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Chapter 1

My inbox was flooded with messages warning me to watch out for my boyfriend, Harry Pate. My hands trembled as I opened one of the messages. It was an alert post from a woman who went by "SmallTownGirl"."Please share. We're trying to find a woman named Freya White, a wealthy heiress from Syrinth. Her boyfriend was taking her back to his hometown in Quenvale."He had gathered several friends to drug and assault her and even planned to film a gang assault to blackmail her family and secure a fortune. Please help this woman!"At first, I didn't believe it, but in the last photo of the post, I immediately recognized Harry from behind. Every piece of clothing from head to toe was something I had bought for him. I couldn't deny it.I stared at him in the living room, making calls and setting up meetings, furious and in disbelief that I had wasted seven years of my life on him.We had been together since college and had been planning our wedding for seven years. This had been a careful,

Chapter 2

I had met Sharon five years ago. She had a red birthmark on her left hand, and I remembered it clearly. At the time, she had pressed it in front of me just to provoke me."Harry says this birthmark is a sign that only beauties have. Freya, you should keep an eye on him. How can someone so slick be trusted?" she said.I ignored her and just gave Harry a cold laugh. "She's your childhood friend?"Harry quickly shook his head. "Just a friend."I asked again, "A female friend?"He understood. Not only did he send her away, but he also apologized to me. "I'm sorry, Freya. Back then, we all hung out together, and I didn't even realize she was a manipulative vixen. Now I know. I'll stay far away from her."He kept his word. For five years, I never heard the name Sharon again, and I never saw her. He stayed faithful. I was the only woman in his life. He played the part so perfectly that I had not noticed a single flaw.Last month, he had gone to my house with his parents to discuss our

Chapter 3

"Freya, tonight I want to introduce you to my childhood friends. You have no idea how jealous they are that I have you as my girlfriend," Harry said.He held me close and then pretended to be worried. "By the way, do you remember Sharon?"I stifled a cold laugh. "I remember. Is she coming too?"Harry scratched his head awkwardly. "You know I don't really keep in touch with her. But we invited everyone we know. If we didn't invite her, people would gossip."He hugged me and tried to coax me. "Don't be mad. I won't talk to her. Let's just treat her like she's not even there, okay?"I felt disgusted. I pushed him away without expression and stared at him for two minutes, catching the tiniest flicker of guilt on his face. Acting against someone so skilled wasn't easy.I pretended to be annoyed. "Fine, let her come. I can't embarrass you in front of your friends."While he made calls to gather people, I secretly searched all the pockets and luggage. At last, I found a one-fluid-ounce

Chapter 4

I exchanged contacts with SmallTownGirl, and she was already waiting for me at the edge of the village.For safety, we stayed on the phone the whole time until I finally got in the car. Only then did she breathe out in relief.Her name was Rebecca Chapman. She looked quiet and delicate, but she was anything but.She said, "I'm telling you, if I hadn't been worried about blowing your cover, I would've rushed in that day and beat the crap out of those two trash bags."Two absolute idiots. Their brains must've fallen into a toilet and soaked in it to come up with something that low. I can't stand gold-digging, social-climbing losers. They act civilized, but you can always smell the rot underneath."He's a delusional, greedy loser who doesn't know his place. Hopefully, life catches up to him, and he ends up dealing with the mess he deserves."Her words were crude, sure, but she wasn't wrong.I couldn't help laughing, and Rebecca immediately caught herself and stopped."Sorry. I got

Chapter 5

Harry slowly turned around, and Ronald grinned at him."Harry, you look way too handsome. I've been wanting to get my hands on you for ages!"Finally. The moment I had been waiting for.I covered my eyes because the whole thing was disgusting, but I couldn't stop grinning."Let scumbags destroy each other. Retribution never takes a day off. Honestly, poor Harry. He escaped one disaster just to fall straight into another," I thought.The next morning, Rebecca and I showed up at Harry's house with the neighborhood committee.Harry's mom, Cameron Dawson, saw me and shrieked like she had seen a ghost. "Why are you here? Didn't Harry ask Ronald and the others to film you?"Harry's father, Michael Pate, didn't cover her mouth in time. He kicked her leg hard. "You idiot. Shut up!"Rebecca pointed at the two of them. "So you did know. Figures. With parents like you, no wonder Harry turned out the way he did."The commotion we caused walking into the village was loud enough that people

