Chapter 1823


    Caprice quickly picked up her phone.


    It was Liam. “Have you opened it?”


    Caprice smiled with pride and replied, “I did.”


    Liam replied, “Not bad, so that head of yours isn’t just for decoration


    Caprice was struck speechless. She brushed it aside, then she grinned from ear to ear and sent another


    text “Liam, thank you for the gift!”


    Liam asked, “Do you like it?”


    Caprice was ecstatic “Of course, | do, | love it!”


    Liam sent replied cooly as usual, “Good”


    It was immediately followed by another message. “From now on, you are forbidden from going to nightclubs for birthday


    celebrations”


    Caprice suddenly sat up as something just dawned upon her. He knew that today was her birthday all along. That was why he


    had prepared a birthday present for her!


    She thought about all the tales she tried to spin up tonight to exin to Heather why she was at the nightclub. To make it seem


    like she was a model student, she told her that she was only at the nightclub to celebrate Piper’s birthday Could this mean that


    Liam knew she was lying the entire time?


    She thought about the stunt she pulled and how she had subtly steered her friends against Heather. What would Liam think of


    her now?


    She covered her face in horror and identally yelped out loud, “Ahh!”


    “Caprice, what''s wrong with you?”


    “What are you doing? Is everything okay?”


    “Did something happen?”


    Piper, Freya, and Lana all turned to her,pletely perplexed by her strange behavior.


    “No. Im fine.” With that. Caprice pulled the nket over her head and hid from the world, leaving only the top of her head bulging


    out from the nket.


    After a while, when she managed to calm down, she sent a text to Liam. “I understand. You’re going on a business trip, aren’t


    you? Please be careful”


    There was no reply from Liam


    He must be busy-with Heather.


    There was also a chance that he no longer wanted to talk to her, seeing as she and her friends had ganged up against Heather,


    the girl he fancied.


    Caprice rolled around in bed, feeling overwhelmed. She was in no mood for a shower and was barely in the mood to change her


    clothes,


    Shey on the bed like a corpse and eventually dozed off into a dizzy slumber


    The next morning, she was woken up by the rm clock. When she took a look at her phone, she noticed that a reply came from


    Liam at four o’clock in the morning that read “Alright!


    Although it was only a short, stoic reply, she was relieved nheless.


    He had replied! This must mean that he was not upset at her about what happened with her friends and Heatherst night.


    She smiled softly.


    She could deal with Liam not having feelings for her, but she would fall apart if she knew he felt even the slightest tinge of hatred


    against her.


    Caprice was a sophomore at Sparkrow University which was ranked among the top three universities in Westchester. Despite


    that, it was an entire tier below Aleph University.


    Caprice barely managed to make the cut for Sparkrow University during her entrance examination. This meant that the course


    she was assigned to at the university was one of the easiest and least prestigious


    ones


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    With the summer approaching, she was about to graduate soon,


    There was going to be a job fair going on today Recruiters from all sorts ofpanies were going to show up to screen the


    students to look for suitable candidates. They wanted to look for potential hires to induct into theirpanies to help them


    kickstart their professional careers.


    Since Caprice had no sses scheduled today, her friends made her go with them.


    Frankly, they were not interested in this job fair. They were only here to gawk at the handsome seniors if there were any


    However, they were no good targets to speak of at the job fair. They did chance on Heather who was immediately surrounded on


    all sides. She wore a high ponytail and was dressed in a business suit, exuding a mix of professionalism and good taste.


    She had always been beautiful, and the fact that she was a top student at Aleph University further boosted her reputation Now


    that she was one of the leading figures in the infamous Carter Tech City, her reputation continued to skyrocket to unprecedented


    levels


    Nearly all of the attendees of the job fair went up to her to greet her.


    Even though she was surrounded by a sea of people, she somehow managed to spot Caprice the moment she showed up with


    Lana and her friends. She cried out immediately. “Caprice!”


    Caprice felt a shiver run across her body


    Lana, Freya, and Piper were also taken aback by her greeting.


    As soon as Heather’s voice dropped, everyone surrounding her turned to look at Caprice.