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00:00Martha told me there used to be an old library in this town.
00:03That library had been renovated later.
00:05But before that renovation, there was a basement storage room.
00:08A batch of old books shipped from Europe had been kept down there.
00:12Those books had a lot of handwritten notes tucked inside.
00:15When Martha was young, she had volunteered there.
00:18One time, while sorting through those old books,
00:21she accidentally found a book.
00:23A book about folk witchcraft.
00:25Inside, it recorded a contract called Mirror Exchange.
00:30That wasn't a book meant for ordinary people.
00:33It was like a damaged manual.
00:36A lot of the pages had been torn out, but the symbols were still there.
00:39Later, when the library was renovated,
00:41that batch of books was treated like discarded old stock.
00:43Some people said they were sold to a second-hand book dealer.
00:46Others said they ended up in antique shops around town.
00:49After that, Martha never saw that book again.
00:51But she had always remembered the symbols.
00:54Then she pulled a pen from her pocket.
00:56She drew a few twisted symbols on a napkin.
01:00I recognized those symbols.
01:02A similar pattern was drawn on the milk bottle Lily handed to me earlier.
01:07The next second, a photo suddenly flashed through my mind.
01:10A few weeks ago, Lily had posted a selfie on social media.
01:12The background was the window of an antique shop.
01:14Back then, I only noticed the designer bag she was showing up.
01:16But now I remembered where that antique shop was.
01:18It was right across from the old library site.
01:20My fingers instantly went cold.
01:21Once the caster gets a taste of it, they keep wanting more.
01:25A prettier face.
01:26More attention.
01:28A more perfect life.
01:30Until, in the end, she couldn't tell if she was controlling the curse.
01:34Or if the curse was leading her.
01:36Just then, my phone burst.
01:41It was a social media notification.
01:43Someone posted an update on their social media.
01:46But when I tapped it, the story was already gone.
01:49Luckily, a tiny preview was still sitting in my notification bar.
01:53In the photo, Lily was standing in front of an antique shop window.
01:56I immediately saved the screenshot.
01:58Then I zoomed in on the photo.
02:00Soon, I saw the outline of the old library in the window reflection.
02:05That's the antique shop.
02:06It's been across from the old library site for years.
02:09I suddenly realized Lily hadn't found the curse by accident.
02:12She probably knew where that book came from.
02:15We have to stop her from getting the rest of that book.
02:18We didn't wait.
02:19When we got there, the antique shop window was still lit.
02:22But there were no customers inside.
02:25I was just about to knock.
02:27Then the owner came out through the back door.
02:29When we showed him the picture of the book, the owner stayed silence for a long time.
02:32When the old librarian was renovated, a batch of old books really was sold to me.
02:37One black-covered book was the strangest.
02:39It was full of handwritten notes, and a few pages looked like they had been torn out on purpose.
02:43Not long ago, Lily bought that book.
02:47She also bought a small makeup mirror and an old silver spoon.
02:51Just as we were leaving in disappointment...
02:54Wait.
02:57He pulled a yellowed torn page from the back of the drawer.
03:00She missed one page.
03:02I don't know if you still want it.
03:04I suddenly realized the next target Lily would set her sights on was someone right beside me.
03:11The most beautiful prom princess in school, Lily, turned into the girl everyone hated overnight.
03:15What broke her even more was that the mark on her face kept getting worse.
03:18No matter what cream she used, nothing worked.
03:21The face she used to be so proud of was completely ruined.
03:24If they also drink the special milk, their beauty can be taken too.
03:30The curse still worked.
03:31Very soon, she set her sights on my roommate, Bella.
03:34A week later, Lily came back to school and deliberately stopped Bella.
03:37Bella, can I talk to you for a second?
03:40Uh, sure.
03:41What's wrong?
03:42Lily took the chance right away.
03:43First, she praised Bella for being pretty.
03:45Then Lily said she had wanted to be friends with her since the first day of school.
03:48After a few lines, Belly's guard really did came down.
03:51You know, Allie and I have always been good friends.
03:53But this misunderstanding has pushed us further and further apart.
