Suddenly, Lily seemed to get cocky.
I overheard she managed to unite her remaining group.
My feeling told me something bad was happening, so using a fake account, I lurked in their chat group and saw her post—a photo of her holding a silver metal chain, with an excited voice message.

“Some idiot left this metal pile at an old factory.Let’s sell it quick—it’ll fetch a fortune!”
The moment I saw the metal, I recognized it.
Feeling my stomach dropped, I told Claire to avoid Lily and move out.
Claire, confused but fed up with Lily’s nightly outbursts, finally took my advice.
In my past life,Lily killed me,and I could’ve watched her spiral.
But now she'd coaxed innocent scholarship students to be siding with her.

I couldn’t let them suffer the same way.
I called Lily. “Cancel the bet. Return that metal now and get to a hospital!"
She laughed.“How’d you know about the metal?Jealous,Sarah?”
"Trying to sabotage me? Nice try!"

She hung up,blocking me.
No need of mercy now.
A week later,Lily was hospitalized.
The metal was cobalt,hazardous waste left at an abandoned factory.
Direct contact with it would cause irreversible damage to human body.
That night, Lily with other three groupmates, fearful of street scavengers, picked up the metal barehanded, even posing for photos on the social media.
The radiation paralyzed Lily from the waist down,confining her to a wheelchair for life.
Three followers lost limbs to radiation poisoning.
Learning the truth,Lily broke down,cursing wildly during a reporter’s interview,losing all dignity.
Other victims’ families, arriving from afar, sued her for massive medical costs.
The school, according to the report, expelled her for endangering peers and tarnishing its reputation.
When I arrived at the hospital, I saw Lily, who was going under post-treatment, lying on bed with the ashen face.
Seeing me, she hurled an IV bottle to me, shouting, “Get out, you bitch! You ruined my life!”
“You think you’ll have it easy? Even dead, I’ll haunt you as a ghost!”
I looked down coldly. “I warned you. You didn’t listen. You chose this."
She sneered,wincing from pain.
Then her eyes widened, pausing.“Wait, this is wrong! I was the frugality star, and you were supposed to be the one who was despised and dead!”
I was stunned that she remembered our past life.
But that was over. This life was different.
Fate didn’t spare the wicked forever.
I smiled. “You can’t change anything now.”
“I aced finals, ranked #1—with a guaranteed grad school spot."
“Noah and I are even planning to study abroad after graduation.”
“Want revenge? Chase my plane in your wheelchair if you don't mind."
Lily collapsed to the ground, screaming as nurses rushed to restrain her with sedatives.
I walked out of the hospital as her wails faded behind me.
It no longer mattered.
Leaving that all past away, I stepped into warm sunlight with a light heart.