*****(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
*****“Is that not our school’s pauper, whose girlfriend had just cheated upon a few days ago and he was still the one beaten because of it?”“Wow!!! Wasn’t it said that he might not return to our school again from then on, how could he still be here?”“What do you expect from a down-to-earth pauper? They used to know no pride, hahaha.”“What a shameless fool. But guy, look at him, all the wounds on his body seemed to have disappeared, where had they vanished to?”“Who cares about where they had disappeared? I just know that he is a shameless fool and a disappointment to the male world.”As it was the end of the first lecture of that day, there were now students filling the school’s premises that had been devoid of any, when Mark had just gotten to school the other time.All the present students were currently pointing at Mark and gossiping about him in a hushed manner, most of them with mockery tones.Honestly, they might not have even noticed Mark this quickly in the first p
***** “Please, have your seat, mister Mark.” As soon as they were inside the teacher’s office, a not particularly big office that despite its minimal decoration, was very neat and beautiful, the beautiful and elegant teacher gestured at the seat in front of her desk and echoed with her beautiful melodious voice. Mark nodded his head, then not feeling anything special about being in the office that every single male student and teacher of the school had been dying to enter since the first day teacher Sharon began to work there, as it would signify that they had won and taken the lead over all the other male students and teachers in the school, the reason behind the entire students’ unwillingness at Mark’s getting invited to the beauty’s office, Mark gently took his seat. Honestly, had it been in the past, probably some days ago that Mark got invited like this, he’d have become the happiest man on earth and he would have even become proud of himself, feeling everybody’s envy and ange