Spoiler The price is your everything | 대가는 너희의 모든 것

luliibunny · Feb 28, 2024

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@luliibunny Based on the previous discussions, I would like to know if you would recommend the novel for reading
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I do.It's a great novel and the content is very rich and detailed.
"I will be the matriarch in this life" and "the villainess turns the hourglass" were like this too,so perhaps that's why I felt "the price is your everything" looked like a perfect mix of them.

Juju48 · Feb 28, 2024

luliibunny said: ↑

I do.It's a great novel and the content is very rich and detailed.
"I will be the matriarch in this life" and "the villainess turns the hourglass" were like this too,so perhaps that's why I felt "the price is your everything" looked like a perfect mix of them.
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I haven't read this but I liked both of those so I'm going to give this a try.

yuraalessia · Feb 28, 2024

I think Megara found she is not the of marquiss daughter got humilated at the party & end up to jail in the current timeline after she found dead in jail

Aisha_1213 · Feb 29, 2024

@luliibunny who is the villainous in this story and can you give a photo

BoredNovelFinder · Feb 29, 2024

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The story starts with the dethronment of the consort crown princess,Neris.Neris was the daughter of a low knight and a former noble lady that is a distant relative of the Elandria family.Neris possessed the special purple jewel eyes that symbolized the elandria family,so when her widow mother asked then for help paying her academy tuition,they helped them,and when Neris mother passed away,they adopted Neris as a daughter.Even so,there was nothing happy about Neris Truide life when she went to the academy.She was mistreated every day by her classmates.Once she became a princess of elandria,she was mistreated by the ducal family and the servants and forced to refine her manners and education in an abusive way.Then one day,she became the wife of the Crown prince as her family decided.And then,in the day of her wedding,the prince fell in love with her old classmate that bullied her,Megara Lyceandros and she had the responsibility of taking care of the Imperial family matters while he fooled around with her.

Neris lied,schemed and used people on behalf of the elandria ducal family and then for the imperial family,but all that came to her was betrayal once the elandria family fulfilled their long time ambition of becoming an independent kingdom.Once the imperial family got a hold of this,they were furious and Neris was locked in a tower accused of being a spy.Some time after,she heard the guards talking about how the crown prince will receive Princess Valentin Elandria as his new wife.She can hear the fireworks and noise from the celebration and the delegation of elandria in the outside.

Neris is hurt mentally and physically with her whole body aching from the torture and she wonders if she will be saved now,but then laughs at the ridiculous idea.If the imperial family was bold enough to lock her away,its because they know she is abandoned and so she is separated from elandria.

She hears someone approaching and her stepsister cheerfully greets her wearing the traditional golden dress of the imperial family that is passed to the consort princess and used to belong to Neris.Valentin always bullied Neris and the sisters couldn't be more differents.Neris is around thirty and because of the torture and dirty,she looks very bad,but she always looked like an old lady with her gloomy expression while Valentin,with her white hair and blue eyes, looked like the image of inoccence with her bright appearance that belonged to a person who was loved by everyone.

Valentin proceeded to shame Neris and asked if she was expecting Nelruision to save her and says that he is too busy with his new bride.Nelruision was the heir of Elandria and the only one who was kind and took care of her.Neris loved him as a man and even though they couldn't be together,she was sure he knew how she felt.She was the one to pull the strings so he would get engaged to Brigitte,the daughter of the current pope,so the elandria could have the support of the Vatican.When this was decided,Nelruision whispered to her that it was just a political marriage,but now Valentin reveals to her that Nelruision was the one that suggested they used her as an scapegoat while they build their kingdom,so she would hold Valentin position as the consort princess for a while.She reveals that the elandrias were responsible for her mother's early death.

Neris is angry and devastated by this.She tells Valentin they should at least let her leave by all the work she did for them,but Valentin says that's this isn't possible,since princess Camille told her that she should always see things to the end and told her to poison Neris.Neris is sad again because unlike the other members of imperial family,Camille always acknowledge Neris work and scolded her brother.Valentin becomes annoyed seeing neris beautiful jewel eyes shinning even in this situation and says that after the wedding,she will send Megara to a monastery,so Neris should think of this as a reward since she also hated megara and just die.She tells Nelruision's henchman,Joseph,to hold neris while Valentin feeds her the poison.

That was how Neris Bisto died,but he felt her body getting lighter and woke up in her childhood bedroom.She thought she was in heaven when she hears her mother's voice and hugged her,but it was too real and she realized she went back in time.Her mother asks if the tears are because she is worried about going to the academy and Neris flinched.The mother confess she is worried about sending her to a place full of noble children too and Neris realizes she never really thought about how heartbreaking it must have been to her mother to reach out to her stranded relatives and send her daughter far away.Neris is twelve years old now and her mother would die a few years after this.When she died in the previous timeline,her mother had been dead for twelve years already.Neris notices that her mother looks very young now and that she looked sickier everytime she went back home and that she probably was being threatened by the elandria to give neris to them.

She realizes that she can't just say she won't go the academy now and needs to take matter into her own hands so she can protect herself and her mom.She will take revenge.

