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All Chapters of Trade the Fruit Cup for Your Life: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1

"These fruits only have a rotten spot or two. Throwing them away would be such a waste! Just cut off the bad parts. The rest will be perfect for making fruit cups!"The familiar voice reached my ears, and I suddenly realized the truth: I had been reborn.Not just anywhere either. I had returned to the exact day Yoana Morris started picking rotten fruit out of the trash.I followed the voice and saw Yoana standing beside a foul-smelling garbage bin, pinching her nose as she rummaged through it for fruit.Every piece was rotten and blackened, covered in mold. Flies swarmed all over them, and brownish-yellow juice dripped from the fruit. Just looking at it made my stomach turn.In my previous life, Yoana had felt sorry for all that wasted fruit. She thought throwing it away would be a shame, so she decided to pick them up and use them to make fruit cups.I had witnessed everything and kindly warned her that eating rotten fruit could cause food poisoning.She refused to listen and s

Chapter 2

A few of the victims had eaten so much that their poisoning was severe. Despite desperate attempts to save them, they vomited blood and died.Yoana had eaten the good fruit cups, so naturally, she was perfectly fine. Our other two roommates, Chloe Brooks and Lily Charlton, also survived because they had not eaten very much.Tests confirmed that the victims had suffered both aflatoxin poisoning and pesticide poisoning.The rotten fruit Yoana had picked up was not only moldy and spoiled. It was also covered in pesticide residue.Once the whole thing blew up, Yoana panicked and pinned everything on me. She claimed I was jealous of her and had deliberately poisoned her fruit.She even hid pesticides in my locker and convinced Chloe and Lily to help her fabricate evidence."It was Jessica! She poisoned the fruit because she was jealous of me and wanted to ruin my chances of winning the school honor award!""Now I understand why she refused to eat any and kept stopping our classmates

Chapter 3

Whenever we went out, I was usually the one who paid. Even when Chloe and Lily were on the verge of failing their classes, I had tutored them and helped them scrape by.I had given them everything I had.But what did I get in return?Betrayal.In my previous life, when Yoana framed me, I begged Chloe and Lily to help prove my innocence. Instead, they backed Yoana and testified that I was the one who had poisoned the fruit.With their lies and the evidence planted against me, I had no way to defend myself. I was brutally killed by the victims' parents.If Yoana was the murderer who had killed me, then Chloe and Lily were her accomplices.None of them could escape responsibility for my death.As I thought about all that, Yoana finally noticed me sitting at my desk. She looked startled for a moment."Jessica, when did you get back?"I knew I could not let her become suspicious yet, so I simply smiled at her."I got back just before Chloe and Lily. The second I walked in, I saw

Chapter 4

Chloe and Lily followed her, and I followed close behind them.I knew that what had happened in my previous life was going to happen again.…In my previous life, Yoana waited until I was not paying attention, then handed out the rotten fruit cups to our classmates. She wanted to use the favor to win their votes for the school honor award.The moment I discovered what she was doing, I tried to stop her. Instead, my classmates cursed me out.When they later came down with food poisoning, they somehow blamed me for that too."If you were not guilty, why did you try to stop us?""Exactly! You obviously knew the fruit was poisoned. Otherwise, why would you refuse to eat it?"In the end, I became the person everyone hated.I died with no one even willing to claim my body.Now, Yoana was once again going around cheerfully handing out fruit cups to our classmates."The fruit was on sale today, so I spent a whole week's allowance buying fruit for everyone and making these fruit cups

Chapter 5

Despite my warnings, they insisted on eating the fruit cups. Some of them even demanded that I apologize to Yoana."Jessica, apologize to Yoana right now!"Apologize?She was the one who should have been apologizing to me!My fate in my previous life had been entirely her doing.One hotheaded guy even shoved me out of the classroom. Yoana watched this with a flicker of satisfaction in her eyes.She had always wanted to get the upper hand over me, and seeing me humiliated gave her a huge sense of superiority.I looked at everyone laughing and chatting in the classroom and let out an icy laugh inside.I thought bitterly, 'I have already given you a chance. You were the ones choosing to walk straight into danger, so why should I stop you? Fine. Do whatever you want. If something goes wrong, you will be the ones paying the price. I have nothing to do with it.'...Because so many students had eaten the fruit cups, things went wrong that very night.One after another, they came d

