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.

provided an explanation for Catherine. He said, ” Liana, you got it wrong this time. Catherine agreed to participate because our homeroom teacher enthusiastically invited her. When I was in the office earlier, our homeroom teacher said she had finally convinced Catherine. She’s delighted that Catherine

teacher had summoned Catherine out of

moment, they had been speculating about what Catherine had done to make their usually mild-mannered homeroom teacher suddenly call her into the office. Now, they realized the

everyone understood what had happened. David led the applause and

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

throughout the classroom. Catherine still lounged lazily in her seat. She looked uninterested. It

by adoring classmates and was like a queen, a venomous hatred surged

Catherine were like sharp knives plunging into Liana’s heart with each word. Everything used to belong to Liana, whether in the

were meant for her. She was the family’s pride, even in the Swanns, where boys were traditionally favored. She

since Catherine’s arrival, everything had changed, and Liana couldn’t accept it. Liana thought Catherine had taken away everything that had once belonged to her. She swore to herself that she would

it seemed that Catherine could see through

made her highly uncomfortable. Finally, she hastily left the scene. Catherine had been keeping an eye

intentions all toChapter

to the Duncan Corporation was indeed not ordinary news. Branden had wanted

matter how much the cost, he would take the exclusive rights. Hacker Alliance, one of the largest chip bases in the world,

for Carlo to

intention. Branden wanted to put Carlo Duncan in charge of this matter.

rest assured. Otherwise, he worried he might not have enough

seemed to remember something and suddenly turned

Duncan, do you think it could be related to Miss Swann?” Although they were not sure what Catherine’s relationship with the Hacker Alliance was, since she knew Joseph, she must have a connection with it. Just as he finished speaking, before Branden could respond, Paxton denied

should not be possible. After all, the matter about chips is important, and only the Hacker Alliance’s decision- makers can make

his gaze coldly examining the document Paxton had handed him. At the end of

out for a

Bryan looked at Catherine with concern, wondering what the homeroom teacher suddenly wanted from

up gracefully and dragged her body lazily along with the homeroom

handed Catherine a chair, Catherine sat down immediately. She lazily leaned back in the chair

the homeroom teacher of Class 7 also walked in and recognized Catherine immediately. Since the last celebration gala, no one would not

She had long heard about Catherine’s deeds and

appearance, Class 8 had stolen all the limelight from Class 7. The homeroom

she entered the office, she saw Catherine sitting lazily on the chair without

7 immediately became angry. She looked at the homeroom teacher of Class 8 and said sarcastically, “Miss

had an expressionless face and

lot of grudges between her and the homeroom teacher of Class 7, and she didn’t make

and her homeroom teacher’s silence did not make the homeroom teacher of Class 7 stop being sarcastic

Catherine, ” There are all kinds of students nowadays. Some students don’t even have the right sitting or standing posture and come to school to sleep all day long. This

she said was extremely unpleasant. Just as Catherine was about to retort her, her homeroom teacher suddenly stood up. She looked straight at the homeroom teacher

she does not do well, I will advise her. As teachers, aren’t you going too far in making

homeroom teacher of Class 7 was furious at those words and was planning to

your class and improve their grades when you have

hit