My best friend and I planned a trip together. During the journey, I successfully snagged a handsome boyfriend, which drove her insane with jealousy. She angrily demanded to know: “Didn’t we agree to stay single together? Why did you betray me?!” As soon as we got home, she started spreading vicious rumors about me, saying I was a “budget traveler” who sold myself to fund the trip. She even photoshopped my pictures and posted secretly taken intimate photos of me all over the internet, eventually driving me to depression and death. When I woke up again, I had been reborn. 0 “Mia, let’s go to this event together!” Seeing the smiling, slightly chubby girl in front of me, I realized I had been reborn. Olivia was my best friend. We grew up in the same orphanage. Later, we were adopted by different families, but reunited again in college. She had an ordinary appearance and was a bit chubby, but she had always been outgoing and sunny since childhood. I was the opposite – delicate and pretty, tall and slender, but always quiet and reserved. We were adopted on the same day. Olivia, with her outgoing personality and sweet talk, was taken by a wealthy merchant couple. I was adopted by a professor couple. When we reunited in college, Olivia learned that my adoptive parents never had children of their own. A flash of jealousy crossed her face. Her adoptive parents had a son seven years younger than her after adopting her, but according to her, she was still the favorite at home. I was shy and slow to warm up to people, not good at interacting with strangers. By the end of the first semester of freshman year, I hadn’t made a single friend. The only person I could talk to was still just Olivia. But later, towards the end of the second semester, my reputation started getting worse and worse. Rumors started spreading around campus about me. They said I was always getting into luxury cars off campus, going to certain places with different men. That I bullied classmates behind their backs, insulted teachers, and was close with delinquents off campus. I tried hard to refute the rumors, but to little effect. Later, my private photos – changing in the locker room, using the bathroom, showering in the public bathroom… All those photos were posted online. Nosy netizens dug up my personal information, and even my adoptive parents were affected at the university. It was all Olivia’s doing. She wanted to completely ruin me. Because of this, I developed severe depression. I was afraid to go out, afraid to go online, afraid to see people… But my adoptive parents always believed in me. They reported it to the police, hoping to find the source of the rumors and clear my name. When I got sick and couldn’t attend classes, they put aside their work to accompany me and take care of me until my condition improved. But unexpectedly, when Olivia came to visit me at home and saw how much my adoptive parents cared for me, she was enraged again. She paid some thugs to kidnap me when I went for a follow-up at the hospital. In the struggle and shouting, I was accidentally hit on the head by one of the thugs. Panicking, the two thought I had died on the spot and dumped my body in the river. Before I completely died, I vaguely heard Olivia muttering to herself: “We’re both orphans, why do you get to live such a happy life?” “I have a good personality and many talents, why wasn’t I the one they took back then?” “Why did he choose you, a gloomy block of wood, instead of cheerful me when we traveled together?” “Since he likes your face so much, I’ll just destroy it!” “Mia, I just wanted you to leave them, it’s your fault for not listening, so you brought this on yourself. Don’t blame me.” So it was all because of Olivia’s jealousy. Jealous that I had adoptive parents who wholeheartedly devoted themselves to me, while she wasn’t as happy in the Lu family as she claimed. Jealous that when she brought me along to travel, I ended up dating the guy she had her eye on. Now that heaven has given me a chance to start over, I will definitely make Olivia experience everything she tried to do to me! 0
Seeing that I hadn’t responded for a while, Olivia elbowed me and said coquettishly: “Mia, I’m talking to you, why aren’t you answering! This event will be so fun, let’s go together.” Seeing her round chubby face lean in close, I wanted to slap her. The event she wanted me to attend was a hiking trip organized by the university’s outdoor club. It was a big activity. I remembered that after this trip, my reputation gradually worsened. It was also during this trip that she fell for James at first sight, but James liked me. I was socially anxious and shy. James was assigned to the same group as me and took care of me the whole way. He coldly rejected Olivia’s flirtations and attempts to get close, which caused Olivia’s resentment towards me to fully explode. “Do we really have to go? You know I don’t like these group activities, and it’ll probably cost a lot too, right?” “Come on, come on, it’ll be so fun! And this little bit of money is nothing.” Hearing my refusal, Olivia kept whining in my ear, pestering me to agree to go on the trip with her. She definitely wanted me to go because she wanted to go. Only when I was by her side could she better highlight her good personality, have me pay for her, and ultimately build up her own good reputation. “I…” “Oh come on, my dear Mia, it’s settled then. I’m going to sign you up right now.” With that, Olivia turned and ran out of the dorm room. I curled my lips in a cold smile. She was still as self-centered as before. “Mia, if you really don’t want to go, just cancel the registration early. There’s still time before the departure date, it shouldn’t be a problem,” Emma said after Olivia left. “Forget it, Olivia will keep bugging me to pay. If I don’t go she’ll be really annoying.” I smiled lightly as I explained. I still had to go on this trip. After all, it was a good opportunity to meet James. In my past life, he was very good to me. Even when my reputation was in tatters, he still ran around explaining things for me. Now that I’ve been reborn, I don’t want to lose James. 0
“Why do you suddenly find her annoying?” Sophia poked her head out from the bed and asked. “It’s nothing, I’ve always found her annoying, but she’s an old friend from the same orphanage, so I put up with her.” “But lately she’s really been too much. I’m tired of dealing with her and plan to talk to her clearly during this trip.” My two roommates had a sudden realization. Emma continued: “Oh, you two are from the same orphanage?” “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean anything by it, I just, I just… was a bit surprised.” Emma quickly apologized when she realized she had misspoken. “It’s fine, I don’t mind. Besides, my adoptive parents are very good to me, no different from biological parents.” I shrugged indifferently, a faint smile on my face as I mentioned my adoptive parents. Seeing how curious they looked, I went ahead and told them about how we were adopted by different families. “So Olivia is the adopted daughter of that new rich merchant family that just moved to the city? She always said she was the Lu family’s daughter, we all thought she was their biological child. But then I saw her brother come looking for her once, and that attitude, tsk…” Sophia gossiped about what she had seen before. “That attitude was worse than towards an enemy. A teenage boy with such a vicious personality, saying such cruel things. I saw Olivia was about to cry, but after her brother left, the way she glared at his back looked just like a demon from hell.” I understood in my heart. This is why Olivia was jealous that I was taken by my adoptive parents. Although the Lu family was wealthy, once they had their own son, Olivia’s role as an adopted daughter was reduced to just being raised well to be married off for an alliance. “Before she always acted so generous and cheerful in front of you, but behind your back she had such a resentful look.” Emma looked at me to make sure I wasn’t upset before continuing. “She must be jealous of you. After all, you were adopted on the same day but ended up in such different situations. She’s a fake rich daughter who’s lost her freedom, while you have the freedom of an intellectual family.” I smiled. Put that way, I really was lucky. But Olivia enjoyed the luxurious life that the Lu family’s money brought her, so she should bear the corresponding responsibilities. “The Lu couple aren’t unreasonable people, they treat Olivia quite well and haven’t forced her to do anything. It’s just that her brother, probably due to his young age and outside influences, is unwilling to accept this adopted sister.” I continued along with their conversation. “Actually, if Olivia used the right communication methods, her brother wouldn’t be so rejecting of her…”
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