All the members of aristocracy must send their children to the noble academy and children from knights can attend only if they can pay the tuition.The Noble academy is divided into Katar(magic,swordmanship,political science...) and Aine(general studies and theology)academy.Most girls attend Aine academy and take general studies to become fluent ladies.The noble academy was founded by princess Katherina,who was a defendant of education,many centuries ago and the town receive the name "kathen" in her honor,with many artists and even the saintess Zakaria giving support,and so the whole economy of the city is centered around the academy.(Sounds a little like hogwarts to me,they even have a hogsmeade)

She leaves for the academy the next day in a arduous trip and catches everybody eyes as she walks confidently by Kathen city,looking like a lady from a great family even though she dresses humbly,while most young students look confused trying to find the way to the academy.

A maid sees neris and calls her in a casual manner,but neris rebukes her saying she is the daughter of a knight,so she shouldn't be addressed in this manner and the maid hastily apologizes.She hears the laugh of a young girl coming from a carriage and the girl praises the way Neris handled her maid.(Ngl,I thought she was a villain at first XD)

They introduce themselves and the girl says her name is Diane McKinnon.Neris don't remember attending the academy with a member of the McKinnon family in the past,and also that they are a noble house recently created and while they are the biggest merchant ship,their influence decreased by the time she was adult,but they still managed to be in the top three.Diane offers to give neris a ride in exchange of her showing the way to the academy and so they go.Neris realizes that Diane is limp and her maid seems worried about her.She thinks it's not an unnecessary worry since children are easy to bully someone different.

At the academy,students council leader,Crown Prince Abelus Bisto,Neris husband in the past timeline,is giving a speech for the new students.Its about the three warriors that saved the empire.Those three warriors are ancestars of the Bisto,Elandria,and another famimy that wasn't mentioned yet.All those heroes had jewel eyes in a specific color to each family and with special powers,and was common to manifest at least once in every generation,but excluded from the imperial family,it didn't manifest in this way to the other families,with the elandria having their last jewel eyes member one century ago,probably because of this,the bisto family was chosen as the ruler.The current crown prince have blue eyes,and his older sister,Princess Camille does too,which is very rare to happen.Abelus knows that the reason he was chosen as heir instead of his smart older sister or his prudent younger sister,is because of the way he can control a crowd.

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He gives his speech and ask the students about it,and break the spirit of some that answer,because well,he needs to control them,put them in their place blah blah blah.He then gives megara the chance to answer and calls her by her first name, and she pretends to be slightly shy and answer in a smart way that praised the bisto family more and the prince is satisfied by her answer.He thinks there's many new students that could be useful for him in the future,then he notices in the midst of excited children,neris looks aloof and even angry at him in a moment,but she looks normal when he looks back.He thinks in the future she could become even more beautiful than Megara since her platinum blonde hair is more valued than Megara's honey blonde hair.(Die,pedo)There's another thing I should mention,in this setting,people with violet blue eyes,like megara,are rare and usually are associated with being descendants of a great family like elandria,but the real jewel eyes are of tyrian purple like Neris.For now,her eyes only have the color,and the jewel effect will manifest once she is older.

Also,fun fact about the tyran color:Tyrian purple is the world’s most expensive dye and was a very valuable thing in the ancient and medieval world due to the fact that the process of dye extraction was complex and time-consuming, requiring knowledge and skill.

Neris helps Diane walk in a bad pavemented ground at her request and they go together to be assigned to their dormrooms.Neris notices that kids are looking at Diane and asks if it's always like this,and Diane says only I'd they met her for the first time,but they get used fast.There are some teachers in the hall and one called Madame Hoffman is giving more attention to megara and other high hanking students,with many low ranking students looking unsure of how to ask help.Neris decides do ask help to a kind teacher called Madame alix and impresses her and Diane with her manners.Diane sadly separates from neris.

Neris actually already knew which dorm she was assigned and took a shortcut she used in the past.She wants to enjoy it before the other kids find it and start bullying her there like in the past.She is convinced that she will be bullied again and can't open it to Diane because even if she didn't stay longer to bully her before,she would certainly now.(I don't blame her for this mentality,,this girl spent almost twenty years being abused)

She meets Ren Fayel in the shortcut and when he grumpily talks to her,she asks if what he is munching isn't a forbidden item.Neris know who he is,the younger brother of the previous pope.He lived a good life before,but when the current pope overthrowned his brother,he devastated Ren whole family and he is alone now.Neris remember that in the past he died early because of addiction.Ren rebukes her and seeing her purple eyes,asks if she is Nelruision sister and she angrily tells him no,she is just a distant relative,since she hates being associated to Nelruision.He says its must have been an uproar with the eyes finally manifesting on her.She tells him he should take of himself and better days would come,and that he should take revenge too.

Finally it's the first day of class and the kids are introducing themselves.Apart from Diane who is sitting next to her,Neris remembers everyone(how can she not?)Then a girl called Angharad Nain greets neris and asks if she remember her,but neris lies and is cold to her.The girl is embarrassed and leaves trying to meet someone else,but everybody already have a friend.

This girl is the daughter of Baron nain and she was a childhood friend of neris.When neris was young,her late father boss,sir wildford,brought his friend's daughter that was visiting, to be neris playmate and they had a lot of fun moments together.Neris actually wavered a little seeing Angharad look so inoccent and sincere now,but seeing the students curious gazes,she reminds of the hurtful gazes of the past.Angharad and she were friends again once they began at the academy but shortly after neris was accused os stealing a gold coin and Angharad condemned her and said people would think she is a thief like her.Thinking back,Anghrad was the only person who could have access to neris bag in the time.From the academy days to the her life as princess consort,she could hear Angharad telling people how neris and her mother were odd people.Being the daughter of a low Baron,Angharad probably didn't wanted to be the weakest prey and so she used neris.

