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The Laptop Trap
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I sold my $3,500 top-spec laptop for scrap for seventy dollars. In my last life, my roommate Caleb's laptop crashed right before his senior thesis deadline. "Noah, the submission portal is about to close. Please lend me your laptop!" I agreed without hesitation. Then he forgot to save his work, downloaded malware by mistake, lost his entire thesis, and had to repeat the year. Afterward, his parents and relatives stormed the university, accusing me of sabotaging his laptop because I was jealous of his graduate admission slot. The story blew up online. Everyone called me a vicious, scheming college guy. My father tried to clear my name and was beaten to death by extremists who thought they were defending justice. Because of that stain, every job search collapsed. In the end, I jumped from a building in despair. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the eve of graduation defense. I had just sold the laptop cheap when Caleb came running in, covering his face and crying. "Noah, my laptop died. Lend me yours!" I kept playing on my phone without looking up. "If you're writing your thesis, go use the computer lab. Why come to me?"
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The Laptop Trap Chapter 9
"No wonder he didn't care about the recommendation slot at all. Caleb was just clowning himself the whole time."Hearing the words Harborview University, Caleb suddenly lifted his head and stared at me.He pointed at me and burst into laughter."Laugh while you can. You'll have plenty to cry about later."I crouched beside Caleb and lowered my voice."You thought that if you smashed my cabinet and stole my laptop, you could naturally push the blame for your delayed thesis onto me. You even thought you could turn the story around and ruin my name, right?"Caleb's laughter stopped. He looked at me in horror."How... how do you know? Were you spying on me?""Sorry. I'm not as bored as you think. I just understand you pretty well."I don't just know what you would do today. I know what you did in my last life."I leaned closer to his ear and said, word by word, "This is what you owed me. Now you've paid it back, with interest."So, I'd like to interview you. Are you satisfied wi
The Laptop Trap Chapter 8
"Professor Warren, I was wrong. I really was wrong. Please give me one chance. I'll rewrite it right away. I swear I'll write properly. Please don't cancel my degree."Professor Warren pulled his leg back with disgust."Academic fraud. Bribing faculty. With character this rotten, our school cannot teach you. Wait for your punishment."Everyone looked at Caleb with contempt.Parker and Tyler, who had spoken for him moments ago, had already hidden far away, afraid of being associated with him."You really can't know a person by their face. He acted so noble, but did such filthy things behind everyone's back.""Serves him right. He tried to cheat the system and it blew up in his face. Now his graduate slot is gone, and he won't even get a diploma."Watching Caleb collapse in despair, the breath I had held in my chest finally eased.Police sirens sounded outside.Officers strode into the computer lab and scanned the room.Caleb's father shook with fear and tried to hide behind se
The Laptop Trap Chapter 7
The dean was rubbing his temples in anger, ready to speak, when a voice came from the entrance."Who said he had an award-level thesis? As his thesis adviser, why don't I know about it?"The crowd parted automatically. An elderly professor walked in with a grim face, holding a stack of printed pages.The moment Caleb saw him, even his crying stopped."P-Professor Warren."Professor Warren slammed the papers onto the desk. Pages scattered across the floor."Caleb Reed, how dare you mention your thesis? Look at the garbage you submitted."He pointed at the pages on the floor, his beard shaking with anger."Twenty thousand words, with an eighty-five percent plagiarism rate. Even the punctuation was copied straight from other published papers."I told you to take it back and rewrite it. You told me your computer broke and all your materials were lost. So it turns out you were acting here instead."The hall filled with sharp intakes of breath."Eighty-five percent plagiarism? Tha
The Laptop Trap Chapter 6
Several guards rushed in and struggled for a long time before pinning Caleb's father to the floor.Amid the chaos, Caleb ran to the influencer's camera and snatched the selfie stick. He sobbed at the screen."Everyone, you saw it, right? He's a psychopath. He deliberately disguised bricks as a laptop to trick me. I plugged my USB into the wrong port and it short-circuited!"My thesis really is gone. This is murder by another name. Please help me get justice!"I hadn't expected his crying to fool another wave of viewers."No matter what, putting out a fake laptop as bait is disgusting. This guy is too calculating.""Exactly. The roommate only wanted to borrow it. Did he have to push him this far? How is he supposed to graduate without his thesis?"Tyler also jumped in to smooth things over."Noah, you really went too far. Even if Caleb was wrong to take your things, you shouldn't ruin his future like this."Just get someone to recover Caleb's thesis. Then you'll be even."I sn
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