I had never sat for the full exams.It was all because Sophia said no one was allowed to outshine Cassie.No matter how gifted I might have been, missing one entire subject left my final score stuck at the undergraduate cutoff line, and I lost my chance at Orktan University.“A near miss doesn’t matter. I’ll donate a building to make up the difference.”Money could not buy everything, but without money, one could do nothing. At the very least, it could clean up a mess in an instant.On the day I went to register for classes, I saw Cassie again.She was wearing an outdated, ragged floral dress and an apron stained with grease. Beneath the apron, her hands were chapped, red, and swollen.She had clearly been doing intense manual labor, such as washing dishes, scrubbing, and cleaning.Through the floating comments, I learned what had happened.The loan sharks had tracked Cassie down using her information.Just before the debt collectors came knocking, Rob and Lisa had grabbed th
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