Chapter Three: You Were Painted Too

Gu's assistant had replaced the final delivery package yesterday morning; the supposed AI analysis had been generated two days before the artwork was released. Lin displayed matching email hashes and timestamps. At 12:07, Zhou Yuan stepped from his portrait on a spare phone. Following the shortest path, he entered Tides' night server room and put the deleted revision log on the livestream. He stole nothing; he recovered Lin's own submission history. The chain of evidence closed. Public opinion reversed in one minute. #LinMoDrawsByHand. #GuFramesHisStudent. #LivestreamSavesTwentySeven. Tides apologized. The platform restored Lin's account. Commentators who had mocked him raced to delete their videos.