Part 3System Error: Seducing the Glitch

I spent days thinking. Chase doesn't like aggressive girls.

So, he must like the pure, innocent type.

I put on a modest white knee-length dress and went to the gala to find him.

The hall was packed, glasses clinking, people chatting.

I didn't need to search.

He was a natural protagonist. Standing in the center of the crowd, his aura was elegant and imposing. Impossible to ignore.

I started walking toward him, but someone blocked my path.

Sophia.

She swirled a glass of wine in her right hand.

She stepped up beside me, her lips curling into a vicious sneer.

"Ivy, Sebastian is mine."

I didn't care who the male lead belonged to. But when I saw her loosening her grip on the wine glass and grabbing my hand to pull herself backward...

I knew she was framing me.

It was a blind spot for the cameras. It would be her word against mine.

In a crisis, I instinctively looked for Chase. He used to help me with everything.

Luckily, he looked over right at that moment.

Unluckily, he looked amused. He watched me with a smile that screamed I don't care.

My heart sank.

I remembered what Chase told me. When he took over the body, he inherited Sebastian’s affection scores.

Sebastian’s score for Sophia was 65. For me, it was 60.

Chase is a System. He exists to execute rules.

Rules are everything.

So, he wouldn't help me.

...

I had to save myself.

In a split second, before Sophia’s glass hit the floor, I grabbed her arm and yanked.

I used the momentum to throw myself down.

Glass shattered.

Shards pierced my calf. Cutting skin, embedding into flesh.

It hurt like hell.

"Ah!"

People gasped. Heads turned.