Chapter 5

Lily immediately interrupted me, her eyes showing unconcealed malice.

"But what? Are you going to say she saw you dancing casually?"

"Or that she's not your best friend? That we're all lying to everyone?"

She addressed the camera indignantly.

"I don't want to be so aggressive, but I just want fairness, to keep the arts exam the pure place it used to be."

Watching her speak so righteously, with tears and snot covering her face, I couldn't help but laugh.

Lily froze in place, so angry she pointed at me.

But before she could say anything, Emma shrieked at me:

"Do you think I'm lying? All the dance class students can testify---with your level, there's no way you could be first place!"

"I don't know what you've been so arrogant about around me. You're just relying on your family's money and power, treating us like servants."

"Now we're not indulging you anymore. Not used to it, are you?"

The judge banged the table and asked:

"Sophia Smith, since you've admitted to all the evidence Lily has presented, that's essentially admitting everything she said is true."

"Your scores were obtained through an improper relationship. We have the right to investigate you and cancel your exam results."

The gallery laughed mockingly, all feeling sorry for Lily.

"I thought she had some tricks. Lily's score was probably switched with hers!"

"Exactly. They should give Lily back her first place!"

Some even threw paper balls and water bottles at me.

It was chaos all around, but my smile grew wider.

The judge banged the table.

"Quiet!"

"Sophia Smith, if you don't have other evidence to prove your scores aren't fake, the judgment will take effect immediately."

Just as I was about to speak, my sister's voice came from outside.

"Of course she has evidence."

"Because I'm the one who got first place in the arts exam, and she, my sister."

"Never took the arts exam at all. All her scores came from academic subjects, earned fair and square!"