Angharad was unapologetical as a child and as an adult.If she didn't think what she did to neris was a big thing,she should be prepared to believed what will happen to her isn't big either.

Diane asks her about angharad and neris lies to her too,but Diane is not buying it.Even so,she didn't insist.Even though she is young,she has a good grasp of relationships because of her family friends and relatives always eyeing every precious thing she has,and how they can turn their back once they see they aren't getting what they want.She thinks neris is a friend with very strong points,she's cool,she's elegant,she's indifferent to wealth and very fluent,so she thinks she has her reasons to keep Angharad away.

She asked to call Neris by a nickname before and neris refused,but when Diane said she would call her "Nel" if she didn't choose one,Neris chose "Ris",because she wouldn't be able to keep her cook being called for a nickname similar to Nelruision name.

Just then,a pretty boy they saw in the council students speech shows up and Diane asks if isn't neris relative,Nelruision Elandria,to which Neris confirms.Nelruision is giving the tests that will determine the level of each student so they will be able to see if they need to skip grades for some classes.He watches neris hateful gaze but when he blinked she was a smiling girl again,so he thinks he was mistaken.

In the end,Neris was the only one with a perfect score and her classmates are wondering from where the truides are from.Some boys look a little angry and she notices they are the ones who bullied her the most even when some had grow out of it.In her experience,the boys who bullied her did it to seem strong and catch attention of the girls they likes or they had bad grades and decided to bully her our of jealousy.Seein their grades now,she can see they belong to the latter group.She was never really interested in her classmates grades,only reading books quietly,but now she can see it well. Some girls congratulated neris and though she was a noble from a "truss" family,but neris corrected it and they were even more impressed that she is from a knight family.Neris is flustered because she was never complimented,kids only crictized her for everything.Suddenly,Megara approaches and congratules her saying she must have had an amazing teacher,to which neris says she never had one.A brown haired girl that was a follower of megara when they were older is by megara's side is looking at neris like it's an insult for her to be alive.Her name is Riannon Bertha and she rebukes neris saying it isn't possible for her to do so well without a teacher and that she just don't want to tell them.Neris knows that now and in the past,Riannon says those things because she wants others to agree with her and she believed when she told her she was weird and tried to change.(I can relate...)

Neris says it's because she read books and had the priest of her village teach her divine language.She also adds that unlike Riannon,she had to ask a relative to pay her tuition so she didn't had money to a teacher,since unlike her,she is not the granddaughter of a count(THE BURN)

Neris didn't got a perfect score in the past,but she liked books and always did well in school,unlike Riannon who got bad grades in the past and now,but she can read the room and stops once the kids seem convinced by Neris.Megara insincerely congratulates her again and the kids are aware that megara didn't like neris since the beggining,but when the teacher of social studies,sir Sheridan arrives,they go to their places.

Neris was followed by some friendly and some disdainful gazes.Sir Sheridan is a friendly teacher that gives back the tests complimenting and encouraging every student,even if they didn't do well.When it's megara time and he praises for skipping many grades,the students clap for her and neris is disgusted.Diane is worried that they will be in different classes,but neris reminds that the 1st Grade students all must do dance,social studies and basic magic class together.Sir Sherridan praises neris too since she skipped all her grades and she notices Riannon and megara hateful gazes.Now she can see that the reason they crictized her so much was jealousy by the fact someone who was less than they,had something better.

In the past,when neris was bullied,she always looked for places to hide because of her classmates harassment and eveytime they found her hiding place,she looked for another.The one that no one ever found and that she stayed for the longest time was a hidden spot inside the Zakaria library of medicine.It was hidden behind a pillar and books and had a nice chair inside.She sat there and rested,planning to hide there again once the bullying started once again.Suddenly,she hears footsteps and is confused,but they grow closer until the person is in front of her.She opens her eyes and sees Cledwyn Maindulante,the Grand duke.

《Male Lead Spoting Lesson Number #1: He is a Grand Duke》

There are nine great families in the Bista Empire nobility:five marquesades,three duchies and one grand duchy.In the past,Cledwyn died some time after he entered the academy and he becane the Grand duke,but he was a sore spot in the eyes of the imperial family and once he graduated and went to his territory,he killed many traitors,elders and vassals that tried to destroy him.Abelus always critized Cledwyn because he was jealous,saying he was a monster and too "pretty" not looking manly enough,but in Neris eyes,Cledwyn was way more capable,dignified and a better ruler.She didn't had many opportunities to talk to him when she was princess consort but he looks just as pretty now as in the past.He asked who she is and neris asked back saying she is just a freshman,but Cledwyn scoffs saying this is not a place a freshman should knows and raised his sword to her face.