03:56Then Lily took out two small cartons of milk and placed them on the table in front of Bella.
04:01I want to apologize to Allie, but she won't even see me right now.
04:04Could you help me bring this milk to her?
04:06The other one is for you.
04:08Just say it's from you.
04:09Don't mention me.
04:11If she hears I bought it, she'll never take it.
04:13Bella looked at the milk on the table and hesitated.
04:16Lily's eyes turned red right away.
04:19Seeing that, Bella finally softened and hid the smile she couldn't hold back.
04:24But she had no idea.
04:25I was standing not far away, and I had heard every single word she said.
04:34When I backed to the dorm, I didn't expose Lily's lie right away.
04:38Bella, I saw a student ID in the lost and found box.
04:41The name looked like yours.
04:42You should go check.
04:43Oh.
04:44Okay.
04:45Thanks, Allie.
04:49While she was gone for those few minutes,
04:51I quickly took out two expired cartons of milk I had prepared ahead of time.
04:55And swapped them with the milk on the table.
05:00Are you sure you saw it, Allie?
05:02I can't seem to find anything.
05:04Maybe I saw it wrong.
05:06All right.
05:07Maybe it got lost back at home.
05:09She picked up one carton and handed it to me.
05:11I didn't take it.
05:12I just looked at her quietly.
05:14Bella got uncomfortable under my stare.
05:16After a few seconds, she finally admitted it.
05:18Okay.
05:19Lily gave it to me.
05:20She said she wanted to apologize to you, so she asked me to bring it.
05:23After saying that, Bella pushed the other bottle toward me, too.
05:27She wanted me to take both of them.
05:29Check the production date first.
05:31Lily loves cheap deals.
05:33She always buys stuff close to the expiration date.
05:35And after she buys them, who knows how long she keeps them before giving them to other people.
05:39I drank it a few times because we were friends.
05:41Every time I got a stomachache.
05:46After Bella realized the milk was expired, her face looked terrible.
05:50Maybe she really didn't know it was expired.
05:52I didn't force her to immediately take my side.
05:55Instead, I handed her my phone.
05:57On the screen were the records I had been keeping this whole time.
06:00The times Lily gave me milk every day,
06:01the way Martha's sores slowly faded,
06:04and the comparison of Lily's rash getting worse.
06:06But when you put them together, it was way too abnormal.
06:08The more Bella looked, the more panicked she became.
06:10She sat on the bed and didn't say anything for a long time.
06:12She had always wanted to believe people were kind,
06:14so the truth hurt her even more than the betrayal itself.
06:16Then why did she choose me?
06:18I had actually thought about that question a long time ago.
06:21Lily wouldn't choose someone at random.
06:23Lily didn't choose Bella because Bella was the easiest to fool.
06:26She chose her because Bella was clean enough.
06:28She had few friends and...
06:30a low profile.
06:31If she suddenly became ugly,
06:33people would only think she was under too much stress.
06:36Or they would think something was wrong with her body.
06:40What can I do to help you?
06:41Protect yourself.
06:43What Lily wants most right now is to get back at everyone.
06:46Don't meet her alone.
06:47Don't drink anything she gives you.
06:49And don't pass messages for her.
06:51That night, Bella took the initiative and messaged Lily.
06:55She said she had already gave me the milk.
06:57Before long, Lily finally showed her ugly true face.
07:00Bella stared at that line,
07:01and her fingers trembled slightly.
07:03At Naka, she drawn you believed it completely.
07:06Lily had only seen her as a next-she-could-use person.
07:08And so I looked at the phone screen.
07:10I knew the Thayhole counterattack could draw you eyedurst.
07:14The next day, Lily's face hadn't gotten any better.
07:17She immediately realized her plan had failed.
07:19Furious, she dragged me into the small woods behind the school.
07:23The moment she opened her mouth,
07:24she blamed everything on me.
07:27Bitch, I turned into this because of you!
07:30Why are you still alive?
07:32Me?
07:32Please.
07:33You turned into this because of your damn curse.
07:36The anger on her face froze instantly.
