Chapter 4

Snapping back to reality, I released my grip.

Watching Lily Adams collapse to the ground, her breath faint.

That innocent, pure little face was now smeared with filth.

I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

“Cry, throw a fit, go tell the whole world I bullied you with that face—go on!”

My voice abruptly rose at the end.

Recalling the pain of my features dissolving from the acid in my past life, I stomped on her face twice more.

Only then did I turn and leave.

Downstairs from the school building, my desk mate, Chloe Miller, was waiting for me:

“Gym class started ages ago, what were you doing upstairs?”

I said casually, “Oh, just bullied a new transfer student.”

She turned her head, shocked: “What?!”

I replied, “A famous philosopher once said, ‘When the whole world thinks you’re a bully, you might as well really be one.’”

“A philosopher… said that…?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Chloe and I walked to the edge of the sports field, where we ran straight into Liam Davies.

He wasn’t in my class.

But everyone at school knew he was Scarlett Hayes’ childhood sweetheart boyfriend.

Liam’s gaze slid across my face, then subtly, almost imperceptibly, landed behind me:

“Scarlett, why are you so late? Oh, and I heard there’s a new transfer student in your class?”

In my previous life, every time Lily Adams slandered me.

He would always tell me to apologize to Lily, to just smooth things over.

Seemingly on my side.

But in reality, with just a few words, he sealed my fate as a bully.

Thinking of this, I raised my hand without warning and slapped him.

“?!”

Chloe, standing beside me, was shocked again.

Liam’s expression didn’t change, only his eyes briefly hardened, then he acted as if nothing had happened.

He intimately leaned down, rubbing his cheek against mine:

“What’s wrong, Scarlett? Are you in a bad mood?”