Diana deeply bowed to Sophia and apologized. “Sophia, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have touched your laptop. I’m begging you Please forgive me racks
sorry.
The whole room was stunned by Diana’s unexpected move.
Maelis jumped in fright and hid behind Sophia, exclaiming, “Are you out of your mind? Nobody asked you to beg Sophia.”
“Sophia,” Vivienne’s eyes flickered with calculation, “Diana has already apologized, and your laptop isn’t even damaged. What more do you want?
“Sophia, are you really blowing this out of proportion?” Vivienne declared with exaggerated righteousness, her voice deliberately loud so everyone coul hear. “Forcing her to bow over such a trivial matter–isn’t that just bullying?”
Her performance was calculated to make sure one!
and leave her isolated.
I’m begging you, please-”
With tears streaming
down her face, Diana bow
saw exactly what kind of person Sophia was. She was bent on making everyone ostracize Sophia
and pleaded, “Please, Sophia, forgive me. I swear I’ll never dare to touch your things again.
Everyone shrank back in terror as Sophia’s piercing gaze swept over them. In seconds, they had all fled to their dorm rooms and bolted the doors.
Sophia ignored Diana and strode toward Vivienne instead. As Vivienne tried to turn back toward the dorm, Sophia seized her arm and gave it a vicious twist.
Vivienne let out a piercing shriek.
Sophia snatched the phone from Vivienne’s hand. It was still recording a video of Diana bowing and apologizing. Sophia scoffed, deleted the footage, then let the phone slip from her fingers, sending it crashing to the floor.
Vivienne roared, “Sophia, how dare you throw my phone?”
Sophia stomped on the phone screen, grinding her toe until it shattered with a sharp crack. She looked up, her voice icy. “Sorry, I did it on purpose. I’ll pay for your phone. But right now—”
Sophia paused briefly, then yanked Vivienne by the hair and dragged her straight to the window at the end of the sixth–floor hallway.
Vivienne struggled desperately. “Let go of me, Sophia. Are you crazy?”
Sophia flung the window open and shoved Vivienne’s head outside. With a chilling smile, she sneered, “You know I’m crazy, yet you still dare to mess with me?
“What the hell is in that brain of yours, Vivienne? Oh right, must be shit, considering what you’ve done before.”
“Ah,” Vivienne screamed, half her body dangling out the window, her face contorted in terror with snot and tears streaming down. “Let me go. Help. Sophia, please-”
Before Vivienne could finish her desperate plea, Sophia yanked her back, her lips curled in a mocking smirk.
Sophia let go of her, and Vivienne’s legs buckled as she dropped to her knees. Hugging herself tightly, Vivienne shivered. Through her sobs, she looked up at Sophia and stammered, “Soph–“/
Sophia grabbed Vivienne’s chin, looking down at her with undisguised contempt. “Vivienne, you and Yvette really are two peas in a pod, both equally good at digging your own graves.”
“You two certainly make my life eventful. It’d be unbearably dull without your antics. Do keep up the good work.” With that, Sophia flung Vivienne aside in disgust.
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“No.” With a sickening crack, Vivienne’s jaw dislocated.
Still prostrate on the floor, Diana curled into a trembling ball, too terrified to even lift her head, let alope rise.
It wasn’t until Sophia walked up to her that Diana finally mustered the courage to desperately clutch at her leg.
Sophia kicked Diana aside and warned, “You should’ve known better than to mess with me,
Diana.
If Diana had just admitted to touching Sophia’s laptop at the beginning and apologized with a better attitude, Sophia might have let it slide this once
After all, Diana was nothing more than a nobody in Sophia’s eyes.
Diana sobbed, lifting a trembling hand to wipe her tear–streaked, desperate face. “I was wrong, Sophia. Please forgive me. I worked so hard to get into Jelasburg University. Please don’t ruin everything I have, okay?”
Sophia crossed her arms with an amused smirk. “Diana, you can’t have your cake and eat it too, then burn your bridges behind you.
“You begged him to be with you back then. Now that you’ve made it to Jelasburg University, you think you can just kick him to the curb?
“If you think this is ruin, you were already ruined the moment you made your choice. You brought all this to yourself. No one else is to blame. You’d better learn to live with it.”
Sophia didn’t bother with further words and returned to Room 604, leaving only Diana’s broken sobs echoing through the hallway.
When Sophia was back in the dorm room, Dorian and Maelis were both staring at Sophia with eager, sparkling eyes.
Maelis couldn’t wait to ask, “Sophia, what’s it this time?”
Sophia rolled her eyes. “Some gossip is better left untouched.”
Maelis pressed. “Why not?“,
Sophia replied, “Because it’s toxic drama.”
It all boiled down to Diana’s impoverished family with too many children. Her parents sold off both her older sisters for hefty payments before they even turned sixteen.
Diana was no exception, but she played it smarter. She took matters into her own hands and sought out a migrant worker over a decade her senior.
She had him pay for her education and kept the payment for herself instead of giving it to her parents. Though underage for marriage, Diana was already. living with him.
After Diana got into Jelasburg University, the man followed her there, but she despised him and was desperate to keep her past a secret.
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