Reborn Against College Cheater

In my past life, I pinched pennies to support my boyfriend through college. He promised me everything, vowing to marry me once he graduated, even taking my virginity with assurances of a shared future. But the year he graduated, he broke up with me suddenly and married a city girl. Heartbroken, I crashed his wedding, causing chaos. He saw me as the one ruining his perfect day. Afraid I'd keep disrupting his life, he orchestrated my death in a car accident.

Reborn now, I find him just about to sign up for university entrance exams, worried over tuition fees. I smiled and said, "Why worry? Go ahead and take the exams. I'll take care of the tuition."

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"Zendaya, I've signed up for the university entrance exams," Damian Reed said, clearly worried.

"You know I'm a good student; if I take the exam, I'm sure to pass. But my family... we're struggling financially..." His handsome yet slightly sinister face made my entire body tremble with anger.

In my previous life, Damian registered for the exams and came to me with the same concerns about tuition. College students in the '80s were few and far between. Knowing he was bright, I couldn't stand to see him worry about tuition, so I promised to pay his expenses for four years. But after his graduation, instead of the future he promised, he sent a letter asking to break up. I couldn’t believe it and confronted him, only to be thrown out.

"Don't you know your place? I'm a university graduate now; how could a village girl like you ever be worthy of me?" he sneered. He was actually marrying a wealthy city girl. He threw some money at me, insulting me, and had me kicked out. With no other options, I crashed his wedding. He felt humiliated, fearing I'd keep haunting him, so he had his mother wait for me on the road back to our village, where they ran me over.

Back then, in the '80s, our village didn’t even have surveillance cameras. When my body was finally discovered a month later, it was no longer recognizable. People just thought I had slipped and fallen. The village mayor, Simon Murray, had some men bury me, and that was the end of it.

Anger flared within me as I stared at the detestable face in front of me, my fists clenched tightly.

"Zendaya, are you listening?" Damian's voice was full of impatience as he reached out to embrace me.

Feeling sick, I instinctively stepped away from his touch. He looked puzzled and asked cautiously, "Zendaya Ellis, what's wrong?"

I glared at him coldly.

Only after my death did I realize that Damian's supposed financial struggles were a sham. His family had other plans. His younger brother, Kye, wasn’t going anywhere, but he had a girlfriend he'd been with for three years. The family intended to save their money for Kye's wedding. Damian, as the college student, was expected to have a bright future and wouldn't need help finding a partner. So they targeted me, the fool, asking me to fund his education with empty promises of marriage.

I thought my devotion and sacrifices meant something, but all they earned me was a gruesome death.

Now reborn, I vowed to make them pay, to make them suffer like I did.

With that, I sneered at Damian, questioning loudly, "Can't afford tuition? But I heard your mom's using the family money to pay for your brother Kye's wedding, isn’t she? A wedding like that needs at least a thousand dollars, doesn't it? That amount could cover your tuition and living expenses for years. How is it you don't have money for college?"