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All Chapters of My Roommate's Frame-Up Backfired: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1

"No."With a cold laugh, I pushed hard on the pedals and left Susan Edelman and Benny Reid far behind.The cold wind hitting my face cleared my head. If it weren't for that warning in my ear just now, I probably would have switched with Susan for the sake of our two years as roommates.Gripping the handlebars tight, I suddenly remembered the last thing the voice in my earbuds had said."Your boyfriend and your roommate have been sleeping together for a while now. She's not only pregnant with his baby, she also wrecked the campus kingpin's bike."That's why your boyfriend came up with this dirty trick. Seriously, how low can he go?"Susan shouted from behind me, her voice anxious, "Jeannine, can you not be so selfish? I really can't pedal anymore! Just switch with me for a bit."I couldn't be bothered with her.Earlier, I'd made a point of glancing at her bike. Its brand logo was wrapped in several layers of colorful waterproof tape. No wonder I'd mistaken it for an ordinary sec

Chapter 2

Dozens of bikes rolled to a stop around us.I'd assumed that once everyone saw I'd been hit, someone would step in and stand up for me. After all, on rides, everyone hated swapping bikes. Every rider had their own habits, from saddle height to the rhythm of shifting gears, and switching bikes on a whim could easily get someone hurt.But I'd underestimated human nature.Benny went straight to the captain and laid it on thick about how selfish I was being for refusing to switch.The captain's expression darkened, and he led the others in surrounding me. "Jeannine, you've been on this team for a while now. How can you have zero team spirit?"We're all out here to have fun. Helping each other out is the bare minimum!"The other members quickly took sides."Seriously. You always seem so easygoing. Why are you being so mean when it actually matters?""She's your roommate! Would it kill you to lend her your bike?"A few girls who were close with Susan were even nastier."The poorer

Chapter 3

"Jeannine, are you out of your mind?!"Benny was the first to object. "Taking photos just to swap your crappy bike? What, you think Susan's out to get you?"I sneered. Talk about giving yourself away.But the riders around us were no different from him, all pointing fingers at me.A few girls fanned the flames from the sidelines."Wow, now I've seen everything. We're all classmates here. We know each other. Who's going to scam you over some junky bike?""Exactly. And so what if it does break? Susan isn't petty enough to make you pay for it."I looked at this bunch of clowns, speechless.When I didn't argue back, Susan spoke up indignantly, "Jeannine, it's just a normal bike. It isn't worth much."If you really don't want to lend me yours, fine. But why humiliate me like this? Insisting on photos makes it look like I'm deliberately sticking you with a broken bike."Hearing that, everyone stopped bothering to hide their disgust for me. They closed in step by step, the circle ar

Chapter 4

Susan pointed at me in the ditch and screamed at the top of her lungs, "Jeannine, you broke it!"At the mention of that price, a dead silence fell.Fighting through the pain, I forced a stiff smile. "Didn't you just say this was an ordinary bike?"I pressed on, "And if you knew it was that expensive, why were you so set on switching with me?"Susan looked utterly wronged and cried even harder. "It was perfectly fine when I gave it to you! How was I supposed to know you'd wreck it?!"She turned to the stunned crowd. "I only kept quiet about the price because I didn't want Jeannine to feel pressured. Besides, I didn't want to switch for my own sake. It was for the team."Playing the innocent victim, she wiped her tears and sniffled in my direction, "But now it's broken, and there's no way I can pay for it. What am I supposed to do?""Jeannine, have you lost your mind? You trashed a bike this expensive!"Benny was the first to step forward. Teeth gritted, he said, "You broke it, J

Chapter 5

Nick glanced at me and froze for a second.Then he spun around and grabbed a fistful of Susan's hair.Her scalp stinging, Susan let out a bloodcurdling shriek.Benny went pale and moved to pull them apart. But he'd barely taken half a step before several of Nick's black-clad bodyguards shoved him aside. He landed hard in the mud several yards away with a mouthful of dirt.Tears streaming from the pain, Susan still refused to give up and pointed at me. "Nick, it really was that bitch Jeannine who wrecked your bike!"She looks like such a hick. How could she ever pay for a million-dollar bike? Make her pay! Don't let her off the hook!"Benny scrambled to his feet and chimed in, "Nick, you've got it wrong. It really was Jeannine..."I looked at their twisted faces and sighed helplessly."Big brother," I called softly.Those two words landed like a bolt from the blue, and the entire crowd went dead silent.At the sound of my voice, Nick jolted and immediately flung Susan away. Sh

