Pampered By Power: The True Heiress Returns

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Elysia felt a warm glow inside. Her cousin Logan had been a source of comfort during his time here, something she’d never experienced in the Rosewood family.

But he had his own home, far from Sivro, and he’d eventually have to return to it.

Though she felt a pang of sadness, Elysia kept a light and easy expression on her face. “Don’t worry! No one can push me around,” she said with a smile.

“Right! If there’s one thing about you that’s just like me, it’s that you never let a grudge go!” Logan said with a grin, giving her a playful nudge.

Elysia raised an eyebrow at Logan’s words, thinking, ‘Is he really complimenting me?‘

The next morning, Emma woke up early. Today was the day the monthly exam results were posted at school, something she’d been looking forward to for a long time.

The thought of seeing Elysia humiliated made her even more smug, her smile brighter than usual.

They arrived at school together but went their separate ways after getting out of the car. Emma watched Elysia walk away, her brow furrowing.

Emma thought, ‘She’s not heading to the bulletin board. Is Elysia not going to check the results? Maybe she’s too scared to face how badly she did. How naive! Does she think if she doesn’t look, it won’t be real? Impossible!‘

Emma was sure that once everyone saw Elysia’s abysmal scores, her shady deals would be exposed, and everyone would know she was a dropout. Then, no matter who was backing Elysia, they wouldn’t be able to defend her under pressure.

But Emma’s plan was doomed to fail. She pushed her way to the notice board and searched for a long time, but she couldn’t find Elysia’s name among the bottom ranks. ‘Where could she be Why isn’t her name at the back?‘ she thought.

She couldn’t believe it and was about to search again when she heard someone in the crowd exclaim, “Justin’s not first place?!”

This caused a stir among the students checking the results. They all rushed to see who was at the top, and there it was- Elysia’s name in the first place.

They could hardly believe it. Justin, the top student who had held the number one spot for six years straight, was now second.

place was Elysia, the student everyone whispered about for supposedly getting in through connections. It was hard

they must have made a mistake. But when she

Emma thought, her heart sinking. She checked again and again, but the name

another notice board, the Liberal Arts students were all puzzled. The top spot was taken

at the “STEM Class 6 Grade 12” in the class column, thinking, ‘How’d a STEM

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the name, and the more they stared, the more it felt familiar like they’d heard it somewhere before. Then it hit them–this was the girl everyone had been talking about

got booted. They just couldn’t wrap their heads around how someone who got the boot

STEM classes?” a Liberal Arts student tugged on a

student said,

Liberal Arts student chimed

this, the STEM student dashed over to the Liberal Arts notice board. Seeing Elysia’s name at the top, he exclaimed again, “Dude! She’s killing it in both Liberal Arts and

from Elysia’s top spot, snapped out of their daze and huddled around the Liberal

believe her eyes. ‘Elysia nailed first in both STEM and Liberal Arts exams?

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the rankings since their grades were pretty steady and didn’t

1. So, at this point, most of Class 1 was still in the dark about the shake–up

about

wasn’t up to his level was a nobody. If he saw Elysia’s ranking, he’d write Elysia off as no big deal, not worth a

even lifting his gaze from the foreign classic in his

teasing, “Bianca, does Justin really need to check He always stays at the top of the heap. What’s the point?” “Yeah, Justin’s the brainiac. Does it

“I was just thinking we should check Elysia’s ranking, because… she used to be in our

finally looked up, his eyes

that look when I bring up Elysia? Could it be he’s

distant. Why would he be

rushing back into the classroom, hollering at the top of his lungs, This is bad, Justin! You came in second this time!”