《Male Lead Spoting Lesson Number #2:He points a sword to the mc》

Neris doesn't show fear or surprises and when Cledwyn asks if she is an Illegitimate child of the elandries,she denies and let him know she is aware of his name.She refused to give his name when he asks and says that if she discovered his,he should be able to discover hers(BOSS!!!)He says he will find out and she leaves,but for some reason she feels agitated like a child and his face didn't leave her mind for some time.(now let's wait hundred chapters until she realizes what it is)

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Neris chose berlen as her elective language class and so she goes to a different campus.The older students are surprised seeing her there and try to ask is she is lost or looking for a relative.Neris outfit is shabby,but her manners make people think she is from a important family.Ren sees her there and gets to know that she will take Berlen class too.While talking he says he chose it because he has an uncle in Berlen,so it could be useful if he visited.Neris asks if he is very close to this uncle and when he says no,she says that she thought so.He seems a little irritated but then she says that if his uncle cared about him,he wouldn't be in this situation.He knows it too,but didn't want to believe he was completely alone.Neris know that his uncle was one of the current pope people and contributed to Ren's family downfall.

Arriving in class,Neris sees megara happily chatting with other older students and megara greets her saying she will be taking this class too(she asked Madame Hoffman to out her there to prove she can do better than neris).When her relative,Mahradi Annim calls megara by her nickname and asks how she knows neris,megara says they are in the same grade and that neris is very smart,but she says it in a voice that sounds like neris is meddling in places she shouldn't.Neris says she is happy there's someone else from her grade in this class.Megara hastily says she is sitting with her relative once neris unsincerely says she would like to sit together,and neris can tell it's a lie by the face Mahradi did,but he agreed readily looking happy(I can't with those grown boys fawning for a twelve years old)Neris says it cant be helped and go sit,with Ren following her.Megara is annoyed that Neris had someone to sit with.

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The teacher,Sir Voltaire arrives and Megara is a little annoyed he isn't giving attention to her.Ren asks neris in divine language why megara doesn't like her and nerus tells him she doesn't know and to stop talking to her and he is satisfied with her fluency.The teacher gives texts in berlen language to each students and ask them to summarize it and megara does.She gave a good answer and everyone is impressed,and when sir Voltaire asks neris what she thinks of what megara said,neris says it could be wrong or right,and the students are thinking she just wants to look different without giving a proper answer and gaze her with disdain.Sir Voltaire asks her why she said that and neris says it's because he is a diplomat,so to "explain" or "summarize" like he said,meant different things.Neris actually worked with Voltaire in a diplomatic issue with berlen when she was crown princess.

The teacher also called her to write in the chart board to explain her answer and megara flinched when she realized her translation was wrong,she though a word that meant a title,was the a last name,so her whole answer was messed up.There was also an student called Arthur Pendlant that is the son of a diplomat and a noble lady of berlen,even though neris pointed a mistake he didn't notice,he praised her handwriting and Mahradi Annim rebuked him for it,but he didn't care.

Mahradi called bullshit and said she neither answered as she was told to,but probably was being given the answer by Ren too,to which led to a verbal fight between the two,to sir Voltaire giving detention to both of them and saying that he saw that the one giving answers to the colleague was Mahradi XD Megara was cheating the whole class and then got angry at Mahradi.

Sir Voltaire says that they should take language class not only to talk with people of this language,but to have an advantage in a conversation and that Neris truide is in this class because she understands this.He tells megara to stay after class so she can take a test to evaluate if she can continue in the advanced class and she asks if neris will do the test too,to which sir Voltaire said neris already proved herself.(lololol)

Next class,the rumor about what happened already spread and Megara is being consoled by her same grade classmates while they belittle neris among themselves.Diane tells neris is Megara's own fault for being kicked out because she was jealous and wanted to imitate Neris.Neris is surprised and asks herself if it was always this easy to tell and only she didn't saw.Even so,not all students were angry with neris and sir Voltaire,what surprised neris even more.In the past,Neris believed that Megara crictized her because she was right.She was never accepted in the academy or social circles,hearing things like is ugly,skinny,arrogant,gloomy and has a creepy smile and she believed what they said in the past and even now.But thinking back,not everyone who was like this,was bullied like she was and they had their own friends.She started to realize that perhaps the reason megara attacked her was because she felt threatened by her grades and appearance.Apart from neris platinum hair being more valued than megaras honey blonde,megara violet blue eyes were rare and a reason of pride since everyone though anyone with purple eyes had something to do with a great family like elandria,and even after Neris jewel eyes manifestaded and people got to know how the real purple eyes are,the traditional of praising violet blue eyes didn't end and megara was always complimented because of it.

Angharad agrees with diane.Diane had noticed that since angharad had neither high grades or an affluent family,she was having trouble getting along with her classmates,but she always sticked by neris even after being rejected.Diane saw a lot of people like Angharad approaching people they think are easy and while she is annoyed by her act she is also proud of neris for noticing too.She thinks neris is a great friend,but it's worried neris doesn't think the same of her because while they soent time together,neris have a wall.She wonders if she ever did something to her or if she didn't liked her,but decided it was because they didn't spend enough time together because of their classes,but now that the first week of school is ending,she should give a party to get close to neris.(Rich girl mind XD)Meanwhile,neris can't understand why Diane wants to get close to her,but even so she doesn't feel bad having someone to eat in the cafeteria after a long time or being there for her.Even so,she believes that Diane will start bullying her too.

