Chapter 163 Making a Fool of David
David's face instantly turned ashen!
He never expected Lily would actually dare to do this!
Lily sneered, "The evidence for this is solid, and there are so many witnesses. I don't think the Roberts Group has any room for excuses!"
Aubrey walked over, "Everyone else can leave now. We will definitely handle this matter and issue an announcement."
They needed to get the onlookers to leave so this wouldn't blow up and cause a bad impact.
After clearing the area, Aubrey spoke, "Mr. Roberts, I believe I don't need to explain what the truth is here. According to the rules, your bidding qualification will be revoked!"
Even though the Roberts Group was quite capable, rules were rules and couldn't be violated casually.
When David heard this result, he looked at Lily, "Are you satisfied now?"
Lily glanced up at him, "Pretty much. Thanks for the personal demonstration."
David angrily pointed at Lily's face, "You..."
Lily slapped his hand away, "This is what you call karma!"
Delbert, the person in charge of Maple Leaf Corporation, also stepped forward to block David, "Sir, it's not like Lily forced you to steal the creative work, and she didn't force you to use it either! All of this was caused by you, so why are you blaming her!"
Delbert had initially thought Lily cutting off family ties was a bit harsh.
But now Delbert didn't think so anymore.
Good riddance - better off without family like this!
David was instantly speechless, "This is our family business!"
"But she's already cut ties with you, so you're not family anymore."
"But Lily will carry the Roberts family blood for her entire life, that will never change, even in death!"
Lily glanced at Delbert, "Delbert, I'm fine. Let's just get a lawyer to handle this when we get back."
"Alright, the creative work was all yours anyway, you call the shots!" Delbert said.
Delbert was also angry at the Roberts family's attitude. How could a family be so biased?
Acting like Lily was the one who plagiarized!
When it was clear that Lily was the victim!
"At this point, I can only tell the truth."
Sophie suddenly looked up, "David, actually Lily deliberately gave me the document to give to you, so she could expose it in front of all these people and make the Roberts Group lose its bidding qualification!"
Austin looked at Sophie in shock, "Why are you lying?"
That's not what happened at all!
Sophie bit her lip, looking determined, "Austin, you don't know about this. It was a deal between Lily and me. But now, to keep David's company from losing its bidding qualification, I don't want to hide the truth anymore."
After hearing this, David was somewhat surprised, "Sophie, why would you make such a deal with her?"
Sophie's eyes filled with tears, "Because Lily threatened me with the bar surveillance footage from that day. She still has a backup. If I didn't do as she said, she would give it to the Harper family, claiming I deliberately kept the video of Samantha's crime.
I was scared, so I had to do it!"
Hearing Sophie's complete nonsense, Lily couldn't help but speak up, "Sophie, are you really that good at lying? Just making things up on the spot."
"Lily, even if you threatened me with the video, I still have to tell the truth!" Sophie said loudly.
Austin interrupted Sophie, "Do you have proof?"
"I have proof. This is the message she sent me, telling me to think carefully about what to do!" Sophie pulled out a text message on her phone.
David looked at it, then stared at Lily, "What do you have to say? Did you send this or not?"
Lily nodded, "I sent it."
But these were two completely different things!
She never expected Sophie would lie through her teeth to clear herself!
"Lily, I never thought you'd be so vicious, using such underhanded methods. That's one thing, but you shouldn't have threatened Sophie. If you have a problem, come at me!" David said disapprovingly.
Sophie tugged at David's arm, "David, this is between Lily and me, but I can't let you suffer because of it!"
David looked at Aubrey, "This whole thing was arranged by Lily. I didn't know about it, so we don't accept being disqualified."
Aubrey was stunned and glanced at Lily.
Lily laughed out loud, looking at Sophie hiding behind David, "By the way, there's something I want to show you."
Sophie's expression changed instantly.
She didn't know if this gamble would pay off.
She had just received a message from her father: [Lily doesn't have a backup of the surveillance video]
So Sophie took a gamble.
After all, things couldn't get much worse.
She bet that Lily couldn't produce the surveillance video!
David snorted coldly, "Lily, you want to show the bar surveillance video, right? I don't want to see it!"
"I want to see it." Austin looked at Lily. He wanted to see what the surveillance video Michael had seen looked like.
Whether it was really as Michael said - that Sophie sprayed something at Lily!
Even without that footage, Austin had just witnessed Sophie lying with his own eyes, so he already had his answer.
He should have believed Michael from the start.
David glared at Austin, "You're not allowed to watch. There's nothing to see."
Seeing David defend her, Sophie secretly rejoiced - she had bet correctly.
Even if Lily really had a backup, David wouldn't take Lily's side.
Sophie spoke weakly, "David, everything I did at the bar that day was because Samantha forced me. I didn't mean to."
"I believe what you're saying." David looked at Lily, "Now you have nothing on her. Let's see what you do."
Sophie felt somewhat happy - now Lily couldn't do anything to her anymore.
"Who says I don't have anything?"
Lily took out her phone and played a video.
It perfectly captured Sophie sitting at the computer, taking photos with her phone.
It also recorded the conversation between Sophie and Austin after he discovered her!
When Lily heard Austin advising Sophie to apologize in the video, her gaze paused.
But later, Austin was still convinced by Sophie!
They wanted her to fail?
Wanted her to slink back to the Roberts Mansion with her tail between her legs?
So that's what they were thinking - they wanted to keep using her!
After the video finished playing, the whole place fell silent.
Lily stared at Sophie with a smile, "Does this scene look familiar?"
Sophie was so scared she sat down on the floor, trembling all over, her mind completely blank.
She never expected that the evidence Lily mentioned was actually proof of her taking photos just now!
So the lies she just told completely fell apart!
Sophie looked at David in panic, "David, I..."
David directly shook off Sophie's hand, pinched the bridge of his nose, and looked at Lily, "I didn't expect you to have a backup plan!"
Lily could have produced this evidence from the very beginning.
But she held back.
Until now, when she delivered this crushing blow!
David fell into complete frustration. He knew that once this video came out, the Roberts Group would lose its qualification for this bid!
Lily - she had won!
Aubrey spoke, "Mr. Roberts, do you have anything else to say now?"
David's face was tense, "I have nothing to say!"
Layer upon layer of evidence made their Roberts Group's earlier defense look like a complete joke!
The more they said, the more mistakes they made.
"Lily, so you had everything prepared all along, step by step, scheming against your own family?"
Lily answered casually, "You threatened me first."
She hadn't planned to do this originally.
The Roberts family people forced her to.
She added, "Besides, you're not my family. You don't deserve to be!"
David was instantly enraged and raised his hand to strike Lily.
Lily didn't move at all and caught his wrist.
She turned sideways and executed an over-the-shoulder throw.