She Asked Us to Give Up SATs for a Million-Dollar Promise Chapter 06

She Asked Us to Give Up SATs for a Million-Dollar Promise Chapter 06

The group chat went silent for three seconds.

Then it exploded again.

[Why? Ethan Foster, Mason Shaw, and Logan Hayes all had a real shot at Harvard or MIT. Why would they skip the SATs?]

[Holy shit. Have all four of you lost your minds?]

[Isn’t Evelyn close with them? Why didn’t she talk them out of it?]

I didn’t respond.

None of the three boys responded either.

Instead, Stella updated her Instagram.

[I already have ten million dollars coming. Why would I still take the SATs?]

The three boys immediately liked the post.

The moment Stella posted that update, gossip exploded across the entire school.

Plenty of people came to me asking for inside information.

I gave them all the same answer.

“I’m not close with them.”

Anyone with even a little common sense thought the whole thing was beyond ridiculous.

The three boys had all had a real shot at Harvard or MIT. Once, the four of us had even promised we would aim for those schools together and not split up.

They had been top students with such bright futures, yet they followed Stella, a transfer student, into madness and destroyed the results of all those years of hard work with their own hands.

The people involved, however, showed no regret at all. If anything, they became even more smug.

In their eyes, ordinary people were only jealous because they had seized a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rewrite their fate.

At seven that evening, Stella updated her Instagram again.

[Tomorrow at 9 a.m., we’ll reveal the truth behind why we skipped the SATs. While we’re at it, we’ll also talk about certain short-sighted, rigid, stupid people.]

Looking at the screen, I suddenly laughed.

Fine. If they insisted on making this such a big deal, they were about to humiliate themselves on a whole new level.

My parents finally sensed that something was off too and asked if Ethan and the others had been sucked into some kind of pyramid scheme.

I smiled and nodded. “Maybe.”

At nine the next morning, the four of them started their joint livestream right on time.

Almost everyone who flooded into the livestream was from our school.

Thanks to our classmates eagerly sharing the link, the viewer count shot up fast.

Before long, plenty of students from nearby schools had joined too.

In front of the camera, all four of them had changed into the designer clothes and expensive accessories they had bought with borrowed money.

Stella, especially, was covered in glittering jewelry and luxury brands from head to toe.

Her new-money mentality was on full display.

Stella sat in the very center, surrounded by the others.

She was still pretending to smile gently, but the smug arrogance in her bones was impossible to hide.

Ethan kept his arm around her shoulders the entire time, looking at her with obvious adoration and playing the devoted protector to perfection.

Mason had the shortest temper. The moment the livestream started, he looked into the camera with open contempt.

“I know certain people are watching this livestream too.”

“So let me tell you right now. You’re too stupid, too rigid, and too narrow-minded. You can’t compare to Stella at all. Someone like you deserves to spend your whole life working yourself to death for someone else.”

The live comments were all flooding the screen with [???].

Only I knew that Mason was insulting me.

Logan immediately picked up the thread, his voice still gentle.

“Everyone, please don’t misunderstand. We’re not being reckless. We simply seized an opportunity that ordinary people couldn’t grasp in time.”

“At first, we wanted to bring Evelyn in so we could all win together. But she was stubborn, insisted on grinding through the SATs, and almost ruined everything for us.”

The moment he finished speaking, the livestream fell silent for a beat.

At just the right time, Stella’s eyes reddened. She faced the camera and choked up slightly.

“I’m honestly heartbroken. I’ve always treated Evelyn like family. I wanted to bring her with me to the top so she wouldn’t have to struggle for her future anymore.”

“But Evelyn, she… she’s always been jealous of the way Ethan and the others dote on me. I… She ignored our agreement and insisted on taking the exam. She was so selfish and stubborn.”