Chapter 4

Lily raised her head to look at me, her eyes full of venomous hatred.

"Sophia, you'll die a horrible death!"

"That's what I should be saying to you."

I took out my phone and pressed play. A clear conversation came from the phone.

"...Mom, don't worry. The stuff I'm giving Sophia is the latest type. It metabolizes really fast—can't be detected. Once she's finished, the Olympic spot will be mine."

"...For double insurance, I also took a tiny bit of diuretic myself. If anything unexpected happens, I'll just say she secretly put it in my water. Anyway, she'll already be disgraced—no one will believe her."

"...That idiot really thinks I'm her best friend. She'll eat whatever I feed her."

The recording was short, but the information was explosive.

Everyone looked at Lily like she was a monster.

She looked at the phone in my hand in disbelief, as if seeing a ghost.

"You... when did you..."

"Last night, when you were calling your mom." I put away my phone, my tone flat. "I guessed you'd make your move today, so I planted something in your room in advance."

In my past life, this was exactly how she'd set me up step by step.

First, she'd given me a drug long-term that made people mentally exhausted and weakened muscle strength, causing my performance to plummet.

Then before the crucial competition, she'd added banned drugs to my water.

A two-pronged approach that left me unable to defend myself.

Reborn in this life, how could I possibly stumble in the same place twice?

I'd turned the tables on her. Yesterday, I hadn't drunk that special juice she'd handed me at all. Instead, when she wasn't paying attention, I'd poured it into her water cup.

And that tiny bit of diuretic she'd taken herself to frame me became the final straw that broke her.

"No... this isn't real... it's synthesized! The recording is synthesized!" Lily was still making a last-ditch struggle.

I looked at the anti-doping center officials.

"I'll submit this recording as evidence to the police and the sports bureau. False accusation and framing, administering dangerous substances—I believe this is no longer just a matter of violating competition ethics. This is a crime."

Lily completely despaired. Director Morgan and Harrison's faces also became extremely ugly.

Although the recording didn't mention them, once Lily was criminally investigated, she might reveal all the benefits they'd given her to reduce her sentence.

Pull up the radish and the mud comes with it—none of them could escape.

The head judge took a deep breath. He looked at Lily with nothing but disgust.

"Effective immediately, all of athlete Lily's results in this competition are annulled. A comprehensive investigation into athlete Lily, her coach, and related personnel is being launched."

"Until the final investigation results are out, Coach Harrison's coaching duties are suspended."

"Now, will all irrelevant personnel please leave. We need to take athlete Lily for B sample retesting and follow-up questioning."

Several uniformed staff members walked in and supported the limp Lily on both sides.

As Lily was dragged away, she was still screaming hysterically.

"Sophia! I won't let you go even as a ghost!!"