Chapter 1

They called me a girl who seduced men for attention.

They used fake messages, edited photos, and a staged scene to destroy my reputation.

I begged them to stop, but no one listened.

I died carrying those accusations.

Then I opened my eyes and returned to the moment before everything happened.

This time, I will not explain anything.

I will not protect anyone.

I will let their plan run its course and hit them instead.

And I will make every person who hurt me face the truth they created.

After school, there weren't many people left in the building.

I took deep breaths of fresh air, trying to calm my emotions after being suddenly pulled back from the hatred and fear of my death.

Lydia was handing Colin a bottle of water. It contained an aphrodisiac that would inflame his desires.

In my past life, I had accidentally discovered Lydia pouring an unknown white powder into the water. I exposed her on the spot.

But Colin didn't believe me. He insisted on drinking the water anyway. He even asked if I was jealous because Lydia was prettier than me, and that's why I was always targeting her.

This time, I didn't try to stop him.

After taking the water, Colin instinctively looked at me.

"You're not going to try to control even my drinking water, are you?"

"Do whatever you want," I said with a wave of my hand.

Lydia couldn't miss any opportunity to attack me. She immediately chimed in:

"Avery, your possessiveness over Colin is too much. Doesn't he even have the freedom to make friends?"

With those words, the few classmates who hadn't gone home yet gave me strange looks.

Colin's face darkened even more.

"She's nothing, just a bookworm," he muttered.

I gripped my pen tightly, hatred surging in my eyes.

"Are you two done? I haven't said anything from start to finish, have I?" I retorted.

Colin was taken aback and fell silent, his face stony.

Lydia continued to stir up trouble.

"You might not have said anything, but your face looks very unhappy. I just said a few words to Colin, and you're already scowling."

Hearing this, Colin shot me an annoyed glare.

As if to spite me, he drank the entire bottle of water.

In my past life, I had knocked the bottle away, so he only took one sip. But even that one sip was enough to make him lose control.

I couldn't imagine what would happen now that he had drunk the entire bottle.

I found myself looking forward to it, in a twisted way.

Seeing him finish the water, Lydia could barely contain her excitement.

She grabbed Colin's hand. "Colin, walk me home?"

Of course, Colin wouldn't refuse.

The two of them left the classroom hand in hand.

Ten minutes later, Harper, our class monitor, burst into the classroom, her face flushed red.

By then, I was the only one left in the room.

Harper stammered, clearly struggling to say something difficult.

"What's wrong? Did something happen to Colin and Lydia?" I asked proactively.

Harper grabbed my hand:

"Yes, yes, it's them... they... they..."

"What happened?" I asked, looking directly into Harper's eyes and pretending I knew nothing.

I used to trust Harper implicitly. She wasn't just our class monitor, but had been my desk mate for all three years of high school.

I thought we were best friends who could tell each other anything. But I never imagined she would stomp on me so hard after the incident.

She told everyone that I had a crush on Colin and drugged him myself.

She even started a livestream to denounce my actions.

"I was her desk mate for three years, I always knew she liked Colin. I just never thought she would actually do something like this."

"Avery is a sex addict. She... she once called ten male escorts in one night."

"I tried to advise her, but she wouldn't listen. She also had an unclear relationship with the old widower next door..."

This livestream pushed the whole incident to its climax.

I was completely cast into the abyss, and the school persuaded me to drop out.

Later, I ran into her by chance. By then, she had already climbed to a high position.

"Thank you. If it weren't for your incident, I wouldn't have been able to take your spot for early admission to the top university and end up where I am now."

As the memories flooded back, I stared hard at Harper.

In my past life, she and I had discovered Colin dragging Lydia into the bathroom together.

I rushed in to stop him, while Harper said she would go call for help. But she just hid to the side to watch and record videos...

Seeing that I wasn't in a hurry, Harper became flustered and incoherent.

"Colin dragged Lydia into the men's bathroom. Lydia kept crying, Colin... Colin is trying to assault Lydia."

"But don't they like each other? How do you know Lydia isn't willing?" I asked.

Hearing me say this, Harper was stunned.

Everyone in our class knew that Colin and Lydia were flirting, just short of making it official.

Harper anxiously grabbed my wrist.

"But they're still students, they can't do this!"

"Come on, let's go take a look. We can't just ignore this."