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Chapter 3 Ineffective Threat

Autor: Corn 88
There were only less than three days left until the viva. Although Howard got his postgrad spot and the scholarship thanks to the stolen thesis, he messed up his own course's graduation project.

Due to his poor foundation, his final year project's data was nearly all made up and had as many holes as a Swiss cheese.

One afternoon, I immediately realized that someone had tampered with my laptop after coming back to my room from a trip to the library for some references. The passcode was brute-forced through, and even worse, all the stuff related to my final year project was gone.

Heck, the thief even cleared my Recycle Bin.

I took a deep breath and quickly asked the dorm admin for some surveillance cam footage. Sure enough, Howard had snuck into my room 30 minutes ago and stayed there for 20 minutes before he ran out in a hurry.

I grabbed the copied footage, charged right to the lab, and kicked the door open.

Howard was beside Beatrice, having a drink. He was shocked by the murderous look on my face. His hand trembled in the face of my rage, causing his drink to splash all around the ground.

"You think deleting my data stops me from graduating, Howard?" I glared at him coldly and held the copied footage close enough to nearly touch his nose. "How dare you sneak into my room and delete my stuff!"

The sight of the footage drained the color from his face, but he regained composure more quickly than I expected and pretended to be an innocent lamb. He hid behind Beatrice. "What are you talking about? I… I just wanted to borrow a book. I didn't touch your laptop."

His voice shook. "I know you're mad at me about that thesis, but you shouldn't slander me…"

Beatrice shot up from her seat and yanked Howard behind her. She glared at me as if I was her worst enemy. "That's enough, George!"

Beatrice jabbed a finger at me as she shouted, "You lost your project data yourself, got jealous of Howard, and you're now using this footage to slander him? Howard's an honest guy! He wouldn't even hurt a fly! He'd never delete your data!

"I never knew you were this evil!"

I found Beatrice's unfounded fury quite amusing despite how irritating it was. "He was caught on camera, Beatrice. Are you blind?" I sneered.

"That only proves he went into your room, not that he tampered with your laptop!"

That was sophistry, and she even followed it up with her best card. She held her head high and told me in an imperious, threatening tone. "My patience has its limits. Keep doing this, and we're through! Think about it!"

She thought the threat of breaking up would destroy me. She was so sure that the humble simp who had slaved away for her for 20 years would be scared into submission and take the loss in silence if she brought up the idea of breaking up.

She got one thing wrong as I felt the last slivers of affection I had for her vanish. I looked at her and retorted curtly, "Sure. Let's break up."

Beatrice froze as her eyes went wide with disbelief. She couldn't believe what she was hearing, and her hand froze in midair as she blurted, "W-What?"

"Let's break up, Beatrice. You disgust me," I stated firmly with a sneer.
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