***** Outside the gate of the incredibly expensive and massive King Stars's Hotel. It has bright lights illuminating the surroundings, giving it the impression of daytime despite the lateness of the hour. The place was still bustling with beautiful cars that were entering the hotel compound and leaving, despite how late it already was. In a corner there, Lara could be seen glaring ferociously at someone who was sobbing hysterically on the ground right now. “You bastard! To think that I, too, have found myself fortunate just like Sister Rebecca with a man! Meanwhile, everything was a mere facade!” She growled beneath her voice with nothing but hatred, forcing herself not to yell. “I believed in you useless piece of garbage! Trusting that you would be able to provide the life I have always envisioned for me, only to realize that you were nothing but a useless and disgusting servant!” Lara was filled to the brim with so much disgust, gazing at the weeping man before her at this mo
*****“God… I can eventually die peacefully now. I have finally seen the most beautiful thing on earth.”“You this brat! How dare you speak about dying to my ears? Is your butt itching you or do you see me as a great joke?”“I… I… mother, but… but isn’t dying after seeing such a beautiful place like this one which I’ve never known existed in my entire life such a great thing.”“You this brat. Get here right now. Bring me that your little butt!!!”“Ah!!! Mother! I…I… I’m sorry, please forgive me!!”Watching his mother and sister, his mother particularly in a state of excitement and with the playful demeanor that he had never in his entire life felt from her before, Mark could not measure the present joy that was booming out of him.Both his heart and mind were filled massively, but then he felt that life would forever be a beautiful thing if his mother could no longer worry about how he and his sister would eat, how they would live, what they would wear, and how they would survi
*****(Sniff. Sniff. Sniff.)“Yum… so yummy! How could food smell this nice?!”“Brother, if you do not wake up right at this moment, I will finish the entire meal.”“Mean… wait, meal?”The eyes of Mark, who was still sound asleep and had merely been speaking in his slumber, reacting to the food’s fragrance snapped open and then he sat upright the subsequent moment.“Food, where?”He inquired with a start, but then he gave his sister a helpless gaze.Standing before his bed right now was his junior sister, who was holding a small plate of soup and gently nibbling on a slice of meat that was in her other hand, acting elegant as though she hadn’t just been mischievous.Mark, of course, understood what his sister had done.She had clearly brought the plate of soup closer to his nose, which was the reason behind his sudden hard sniff.Since this wasn’t the first time, wait. Since it wasn’t even the one-hundredth time that his sister had done this to him and had always won him, M
*****Both Dami and her mother immediately glanced in Mark’s direction as soon as his voice sounded, and then a joyful look directly filled Dami’s eyes, knowing that for her brother to have said what he just did, there was already a solution to her dilemma, but to be certain, Dami hurriedly open her mouth.“Do you mean what you just say, brother? We don’t need to leave yet?”“Mmm.” Mark nodded his head while his mother shook her head.“No way, son. It wouldn’t paint our picture well to the good Samaritan who let us stay in this hotel, instead, continuing staying would only make us appear as a family of greedy people to them.” She quickly interjected.“But mother, wouldn’t it paint our picture even more negatively if we were to check out when the old man had paid for more than one night for us?”His sister’s cast-down emotion upon hearing his mother’s retorting to Mark immediately dispersed and gave way to a massive joy upon hearing Mark’s response.She hurriedly gave her mother
***** First City’s College was the school for both the children of the low-class and middle-class families of Rex City, and no children of a high-class family would ever study there, why?It was the first university in the entire country that was created for the sole purpose of teaching the children whose parents couldn’t afford the high tuition of the first colleges that were created back in the day.Back then, the world only favored the rich and not the poor in any way, not that it was any better now, though. But back in the day, people from poor families didn’t have even the slightest privilege to study, given how there were not many schools in the country, and the few ones available could only be attended by the children of wealthy, influential, and powerful families, given its incredibly high tuition.Rex City was the first city to change this tradition, putting the members of the poor families into consideration and building a school that fit the purses of their families
*****After entering the classroom, nobody noticed Mark at first, until he took more than five steps inside the massive classroom that resembles a theater, with everywhere rowdy at this moment, everybody playing and gossiping as there was no lecturer there yet.As soon as he took the fifth step, someone gasped with shock and disbelief, noticing Mark.“Guys, look, are my eyes deceiving me? Is that person the poor and broke-ass nigga or do we now have a look-alike, who was from a wealthy background in the class now?”Mark’s eyes immediately shot at the speaker. It was a lady whose eyes were filled with disbelief for a moment before finally, she realized that it was really Mark, and immediately, her face first changed to a shocked and disbelief expression before finally, her eyes became filled with mockery, seeing Mark looking at her.‘How could this bastard become this handsome? Where did he see that beautiful cloth that fits him perfectly and shows even his elegance more?’ She tho
*****Mark, “_”Mark again, “_”He couldn’t react for a moment after hearing the bully’s order, but then suddenly, his lips curled up and then “Hahahaha!!”He burst into a peal of crazy laughter, startling everybody badly.Mark laughed crazily for a long time as though he had just heard the greatest joke of all time, making even the bully himself not know how to react for a moment.“What was funny?” The bully finally inquired darkly after Mark was done, but then Mark gazed at him with a smiling face.“You are joking, right? Your joke was very funny! Hahahaha!”Mark laughed hard again, with drops of tears even falling from his eyes.He only stopped after a moment before he eventually shook his head, and then he walked passed the bully, chuckling again.Everybody was thunderstruck and wasn’t even able to react till now, realizing that Mark had actually just mocked one of the greatest tyrants in First City.Their mouths opened with shock as though they wanted to swallow flies
*****“I ask, what’s going on here?” The sweet melodious voice that could melt the heart of anybody and everybody who heard it sounded again and then finally, everybody in the classroom understood what had happened.Their homeroom teacher was in the class.All the boys who had been seated hurriedly composed themselves before glancing in her direction and their hearts began to beat in a disorderly manner once they saw her.As for the group of bullies, especially their leader, a look of helplessness first appeared in his eyes before turning into deep fury, then he glared fiercely at Mark with killing intent, acting as though he would have shot him to death if he had laser beams in his eyes.After a moment, however, the deep fury was gone and replaced with a sheepish and flattering smile, and then the bully hurriedly turned his attention in the direction where the voice had originated.It belonged to an otherworldly beautiful lady whose age did not seem to be beyond twenty-two to