The Despised Luna's Comeback

Chapter 500 From Heaven to Hell

"You ... " Heidi was stunned in place as if she had been nailed to the ground. The entire venue had fallen into an eerie silence. The weight of the revelation was simply too much for everyone to process. "Are you wondering how I found out?" I asked, my tone deliberately casual, yet my gaze locked onto Heidi's eyes before continuing, "Secrets never stay buried forever. If you didn't want to be exposed, you shouldn't have done it in the first place." "Well, now everyone knows, right? Heidi was sent by Everett to approach Caden. Her real purpose was to steal confidential information about the Eclipse Pack, paving the way for BPL to swallow Eclipse Group whole!" My voice was not loud, yet every word was powerful and truthful. Heidi pressed her lips together, brows tightly furrowed. I could see the gears in her mind turning, frantically searching for a way to explain everything. "You have no proof. You're accusing me of approaching Caden to steal secrets, but do you have any actual evidence that proves I leaked information to BPL?" I exhaled slowly, then snapped my fingers. Then, I picked up the remote control and pressed play. The massive screen on stage flickered to life. The footage was unmistakable. It was security camera footage from Caden's study. Heidi's face drained of color. She opened her mouth but couldn't force a single word out. "See for yourself. That's you, sneaking into Caden's study and stealing the blueprint for the Azure Haven. If you were Tessa, would you have done something like this?" The silence that followed was suffocating, and then the audience below exploded in talk, with some pointing fingers at Heidi with hateful and disdainful expressions. Heidi's POV: I stared at the screen in shock, my head shaking involuntarily. I opened my mouth, but no words came. My legs gave out beneath me, and I collapsed onto the stage, trembling. Finally, I choked out a sob and whispered the truth. "Yes... It was me. I did everything ... but Caden, Caden ... " Then, in a fit of desperation, I turned my tear-streaked face toward Caden, grasping at the hem of his sleeve. "I did it for you! I only wanted to always stay by your side! And I never gave the blueprint to Everett! You have to believe me! You have to!" My voice was hoarse, and I had no idea how it had ended up like this.Today was supposed to be my engagement day with Caden. It was supposed to be the happiest, most dazzling moment of my life. So, how could this happen? I was utterly devastated. My entire body trembled as I stared at Rosaline and Caden before me. A wave of unwillingness, of sheer refusal to accept reality, surged through me like wildfire. "Heidi, after all these years, you schemed and manipulated your way into Caden's life just to steal Eclipse Pack's business secrets. And you call that love?" A cold smile curled on her lips, the disdain in her eyes cutting deeper than any blade. "No! It's not like that!" I sobbed, my voice breaking as hot tears streamed down my face. I grabbed Caden's arm. I was crying so hard I could barely breathe. "Caden, please, listen to me! Just let me explain! Yes, Everett did tell me to steal the Azure Haven plans, but I didn't do it! I swear! It's because I love you! Everything was because he threatened me!" "So, do you admit that you're not Tessa?" Rosaline stood above me, looking down at my crumpled form with nothing but scorn in her voice. Caden's POV: I wrenched my arm away from her grasp. A sharp wave of disgust surged through me as I looked at Heidi. "You're not Tessa. You're just the daughter of the kidnappers who took me all those years ago. That's why you knew everything, isn't it?" A bitter weight settled in my chest. Once, I had truly believed Heidi was Tessa. I had clung to that belief so tightly that I even hurt Rosaline because of it. I had never imagined that Heidi was a fraud! She had spent years deceiving me, pretending to be Tessa, hurting Rosaline over and over again, while trying to steal Eclipse Pack's secrets. No wonder Rosaline had instinctively known from the very first glance that Heidi wasn't Tessa. No wonder—the closer I looked, the more cracks I began to see. So, when Rosaline came to me and told me the truth that Heidi was an imposter, I chose to believe her for the first time, and together, we laid the perfect trap, waiting for this very moment to expose Heidi's lies and Everett's schemes. "It was you! Rosaline, this was all your doing," Heidi screamed as she suddenly thought of something. Her eyes burned with venom as she locked onto Rosaline. "You planned all of this today! You made me believe Caden truly wanted to be engaged to me, made me let my guard down, just so you could dig up evidence against me! You planned this from the very beginning, wanting to put me in a desperate situation!" Heidi's voice was raw with fury. "Rosaline! You did this! You set me up!""And what if I did?" Rosaline said lightly, casting a glance at Caden before letting out a soft, amused laugh. "People like you should've known from the start that secrets don't stay hidden forever. The higher you climb, the harder you fall. Tell me, how does it feel to plummet from heaven straight into hell? You've done so many bad things, you deserve the outcome today!" She let the question linger for a beat before delivering the final, devastating blow. "Oh, and one more thing. That blueprint you handed over to Everett was fake."

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