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.

gritted her teeth, her voice trembling. She had spent so long viewing Aveline as her opponent, but to realize that she didn't even register in

that even if she couldn't overtake Aveline for now, at least her constant presence right behind her would make Aveline feel some pressure. But now, she realized Aveline couldn't care less about her. All her efforts felt

crush on Orion. But Solene? She didn't seem like the kind of person who would be distracted by anything outside of

before. Had she done something to offend Solene? But no matter how hard she thought, she couldn't figure out

Julian and Aurora would go to

noticed for the first

Leave the rest to me." Lee was determined to shoulder

didn't look like a troublemaker, they also knew that if she was truly behind this,

might be missing out on the complete story. Head over there to dive into

can leave? Not so fast. If she's your daughter, then you must know exactly what happened. Tell

Solene's courage faltered. The rumors about Aveline's father being a janitor

to try, and you can still easily top the entire

up my mind to surpass you in the next monthly test. I studied so hard,

two or three in the morning, determined to overtake you in the midterms. But once again, you scored so

was devastated. I've worked so 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

does someone like you, who already has such

a break, I would think about whether you were studying