Chapter 6

I limped over to the wrecked carbon fiber bike, every eye locked on my movements.I crouched and felt along the underside of the severed handlebars. With everyone watching, I pried open a latch hidden on the inside and pulled out an HD cycling action camera no bigger than a fingernail.This was one of Nick's habits. The bike had cost a fortune, so he'd had a hidden recorder custom-fitted, just in case something happened.One of Nick's men immediately handed me a tablet.I deftly pulled out the memory card, slotted it into the tablet, and cast the footage straight to the dashboard screen of a G-Wagon the bodyguards had driven up. Then I cranked the volume all the way up.The picture was crystal clear, and the audio was flawless.The first clip showed the dim mountain road the night before.Susan, in her cheap athletic wear, straddled the luxury bike and snapped selfie after selfie. When she tried to show off with a wheelie, she went down hard, bike and all.A sharp crack came th

Chapter 7

The moment that astronomical figure of 500,000 dollars came out, Benny's mask crumbled completely. Every trace of his usual refined, gentlemanly act vanished.That kind of money would ruin his entire family. There was no way he could take it on!Not only did he flat-out deny the baby was his, but he raised his hand and slapped Susan hard across the face in front of everyone.The crack of it rang out.The blow snapped Susan's head to the side and split the corner of her mouth."Bullshit! Who knows which guy put that bastard in your belly!"Spit flying, his face twisted, Benny went on, "You shameless slut! You stole a bike and caused this whole mess, and now you think you can use some bastard kid to extort me? Let me tell you, I'll never claim it!"Susan clutched her red, swollen cheek, a flash of pure madness in her eyes.As a rabid dog backed into a dead end, she lunged and tackled Benny to the ground.The two of them grappled on the dusty mountain road. Susan's long, sharp na

Chapter 8

Looking down at Susan groveling on the ground like an insect, I felt nothing.Whatever bond two years as roommates had built died the moment she schemed against my life.My smile faded, and I bent down slightly toward her. In a voice only the two of us could hear, I said coldly, "Do you really think I'm coming after you today just because of some lousy bike?"Susan went rigid and looked up in terror, her eyes full of disbelief.I straightened up and held out my hand to Nick.Without needing to be told, he handed me a thick manila envelope.I opened it and pulled out a stack of statements and transaction records dozens of pages thick.I hurled the papers hard into Susan's and Benny's faces. They scattered like snowflakes, each one crowded with alarming red official stamps.Raising my voice, I exposed their darkest secret in front of everyone."Susan, Benny, you two really cashed in on your positions as student council members, didn't you?"Over the past six months, you forged

Chapter 9

One month later, at Sableton Court, I sat at the plaintiff's table, calmly looking over at the defendants.That single month seemed to have drained every bit of life out of Susan and Benny.Haggard and gaunt at the defense table, Susan looked like something that had crawled out of hell.I'd heard that in the detention center, she'd tried to shift the blame and ended up in a vicious fight with Benny. During the scuffle, she'd miscarried. Her body never properly recovered, and she looked more than ten years older.Benny had lost a lot of hair. His eyes were sunken, and his cheekbones jutted out sharply. Nothing remained of the arrogant, polished student council member he used to be.Standing side by side, they looked like a pair of walking corpses.Throughout the trial, their public defender was drenched in sweat. He tried to argue for leniency on the grounds that they were immature students who had acted impulsively in the heat of a romantic dispute.But in the face of such overw

Chapter 10

The case of the fake low-income students who scammed grant money had stunned all of Sableton City, and it sent shockwaves through the education world.The university's leadership struck swiftly and cleaned house of everyone involved. Several academic advisors who'd covered for the pair were fired outright.Not only was every cent of the embezzled grant money recovered, but the Chandler Group also set up a dedicated assistance fund and paid double back to the low-income students who truly needed it.As for the biking team members who'd sided with the villains and guilt-tripped me so disgustingly that day on the mountain road, I didn't go easy on them either.The Chandler Group's legal department moved fast, serving everyone who'd ganged up on me with lawsuits for defamation and harassment.The once high-and-mighty captain was so scared he couldn't eat or sleep. In the end, he cracked under the pressure from all sides and withdrew from school.The rest of them received public repri

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