Nelruision and Abelus are in the student council office when Natasha Grunehals,Abelus lover,arrives with the written exams of this first year students.Nelruision is curious why he have this and abelus tells him about neris getting first score and asking if elandria ever gave her education,to which Nelruision denies.Abelus wonder if she is is genius or a cheater and also laughs at megara being expelled from Voltaire class.Nelruision thinks that it doesn't matter if abelus plays with women.Natasha is the daughter of a duke and the most beautiful girl the academy has seen in those last years,but in the end,Valentin will be the one to become his wife and neris will be a useful tool to it.

Back at his hideout,Cledwyn is using a magic communication device that is there to talk to his subordinate that informs him that Neris is completely clean and Cledwyn is confused by how she arrived there that day and how can she have looked at him with so much confusion when he first arrived and then with such fearless eyes when he pointed his sword.He smiles and thinks that someone interesting arrived in this school.

《Male Lead Spoting Lesson Number #3:He says the mc is "interesting"》

The first week of school ended and Diane hosted a pajama party to all the girls in the first year.Her dorm is actually a whole manor to herself in the campus,so the children are having fun making noise,pillow fights and enjoyed the high quality food and decoration.Diane asked Neris to come early and be by her side the whole time.Angharad cane to greet them and Diane was annoyed by her pretending to be close to neris calling her "Nel",when Angharad doesn't even know neris hates this nickname.After not getting much attention,Angharad turns to some friends of low rank she did.Diane is being attentive to neris asking if there's something she would like to eat or if she wants to play a card game with only the two.Diane's maids are a little worried,because even though they are sure a smart and elegant girl like neris will be a strength to Diane,they would her to make friends with other children too so she can have more influence in high society.Just then,a girl called Joanna was showered with a purple juice and the maids took her away to change,but Neris noticed that a few drops got in some kids and some have fell in Angharad's cream color ribbon.(This was very different from the webtoon where Diane helped Angharad,instead of a random girl and she didn't even noticed what happened.In the webtoon,that made neris see her as a reliable person and friend,so I wonder when we will see this development of neris in the novel)

In the second week of class,neris opened her bag to feel spiders inside.She's not really surprised or scared since she dealed with this a lot in the past,but she wonders who did this.A high ranking girl would not touch a bug by choice,and just then anghrada arrived asked neris what is inside her bag that made her flinch.Neris notices Megara smiling in a distance and when she coldy stares at her,Megara flinches.Neris tries to pass it as nothing and Angharad is flustered and keeps pushing Neris to show her bag,to which neris refuses and leds to her trying to catch it by herself,but Diane is faster and closes Neris bag so Angharad won't touch it.This got the attention of some students and two random Marquess daughters started critizing Angharad and calling her unmannered for being from the country among themselves,but loud enough for all to listen.Angharad retreats and this situation makes neris more sure that in the past,Anghrad was the culprit of the coin incident and that megara was the true master crime.

The next class is dance and Neris is dancing with a boy who tries to call her by a nickname,to which neris refuses.Its time to change partners and many boys that went in neris direction retreat after one was faster.Alecto Islani angrily asks them if she is invisible when they don't pick her and one of the boys playfully show the tongue to her,thinking he will it as just a minor prank and not understanding she was really hurt.The girls think Alecto os cute with her snappy personality,but her appearance is not really popular among boys(Oh,my childhood and preteen years...)Neris new partner has more common sense than trying to call her by a nickname,but asks her to go to a gathering this weekend with him,to which neris refuses saying she has an assignment from the upperclassmen.

They bump into Riannon Bertha that picks a fight with neris saying that if she gets dirty in her dress,neris won't be able to pay for it.Neris partner defends her and riannon retreats,but this reminds neris that in the past,when they all got older,neris was dancing alone when riannon bumped in to her and said the same things,and this same boy was dancing with riannon and said the dress already got dirty just by touching Neris.It can't be seen now,but in the future,Riannon would become a very pretty girl with well defined traces and this boy was one of those who wanted her attention.It was a popular game to put a glass of rotten milk in neris head and wondering when it will fall,and even though it was invented by other student,this boy was the one who continued to play it even when others were grown enough to stop.

Neris picks something on the floor and goes to Alecto that is looking for something.Even though,she doesn't like neris,Alecto is happy when neris gives back her cream colored ribbon and thanks her saying she paid much for it to which neris pleasantly says that its a good thing she got it back since because it's on vogue,everybody is using it so if she loses,she might not find again,to which Alecto says it won't happen since her initial is engraved on it.

Sometime after,Anghrad hosted a party and as it's custom to bring a small gift to the hostess,Diane gave her a high quality chocolate and Neris a fruit jam,to which angharad thanks them and is friendly like she never tried to mess with neris,saying that Megara and Idalia went to a high level party,but everybody else is here.They leave Angharad to her guests and Diane is impressed that Neris knows so much about the story of the building in where the party is happening and even when she says that because of the structure there are probably many spiders around.Diane wants to go to the bathroom and neris says she will get a drink first and goes to the food table.When she returns,Diane is talking to a girl that invited neris to a gathering she is planning with Anghrad and another student,with low ranking students of the first three grades as guests,to which neris says yes.

When the girls return,they are told a fight is happening between Angharad and Alecto because angharad stole Alecto's ribbon and replaced with the one that got dirty in Diane's party.Alecto says the ribbon has her initial engraved on it,to which Anghrada rebukes is her initial too and when she can't prove her maid was the one who embroiled it,angharad cries even more and run away of her own party.An extra asks neris if she knew angharad to which Neris denies and when Diane asks what is it that the girl said about Angharad making a party with spiders,and the extra says spiders were found the juice jar,to which Diane is scared because is the same one that neris drank of.Actually,Neris was the one that replaced the ribbons and put the spiders in the jar.

