Free Web NovelChapter 22: Chapter 22
Over the course of five years, Quinn had secretly colluded with the finance department, siphoning hundreds of thousands from the company bit by bit.
Now, with Zoey working openly and Sandra investigating behind the scenes, every last piece of evidence had finally been secured.
The moment the evidence was laid out in full, Anna Nyles from the finance department completely lost her composure.
Unable to deny anything any longer, she immediately pointed the finger at Quinn.
The two women erupted into a vicious argument on the spot.
The scene of dogs tearing at each other inside the conference room was almost spectacular.
Zoey leaned back with crossed arms and casually instructed Sandra to keep recording everything on her phone.
"Make sure you get all of it," she said with a grin. "Once this gets uploaded online and boosted onto the trending lists, we’ll be giving Quinn a free debut straight into infamy."
Seated at the head of the conference table, Elise watched coldly as Quinn and Anna ripped into each other like enemies.
The police had already been called.
The two women were suspected of large-scale corporate embezzlement involving more than ten million yuan—more than enough to land them behind bars for over a decade.
When the officers arrived, Zoey handed over the evidence directly.
Not long afterward, Quinn and Anna were taken away in handcuffs. And with that, an eerie tension spread throughout the entire company.
Quinn’s sudden downfall threw the staff into complete panic. Those who had spent years currying favor with her and openly opposing Elise were now terrified.
By then, it was already past working hours.
Employees gradually headed home one after another, but every company group chat remained ablaze with discussion about Quinn’s collapse.
Sandra’s messengers’ notifications nearly froze her phone.
Message after message poured in from colleagues trying to probe for insider information.
After all, she was now Elise’s assistant—and the key figure who had helped Elise and Zoey investigate Quinn behind the scenes during this entire period.
Everyone assumed she must know something.
But Sandra ignored every single message. Not only did she genuinely not know Elise’s full intentions—even if she did, she would never tell them.
In her eyes, those people were nothing more than opportunistic cowards who bullied the weak and feared the strong.
And with Elise’s decisive, uncompromising personality, there was no way she would tolerate people like that.
Sure enough, only an hour after Quinn and Anna were taken away, an official notice was issued through the company’s internal system.
Every employee who had sided with Quinn was fired.
Not a single one was spared.
Among them, Naomi Clarke was also implicated in multiple workplace bullying incidents.
At the same time, the "glorious records" of Naomi Clarke, Quinn Foster, and Anna Nyles were publicly circulated throughout the industry. freewёbnoνel.com
From that day onward, all three women were blacklisted.
And just like that, DEL Jewelry Company’s massive internal purge came to an end.
Quinn and Anna were formally detained.
Elise entrusted Alexander Hayes as her legal representative and, in her capacity as the company’s founder, filed charges against both women for corporate embezzlement.
At the same time, she personally filed an additional charge against Quinn for bigamy.
Alexander officially accepted both cases.
Three days later, a new wave of senior executives and elite staff joined the company.
They were the very people Quinn had spent years targeting and forcing out.
The moment Elise decided to begin this reckoning, she had already contacted them one by one.
Most of them had once been personally trained by her. And because of that, they trusted her deeply.
The moment they learned Elise had returned to reclaim the company, nearly all of them agreed without hesitation to come back and work under her again.
Most of these people were women.
Some had been pushed out by Quinn simply because they got married or became pregnant.
After leaving the company, some returned unwillingly to domestic life, while others had been forced to abandon the jewelry industry entirely and switch careers just to survive.
In truth, very few of them were living easy lives now.
So when Elise reached out to them during this difficult period, it felt nothing short of salvation.
Women already occupied a more vulnerable and passive position in the workplace compared to men.
Having personally endured five years of emotional darkness and stagnation herself, Elise understood better than anyone how important stable work and financial independence were for a woman.
She was grateful that she still had choices.
Grateful that she could still return to the world that once belonged to her.
And more than anything, she was grateful that the comrades who had once fought beside her still remembered her—and were willing to trust her again.
Back when DEL was first established, the brand had been built around female aesthetics and female self-worth.
Its designs resonated deeply with women and earned widespread admiration and loyalty.
But during the five years Quinn controlled the company, DEL gradually strayed further and further from its original vision.
Their designs became increasingly commercialized.
Several new collections had even been publicly accused of plagiarizing independent designers.
The very first day Elise returned to the company, she saw the truth clearly:
If Quinn Foster had continued managing DEL, the company would have collapsed within a year.
And Quinn had likely realized that long ago.
That was why, over the past two years, her transfers of company funds had become increasingly frequent and reckless.
And because of that, it had allowed Elise to seize the evidence with surprising ease.
In the end, the entire battle unfolded smoothly and decisively.
Every step had gone exactly according to her plan.
