Reborn as the Romance Heroine, I Only Aim for First Place Chapter 16

Reborn as the Romance Heroine, I Only Aim for First Place Chapter 16

Six years later, I finished my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at MIT.

A lot had happened in those six years.

For example, I started a business and founded my own company with a group of classmates.

The company was now thriving. Its annual profit had already reached eight figures, and it was on track to double soon.

I believed that in the near future, my returns would only grow.

…

Wyatt dropped out after one year of community college. I heard he had gone off to drift around aimlessly.

Later, he was lured overseas by a shady broker and trafficked into a scam compound somewhere in Southeast Asia. No one knew whether he was dead or alive.

According to people who knew him, he was forced to work in some fraud compound and got shocked with stun batons every day.

The compound demanded a six-figure ransom, but his family had gone bankrupt long ago. Where would they get that kind of money?

Who knew if he even still had both kidneys?

As for Evan, a prodigy who had spent his whole life sailing smoothly, he could not handle even one serious blow.

The pressure got to him. Unsurprisingly, his first reapplication

attempt failed.

His second reapplication attempt was an even bigger disaster. Later, something seemed to go wrong with his mind.

His parents sent him to a psychiatric hospital.

Chelsea spent a year in jail. After she got out, she came to my house once.

But by then, my parents had already divorced. My father had produced evidence that my mother had been hiding and transferring marital assets, so my mother did not get much in the divorce.

Naturally, she no longer had the money or energy to keep supporting her brother.

But give someone handouts long enough, and they start treating them like something you owe. Because of that, Chelsea’s father turned his resentment on my mother.

He kept ambushing her and beat her several times.

The siblings turned against each other. My mother had even less reason to take care of Chelsea after that, especially since she hated them for causing her divorce.

Chelsea did not get a single cent from my mother.

The last time I heard anything about her, it was from a short video that came across my feed.

After running out of options, she had gone back to her small hometown, worked as a hostess at a seedy private-room karaoke club, and got kept by a married businessman After running out of

options, she had gone back to her small hometown, worked as a hostess at a seedy private-room karaoke club, and got kept by a married businessman.

Then the businessman’s wife found out. She stripped Chelsea in the street and ripped out a lot of her hair. The whole thing went mildly viral.

I later heard that Chelsea had been pregnant at the time. The wife beat her so badly that she lost the baby, hemorrhaged, and had to have her uterus removed.

She would never be able to have children again.

After that, the businessman abandoned her too. No one knew where she had gone.

After the System found out, it stayed silent for a long time.

In the end, it asked only one question.

“How did it turn out like this?”

Exactly.

How did it turn out like this?

All I could say was that people who hurt others eventually destroy themselves.

The System disappeared too.

Since it failed its mission, it had to go back and be punished.

But before it left, it said softly, “I’m sorry.”

I was puzzled. “Hm?”

“I shouldn’t have tried to control the path of your life like that.
Maybe…” Its voice dropped lower. “Maybe you were right.”

“When I go back, I’ll file a report and recommend shutting down this kind of world.”

I nodded.

“That would be great.”

The System and I could not really be called friends.

It had its own mission to complete, and it had caused me some trouble.

But in the end, it had warned me that Chelsea was going to tamper with my enrollment response, so we were even.

“Take care,” it said with a sigh. “Though someone like you is definitely going to do well.”

I smiled.

“You take care too.”

“Then goodbye.”

“Goodbye.”

My mind fell quiet, and the System’s voice never appeared again.

I sat for a while. Then I stood, walked out of the room, and stepped into the sunlight.

The noon sun was warm.

The road ahead was wide and open.