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threatening, why don'
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e s
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there was a splash, and the crow
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lled into an abyss, surrounded by da
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plit open. I snapped my eyes open, and a blindi
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t a laid-back, roguish young man, munching on an apple w
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". I racked my brain, but in my 24 years of life, I
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ged to
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ou
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d, startled, and I was taken aback myself
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lyn, you
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t for at least a day. Your r
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ung ma
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hl
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was
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uestions fil
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pathetic face and said again, "Ashlyn, did Kade push
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hy did you have to fall fo
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for Elissa who was innoc
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o prattle on, and I final
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hl
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a
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is
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from that melodramatic
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as goi
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a character
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creen. Reflected back was a slightly haggard yet undeniably striki
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not the one I'd seen in
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was called Ashlyn Burton in the novel I h
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the absurd plot of a domineering CEO romance novel, and now I've become the fem
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vel was titled CE
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ade grew up together, and they were friends since
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While she was still in school, Kade was
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intained an air of "I'm the CEO, you're not worthy." The foolish Ashlyn only
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and being suffered by Kade, only for Kade to eventually origi
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f role reversal, as I h
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e complete without the malicious second
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l ill upon learning of Elissa's mother's existence
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heiress persona. Meanwhile, Elissa played the victim, provoking and scheming, while Kade, seem
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cene where Ashlyn was pus
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, I couldn't help
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or an academic seminar, and the virtuo
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ated emotion, gathered a group to corner Elissa in the garden, th
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ave Elissa, and spurred on by Elissa
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e loved. My presence in this body meant that the original Ashlyn had been killed by the one she loved.
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ater originally ge
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put on that
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't fall
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bout the young ma
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s one of Ashlyn's onl
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d headstrong heiress, and only this young man who was regarded
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yn and Colton had
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nds, the other one was he
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surrounded by a group of followers, only
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Ashlyn ju
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are her the
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of the
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n with a lab r
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ived from Colton Reed as it
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ed disdainfu
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words, she wouldn't have been infa
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I must have bee
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er Kade so r
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stranger, because in the past Ashlyn never allowed an
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the beginning. Now that I'm in this body, I have no
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s villa and the princes
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elp but scre
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about r
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the origi
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I was just an ordinary person, working hard to save money,
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a wonder I didn't roll aroun
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having an illegitimate daughter like Elissa, he was generally a good father.
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rectly cause Elissa's mother's death, ruining the father-daug
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ted to offering herself to Kade, only to be humiliated and rejected. S
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or criticisms-never had there b
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yn, I wouldn't foll
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family affection. Cayson, who had been neglected, was so moved
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the original Ashlyn, but to me,
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, so Cayson was more moved and he ins
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expressing love through mo
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d car straight to the m
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hair sal
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-haired girls, she forced her striking features into a demur
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on, I slapped a gold card on t
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our best
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oached, scissors gleaming
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would you
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ack and smiled lig
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phisticated a
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ienced, remained unfazed a
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t my long, curly hair and tr
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originally scream sop
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ht smile. "Miss, your face
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lively yet sophisticated
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se his handiwork, I cou
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k you a q
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t is
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ask
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e name Tony b
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sa
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.
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.
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chic look I had imagined, it was definitely an
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ir done, I headed s
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ous princess outfits or tacky, nouveau ric
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to my heart's content without worrying abo
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ying goes, pride c
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g eye-to-eye with a man over
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e, who was shop
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lp but scream
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a soap opera? Bumping into the mai
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protagonist a
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e that I didn't notice my surrounding
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inally need
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eading lady a
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inside, I maintain
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the other hand, look
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with this curly hairstyle, it was hard
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f the clothing we both held and said, "I thought you'd
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out here s
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, I understood. He must
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't you see f
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rying a dozen bags, clearly
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the original Ashlyn's demise,
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male lead looks-chiseled features,
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suddenly felt like laughing, and befo
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lessly, Kade frowned ev
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sh
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ow you t
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allowed
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g CEOs have to be so
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's just that I finally recovered and came out to
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ginally
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even fit in one room, so why are
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lothes were al
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complaining about having n
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t then I remembered that Ashlyn's group of friends at school might have bullie
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, I finally took a
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full of hatred and only
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now-white, and her eyes were as bright as a deer's. Although she shared similar fe
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razy bullying her; this appearance c
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lled Elissa behind him and said, "Ashlyn, why are you
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s throw her clothes out of
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n was unlikable. With teammates like
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anything too excessive; she j
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hlyn. It wasn't until her mother was indirectly harmed by Ashlyn that she turned into the bit
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such a grudge against her. Instead, I felt a b
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ked at Elissa, saying, "Um.
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olog
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my group
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o bot
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mor
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of friends" but quic
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ooking surprisingly in sync, probably because
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frown d
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are you pl
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had such a bad reputation with Kade that
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ed the clothes to the sales a
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lotting something again, and warned, "Ashlyn, I don't care
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llied again, you won't
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bullying, I didn't intend to argue
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a, I hurt too much bef
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t do you have
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I ever w
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u the right
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sa
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ntly tried to please you, offering her heart to you, only to
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ed the last pa
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e darkened
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id you
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m
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is focus
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The original Ashlyn used
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ut that nickname
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hese cheesy roman
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se I called
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y think you could
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und; it's not your
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lied
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ugh she was silent just now. It dawned on me that Cayson was her father, t
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ly, I had tou
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he bond we shared since childhood has be
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I won't both
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of Ashlyn
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hed from
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g darker, but my last words
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towards him. The original Ashlyn, though so
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, I turned to leave,
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a min
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roine suddenly realized she's better off without him, but for
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as a wealthy second-generation,
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y. Kade looked dazed, unlike deeply falling in love w
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and I felt a twinge of guilt. After all, she and or
1
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ade had put me in a p
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o return to university. Having worked for two
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ear, with two more years to en
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I found a stray curly-haired dog on campus. Seeing the dog's curls resembling my own hairstyle,
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d me out of the dorm, so I had no choice but
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versity life, here I c
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day, upon seeing the official class schedu
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self to get into this top-ranked university to follow Kade. Now,
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ered the classroom, I was stunned. The room, w
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arveled, "A prestigio
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attendance rate f
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a seat, I would have had to st
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ttled into our seats,
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high. The students were all dressed up, as if t
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eves were rolled up to just below the elbow, exposing a portion of his well-defined wrist. He held a piece of chalk in one hand and lectu
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o
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is professor wasn't more handsome than Kade, my poor impres
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deed such a character, the renown
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paid much attention back then, only knowing there
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cable background. Due to his outstanding performance, he was
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ing to the rank of professor, with the dean's position
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s, no longer recklessly bullying others. Seeing the Kade's special attention to Elissa, w
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istently failed calculus, so she
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nist's halo, Ashlyn indeed scored first, but Kade still didn't s
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e of Kade mistreating Ashlyn
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dnapped Ashlyn, lost a leg. Yet, Ashlyn remained fixated
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ived out his days
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t Kyle. Ashlyn's love-struck nature was one thing
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grateful I arrived early, before Ashlyn started
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who suddenly glanced over, his gaze piercin
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t, he flashed a smi
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d to carve a deep hole in m
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teraction with Kyle before the near-drowning incident. Now that I inhabited this body, logical
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nable to recall any missing plot poi
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ance to save Kyle's career and leg, b
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d since he was meant to be mine in the novel,
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myself with
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single, I finally discovered so