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.

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

stood there, stunned for a moment. After a while, she pushed her way through the crowd, thinking they must have made a mistake. But when she saw Elysia’s name in the first place her eyes widened in disbelief and

her heart sinking. She checked again and again, but the name in the first place remained the same–Elysia. She wondered if everything

Liberal Arts students were all puzzled. The top spot was taken by a STEM student, not one of

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

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they stared, the more it felt familiar like they’d heard it somewhere before. Then it hit them–this was the

yesterday was she got booted. They just couldn’t wrap their heads around how someone who got the boot could still pull off

top dog in your STEM classes?” a Liberal Arts student tugged on

the STEM student said, glancing

Liberal Arts student chimed

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

out of their daze and huddled around the Liberal Arts notice board. Seeing her name again,

couldn’t believe her eyes. ‘Elysia nailed first in both STEM and Liberal Arts exams? Seriously? How is this even possible?‘

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with the rankings since their grades were pretty

few who cared were the ones hanging near the bottom, worried they’d get the boot from Class 1. So, at this point, most

never given two hoots about rankings before, but this time was different. She wanted to know where

nobody. If he saw Elysia’s ranking, he’d write Elysia off as no big deal, not worth a

replied, not even lifting his gaze from the foreign classic in his hands.

at the top of the heap. What’s the point?”

“I was just

his eyes flickering with interest. He paused,

she watched him, thinking, ‘Why does he get that look when I bring up

untouchable genius. He used to be so cool and distant. Why would he be into

a guy who’d gone to check the rankings came rushing back into the classroom, hollering at the top of his lungs, This is bad, Justin! You came in second this time!”