“Alright, I got it.” Connor nodded his head earnestly.
Sharon didn’t really get what Natalie said, but that didn’t stop her from following suit and nodding.
“Let me check the security footage near the washroom and those around the security control room that day.” Connor added, “That should prove that Jessie and her mentor were the offenders.”
“They might have destroyed the security footage,” Natalie returned.
Connor bit his lip. “As long as it wasn’t deleted using a data shredder program, I’ll be able to recover it.”
“Well, then you try it later.” Natalie thought that the possibility of recovering the security footage wasn’t high, but so as not to discourage the child, she agreed to let him try.
Connor acknowledged with a brief ‘sure’.
Natalie turned to look at the computer screen. It was a blurry image, and she couldn’t discern anything from it. With just a brief look, she turned away from it and asked, “Now, can you tell me what you found out about Jessie’s information?”
“Alright, I’ll tell you. What I found out was that this Jessie is a fabricated identity,” Connor swiveled in his chair and said.
Natalie frowned at that. “Fabricated?”
“Yes, it’s a false identity. It was only registered a few months ago, which means that she wasn’t known as Jessie before that. However, there isn’t any real name of hers to be found online. She was just like an unregistered citizen who suddenly obtained an identity,” Connor answered.
Natalie’s heart sank.
So it turns out that Jessie’s identity is actually forged. No wonder I’ve never heard about such an outstanding young designer within the industry before, and she rose to fame overnight out of nowhere.
Now it seems that she did come out of nowhere.
“Other than that, her face is also fake.” Connor’s words were like a cannonball that utterly shattered Natalie’s perception of Jessie.
Natalie had her mouth agape in stupefaction. “Her face is also fake. Does that mean she has undergone plastic surgery?”
“Mommy, what’s plastic surgery?” Sharon asked curiously as she blinked her pretty big eyes.
Natalie stroked her hair gently in response. “Good girl, Sharon. You’ll understand that when you grow older. Why don’t you go and play at the side? Let Mommy and Connor discuss something.”
Sharon wasn’t as unruly as Connor, so Natalie didn’t want her to know too much about the muck and crud of the grown-ups.
Though reluctant, Sharon left obediently.
Only after seeing that Sharon had gone that Connor finally answered, “You’re right, Mommy. She underwent plastic surgery. I managed to find the record of that. Apart from plastic surgery, she had also had a few modifications to the other parts of her body, for instance, her feet.”
With that, Connor minimized the image which was still being restored and clicked on another program. “This is Jessie’s information before she had plastic surgery, but there’s no photo, so we can’t see what she looked like before that. In spite of that, data related to her physique are available. Jessie used to be 163cm tall, and now she’s 168cm.”
“An increment of five centimeters in height,” Natalie said as she read the data.
“That’s right. She went through a limb lengthening surgery.” Connor nodded.
Natalie suddenly understood something.
No wonder it has been said that Jessie has a rigid posture when she walks.
So that’s because of the surgery.
“God knows who she was. She has made such a radical change to her appearance,” said Natalie as she pursed her lips.
Connor smiled and replied, “We’ll see in just a little while. I’ve found a photo of Jessie before her surgery, but it has been tampered with, so it was blurred, and we can’t really identify anything from the picture. It’s being retouched now; we can definitely see it clearly later.”
Photos of Jessie before her plastic surgery had all been deleted.
It took him a long time searching and only found an image from the obsolete database of the plastic surgery center. It was most probably the photo that would show what Jessie used to look like. Neither had he expected that this image actually fell through the cracks and was found in the obsolete database. I got lucky!
“Baby is awesome!” Natalie’s eyes brightened up upon hearing that her son had actually found a photo. She held his puny face and gave him a kiss.
The little boy was so elated his eyes narrowed to two laughing slits, and he turned the other side of his cheek to Natalie, signaling her to kiss him again.
Natalie smiled, and as she leaned forward to plant a kiss on his cheek, the charming features of a man appeared out of the blue, getting in Natalie’s way to Connor.
Being caught off guard, Natalie couldn’t help but land that kiss on the face that emerged out of nowhere.
“Daddy?” Connor blinked in surprise as he looked at the man who showed up all of a sudden.
