My cousin, Ruby Martin, secretly took screenshots of my family's donations, becoming the most beautiful and kind-hearted rich girl in school.

So, after the Scholastic Assessment Test, when she reported that I cheated to get the highest score, everyone believed her.

My father found evidence to prove my innocence, but she framed the video as a fabrication.

She even colluded with my dad's rivals, reporting him for poor construction work over the years.

On my way to the police station with evidence, I was assaulted by thugs she hired and then taken to the countryside and beaten to death.

Meanwhile, she became a symbol of justice for reporting me, was praised by others, became an internet celebrity, and even used my mom's stolen belongings to fund her studies abroad.

When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the coming-of-age ceremony before the Scholastic Assessment Test.

I heard Ruby boldly say, "After the ceremony, I'll treat everyone to a farewell meal at a five-star hotel..."

I quickly messaged my dad, telling him to immediately cancel my allowance card!

This time, she won't reach the pinnacle of life!

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"Are we really going to a five-star hotel, Ruby?"

"I've never been to such a fancy place in my life. Oh, this is amazing!"

"Thank you, Ruby, you're my goddess..."

The excited shouts around me startled me.

Looking up, I realized I was sitting in the school auditorium, with all my classmates eagerly watching Ruby.

My eyes turned red with rage, and I was about to go forward and kill her for revenge when she suddenly turned to look at me.

"Callie, when we go to the hotel later, don't dress so shabby again. Don't embarrass everyone."

"Yeah, always with that sullen face, it's bad luck. Ruby, maybe we shouldn't bring her along..."

The mocking voices rose one after another, but I couldn't care less about them.

Because I realized I had been reborn!

In my previous life, due to my mother's sudden death, I had facial nerve paralysis and couldn't make any expressions.

My classmates thought I was a monster and didn't want to be near me, and only Ruby played with me.

She often scolded me, and I thought it was out of concern.

It was only before I died that I learned she was jealous of my family not favoring sons over daughters and resented my good living conditions that made me a pampered daughter.

So she deliberately insulted me in front of others, picking on me, making everyone isolate and hate me.

Looking at her condescendingly, her eyes full of malice, I smiled inwardly.

"Okay, Ruby, I won't embarrass you. I won't go to the party.

"I won't join this high-end gathering!"

I gave her a meaningful look and turned to leave.

Thinking of how she had spent 400,000 dollars to treat everyone to a meal in my previous life, I quickly took out my phone to call my dad and asked him to cancel my allowance card immediately.

"Let whoever wants to be the sucker be it. Without my family's help this time, I want to see how she can still pretend to be a rich girl!"

One day, while I was having breakfast with my dad, Ruby suddenly ran in crying and knelt down.

She knelt down to my dad, begging him for help.

She said her mom, my aunt, Phoebe Wright, secretly had her withdrawn from school and sent her to Neltoneaze to work to earn a bride price for her brother.

She said she wanted to continue her studies and begged my dad for help, promising to repay the tuition and living expenses in the future.

At that time, my mom had just passed away, and my dad, considering my feelings and thinking I would have a peer companion if she came, agreed.

For this, my dad was extorted 500,000 dollars by Ruby's family, and Ruby signed an IOU, promising to repay it in installments once she started working.

After that, Ruby moved in with us. With my dad's help, I became my classmate.

At first, having someone accompany me to school did lift my spirits a lot.

But gradually, I noticed that my classmates distanced themselves from me more and more, even isolating me.

I went to Ruby for help, and she frowned and said, "It's because you always wear high-end luxury brands, making you look like an outcast."

I started dressing plainly, but the situation did not improve.

Ruby sighed and said, "People have a mentality of hating the rich. If you bribe them a bit and do some charity, won't you blend in with everyone?"

Naive as I was, I immediately mentioned that my dad regularly did charity and even sent her screenshots of the donations.

