All Chapters of Avoiding the Trap in the Comments: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

"Let's work hard and get into Longford University, Lia," Thomas once said to me. He had never been the best at expressing his feelings, so the promise we made to each other then became a symbol of our special relationship.However, things changed, and people changed too.In the end, Thomas was still a little different from me. He was a young man, and a very handsome young man at that."Tom, my home chef, made me some extra food today. You can have it," Alexandria said one day.Before this, Thomas had already rejected the water she handed him at the basketball court and also the gift she gave him on his birthday.But this time, Thomas glanced at me before telling her, "You should give it to someone else. I already have my own food.""I know you have food, but how can you even call that food when it's just plain spaghetti and sauce? It doesn't look the least bit appetizing at all. But all the ingredients used in my food are premium and flown in fresh from overseas every day. "I

I looked at the time on my phone. For some reason, the SAT results this year were going to be announced at 6:00 pm today, and it was already 5:50 pm.I pushed the door open and walked in.The discussion in the room halted immediately. Everyone exchanged glances and looked at me with disdain like I was nothing but a joke.Alexandria was the first one to break the silence."Why were you so late, Lia? Did you get into an accident on the way here?"I went to an empty seat expressionlessly. Then, I said quietly, "Who said I just arrived? I was standing at the door listening for a long time."Everyone looked embarrassed and uneasy the moment they heard that. After all, even if they didn't like me, it still wasn't anything to shout about for getting caught gossiping about someone by that person themselves.However, Jennie, being as blind as she was, continued jeering at me. "So what if you heard us? We're just speaking the truth. What, you dared to cheat in the exams, but you don't dar

The female student was none other than Alexandria. As she fiddled with her manicured nails, she continued rubbing my face on the filthy ground with her expensive sneakers while laughing nonchalantly."Your name's Cecilia Hilton, right? I heard that you did better than me on the standardized test. Geez, I wonder how you're going to fare in the next standardized test, seeing as you have the nerve to keep surpassing me like this?"That day, she and her lackeys dumped a bucket of cold water all over my head and locked me up in the stall. I ended up waiting for a long time before a drunken man finally opened the door.When he saw me soaking wet and dripping, his eyes immediately lit up with lust.I immediately grabbed the heaviest book in my bag and slammed it into his head as hard as I could. Thankfully, the books I always carried around with me were thick enough to send him crashing to the ground.Then, I ran all the way back home.The heavens seemed to take pity on me because it be

Bullying was never just directed at one person.I wasn't the only victim of Alexandria's bullying over the years. It was just that I didn't manage to preserve any solid evidence because I had no other choice at that time.However, fortunately, many victims of her bullying were willing to stand up, and they had plenty of evidence. Meanwhile, I provided the money needed to fight the lawsuit against her, also lending my name as a National Merit Scholar to the case.Alexandria was soon thrust into the public eye. After that, she was legally detained and imprisoned for intentional assault.Initially, her dad tried to get her out with money, and I quickly took the opportunity to hire a well-known accounting firm to audit the accounts at their factory.As expected, tax evasion was just the tip of the iceberg. Almost all of their products were counterfeit and substandard. On top of that, he had also long been in arrears with his employees' wages, and many of them voluntarily testified aga