Chapter 10 Vivian Bennett Hired People to Cyberbully Me!
As I felt their hands and feet grab me, trying to drag me into a deserted alley, I knew if I screamed for help, it
would be useless.
They would pretend to be a couple or lovers fighting, telling others not to get involved.
After all, people only reach out when it’s about their own safety.
So, I suddenly had an idea and shouted loudly, “Fire! Fire! Someone, help put it out!”
“Someone’s dead!!!”
As expected, many people ran out of the nearby buildings. Even the people on the street started heading
toward us.
The crowd grew larger, and I could feel the thugs starting to panic.
I quickly kicked one of them in the lower body and bit the one who was trying to cover my mouth.
As soon as he loosened his grip, I hurriedly moved toward the area with the most people.
They tried to block my way, but I ran as fast as I could.
I kept running.
Until a strong hand grabbed my wrist from behind.
I struggled, but the person pulled me into an embrace: “It’s me.”
It was Chadwick Carter’s voice.
By the time I got back to the school, it was already very late.
He helped me into the lab and prepared hot water for me, patiently waiting for my emotions to calm down.
“I know who did this.”
I looked up.
Chadwick Carter continued, “It was Vivian Bennett, wasn’t it?”
“You don’t need to worry. I’ll find the evidence and have her locked up.”
I took a sip of water and slowly said, “Mr. Carter, although it was Vivian Bennett’s doing and she’s at fault, you also have some responsibility. If you hadn’t come close to me and acted like you were interested, she wouldn’t have been provoked.”
Chadwick Carter froze for a moment. “You’re blaming me?”
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“I’m just stating the facts. Mr. Carter, I appreciate your admiration for my research, but I’m also making it clear that no matter whether your interest in me is for professional or personal reasons, there is no possibility between us. As for the technical matters, I’ll consult with Mr. Shen, and I hope you won’t bother me in the future. I just want to focus on my research and live a peaceful campus life.”
He stared at me for a long time without saying anything.
I continued, “I don’t know what kind of deal you and Vivian Bennett have. That’s between you two. But I really ask you to stay out of my life.”
I put down my cup and stood up to leave.
Then I called the police.
The police quickly responded.
Since I had been reborn, I was extra cautious about everything.
So, every time Vivian Bennett came to find me, I secretly recorded the conversations.
With both witnesses and physical evidence, Vivian Bennett was soon arrested at a bar by the police.
By the time we arrived at the police station, she was still delirious, shouting that she’d deal with the cops.
When she saw me, she finally reacted and shouted: “She’s slandering me! I didn’t do anything!”
I lowered my eyes. “Officer, I’ve already made my statement.”
“Sophie, you bitch! You actually dared to call the police on me! I’m your best friend! Officer, she’s just joking
with me, let me go!”
“We’ll determine if it’s a crime. Please cooperate and give your statement.”
She finally realized she was in the wrong and started crying: “I was just playing with her, it was just a little
fun between best friends. Besides, she’s fine, isn’t she?”
She still refused to admit the truth, insisting she was only trying to find someone to accompany me.
I suspected she had given those thugs money, so when the police brought them in, they all stuck to the story that it was just a prank.
After all, admitting that they had defiled me would have been another crime.
The whole night was a mess. By morning, Chadwick Carter called me: “Please let me help you get even.
“I don’t need it.”
I hung up the phone.
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Although there was a recording, and I had come out unscathed, they were still only given a detention
sentence.
When my parents found out about this, they lashed out at Vivian Bennett.
They called her heartless and cold-blooded.
They even told Vivian Bennett’s parents about the whole situation.
When Vivian Bennett was released from jail, her parents called her to question her.
To their surprise, she had completely lost it on the phone: “Yes, I did it! I wish Sophie would die!”
“You tell her to be careful. I’ll make her life miserable. I’ll make her lose everything!”
Then she hung up.
Vivian Bennett’s mother was wiping her tears on the couch: “How did she turn into this?”
I comforted her: “It’s okay, I’ll be careful.”
And the threat Vivian Bennett made to make me “suffer worse than death” was something I soon
discovered.
A classmate sent me a link.
When I opened it, I nearly fainted.
[xx University graduate student Sophie, academic fraud: Sleeping with men to gain research results]
There were multiple photos accompanying the article, showing me having meals with different men.
Some even showed my mentor and me working in the lab, discussing research.
We were simply standing together, but they twisted it into the narrative that I had gained my research results through my mentor.
They even implied that I used men to gain more benefits.
“Otherwise, how could someone in their first year publish a biotech patent?”
But they conveniently left out Chadwick Carter’s photo.
At the end, they asked: “Can we ever get rid of the academic seductress?”
The comments section was full of people misinformed, angrily criticizing me:
[Ugh, this academic seductress should die!]
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[I’ve worked so hard on my research, still struggling to graduate, and here she is getting everything from her professor. It’s so unfair!]
[Published in a top-tier journal as a first-year grad student? Yeah, right.]
[The fact that she’s doing something this impressive in her first year, clearly someone’s pulling strings.
Who’s she fooling?]
[Someone so pretty-she’s obviously a seductress, walking down the wrong path.]
[Ugh! I can’t believe it. If the school doesn’t give us a reasonable explanation, I’ll be in the comment section every day tagging them.]
People were furious.
Many flooded the school’s official social media account, demanding a full investigation, asking for me to be
expelled, and for an explanation to be given to the student body.
They said so many hurtful things.
My classmates asked me, “What should we do, Sophie? We all know you’re not like this, but once things
start to blow up online, it’s hard to stop the rumor mill.”
Yes, I hadn’t expected that, after being reborn, my only goal was to complete my research with the memories from my past life.
But I didn’t expect that it would all lead to this disaster.
I knew Vivian Bennett was behind this.
But right now, she was secondary. What mattered most was how to clear my name.