Neris thinks back to the past in which around the time neris started being ostracized and severely bullied,Angharad started being the one to host the class official gatherings,to which every student should be invited but Neris never received an invitation to.That position wasn't something a low noble like Angharad could get,unless someone gave it to her.Megara was always invited to events with nobles of the same level at her,but in some moment,she started attending the class gatherings and became close to Angharad.There was just one time Neris received an invitation from Angharad and she was very happy,so she went to even if Angharad was cold to her,but when she arrived there,there was no one.An older student told her she was probably lost and that the gathering was being held in Megara's dorm.Neris had to see it,and when she arrived there she saw everybody having fun and badmouthing her asking themselves if she really went there and saying she is dumb,and in the center of it,there was Angharad.Even when she became crown princess,the students remained friends and anghrad could be heard badmouthing neris and saying her mother was odd and a thief too because she asked for help of her dead husband Lord.Neris didn't thought it at the time,but the only person with access to her bad was a friend and anghrada was the only friend she had and that could frame her for stealing the coin that initiated the bullying.

Neris reputation was the price for Angharad social life.

In the present,Angharad became quiet and with her head low and didn't went to the low rank gathering she was supposed to host along with her peers.A third grade student is telling them about the punishment Angharad received and how her maid was accused and sent back and probably will be cast aside by the Baron.Neris I'd asked if she was invited to any gathering of the upperclassmen she takes class with and when she tells that they hang around with themselves and that she is happy with the opportunity of being invited to this party,the other students are pleased with her,since that they of low status like children of knights to viscounts,but neither of them is in a situation so difficult as neris,so she gives him a feeling of generosity and pride.They praise that since she has beautiful purple eyes,she probably has great ancestors,so she will be invited to greater places.Neris knows it's true because it did happen in the past,but she was never invited to gathering like this or with goodwill since everybody though she was odd.

She thinks back that when they call a child odd,it's because they think she shows herself in the way different form her others peers and that they need to interact with people her age to learn about feelings and about themselves,but neris never had this opportunity,so she got odder and odder,never knowing why she was treated this way.(I feel like I got a diagnosis.Mom,all the protection you gave me catched up to adult life.)

But now,Angharad will become the odd kid.

Back at the library,Cledwyn greets neris and she is not surprised that he knows who she is since her and mehara are the only first years with purple eyes and they have very different manner of speak and of dressing.Neris is annoyed that he kept coming there and he tells her he is the one who found it first and then brought the chair.He also says she knows she was the one being the ribbon incident and neris is surprised and envious that he already has spies since even abelus didn't had when he was in school.Cledwyin says she is not scared and she tells that if he planned to tell someone,he wouldn't come to her first and asks what he wants,but he throws the question back at her,to which she says she is just a normal students who wants good grades.

Cledwyn laughs and says a normal students gets scared when a sword is pointed at her,doesn't speak diplomatic language fluently,gets the highest grade in story ot manufacture gossip about her childhood friend.

Neris reprimands him for investigating a lady and when Cledwyn says he didn't know that's how a lady shows herself,he is probably not aware of how a modern lady acts to which neris agrees saying he it's because he is old.

All this time he was hidden behind a pillar which annoyed neris since she can't see his reaction and when he tells her to come close,she asks if it's to kill her.He asks why she came then,to which she says its because if he put his mind to it,it doesn't matter if she tries to run and Cledwyn smiles.(I LOVE this kind of convo with sassy remarks and enemies to lovers style)

He says that if she wants to learn,he can get sir Voltaire to be her personal tutor and that he needs talented people on his side.He leaves neris to think about it and while she knows she will need a powerful person to protect her and her mother,if she acts to hasty,she could end up just like in the past,being used and them abandoned.

Back to the pests now.Since angharad entered the school,she admired megara and wanted to be her friend.It was an impossible dream,but perhaps megara would need a Los obedient friend since she already had many high level ones,so she decided to wait for the opportunity.One day,Megara approached her saying that neris offended her and that she wanted to teach her a lesson.She said that if Angharad put some spiders in her bag she would help her adapt better in school,but the plan failed.Angharad was repulsed by neris not being afraid of bugs and thought she was odd.Many students admired neris for being elegant and smart,but Angharad didn't buy it and was annoyed that someone below her had the first place in school.If it was megara,it would be ok because she received a better education,but someone like neris being on top was abnormal and nasty.She liked playing with neris when she was young and knew no better,but now the memories are blurred.Even so,she decided to let go of it and try to be friends but Neris rejected her and angharad though she was mean.But she soon learned she shouldn't let her dislikes be shown,because if you wanted to live well in the academy you needed to befriend someone smart,wealthy or popular,and perhaps they will help you too,but Angharad was average in every sense.This time,Megara invited Angharad to have tea in her dorm and told her to steal riannon treasured emerald bracelet,that is an heirloom her rich aunt brought as a dowry.Angharad is afraid but megara tells her that since she already did something similar before,she could do it again.Megara told her that if she did this,people would suspect her,but once the bracelet shows up in Neris bag,Megara can only say that people shouldn't suspect Angharad so easily because what happened with the ribbon was only a mistake.Angharad is aware that Megara's word is "law" in the academy,so this will work.