07:39She stared at me like she was truly scared for the first time.
07:42Lily finally understood.
07:44Her biggest trump card had been seen through by me a long time ago.
07:48But she couldn't accept it.
07:51She had been so close to being with Ethan.
07:54She had been so close to reaching the life she had always dreamed of.
07:58But all of it had been shattered by my own hands.
08:01Why would you do this to me?
08:03I had friends, attention, and a future.
08:06But you just had to take it all from me!
08:08The ridiculous part was, she actually believed I had taken something from her.
08:12But she forgot the simplest thing.
08:15Those things were never hers to begin with.
08:17Until she had fooled even herself.
08:21Allie, if I threw you in there tonight, how long do you think it would take for your body to
08:25wash away?
08:30As soon as she finished speaking, footsteps suddenly came from deep in the woods.
08:33A few punks with brightly dyed hair stepped out of the shadows.
08:36They had clearly been waiting there the whole time.
08:39Just as those punks started closing in on me, my phone suddenly slipped out of my pocket.
08:43The screen was still on.
08:45It wasn't a regular recording.
08:46It was the emergency help screen, already dialing out.
08:50Lily's face changed instantly.
08:53She immediately rushed over, trying to stomp on it.
08:56But I bent down first and picked it up.
09:00Lily, didn't you want to know why I dared to come in here with you?
09:04From the moment she dragged me into the woods, I had already turned on my phone location.
09:09Bella also knew exactly where I was.
09:11More importantly, this wasn't outside the school.
09:15It was the maintenance area behind the athletic field.
09:18Security patrols come through here every afternoon.
09:21Lily clearly hadn't expected me to be prepared.
09:23She gritted her teeth and told those punks to grab me.
09:26But when they heard the word security, their steps clearly hesitated.
09:31Seeing that, Lily completely panicked.
09:34She pulled a small glass bottle out of her pocket.
09:37Inside was a little pinkish-white liquid.
09:39And hanging from the mouth of the bottle was that old silver spoon carved with symbols.
09:43I recognized it right away.
09:45It was what she had bought from the antique shop.
09:47Allie, since you ruined me, I'll drag you down to hell with me.
09:51Lily lunged at me, trying to force the liquid from the bottle into my mouth.
09:55I turned sideways and dodged.
09:56The bottle smashed beside the tree root.
09:58And the pinkish-white liquid spilled all over the ground.
10:01In that instant, the dead leaves on the ground curled up fast.
10:04Then they turned black.
10:10Just then, the security guard's shout finally came from outside the woods.
10:15Lily suddenly grabbed for the silver spoon.
10:17But the second her fingers touched the handle, a dark red mark appeared on her palm.
10:25Lily's scream startled the entire athletic field.
10:28When security rushed into the woods, she was already kneeling on the ground,
10:32gripping that silver spoon with all her strength.
10:34The dark red mark on her palm had spread up her arm.
10:37When those punks realized things had gone wrong, they immediately tried to run.
10:41Stop!
10:41But another security guard stopped them at the path entrance.
10:45Lily reacted fast.
10:47It was her.
10:48She asked me to come here.
10:50Allie said she wanted to talk.
10:53I thought she was finally willing to make peace with me.
10:56She cried so convincingly.
10:58And with the injury on her hand,
11:00several students who had rushed over immediately started whispering.
11:04Some even took out their phones to record.
11:07I didn't rush to defend myself.
11:08I simply handed my phone to the security guard.
11:12Inside was the complete recording.
11:14From Lily admitting the curse,
11:16to her threatening to throw me into the river,
11:18and then telling those punks to attack me.
11:21Every word was crystal clear.
11:23Lily's crying stopped instantly.
11:25But she still refused to give up.
11:29Suddenly, she looked up at those punks.
11:31She paid you to come here, didn't she?
11:34One of them was clearly scared by her.
11:39Stop lying!
11:41She had the chat records Lily had sent her before,
11:43and the photos of the two milk cartons before they were switched.
11:46You weren't trying to apologize.
11:49You asked me if I drank it.
11:51You just wanted to know if I had become your next victim.
