All Her Secrets By Chestnut

Chapter 264 Change Her Mind

It had been a while since Catherine had spoken. In Ronin’s mind, this pretty much confirmed Catherine’s refusal to participate in the upcoming national art competition. But then, to everyone’s surprise, Catherine suddenly spoke up.

“Does anyone know how long this competition will last?” she inquired. Both Ronin and Bryan were taken aback, especially Ronin.

However, Bryan knew more about the competition, so Ronin didn’t reply, and Bryan responded to Catherine.

“Boss, the competition consists of preliminaries, semi-finals, and the grand finals. It’ll take about a month. They’ve streamlined the competition this year, and there’s a rule that the top three in the preliminaries can bypass the semi-finals and go straight to the grand finals.”

The competition wasn’t an everyday affair. To accommodate student participants, it was scheduled on weekends to accommodate student participants, except for the special grand finals.

Bryan handed the competition schedule to Catherine. Coincidentally, the reality show that Audrey was part of had to make a substitution due to her injury, which gave Catherine time to participate on the weekends.

After calculating the timing, in front of Ronin and Bryan, Catherine made her decision. “Arrange everything. We’re participating in the competition.”

Bryan and Ronin exchanged glances in surprise. They wondered why Catherine had suddenly changed her mind. Catherine leaned back in her chair. With her arms crossed, she glanced at the two of them. “Any problems?”

They both shook their heads in unison. “No problem, Boss. We’ll follow your lead.”

Bryan had never been interested in these things but hadn’t had much fun at the celebration gala. If it meant cooperating with Catherine and the others again, he was more than willing.

As for Ronin, he always followed Catherine’s orders without question. If Catherine wanted to participate, he would participate. It was as simple as that.

In Ronin’s view, Obedience to Catherine was above all else. By the afternoon, news of Catherine and their group’s participation in the competition had spread throughout Class 8.

David and the others were so excited that they banged on their desks and cheered. “Catherine, Bryan, you can count on us. When the time comes, we’ll cheer you on with all our might!” David exclaimed.

George, who was standing by, looked at them and chuckled. He said, “Our class is truly honored this time. There are only three slots for the whole school, and we have two!” Ronin turned his head and glanced at George. “Two?”

“Yeah. One of them is Liana. The sisters from the Swanns are exceptional, and each one is better than the other,” George explained. As George was speaking, Liana happened to pass by.

The somewhat clueless George stopped Liana and stared at her warmly. “Liana, Catherine agreed to participate in the competition, so our chances of winning just got better, don’t you think?”

When Catherine heard Liana’s name, she glanced up and saw Liana standing there with a forced smile next to George. Liana appeared calm but was actually on the brink of exploding with anger. It amused Catherine.

Liana had endured a lot over the years to maintain the image of a high-born young lady. Liana’s patience was truly remarkable.

Before passing by this spot, Liana had already heard the news. She remembered that Catherine had initially refused to participate, and now Catherine had changed her mind. She thought inwardly, “Does this jinx want to hog the limelight?

“She is born to oppose me. She is such an infuriating jinx. “As for the damn George, why does he embarrass me like this?”

Liana was seething inside but had to maintain a gentle and composed demeanor. She looked at Catherine and casually asked, “Catherine, I heard you declined to join the national competition last time. You claimed you weren’t interested. Why the sudden change? Is it because you discovered this competition will be broadcast globally, and you want more people to know you?”

She was trying to convey that Catherine was flip-flopping for fame.

said, ” Liana, you got it wrong this time. Catherine agreed to participate because our homeroom teacher enthusiastically invited her. When I was in

the morning, their homeroom teacher had

to make their usually mild-mannered homeroom teacher suddenly call her into the office. Now, they

what had happened. David led the applause and said, ” Catherine, you really considered

a modest person. She is willing to lead Bryan into battle for our school’s honor. We

that moment, applause thundered throughout the classroom. Catherine still lounged lazily in her seat.

and was

sharp knives plunging into Liana’s heart with each word. Everything used to belong to Liana, whether in the Swanns or Class 8. She used

the family’s pride, even in the Swanns, where boys were traditionally favored. She was more precious than her two other

away everything that had once belonged to

up toward Catherine She didn’t expect that Catherine was also sizing her up. Their eyes met, and it seemed that Catherine could see through Liana’s soul. Catherine hadn’t done anything, but it was as if Catherine had struck Liana’s heart, which made Liana instinctively

raced, and she felt inexplicably flustered. This feeling made her highly uncomfortable. Finally, she hastily left the scene. Catherine had been keeping an eye on Liana’s reactions. A

intentions all toChapter 263 Whether to Participate or

Corporation was indeed not ordinary news. Branden had wanted this chip for a long time and had been waiting for news to be released on

he would take the exclusive rights. Hacker Alliance, one of the largest chip bases in the world, actually took the initiative to release news to the Duncan Corporation, which was indeed

Carlo

Carlo Duncan in charge

assured. Otherwise, he worried he might not

was about to leave, he seemed to

think it could be related to Miss Swann?” Although they were not sure what Catherine’s relationship with the Hacker Alliance was,

chips is important, and only the Hacker Alliance’s decision- makers can

the process, his gaze coldly examining the document Paxton had handed him. At the end of class, the homeroom teacher of Class 8 suddenly went to

out for a

with concern, wondering what the homeroom teacher suddenly wanted

however, stood up gracefully and dragged her body lazily along with the homeroom teacher

Catherine a chair, Catherine sat down immediately. She lazily leaned

immediately. Since the last celebration gala, no

others, the homeroom teacher of Class 7 did not like Catherine. She had long heard about Catherine’s deeds and knew Catherine slept daily during class and led a group of students in playful

8 had stolen all the limelight from Class 7. The homeroom teacher of Class 7 had a lot of grievances about

office, she saw Catherine sitting

teacher of Class 8 and said sarcastically, “Miss Joyce, you have such a good temper.

had an

Class 8 sank. However, there were a lot of grudges between her and the homeroom teacher of Class 7, and she didn’t make any direct attacks considering their colleagues’

teacher of Class 7 stop being sarcastic but instead

are all kinds of students nowadays. Some students don’t even have the right sitting or standing posture and come to school to

up. She looked straight

Catherine is my student. If there is anything she does not do well, I will advise her. As teachers, aren’t you going too far in making such accusations

was furious at those words and was planning to hit back. However, she didn’t

take care of the students in your class and improve their grades when you have time so that you won’t be criticized

hit the