language model. Source code contribution rate: 99%. Distance between two edits: 11 minutes 42 seconds. IP address making edits: Group CTO office. The comment section on the livestream immediately exploded like a storm. 【Iron evidence!!】 【My God... It turns out that the leader of a corporation can really cover the sky with one hand!】 【The CTO guy is really domineering, his authority is used so smoothly!】 【The genius at the bottom has his value drained by the capitalist world. Le Nac must be severely punished!】 Sitting in the plaintiff's chair, To Dao cried so much that both shoulders trembled.

"I never thought I would pull a noble lady down from her pedestal."

"I just want to get justice..."

"...reclaim the results that belong to you."

"The evidence is as clear as day."

"Are you still going to be stubborn until the end?"

My father suddenly stood up. He pointed straight at the screen and shouted angrily big.

"It's fake!"

"It's all fake!"

To Dao's mother immediately turned around and screamed like a sour woman.

"Of course you have to say it's fake!"

"Aren't you blood-sucking capitalists the best at changing white for black?"

My mother shed tears.

"Our Le family has never done such despicable things!"

"Never done it?"

To Dao's mother laughed darkly, sending chills down the listener's spine.

"So why doesn't your daughter come forward and explain herself?"

"From the beginning until now it has stood as mute and deaf."

"Does it dare to swear that these system logs are all fake?"

In that moment... All eyes in the courtroom. More than thirty million looks off the screen. Like countless sharp surgical blades, pointing straight at me at the same time. I leisurely walked to the front of the plaintiff's table. Hold a bottle of filtered water on the table. Take a small sip. To Dao stared at me. Hidden deep in those red eyes was a sickly distorted glint of pleasure.

"Are you going to pretend to be deaf and mute to buy time?"

"Or are you waiting for your uncle to send someone to cut off the livestream signal?"

I put down the glass of water. The crystal cup touched the table, making a clear click.

"I was just thinking..."

"...is it because I don't understand the rules of survival of people at the bottom..."

"...so you probably don't have any limitations in fabricating the truth?"

To Dao's crying became even more shrill.

"I'm not making it up!"

"I have your ruined transcript as proof!"

Having finished speaking, she threw out a stack of pre-printed evaluation reports as if performing magic.

"This is the entire result of Le Nac's software capacity assessment during his three years working at the corporation."

"Bottom-level logic: 26 points."

"Loop algorithm: 49 points."

"Language mapping: 31 points."