The Queen They Buried

Chapter 262

Even the usually indifferent Trevor could not help but look twice. ‘If she had this kind of talent all along, why bother with those stunts before? he thought. ‘Guess you never really know your potential until you’re pushed.

Carmen had not expected to score so high on the SAT–she cried out in excitement. Daxton immédiately swept her into a hug and exclaimed, “Carmen, you’re incredible!”

Alice’s face flushed with excitement. “And that’s with Carmen only putting in effort toward the end. If she’d taken it seriously from the start, she might’ve been this year’s top art student!”

Alice wasted no time spreading the good news to her social circle, expecting nothing but admiration and envy. But things did not go quite as she had imagined.

“Alice, this is your daughter, Aubree, right?”

The person on the other end sent over a news link. Alice did not even have to open it–the headline alone was enough to sting her eyes.

“One–Year Stunning Comeback: Rithol High School prodigy Aubree Miller scores 1570 on the SAT and ranks 3rd in Rithol City’s STEM standings.”

Aubree was not valedictorian, but that headline drew more attention than the article about the actual valedictorian.

her own

achievement to her record. Considering she had only switched to full–time academics a year ago, even a score of 1200 would have been

on her phone, but the

in an instant, plunging the entire

not even the top scorer, yet she shone brighter than the one who was! ‘Aubree only studied for a year–how on earth did she do this?‘ Carmen

“Maybe it’s just someone with the same name,” she murmured, clinging to that last bit of

down, her expression turned cold the moment she saw the photo–Aubree standing outside the exam hall, radiant and carefree, beaming as she

breaking news alerts popped

The third–highest scorer is also the only high schooler in history

to academics in just

Biology–her only

perfect–score essay, A Fleeting Dream of a Lifetime, has been released. Experts praised it as a haunting glimpse

they read the news. They

academic subjects from the very beginning, just how astonishing would her achievements have been?‘

two points ahead of her. And to think she had only been studying for a year–yet in that same year, she also