Second Chances Protecting Mrs. Hall

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“Revealing my identity isn’t difficult, Emma thought. But after exposure, Liam will become suspicious, and it will bring a lot of trouble. But if I don’t save myself, with charges of cybercrime and selling student datat estimate that the minimum sentence for imprisonment is at least

three years.

Just as Emma was in a dilemma, someone knocked on the door of the interrogation room.

“Mr. Hayden, we’ve found new information regarding the student data case,” a police officer said.

Emma lihed her eyebrows.

The interrogator was also puzzled. “New information?” he said,

“Yeah,” the police officer said, “it’s them!”

As he spoke, he brought in two people.

Emma lifted her head and looked out of the door.

Kate gritted her teeth as she was brought in. She was followed closely by Vere, who had a calm expression.

“Vere?” Emma said, feeling somewhat surprised.

Vere’s usually arrogant and fierce face actually had a trace of guilt when facing Emma.

Emma immediately understood, thinking, ‘This time, it’s related to Vere.

Vere sat down and looked at Emma, saying, “Emma, I’m sorry. You once did me a favor, but I framed you for the sake of my own benefit. Now, I’m ready to come clean about everything”

“You,” Kate said as she gritted her teeth.

She warned Vere with her gaze, but he acted as if he did not see it.

The police officer stared at Kate and said, “Everyone is equal before the law. Miss Johnson, don’t even think about using force and oppression. It won’t work! Vere, tell us everything you know. We will handle it fairly and justly according to the circumstances.”

Vere recounted the whole story truthfully, detailing the events from the beginning to the end, including how he had hacked into the student database back then, the process of Kate threatening him, and how he had “framed” Emma by attributing all those activity traces to her

network address.

Throughout the period when Vere recounted the story, Emma crossed her arms and long legs, listening quietly with a remarkably calm expression.

Kate was worked up. She said, “Vere, you’re falsely accusing me! H–how could I possibly threaten you? Sir, they both work together to frame me. Look, here’s the evidence that they are both hackers. They are both hackers and classmates, while I’m just a good citizen. Besides, I’m not short of money, so why would I sell these things? They’re working together to hurl mud at me!”

As Kate spoke, she took out the documents.

that a loophole from my browsing the internet in the countryside many years ago would be uncovered by Kate. Fortunately, I didn’t do anything out of line back then. I just logged into the black market and browsed around a bit, not leaving any vidence of transactions. Otherwise, today’s situation would have been really

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the documents and

thought, “No matter what, ordinary people who have nothing better to

explicitly prohibited.”

and Vere were both incredibly intelligent

very wary of

time, they maintained suspicion about

Vere took out his phone and played

the black market. This is

don’t frame Emma today, you’ll be the one in jail

Kate said

She said, “This… you…”

never intended to betray Emma right from the start. Instead, he played dumb to fool me, pretended to do as I said, made me lower my guard, and

Kate’s face turned pale.

After that,

has never done anything to harm others! You were the one who sold the data. You should be the

voice. [Of course, I’ve dealt with everything I’ve done. The police will go to your school tomorrow. When the time

you or she will face

Kate was completely flustered.

not like

and nail in trying to send Emma to

better than anyone the heavy price she

me!” she said. “I’ll kill you…

fountain pen on the table and

police officers‘ expressions changed

the time they fully registered what Kate would

Kate’s pen was just one–tenth of an inch from

who had been sitting quietly beside Vere, acted in a somewhat spooky

tip of the pen in

movement was swift and ruthless. She twisted forcefully and stopped Kate

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had her

shivers

sharp “crack” that sent shivers down one’s spine could be

wrist bone

shrill scream in the interrogation room. Kate’s tears flowed profusely. Her wrist was

The scene just now was truly frightening but ultimately without danger. Although the police were shocked by Emma’s unexpectedly swift actions, it seemed like there was

all, it was Kate

to your timely reaction just

were skilled and capable. It was just that Kate’s attempt to stab happened suddenly, and all the police