Chapter 6

What they did not know was that there was no sound coming through my headphones this time. I could hear every single word they said.Terrified that Yoana might push things too far and leave them with no way out, Chloe and Lily quickly nodded."Yoana, we will help you...""However, the school officials are almost here. What are we supposed to do?"Yoana glanced at me on the bed. Then her eyes lit up. She lowered her voice."Do not panic. I have a plan!"The three of them huddled together and began whispering. At one point, they even rummaged through my locker.I pretended not to notice. I simply sat there and quietly watched them put on their little performance.After all, the more confident they felt right then, the harder they would fall later.They had barely finished putting everything in place when the school representative burst into the room, followed by a group of furious parents.The parents were carrying kitchen knives, their faces twisted with rage."Who did this t

Chapter 7

The video I played was not some random clip. It was the recording I had secretly taken earlier of Yoana digging through the garbage and picking out rotten fruit.The moment the video started playing, Yoana's face turned green. Her eyes went wide."W-What? How is this possible...?"She had never imagined that the carefully constructed lie she had prepared would be exposed right in front of everyone.Everyone else was equally stunned. When they saw Yoana pulling rotten fruit out of a garbage bin, with flies swarming around her and brownish-yellow juice running all over her hands, they were instantly overcome with disgust.One after another, they turned on her."Oh my God! Has Yoana lost her mind? That came from a garbage bin! She actually picked fruit out of the trash. That is disgusting!""I knew Yoana was cheap, but I never imagined she could be this cheap! If she did not want to spend money, she should have just admitted it. Why pretend to be generous by giving everyone food fr

Chapter 8

Yoana smiled with satisfaction and continued spinning her lies, pushing all the blame onto me."I will swear on my life that there was nothing wrong with my fruit! Jessica deliberately poisoned it, and that is why those students got food poisoning! Otherwise, why did the tests find pesticide residue? The dangerously high aflatoxin levels could have been caused by the pesticide too!"Before I could say a word, Yoana kept going."Think about it, everyone. If Jessica was not the one who poisoned the fruit, why was she the only person who refused to eat it? And why did I find a bottle of pesticide in her locker?"No one could come up with a response.The room fell silent.To make everyone believe her story, Chloe and Lily immediately backed her up with more lies."Jessica was the one who poisoned it! We saw her do it with our own eyes!""And Jessica is a computer science major. Editing a fake video would be ridiculously easy for her!"With Yoana, Chloe, and Lily working together,

Chapter 9

"Shameless! She eats the good fruit cups herself and gives everyone else the rotten ones!"…The insults kept coming and Yoana's face turned bright red with humiliation.She still tried to bring up the pesticide, claiming that I was an accomplice too."If I am the murderer, then Jessica is an accomplice! Those people were not poisoned just by aflatoxin. They were poisoned by pesticides too!"So, Yoana knew she could not escape anymore and wanted to drag me down with her?Too bad.I was not going to give her the chance.As everyone turned suspicious eyes toward me, I immediately played the recording of Yoana and the others framing me.In the video, Yoana, Chloe, and Lily crept toward my locker. The next second, Yoana pulled a bottle of pesticide from her pocket and tossed it inside.What they did not know was that I had started recording the moment they began their little scheme.This time, Yoana had no way to explain herself. She could only lower her head with a pale, grim e

Chapter 10

...As the controversy continued to grow, Yoana was subjected to a brutal wave of online harassment.People called her repeatedly just to harass her, sent nasty text messages cursing her and her entire family, and even mailed her terrifying packages from time to time.Sometimes the packages contained dead rats or dead snakes. Other times, they contained feces smeared with what looked like animal blood.Even when Yoana was walking down the street, people who recognized her from the internet would throw pebbles at her and spit at her.Day after day, the harassment wore her down. Yoana became listless and increasingly haggard.Chloe and Lily were dragged into the mess too, and they suffered plenty of abuse themselves.The moment the online harassment started, I moved back home. There was no way I was going to let their problems keep me up at night.For the next few days, they were strangely quiet. They did not try anything else.I thought things might finally stay peaceful.Then

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