Felicia and I both scrambled to our feet, looking disheveled. Our eyes met, and we both smiled wryly.


    "You are much too careless."


    Felicia took out a pair of ck-framed sses from her bag and put them on. "I wasn''t wearing sses, and I always feel unsafe without them. Even my sense of bnce bes worse. You won''t understand because you''re not short-sighted."


    She was right. I didn''t understand, but I was more determined than ever to get her surgery for her eyesight.


    When we were almost at the female dormitories, Felicia got a call from Lina. She nced at it and put it on speaker mode on purpose.


    "Hello, Lina? What is it?"


    "Where are you? I want to talk to you."


    "Oh, I''m at the flowerbeds beside the oak tree."


    "Stay there and don''t move. I''lle to you!" With that, she hung up.


    Felicia grabbed hold of me. "William, don''t go yet. Just hide behind there. I want


    you to see Lina''s true colors for yourself."


    I was exasperated. Did she want me to lurk around yet again?


    "It''s alright. I already know what she''s really like."


    "No! She''s much too good at being maniptive. I want you to see clearly. Otherwise, you''ll definitely be tricked by her again.


    "Just listen to me and watch what happenster. She''s apletely different person around womenpared to when she''s around men!"


    Then, she pushed me behind the oak tree. The tree was more than a century old and was enormous. It would have concealed three or four people without any problem at all.


    However, I still felt like I was sneaking around like a burr. Just as I was debating about whether or not I should leave, Lina appeared.


    She walked up to Felicia and suddenly pped her across the face. I admit that it shocked me.


    Although I had known that Lina was a bitch and that she was a total flirt who was also very materialistic and power-hungry, I had never expected her to actually strike someone. She always looked so frail.


    Felicia clutched her face but did not seem at all surprised that Lina had hit her. "Why did you hit me? What happened tonight had nothing to do with me."


    "Nothing to do with you? Felicia, you''ve gotten on my nerves time and time again. Why are you doing that? During yourst livestream, you refused to let me have Mr. Top Dog, and this time you brought William along to humiliate me.


    "Who do you think you are? Do you think that you can trample all over me just because you''re a couple of pounds heavier than I am?"


    She pped her again. "Do you want to quit school?"


    My scalp prickled. Was this really Lina? This was clearly some kind of female thug who had popped up out of nowhere.


    Felicia said piteously, "I don''t want to quit school."


    "If you don''t want to quit school, then tell me the truth about what happened tonight. How did William get the card that he showed the manager?"


    Felicia shook her head. "I don''t know. He didn''t tell me."


    Lina advanced upon her and twisted her ear. "If he didn''t tell you, then ask! Send him a message right now and ask him!"


    I immediately took out my phone and put it on silent mode.


    Felicia''s message popped up almost immediately. "William, how did you get that card?"