Chapter 6

I didn't feel even a shred of sympathy for any of them.If Rebecca hadn't overheard everything and even posted online to look for me out of kindness, I would have been the one getting torn apart by everyone right now.But Harry would never have let me off that easily. His ambition ran deep. He would have used that video to blackmail me endlessly, draining me dry piece by piece until my family had nothing left.Thinking back, everything between us had been premeditated from the very start.I had gotten into a local university. I lived on campus because commuting was tiring, but every Friday, Dad sent Malcolm to pick me up.It all began when someone spread rumors that I was sleeping around.I was always low-key. I never talked about my family background.Until one day, someone anonymously posted pictures on the campus confession board of me getting picked up in a luxury car, calling me out by name as a freshman from the finance department.I was accused of things I hadn't done, w

Chapter 7

"Freya, you planned all of this, didn't you?" Sharon had thrown her clothes back on and jumped in front of me, eyes bloodshot as she pointed at my face."If you didn't plan it, why did you run last night? You ruined us! And now you're pinning everything on Harry! How can you be this vicious? What did he ever do to deserve this? We didn't wrong you! Why would you hurt us like this?"They said the people who framed you would always know better than anyone that you were innocent. But I wasn't innocent at all, so guilt made me slap her as hard as I could."Perfect. It matched the slap her mother gave her—one on each side," I thought.I put on a devastated expression, voice trembling with outrage. "Harry told me you were a close friend of his. I was so stupid. I actually believed a woman hanging around a pack of men could be their 'close friend.'"Do I really need to explain what you are to everyone here? How dare you accuse me? The police are almost here. You think I'm scared of whate

Chapter 8

The police arrived and took all of us to the station on charges of public indecency and group misconduct.Sharon and the others immediately pointed fingers at me. "It was Freya! We only ended up like that because we drank the tea she made! She definitely drugged us!"As such, I was taken into an interrogation room as well.The police officer, Spencer Hernandez, asked, "Sharon and the others accuse you of drugging them. Do you admit to it?"I shook my head. "No. My conscience is clear. She's accusing me without evidence. Can I sue her for defamation?"He said, "You can, but whether it holds depends on the lab results."They had already taken our blood and sent the tea kettle from the kitchen for testing.I nodded calmly.Then he asked, "You said you sensed something was wrong last night and escaped under the excuse of making snacks. Was it really just because of the bracelet and what Ronald said?"I hesitated.Videos and photos of Harry and the others were already going viral,

Chapter 9

Harry was identified as the ringleader in the group sex incident, so he was interrogated separately.He didn't accuse me of drugging anyone because he was the one who bought the drugs.Group sex would get him a few years at most, but attempted drugging and assault meant over a decade. He knew exactly which charge was the lesser evil.Unfortunately, his idiot friends clung to one thing he said—that I brewed the tea—and wouldn't let it go.Once they showed him my statement, he realized he was completely screwed. He tried to bite back, claiming I somehow found out the truth, stole his drugs ahead of time, and set them all up.So what, though?The tea was just tea. All the incriminating evidence was already inside their stomachs.As long as no one remembered the bowl of cherries, I would never be charged.Sharon refused to admit she had spiked their drinks, but Ronald confessed. He claimed he heard her saying everyone should "get a taste".Now that the situation had blown up, the

Chapter 10

I made a post on Facebook to thank all the ladies who had helped me.Momo wrote: "Oh my goodness! You're amazing. The moment I saw the news, I knew it was you. You have no idea how I felt every minute you didn't reply to my DM!"NowARealGraduate wrote: "Be good. From now on, no more getting blinded by love, okay?"YoungAchiever wrote: "Glad I could help. Just make sure you choose better next time. Don't get fooled again."RespectFate wrote: "Read it. You're safe now. You've earned the right to be in the sisterhood."PrettySinceBirth wrote: "Men are trash. Miss, consider me. I'm super pretty."There were many other comments.I smiled, grabbed the appreciation banner, and headed to the community office where Rebecca worked."You refused everything else I tried to give you, so fine. As per your request, I made you a banner. Thank you for literally saving my life."Rebecca grinned wide enough to show all her teeth and hugged the banner like treasure. "This is perfect. If your cons

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