Devil's Prisoner of Love by Prefer

Chapter 894: It Was Out of Jealousy

Words spoken without intention often hurt the most. Every day, Solene treated Aveline as her lifelong rival, constantly wracking her brain for ways to surpass her.

Even though she wasn't as exceptional or as beautiful as Aveline, at least her name always appeared right behind hers in the monthly exam rankings. Surely, Aveline must have noticed her by now, right?

Solene poured all her energy into her grades. She had no way of knowing that Aveline didn't care about grades at all.

For most people, studying hard meant a chance at getting into a good university, earning a decent degree, and securing a respectable job in the future. But for someone like Aveline, born into wealth and privilege, grades were irrelevant.

For her, attending school was merely something to do at her age. It wasn't about achieving anything. The very thing Solene valued most was nothing more than a mundane routine to Aveline, who didn't even bother to keep track of her own rankings-let alone care who came in second or third.

"I'm Solene. Do you not know me?" Solene would have preferred it if Aveline had yelled at her. Anything would have been better than the blank, unfamiliar look Aveline

wore.

"Solene? You're not in our class, are you? I don't think I've ever seen you before. Why did you put thumbtacks in my shoes?" Aveline looked at the plainly-dressed girl in front of her with genuine confusion. Her first thought was that Solene must have been set up by someone else to take the blame.

One look at Solene's outfit, so different from the designer ensembles worn by girls like Liora, was enough to tell Aveline that this girl came from a simpler background. She wore a modest shirt, oversized glasses, and had the unmistakable look of a model student who cared only about her books.

It was almost impossible to associate her with someone capable of something malicious. Solene gave off the impression of a girl who lived in her own world, buried in textbooks, oblivious to everything else.

voice trembling. She had spent so long viewing Aveline as her opponent, but to realize that

her would make Aveline feel some pressure. But now, she realized Aveline couldn't care less about her. All her efforts felt

asked, bewildered. If this had been Celestia or Liora, at least there would have been some reasoning-like their crush on Orion. But Solene? She didn't seem like the kind of person

her memory, trying to recall if they'd ever crossed paths before. Had she done something to offend Solene? But no matter how hard she thought, she couldn't figure

Solene! Don't say any more!" Lee, Solene's father, suddenly interjected. He thought of the lengths Julian and Aurora would go to protect their daughter and knew they wouldn't let this slide if they learned the

noticed for the first time that Lee's face

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name during the entrance exam, I made up my mind to surpass you in the next monthly test. I studied so hard, but you still beat me by dozens of points. I

an entire month, I stayed up every night until two or three in the morning,

hard, every moment of every day, but no matter what I do, I still lose to you. If you were putting in the same effort as me, I wouldn't feel this way. But you don't even try! You're distracted by things like

so unfair? Why does someone like you, who already has such a beautiful face, also

take a break, I would think