Jade opened the gallery on her phone and pulled up a video she’d recorded just hours earlier.

It captured Jasmine stepping gingerly over a fire basin, only to be struck with a switch by the butler, Lorenzo. The angle Jade had chosen was deliberate—designed to make Jasmine look clumsy, foolish.

With a satisfied smirk tugging at her lips, Jade forwarded the clip to a group chat. Every member of the group belonged to Avonport City's high society—a circle of elite ...