Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 320

Whether they were eating or waiting in line for food, everyone in the dining hall turned at the sound of that piercing scream.

A girl stood there with noodles dumped on her head, broth and sauce dripping down her hair and face, leaving her utterly disheveled, her expression a mix of shock and outrage.

Mandy set down her bowl and turned on her heel, ready to leave.

"Mandy, you stop right there!" the drenched girl's friend snapped, her voice sharp

with anger.

Mandy acted as if she hadn't heard a thing, striding away without a backward glance.

The girl, ignored in front of the whole cafeteria, flushed with humiliation.

She shouted, "What's wrong, Mandy, are you deaf? You humiliate my best friend and think you can just walk away?"

With that, she lunged forward, hand outstretched, aiming for Mandy's hair.

But before she could touch her, Mandy spun around as if she had eyes in the back of her head. In one swift motion, she seized the girl's wrist, twisted, and sent her crashing to the floor with a brutal over-the-shoulder throw.

Mandy stepped forward and pressed her foot down on the girl's chest.

"Had enough of playing the victim?" Mandy's voice was ice-cold, sending a chill through everyone nearby.

gasped for breath, winded from the fall and Mandy's heel pinning her

aloof deity gazing with disdain at a bothersome insect. The girl trembled

sorry..." she sobbed,

lip into a mocking smile. "Pathetic. Maybe you

stared in stunned silence,

imagined that Mandy-the model student at Cresthaven Institute of Technology, always so well-behaved and quiet-could be so ruthless. Someone finally found their voice and stepped forward. "That's enough, Mandy! Everyone saw what you did. If the dean hears about this, you could be expelled!"

she turned to

who'd spoken up wasn't done yet. "You assaulted people and act like you're

slowly turned around, taking measured steps

back in fear.

sound echoing through the cafeteria. Then, without hesitation, she grabbed a

what arrogance looks like.

girl, now covered in rice and sauce, her makeup ruined

face, could only

rose up, condemning

care.

foul. Anyone

Claire was the embodiment of innocence and kindness, Mandy was her polar opposite-dangerous and

the cafeteria. As she passed three girls

didn't even acknowledge them and strode right