Phoenix Rising: From Heartache to Heroism

Chapter 240 None of Them Are Simple

Not mentioning this matter was fine, but once it was brought up, Hattie was furious beyond measure.

Violeta was the biggest beneficiary of the college competition. If it wasn't her doing, Hattie couldn't imagine who else it could be.

"D*mmit! This despicable woman! She's infuriating me."

Hattie had hoped to make a name for herself through the college competition, but now everything was ruined.

She angrily said to Liang Shibo, "It's not that I want to cause trouble for Violeta, it's just that she doesn't want me to have an easy life. I must make her drop out of school!"

Benson frowned, just about to speak up.

Hattie kept going, "Remember how we got bullied in Harbor City? Being too nice doesn't cut it with these folks-they only mess with the weak and back down from the tough ones. Anyway, Violeta and I have issues now, she's my enemy. If she tries to get into showbiz later, she's gonna be my competitor for sure.

"Instead of letting her compete with me in the entertainment industry later on, it's better to deal with her now and eliminate any future troubles!"

Zelena lowered her eyelashes, hiding the hint of malice and calculation in her eyes.

Perfect, let the rivalry brew.

The bigger the beef between Hattie and Violeta, the better.

Violeta went with Kaylee to investigate the surveillance footage outside the changing room corridor.

After watching it once, everything seemed totally normal.

It was just a bunch of guys walking down the hallway together.

said, "Looks pretty normal, huh, Vio? Do you spot anything weird? Could it really be that Zelena's just incredibly lucky, with even the

screen showing several guys walking past, and she zoomed in on one of the guys' faces

Benson among

she looked, the more

the surveillance footage and finally spotted

Benson's cigarette disappear

"Huh?"

where Benson first showed up on the footage with a cigarette in his mouth. "He was smoking in the

stared at the monitor, eyes wide

where did his

and Kaylee hurried down the

found a cigarette butt in the second-floor emergency exit. Everything clicked into place

surveillance footage kept playing over

camera. Then, while he turned to the side, he flicked the cigarette butt up onto the ceiling sprinkler trigger. The smoke set off the sprinkler, and then he dropped the butt on the floor, and kicked it into the secure passage.

"Oh my!"

So, does that mean Benson is

helping Zelena, he's helping

definitely had a hand in

That's right.

be in

Zelena get the keys

way Zelena could've pulled off so much in

Violeta didn't anticipate was that

up with using a cigarette butt to trigger the sprinkler in such

puzzled. "But can such a small cigarette butt really

sprinkler, but the cigarette was so close it touched the

school's sprinklers were super sensitive, which was