Chapter 3

A young woman dashed out of the house, and she turned out to be Euri’s best friend at university, Sadie Levy.

Sadie raised a chair and slammed it hard on Euri. Euri tried to dodge the attack, but Edwin grabbed her wrist and forced her to be hit by the chair. "Stop dodging. She’ll forgive you only if you get hurt."

Euri’s heart sank.

Sadie slammed the chair on her leg and waist. She was so enraged that she hit Euri over and over. "You should die, Euri Scott! You pretended to be my best friend to steal my thesis! Give me back my degree!"

Euri could hardly stand because of the intense pain she suffered from the beating. She fell limply to the ground while blood from her forehead dripped onto the floor. "No, Sadie. It wasn’t me…"

She had no idea that Kiara stole the thesis from the only best friend Euri made in university, which was Sadie. Euri was shocked by the discovery and was filled with regret and hate for herself.

Edwin frowned and shielded Euri from Sadie. "That’s enough. You’ll end up killing her if you continue beating her this way. Do you want to end up in prison?"

Sadie stopped while holding the chair in the air, and she started tearing up. "I used to think that we were best friends, Euri. Even though you always ignored me during spring and summer, you always invited me to the library when the weather turned cold.

"I used to think that you had a reason for doing this, but I never expected you to ask to look at my thesis when we were about to graduate. I was stupid enough to have trusted you."

Sadie started crying as she glared at Euri with intense hate.

"I wasn’t the one who plagiarized your thesis, Sadie. Please believe me…"

Euri kept shaking her head, but no one would believe that two spirits lived in her body.

Edwin stepped forward to interrupt Euri’s explanation. "Miss Levy, we can give you whatever compensation you request as long as you don’t report Euri for plagiarizing your thesis. You can punish Euri however you deem fit."

Euri froze, and she looked at Edwin in disbelief.

Sadie looked at them coldly and laughed in a scoffing manner. "Your fiancé is a much better person than you are, Euri. At least he’s offering compensation, unlike you, who taunted me in a superior manner and told me that it served me right for being plagiarized."

Euri clenched her fists as pain filled her heart. She did not dare to think about that image.

"I only have two requests. One, slap yourself in front of me 99 times at the university gates. Second, give me $1 million."

Edwin nodded. "Done."

Euri turned pale. She looked at Sadie as her lips trembled slightly. "I had no idea…"

Before she could finish her sentence, Edwin dragged her away violently. "Just bear with this a little longer. You and Kiara are the same person, anyway. Humiliating yourself in apology is equal to her apologizing. Once you’re done with the slapping, I’ll make it up to you with a grand wedding."

Euri could only let him drag her to the university gates.

Many people were walking in and out of the gates, and Edwin pushed her to the ground and spoke in a low voice. "Don’t worry. This will be the last time."

He made her kneel in a humiliating manner, and her knees hurt intensely. Sadie raised her hand and slapped Euri. "Start slapping yourself!"

Sadie hated Euri for getting close to her by pretending to be her best friend. She was filled with so much hate that she did not notice the sorrow and despair in Euri’s eyes.