"Hey, isn't that your family's real daughter?" Security Guard A asked, squinting at the screen.

Ivy nodded, "Yes, that's her."

"She came back quite early, huh."

Ivy didn't dwell on this, quickly asking the guard to show the footage from outside the Collins mansion on her birthday.

Many people arrived that day, cars pulling up one after another. Ivy watched intently, her eyes scanning every detail, every movement in the grainy surveillance footage.

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