11:54The next second, everyone around us went silent.
11:57Lily stared at her intensely.
11:58Just then, school officials arrived,
12:00and told everyone to go to the office immediately to explain what happened.
12:03But after I had only taken two steps,
12:05I suddenly heard a soft sound behind me.
12:08That old silver spoon rolled out of Lily's hand on its own,
12:12and stopped right beside my foot.
12:15Don't touch it!
12:21In the office, Lily sat across from me.
12:24There were still tears on her face.
12:26But when she spoke,
12:28she had already gone back to being the girl who knew how to perform.
12:31This was all a misunderstanding.
12:32I just wanted to apologize to Allie.
12:34I only brought people because I was scared.
12:36Allie has been really emotional lately.
12:37I didn't know what she might do.
12:38As for what I said in the recording,
12:40she forced me to say it.
12:42She kept leading me into saying those things.
12:44I had no choice.
12:45Bella was shaking with anger as she listened.
12:47But I never interrupted.
12:49Because I knew the more Lily explained now,
12:51the more holes she would leave.
12:53The school quickly pulled up the hallway security footage.
12:55The footage showed Lily was the one who led me towards the twids.
12:58It also showed those punks entered the back area of the school before we did.
13:01They weren't passing by by chance.
13:03They had been waiting there ahead of time.
13:04Then the school resource officer asked who had contacted them.
13:07One of them finally couldn't take the pressure.
13:10Lily.
13:11Lily contacted us.
13:12She lost.
13:13Finally realized this wasn't something she could cry her way out of.
13:17The principal made the decision on the spot.
13:19Until the investigation was over,
13:22Lily would not be allowed inside the school building.
13:25Those punks would also be handed over to the police.
13:30But just when everyone thought it was over,
13:32the counselor suddenly walked in with Lily's bag.
13:36She took a small makeup mirror out of the bag.
13:39And on the back of the mirror was Bella's photo.
13:43The moment she saw the photo, Bella intinctively looked at the mirror.
13:47That's when she realized there really was a faint bluish shadow under her eyes.
13:50And on the inside of my wrist, a thin black line appeared too.
13:54It felt like something was tying the two of us together all over again.
13:57I immediately took Bella to Martha.
13:59She's already started forcing the exchange.
14:01But she forgot one thing.
14:02What mirror exchange fears most is injection.
14:05It's having the truth exposed in front of everyone.
14:08That was when I understood what the curse was really afraid of.
14:11The contract had to stay hidden inside a lie.
14:14As long as the victim didn't know something was being taken from them,
14:16it could keep feeding.
14:17But once the caster's desire and methods were exposed,
14:21the curse would lose its disguise.
14:22And in the end, it would turn back on the one who cast it.
14:26That night, the school held a disciplinary hearing.
14:28I laid every piece of evidence out on the table.
14:31I pressed charges against Lissy for intentional harm.
14:34She finally had nothing left to say.
14:37The principal announced on the spot that Lily was being expelled.
14:40All the evidence would also be turned over to the police.
14:44Her mother broke down and demanded to know why she had done it.
14:48But Lily suddenly ripped off her mask,
14:50revealing a face covered in rashes and soils.
14:53Because I couldn't accept it.
14:55Why does she get to be liked by everyone without even trying?
14:59I was just taking back what should have been mine.
15:02The moment she finished speaking,
15:03the mirror on the wall suddenly cracked.
15:05A black line crawled from Lily's palm up towards her neck.
15:07The beauty she had stolen peeled away little by little in front of everyone.
15:10At the same time, the black line on my wrist disappeared completely.
15:12And the bluish shadow under Bella's eyes slowly faded too.
15:15A few days later, Martha burned that black old book.
15:18Along with the torn pages, the silver spoon, and the broken mirror.
15:21As the flames rose,
15:23I finally felt the shadow from my past life lifting off me too.
15:26I finally understood that what truly belonged to me
15:29was never other people's love,
15:31and it was never a pretty face either.
15:33It was the version of me that could always stand back up,
15:36no matter how many times things were taken from me.
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