บททั้งหมดของ Changing My Fate: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

The moment I hung up the phone, my college cohort’s valedictorian, Wayne Grey, suddenly grabbed my cell and slammed it onto the floor, shattering it instantly.“Are you out of your mind?” he shouted. “Calling the cops now will only make everyone think Maya really stole that customer’s wallet! She works her butt off doing part-time jobs just to lighten her mom’s financial burden. She’s already pitiful enough. How could you accuse her like this?”I frowned at him.In my previous life, I didn’t call the police. Instead, I stood up for Maya and took the blame myself. In the end, the guy’s thugs only backed off after beating me black and blue. On top of that, Wayne didn’t stop any of it back then. He even covered Maya’s eyes with his hand, afraid the bloody scene would scare her.All this time, I thought he helped because we were dorm buddies and he had my back.However, I finally understand that they had been treating me like a fool from the very beginning.“Wayne,” I said calmly, “I’

“I had to borrow money just to pay your tuition, and now you pull this? I swear, I could kill you!”However, Wayne still looked defiant as he pointed at me, screaming, “Yeah, I broke his phone, so what? He punched me! That makes us even!”I couldn’t help laughing. “My punch doesn’t even qualify as a minor injury. I’ll pay for your band-aids. Twenty dollars should cover it, but my phone cost a thousand three-hundred dollars. You’re paying every cent.”Across the room, Maya’s mother collapsed to her knees in front of the man with the gold chain, sobbing as she kowtowed.“Please, sir, I’m begging you not to press charges. It hasn’t been easy for her to make it into college. If she gets a criminal record, her whole future will be ruined.”Watching her cry like that… honestly, I felt a pang in my chest.Ever since freshman year, I had known how tough their situation was. Maya’s mother would secretly set up a little street stall near campus at night to make extra money for her tuition.

The microphone screeched with a sharp, piercing noise. Right after that, the entire auditorium fell completely silent.Maya was the first to snap out of it. She rushed toward me like she’d lost her mind, trying to snatch the microphone out of my hand.“You’re talking nonsense!” she shrieked. “Everyone, look! He’s the one who messed up, and now he’s upset about it and trying to slander me!”Wayne finally came back to his senses and yelled toward the crowd, “Don’t believe a word he says! I’ve been valedictorian for three years. I’ve always treated everyone well. How could I possibly do the things he’s accusing me of?”Without saying another word, Maya swung her hand, aiming to slap me. This time, though, I didn’t let her. I grabbed her wrist mid-air and flicked it aside. She staggered from the force and fell straight into Wayne’s arms.“Maya,” I said, voice ringing through the hall, “you have no right to hit me.”Her tears fell instantly, as if on cue.“Dylan,” she whimpered, “I’m

This time, though, I finally caught a clue. I suddenly remembered that when Maya went on her “business trip,” I’d seen a photo Wayne posted on social media, and he happened to be in the same city as her.When I connected that with everything else that had happened, the truth became obvious. If she’d gone to a proper hospital for an abortion, there was no way she would’ve ended up with surgical tools that weren’t sterilized properly. So it must’ve been at some cheap clinic or even an illegal one.She was twenty-one then—a junior in college. In my previous life, it was around this same time that Maya was sick for several days, and when I tried to visit her, she refused to let me come over.In fact, right before she fell sick, she’d even asked to borrow money from me. Back then, I was fighting with my parents, and they had frozen my card, so I didn’t lend her anything. Hence, chances were, Wayne didn’t have money either, which meant he took her to the cheapest back-alley clinic he coul

“You two really are a perfect match, aren’t you?”Just thinking about how, in my previous life, all the money I gave Maya for more than twenty years ended up in Wayne’s pockets… made my blood boil. I wanted to tear him apart right then and there. However, I held myself back because what I was about to show them hurt even more.With one tap of my finger, the screen lit up with the video where they were hanging Casper upside down, threatening me, and demanding I kneel and apologize.“You think I went to that remote place without preparing anything? I had a hidden camera on me the whole time.”The moment the students below the stage saw the part where Casper was killed, chaos broke out. A lot of the girls burst into tears on the spot.“What did the dog ever do wrong? Why would you hurt a dog? Wayne, you’re disgusting!”This time, every cup of coffee and water bottle was thrown straight at him.In the middle of the chaos, a middle‑aged man suddenly rushed onto the stage. He grabbed