Megara is angry that if Neris was in her place,Angharad would look at her with the same scared and admired gaze.Neris doesn't look strange when she acts like an adult,and she looks elegant from every angle.Megara was teached by the best since young and she knows elegance is something you learn,not something that comes naturally,so how come someone like Neris who was never teached can do better?She hates Neris for being better at her in everything but status,and by how she goes through her life showing indifference to everything that is noble as if she doesn't wish nothing.She could kill her,but if she moves hastily she would be the first suspect and she can't have her reputation stained.

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Neris is thinking about Cledwyn offer and some low ranking girls admire how she can look so elegant even sitting still and reflecting about something.She is always praised by Sir Sheridan in the social studies class.She is in the basic magic class with the rest of the first year students.Magic was something normal in the age of three warriors,but now is a rare ability and Neris has a string mana to magic,probably because of her purple eyes.

After class,Riannon realizes her bracelet is gone and once Madame Graeme,the teacher arrives,she asks everyone to look but it isn't found.Megara and Alecto are comforting Riannon when Alecto says that probably someone took,glaring at angharad,that puts her head down on the table as if crying.The teacher reprimands Alecto,but it's true that because of her bad reputation,Angharad has been leaving the classes a lot because no one wants to be her partner.Just then,Megara says that Neris also left class today and that she doesn't wish to suspect anyone,but it's only fair to say it.Neris smiles and says that she was wondering when she should say it and is happy megara did it first.The teacher is someone nice that tried to keep things calm, but not even she believed someone had took it by accident,so when Riannon said that in her house,they make suspect show their pockets and belongings,she asked everybody to close their eyes and asked the one with the lowest status,Neris,to go to her so she can check her bag.

Neris is famous among the teacher and many have said they would like to keep her as a scholar if she have trouble adapting in society.Madame Graeme admires her too and when neris showed her belongings that are few and of humble quality,it was proven Neris wasn't guilty and thanked her.

No one can see with their eyes closed,but from the voices,they know Neris is innocent and Megara expression crumpled.

It's Angharad time and the teacher sees that her belongings are simple,but very cute,probably by her father's desire of his daugther not being ignored.The students hear Angharad crying and saying it wasn't her,and when they open their eyes,the bracelet is in Madame Graeme hand.She gives it back to Riannon and asks Angharad to stay.(I swear,this is not a school,it's a torture chamber!Those kids are not well in their heads.)

So what happened is,in class,Neris was also thinking about Angharad and if she wasn't going too far for things she wasn't sure she did.The only thing she knows for sure was that angharad put spiders in her bag and that wasn't something big,but then she noticed Angharad gazing at riannon bracelet.When Angharad came back during class,Neris left and saw riannon bracelet in her own bag.She doesn't know for sure if it was really angharad in the past,but she knows she is using a similar method now.She could put the bracelet back in riannon bag,but she chose to put in Angharad and she knows that there are people who did worse things to her and that for her revenge,she will have to cross the lines and do wrong things again,even if they it first.Ren told her she was lucky that she wasn't found guilty and she knows it's true,if she knew nothing and the bracelet was found in her bag,that would be her end.She's tired.Back at her dorm,Neris falls on bed and mutters "evil girl".It's a word directed to Megara,Angharad,Riannon...and more than anyone,to Neris Truide.

The children are in the lake garden for an outdoor social studies class and Megara is being given flowers by a very popular boy,but no one can be jealous of her,only admire since it's not unusual for people to like her.Idalia Kendall is by her side admiring her beauty too.Both are daughters of marquesses,but unlike megara that is very popular and usually talk to many kids of different ranks,Idalia interact mostly with megara.Idalia is usually quiet and she thinks megara is a little stubborn and selfish sometimes,but her good qualities like beauty overcome it and she is a great friend(more like fiend) that will become a important person in the future,she could even marry the son of a duke.Just then she flinches because she is reminded of something.Even though Prince Abelus is in a relationship with Princess Grunehals,the Elandria family is the most powerful one and they could pressure for Princess Valentin to become Abelus wife.If so,there was a high chance that the Nelruision Elandria would marry Natasha that is from a ducal house like him.There was the Grand duke,but the people of his territory usually only interacted ny themselves,so people preferred the son of elandria as a groom.She doesn't care if those low boys she is not interested in have a crush on megara,people like them marry boys of their own level and with her beauty she would attract high ranking boys too in the future and could end up with Nelruision.That's what she is afraid of.Idalia Kendall is very much in love with Nelruision Elandria.

The teacher of social studies,sir Sherridan says that today's class will be of etiquette as a host in a tea party and every one should form groups of four and choose a table.Two boys run fast to be with Megara and Idalia and when Riannon arrives late and they apologize for not joining the group today.Riannon was always a follower of megara and the only other girl she is somewhat close to is Alecto,but her group is also full.Idalia kindly suggests her to be with angharad who is alone,but Riannon shouts "no" since she hates her.Idalia is surprised by her manners and thinks that since Riannon is not from a very high status,since she is only the daughter of the second son of a powerful count,she should learn how to behave herself.Sir sherridan goes there and tells her to join Neris and Diane who are together and when he asks if someone else doesn't have a group,a sad angharad approaches him and while he is aware and feels complicated about it,he puts those four in the same group.Megara is the first one to chose a table and the others follow.