Unexpectedly, she hit my head hard with a book, saying, "How can you be so selfish? Your dad's donations have nothing to do with you. Never mind, talking to a fool like you is useless. Give me your card, and I'll handle the connections for you..."

After that, Ruby used my card to help all the poor students in the school, becoming a well-known rich girl among the students, and even receiving public praise from the principal for her kindness.

Especially after she secretly posted the screenshots of my dad's donations on her social media, she became famous in the school.

When I saw her post on social media, it was deleted in less than a minute.

I thought she had posted it by mistake, but later I realized she had just forgotten to block me.

After the Scholastic Assessment Test, I became the top student in Mathematics subject, and I cried with joy on the day I received my results.

I've had social anxiety all my life, and I was even bullied in my previous private school. My dad discovered this after my mom passed away, so he transferred me to my current school.

I desperately wanted to get along with others, but I just didn't know how.

Although Ruby spent a lot of money, making it seem like everyone accepted me, there were even more people gossiping about me behind my back.

Now that I had successfully been admitted to the top university, I no longer had to think about how to get along with them.

But my happiness lasted only a day. The next day, I became a news headline, my results were suppressed, and no school mentioned accepting me.

Ruby reported me again for fraud, claiming that I cheated to get the highest score.

Huh, I never thought that she would harm me.

My clueless classmates, swayed by her lavish spending over the past year, chose to believe in her character and came out to denounce me.

My father found evidence to prove my innocence, but she framed the video as a fabrication, even taunting, "If you have the guts, dig up the body and show us."

Amidst the chaos, Ruby colluded with my dad's rivals again, reporting my dad's company for long-term poor construction work.

On my way to the police station with evidence, I was assaulted by thugs she hired and then taken to the countryside and beaten to death.

Before I died, I heard a vicious voice say, "Bitch, die! How dare you take in Ruby and let her enjoy life in your house instead of me!"

"Your family has no male heir. The property should be mine. Why should it be spent on you worthless girls..."

He was Ruby's brother, Zion Martin.

After calling my dad and confirming that all the cards could not be used for now, I breathed a sigh of relief.

I checked my watch and saw that the driver would arrive soon, so I slowly walked towards the school gate.

Suddenly, Ruby ran over and looked at me, commanding, "You walk home by yourself tonight. I need the car to take classmates to the hotel."

I ignored her, and she yanked me. During the struggle, she suddenly fell backward, followed by an angry shout, "Callie, how can you be so vicious?"

Then Ruby's eyes turned red, and she said tearfully, "Reid, forget it. Callie is probably in a bad mood; don't be mean to her, okay?"

Reid looked at me with disgust and sneered, "You country bumpkin, if it weren't for Ruby's kindness in helping you with your studies, you would be a laborer by now. Apologize immediately!"

I then understood that in Ruby's words, I was the one who needed help, a rural girl...

She sneered.

Indeed, since Ruby and I transferred to this school together, we had been inseparable from day one.

Because she said I was too flashy, I dressed more plainly, while she wore my high-end clothes under the pretext of not having any of her own.

No wonder people always came over, sarcastically telling me not to get complacent, saying I was just a poor follower.

Some even called me an ungrateful wolf, jealous and ungrateful, and lectured me on having a conscience.

Especially Reid Clark, the school heartthrob, and one of the poor students my dad sponsored. I had known him for a long time.

When I first came to the school, he secretly confessed to me, saying it was love at first sight.

I rejected him, but I encouraged him to study hard and reassured him not to worry about tuition due to the sponsorship.

Unexpectedly, after I stopped wearing high-end brands, he suddenly came to me, swearing and calling me vain, saying it was disgusting for me to wear fake luxury brands when my family was struggling.

I was so angry that I trembled all over.

He also said I was pretentious, acting like a bitch to gain sympathy, and shamelessly warned me not to bother him anymore, saying he would prefer a dog over me.

These remarks enraged me so much that I kicked him, causing him to roll on the ground in pain.

