The next time I saw Riley and Nora was in the school cafeteria.

Riley was carefully helping Nora peel the shrimp shells, then put the shrimp meat into Nora's plate with a doting look on his face.

I remembered he did the exact same thing when we just started dating.

He pampered me like a child.

At that time, I was sure that he was the person I wanted to spend my whole life with.

But three months later, he was no longer so careful and considerate to me.

I happened to get my finger injured, and the doctor told me not to touch water for a week.

The impatient expression on his face was so clearly engraved in my brain when I asked him to peel an orange for me.

"My hands are for playing the violin. What if I get hurt peeling an orange?"

But he seemed to have forgotten that his violin, worth 200 thousand dollars, was a birthday gift I bought for him.

I realized maybe he had been cheating on me with Nora at that time.

My appearance didn't frighten her at all. Instead, she deliberately put the shrimp into her mouth gracefully, with a showing-off look on her face.

"The one who is not loved is the mistress. Someone just thinks she can buy everything, but she doesn't know she can't buy true love no matter how rich she is.

While saying that, Nora deliberately swung the emerald bracelet on her wrist.

She was showing off to me that even if the bracelet on her wrist was mine, I still couldn't do anything to her, just like I had no choice but to give up when she stole my man.

Looking at them, I suddenly felt a little sick.

I really wanted to persuade her again to give the bracelet back for her safety. However, since she was so determined to incur the curse, the only thing I could do was to respect her choice.

Besides, I also wanted to see how unlucky she could be after breaking the mysterious rule of this bracelet.

Her karma came quickly. One night, Nora was livestreaming her graceful dance to her sponsors when she fell down the stairs accidentally.

Immediately afterwards, she went offline, and I knew something serious had happened to her.

As expected, early the next morning, I saw news about her on the school forum.

Student A: [Have you heard that Nora from the Department of Dance fell from a building during a livestream and was sent to hospital?]

Student B: [Really? Dancers care the most about their appearance. Maybe she'll never be able to dance again in the future.]

Student C: [I don't know, but I heard that her boyfriend had been waiting outside the operating room for twenty-four hours.]

Student D: [Tsk, you're too naive. It's said that the lease of the house they lived in together expired, and her boyfriend couldn't afford the rent, so he went to ask Nora for money in the hospital. I even want to dance like a slut like her to make more pocket money.]

With all sorts of gossip on the school forum, I was too confused to discern which of them were true.

However, it was another roommate of mine, Charlotte Mason, who shared the most accurate gossip with me.

She said that the surgery cost a lot to fix Nora's broken leg. Still, she couldn't dance for so long a while.

When Riley found out, the first thing that came to his mind was not to care about this poor young girl, but was upset because she couldn't make money by live streaming her dance.

They had lived a luxuriant life after messing around with each other, and Nora was the bill-payer all the time.

In order to defeat me, she also tried hard to act tender and generous in front of him.

In fact, it was just her disguise.

While she was resting in the hospital to heal her broken legs in a blue mood, Riley urged her to give him money several times, which irritated her to fight with him in her ward.

Riley was also so angry that he had been cutting classes to spend time playing around with Nora.

But in the end, what was left in their relationship were complaints.

As they quarreled in the hospital like two crazy people, many people recorded their fight and uploaded it on the Internet.

Now, everyone knew that the pure and charming dance streamer Nora actually used her sponsors' money to feed her loser boyfriend.

I wondered what her sponsors would react to this shocking truth.

The model couple in our school had a huge fight today over a few thousand dollars.

Their so-called true love was as frail as paper.

However, though I wanted to stay out of the trouble, the trouble still came to me.

After dinner, I planned to read some books in the library.

But someone grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of the library angrily the moment I sat down.

I was so scared, thinking about whether I was assaulted by a criminal. However, it turned out to be Riley.

He pointed at me angrily. "Emily, did you tamper with that bracelet? Nora has never had any problems with her livestream, so why did she fall down the stairs this time? There must be something wrong with the bracelet on her hand. You must be resentful of Nora for taking me away, so you deliberately found this way to retaliate against her, right? How can you be so vicious?

"Besides, Nora and I used to get along well, but recently we've been arguing all the time. Even my classmates are causing me trouble. It's all your fault!

"You must be jealous that Nora stole your things, so you tampered with the bracelet to break her leg. She can't stream during this period. You have to be responsible for the medical expenses and losses!"

Riley seemed to be extremely upset, wanting to pass the buck of their conflicts to me with incoherent words.

I was amused as he illogically unleashed something ridiculous.

"Didn't Nora say that you bought her bracelet as a birthday gift? She refused to admit that it was my bracelet before, so why should I be blamed for her shit? Riley, as my boyfriend, you not only cheated on me, but you also stole my bracelet and gave it to your mistress. Now that she is in trouble, you still want me to take responsibility? Don't you think you're so shameless?"

While Riley was still thinking about how to refute me, I slapped him in the face.

He got so furious after being beaten by me that he tried to hit me back.

Meanwhile, I quickly shouted to the teacher on duty not far away on the first floor of the library, "Help! He's going to hit me!"

Since there were quite a lot of students studying in the library at night, more than a dozen students passing by surrounded Riley and me, including several from our department.

After learning what he had done to me, everyone began to criticize him.

Riley was too embarrassed to stay here any longer. He could only glare at me and left in a hurry.

Fearing that the bracelet would cause a bigger problem, I sent a message to Riley: [I'm warning you one last time. Hurry and give my bracelet back. Otherwise, you will be in trouble.]

But unexpectedly, as soon as the message was sent, Nora called me.

She said hysterically over the phone, "Emily, what's wrong with you? Riley bought that bracelet for me. I've told you countless times, but why are you still pestering him? Please stop disturbing our lives, or I will call the police!"

After saying that, she hung up the phone angrily.

I had to say I had never seen someone as stupid as her.

Even Riley felt that there might be something wrong with the bracelet.

But Nora insisted on refusing to give it back.

When she first moved into our dormitory, she was known for taking advantage of others.

Even if he made some money from live streaming now, the habit of taking what belonged to others was ingrained in her heart.