I Flunked, but They Panic

"Hello, Master. You are successfully bound to the score-swapping system. Whose grades would you like to swap yours with?""Melissa Bolton, my elder sister's!""Which grades would you like to swap your scores with?""The upcoming SATs!"…I wasn't surprised when I heard my sister, Melinda Bolton, asking to swap her scores with mine when I walked past her bedroom door that day. In fact, she seemed very smug and pleased after knowing that she could exchange her scores for mine instead.It was understandable. After all, I had always been a top student in class, consistently ranking first in all my exams, making me a true academic prodigy.I even consistently scored near-perfect marks on the mock SATs in high school and represented the school in the Rumpiad Math competitions multiple times, bagging first place every time.Basically, I'd won many awards and received many certificates from a very young age.I didn't really have any academic rivals in school anymore. My ultimate goal

Last time, my homeroom teacher, Ms. Gracie Evans, had handed me an application form for direct admission into Hayward University.I could choose not to sit for my SATs and get myself enrolled in Hayward straight away. However, in my past life, I wanted to prove myself and chose to forgo the application and just sit for my SATs.Now that I thought of it, I realized that I had been stupid. If I'd just filled in and submitted the form, then none of the drama would have ever happened afterward.But of course, I never would have known in my past life that Melinda had a score-swapping system bound to her that would swap out her SAT scores for mine.There were no what-ifs in the world. However, now that I was given a second chance at things, why wouldn't I change the outcome?I headed to the teachers' room and found Ms. Evans, explaining my situation to her.Ms. Evans immediately handed me the form with a huge smile on her face."You've finally thought it through! I told you that you d

Melinda had now become a huge sensation online.She even started a public social media account, sharing her experiences and amassing a huge following.Soon, various memes, jokes, and puns about her emerged online too. Some of them included, "I aimed for 0 and still got 400!", "It takes real talent to avoid every correct answer", and "SATs 101: Top three ways to get the lowest score possible!"She quickly became a micro-influencer over the course of the summer vacation and even managed to monetize her online presence.She gained hundreds of thousands of followers across the internet in just three days by cultivating a persona of a high-school student who simply couldn't get anything right despite putting in a lot of hard work.Melinda basically milked her SAT score of 400 as a gimmick to gain widespread traffic online. Because of her good looks, some of her followers even affectionately nicknamed her "Ms. 400" for fun.My friend, Harper Truscott, showed me her social media account

"Also, when have I ever backstabbed you or Mom?" Melinda yelled.I challenged Melinda's furious glare and casually played a recording I'd saved on my recording device a long time ago.Everything she said, including how Mom found me at a dumpster, and all the horrible names and insults directed at Mom, was played out loud for everyone in the hall and the audiences in the live stream to hear."What kind of person is she? How could she say such vicious things to her own sister?""Even if Melissa wasn't her biological sister, she's been Melinda's older sister for years and always gave in to her and protected her! How could she turn out to be so wicked after all?""She even called her own mom an old hag! Why does she even exist?""People really forget their roots once they become famous. Can you believe she said she'd sever all ties with her family once she was rich and famous enough? How dare she?"The entire audience on the internet heard everything Melinda said, and some of them e