Sea water was flooding in from all directions, gradually berating overhead.

Xia Shu was struggling, trying to float to the surface.

However, her hands and feet were bound, leaving her only felt the immense water pressure closing in.

Sea water choked her mouth, causing a suffocating sensation to envelop Xia Shu, making her already numb limbs from the binding turn icier.

This filled Xia Shu with despair.

Could it be that she was going to die here today?

She didn’t even know who her killer was!

Unwillingness surged up in Xia Shu's heart. She struggled fiercely, wanting to live…

…

With a "pap" sound.

In the silent classroom, a girl in a short skirt and a tank top, with sparkling earrings, looked fierce towards the girl standing in front of her. Her young face could not conceal her arrogance. Her beautiful eyes were raised high and her slender hand was raised equally high, followed by a heavy slap slapped down in extreme anger, "Lin Zixuan, should you shut up!"

The girl who was slapped had her hair tied into a ponytail, looking neat and only revealing a pale small face. With that slap, half of her face quickly swelled up. Her watery eyes turned into swollen walnuts due to the teardrops, "Xia Shu, why do you slap me for no reason? What have I done wrong? Why are you so unreasonable!"

As she spoke, she stared intently at Xia Shu, her face full of grievance.

Because of Xia Shu's slap, the classroom was in a messy uproar.

The classmates surrounded Lin Zixuan and Xia Shu in the middle, whispering.

Xia Shu, at the heart of the crowd, gawked in disbelief, looking down at her palms that had turned slightly red from exerting too much force.

She felt a severe headache due to oxygen deprivation. It was hard for her to think.

But the familiar scene, those familiar faces that only lived in her dreams, shocked her yet also made her skeptical.

Was she...back?

Did she travel back to ten years ago? Back to when everything hadn't taken place yet?

As realization slowly kicked in, she heard Lin Zixuan's accusations. The foggy state of Xia Shu's mind dissipated as her memories were awakened!

This was about the incident from the past where she was falsely accused of stealing the test papers!

"Lin Zixuan!"

Xia Shu clenched her reddened palms, suppressing the impulse to slap Lin Zixuan again, "How dare you claim innocence!"

It was her!

It was Lin Zixuan who intentionally or unintentionally revealed to the teacher that Xia Shu was the only person in the administrative office at the time.

Xia Shu's grades weren't good back then. Her wealthy family had decided that she was not going to attend college, but study music abroad instead. If she were to succeed and return, she would have a future.

There was an unexpected coincidence - Xia Shu needed good performance scores, and the test papers at school happened to go missing. Thanks to Lin Zixuan's words, the teacher who had lost the papers assumed that Xia Shu, known to be academically lax, must have instigated it to improve her grades.

After all, Xia Shu had always been seen as a willful, spoiled girl, and it was commonly believed that she didn't take her studies seriously and relied solely on her family's wealth.

Thus, it wasn't entirely impossible for her to resort to stealing test papers!

Back then, Xia Shu was also raised with adoration and spoiling by her family. Despite her capricious and willful temperament, which made her ignore some school rules, she disdained to do something as detrimental to her character as stealing papers. Therefore, she adamantly refused to admit to the accusation leveled against her by the teacher!

However, it just so happened that Lin Zixuan was her best friend, Xia Shu, and everyone believed that Lin Zixuan would not wrongly accuse her.

So, the more Xia Shu denied it, the more the teacher believed that she was too guilty to admit it, and coupled with the loss of the papers, he felt that he was also to blame. In a fit of anger, he made a big deal out of it. Finally, this incident was treated as a stain, written on her record, and she lost the opportunity to study abroad because of it.

At this moment, Xia Shu heard from others that it was Lin Zixuan who had snitched, and she rushed over to confront Lin Zixuan.

Back then, Xia Shu did not have such a good temperament as she does a decade later. Facing the betrayal of her best friend, she could not suppress her rage, and slapped Lin Zixuan twice on the spot.

And, it was precisely these two slaps that solidified Xia Shu's accusation of paper theft.

Xia Shu dared to hit her best friend in front of so many people, so why wouldn't she dare to steal the papers?

If it wasn't for the guilt of being caught, why would she be so angry?

The teacher, hearing that Lin Zixuan was hit, also believed it was because he had implicated her and felt guilty; thus, he was even more unyielding in not letting Xia Shu off and forcing her to admit her guilt.

Back then, Xia Shu was young and unpopular, and everyone was against her, refused to believe her. In the end, she was left speechless and was forced to bear the blame.

Not until the second semester of senior year when another set of test papers was stolen, the person who stole the papers was nabbed, and he admitted that the previous papers were also stolen by him. Finally, Xia Shu's accusation was cleared!

However, by that time, Xia Shu had missed the application period for foreign schools.

Then, Lin Zixuan came over with tears in her eyes, apologizing to her in a timely manner, "I'm sorry, Xia Shu. I didn't mean to say you stole the papers, my intention was to say that you were the only one in the Dean's Office at that time. I didn't expect the teacher would think that way, sorry."

Lin Zixuan was always good at acting pitiful. Her tearful appearance, looking like the injured party, instantly made others feel she didn't do it on purpose.

No one thought about what her "not on purpose" meant to Xia Shu.

Back then, the music school she initially wanted to apply for was a top international institution. The teachers were heavyweights in the world of music who.have already recognized her musical talent, just waiting for her to submit her application.

This was the first time a young, arrogant, and willful Xia Shu worked hard for her dream.

As for Lin Zixuan's hypocritical apology, Xia Shu felt nothing but anger.

She pointed at Lin Zixuan and told her to leave, never to appear before her again!

However, everyone thought she was disrespectful, aggressive, and behaving like a domineering young lady.

Everyone increasingly alienated and rejected her.

From then on, Xia Shu fell into depression, her character became increasingly docile and eccentric, resembling a hedgehog fiercely piercing those around her with quills which in turn made others view her as more arrogant and domineering.

...

Thinking of the past, Xia Shu's hands couldn't help but clutch tightly. She took a deep breath, calming herself down from the anger of the past and the shock of her rebirth. "Lin Zixuan, wasn’t it you who told the teacher that I stole the exam paper? You framed me, why do you say I hit you for no reason?”

Hearing this, Lin Zixuan covered her face, raising her head, her eyes full of anger as they gazed at Xia Shu. "I didn't frame you at all! It was clearly you who stole the paper. Even the teacher said so, why do you say that I framed you!”

"Really?"

If she hadn't been reborn, Xia Shu wouldn't have noticed how skilled Lin Zixuan was in word manipulation.

The teacher said she stole the paper, but wasn't it her who suggested it?

She managed to clear herself completely!

No wonder, later on, she repeatedly suffered because of her!

Xia Shu was amused by the thought, holding back a chuckle.

But she didn't blame herself.

Who would have expected that Lin Zixuan, a teenager of barely more than ten, would have such intricate plots, comparable to a palace battle drama!

But she, Xia Shu, was not the ignorant fool of the past anymore, always reacting with nothing but anger.

"Really? In that case, let's confront each other in the principal's office!"

As Xia Shu said this, she grabbed Lin Zixuan without considering her resistance, ignoring the onlookers behind them, and dragged her towards the principal's office.