He was so mad that he went to the dean to complain, saying I attacked him out of anger after he rejected my confession.

Unfortunately for him, the dean knew my family background and had his daughter working at my dad's company, so instead of punishing me, he publicly scolded Reid.

After that, Ruby started giving money around, and Reid turned to pursue her. One was the school heartthrob, the other a money-backed school beauty. They quickly became the school's famous couple.

Of course, whenever they were mentioned, someone would mock me.

When I explained that things weren't like that, Ruby would step in, saying everyone was just joking and advising me to be more magnanimous and not to take things too seriously.

Eventually, I became the joke, while she became the gracious goddess.

"Apologize quickly. You have the nerve to attack your benefactor..."

"She has no shame. She wants to compete with Ruby for Reid. She should look at herself in the mirror and see if she deserves it."

"The most disgusting are ingrates like her. What if Ruby gets angry and cancels the treat? I still want to try the lamb shoulder..."

The noise filled my ears again, and suddenly, someone pushed me to the ground.

"Hey, apologize! Are you deaf? Do you really think living in a mansion for two days makes you a rich lady? Be careful, Ruby's family might kick you out to work and be a doormat."

When I looked up, I saw that the one who pushed me was Amy Baker. She was one of the people Ruby sponsored, and she always followed orders.

Ruby had promised to cover her college tuition and even offered her a job at her family's company after graduation.

I suddenly realized that in my previous life, while I was consumed by the fear of my mom's death, so much was happening around me.

I glanced at Ruby, who was leisurely watching Amy, and said, "Ruby told you I was from the countryside and my parents were going to send me to work?"

As soon as I finished speaking, Ruby, who had been weakly crying on the ground, suddenly stood up and said anxiously, "Callie, do you have some misunderstanding about me? How could I tell others about this?"

Oh, she didn't mention who was trapped in the situation but admitted it existed.

I turned to look at her. She was wearing the latest white dress from LV, lightly biting her lip, her eyes red, looking at me as if I were bullying her.

Sure enough, Reid got angry.

He walked over quickly and was about to kick me. I dodged. He angrily yelled at me, "Callie, stop pretending. Who doesn't know your dirty secrets? If it weren't for Ruby, you'd have been posted on the school's wall countless times. And now you dare to hit Ruby? No wonder your mom favored boys and had a worthless daughter like you. She deserved to be beaten to death!"

I had originally planned to settle accounts with these people after the exams, but Reid talked about my mom. I kicked him to the ground and started punching his face.

Unfortunately, a teacher was present, and we were quickly separated.

Reid, with a bruised and swollen face, wanted to call the police, but the teachers had heard him insult me first. They just criticized us a bit and let it go.

Ruby spoke weakly, "Reid, please don't fight for me anymore. Callie is just young and a bit vain. Forgive her for my sake, okay?"

Then she looked at me apologetically, "Callie, you shouldn't be so rough. You need to be elegant and gentle. You can't hit boys again. Reid didn't mean it; he was just too worried about me. You can't be so petty. We'll be leaving now!"

Reid glared at me viciously, warning that if I bullied his Ruby again, he'd beat me to death, then turned and left.

Watching his bluster, I found it laughable.

Little did I know, there was something even more ridiculous ahead.

When I got to the school gate, the driver was about to leave.

Seeing me approaching, Ruby rolled down the window and said, "Callie, we won't be taking you today. I need the driver."

Looking through the window, I saw the car was full of people.

I rolled my eyes at her, "Get out!"

Ruby was stunned for a moment, and then disapprovingly looked at me, "Callie, don't you want to get along with everyone? Besides, I really need the car today. After giving you rides for so many days, can't you walk once?"

I remained expressionless and repeated, "Get out."

This car was bought by my dad specifically to take me to and from school, and the driver was hired for that purpose. If she wanted to show off, she should do it with her own parents!