Chapter 1190:


    Silence lingered. Then, slowly and deliberately, Kiley spoke again. “It’s like the calm before the storm.”


    “Could it be you’re just exhausted?” Raegan suggested after a moment. She suspected Kiley was overestimating Maia.


    “No,” Kiley replied firmly. “I’ve been sleeping well. I’ve mapped out Maia’s entire life since her release from prison. She’s handled every challenge with near-perfect precision.”


    “I even put myself in her ce—if I were Maia… I couldn’t have resolved those crises half as cleanly as she did. Even if our theory is correct that her imprisonment was a cover, that she spent those four years training with some hidden organization, it still wouldn’t exin how she pulled all this off.”


    Her hand clenched into a fist. “I have to admit… Maia is a genius. There’s no other rational exnation.”


    A spark lit in Kiley’s eyes. “But only someone like her is worthy of being my true rival. So I forced myself to think like her—how would she dismantle our strategy?”


    She strode toward her executive chair. “People keep making the same mistakes because they fail to learn from past failures. And that’s when I saw it—the w in all our ns. We overlooked Radiant Jewels’ biggestpetitor—Annie Crystal.”


    “Annie Crystal?” Raegan repeated, frowning. “You mean that design brand that exploded onto the scene two years ago—the one founded by the mysterious designer Anti?”


    “Exactly!” Kiley’s eyes narrowed as she pitched a daring idea. “What if… Maia is Anti?”


    Raegan’s breath caught. She shook her head instinctively. “Kiley, that’s absurd.”


    She countered quickly. “We’ve investigated. Shiloh confirmed it himself—Maia did slip out of Wront Prison briefly during her sentence. But the rest of the time, she was locked inside. There’s no way she could’veunched apany, let alone build a global brand like Annie Crystal.”


    “No,” Kiley insisted. “We must dare to hypothesize first, then test it.”


    She gestured to the screen. “Look at my mind map. I’ve traced every possible connection.”


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    Raegan stepped closer, scanning the details.


    As seconds passed, her frown deepened.


    “This designer Anti…” she murmured, “has never appeared in public. Not a single verified photo exists. Just like the painter Matias from that gallery exhibition—the one who never showed up… who turned out to be Maia.”


    She swallowed hard, the implication settling like stone in her chest.


    Now she understood why Kiley had leapt to such a wild conclusion.


    The parallels were too precise, too deliberate—like history repeating itself.


    “I just… can’t ept this theory,” Raegan whispered, pressing her fingers to her temples.


    She stared at the screen, searching desperately for a w—anything to disprove it.


    “If Maia’s such a genius,” Raegan said after a long pause, her voice low, “why is there absolutely nothing on her before prison? Not a single trace. Even if she’s been hiding her talent all along… human energy has limits. How could she possibly—”


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