Meanwhile Riannon is angry.She hates Neris for going well in school even though she is not a lady and shouldn't be learning things about being one and she also hates Diane because the adults always say that their family only has money but no a long history,but right now she hates Angharad more not only because of the theft incident but because Angharad always pretended to be close and invited her to low ranking events.She thinks that even if she is the daughter of the son who will never have a title,she still is the granddaughter of a Count and it ranks higher than a rural Baron.Diane ignored Riannon bad mood and asked to start the lesson,to what riannon mockingly asked Neris to be the hostess since the teacher always praises her.She became annoyed when Neris led to her seat in an elegant manner but found something to critize,but turns out she was wrong.When Diane said they do like this at her home too,Riannon is about to say something hurtful about her family,but Neris interrupts her and asks if she should call the teacher to check if she was wrong or not.The teacher actually aproaches them and Riannon says it was nothing,since she is afraid of being embarrassed.She critizes neris for tattling and the lesson continues.She then leads Diane and Angharad to their seats and Angharad glares at her and asks if she is the one that put the bracelet in her bag,to which riannon gets angry.Angharad is nervous and starts defending herself saying her father can buy her things,but neris is poor and has no servants,so if someone has reasons to steal something is her.Riannon says that the bracelet was in her bag,so she should stop embarrassing herself.Future and present,Riannon dark eyes always made students flinch when she got angry at them.Neris is glad that Riannon is still the same.

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When Neris was a real first grade,her friend from Riannon came from a letter.It was in the second semester and Neris was still being ostracized when she found a letter in her drawer asking to be friends.The sender signed it as "Nona".Neris was really happy for finally having a friend and shared many stories about fairytales,books and her life with Nona.She was really glad for having a friend even if was a secret.But then Nona asked to them to become closer and Neris suggested for them to meet at her secret place and Nona was interested to know where she always disappears to read.Her secret place was in a backyard of one of the upperclassmen campus,she planted seeds she bought with her pocketmoney and planted flowers that although were tall,but weak and even so they survived.She wondered if Nona would show up,but she found her garden destroyed instead.She sent another letter asking if they went to her garden,but there was no answer.She didn't even was suspicious of her friend.She had thought Nona was from another grade since her reputation wasn't good around her class,so perhaps Nona got to know who she is and it was the reason she stopped sending letters to her.Riannon and Neris had to partner in a practice of conversation in foreign language class once.Riannon wasn't good in language,but she was worse in literature and music.Neris didn't understand kids who didn't do well in school so when she corrected Riannon,she didn't though she would feel embarrassed or angry,she just wanted to help,but Riannon called her a show off and said that's why she doesn't have friends.They had to sit together for a while and Riannon started sharing notes with her friends and Neris had a feeling they were laughing about her in those notes.She noticed a familiar handwriting and signature.That's when she found out Riannon is Nona and she asked her about it,but Riannon got embarrassed for a moment but denied.She told her to prove if she can and Neris did have proof,she still had her letters,but she knew no one believe her.She decided to let it go,but Riannon did not.Perhaps she felt guilty or scared,but she started sharing with her friends about neris acussing her and thanked when they said they would teach her a lesson.One day,some kids ambushed neris and confronted her and things got pretty violent.They started beating her as a prank,but things got so heated she was out of air.Thats when she heard a teacher approaching and next thing she knows,she spent days in the infirmary.She was scared of returning to class,but surprisingly no one paid attention to her.She saw Riannon and stared at her and Riannon started picking a fight asking if she will tattle to the teacher again and if she can do anything alone.She stopped once Megara called her and later Neris realized that this had Megara hand on it.The academy decided to close Neris case because of lack of evidence and that Neris bruises were hard to tell if it was really by beating.But it wasn't.Neris was completely broken and her body was the evidence of violence.A witness?The teacher,but he disappeared and no one could find him.Only someone with great influence could have covered it.Megara covered everything,but no one asked anything to the victim.This happened in the end of Neris first year at the academy.

Now back to the present,Natasha Grunehals appears in the first grade class asking if someone there have the nickname "Nona".Riannon stands up and people were surprised because megara and others call her "Rini".Natasha gives a mockering smile and asks if the letter was hers and Riannon is confused.As a student council member,Natasha was told to only find Nona and bring her but she was irritated by Riannon denying she wrote something and decided to humiliate her.She told that some student entered the student office without authorization and left a letter hidden.The letter was a love confession to Nelruision saying she admires him and that someday she will become a great lady worthy of him and it was signed as "Nona".Megara frowned and Alecto laughed loudly.(I want to be a good person but I feel I would do the same)But Idalia became pale by the always demure Riannon audacity and when Natasha asked for someone to identify her handwriting,she offered to do it before Megara could stop her.She told it was her handwriting and it even had a spelling mistake she usually did.She started saying bad things to riannon surprising everyone since she is so quiet.(Don't mess with the man a child thinks she dates)

Natasha told riannon to come with her so they can meet her beloved.Its no surprise,but Neris was the one copied her handwriting and hid it in a secret drawer of Nelruision table in a way it could be seen by others.In her last life,Nelruision used to hide important documents there from the crown prince and he asked Neris to take it back when he left school and she stayed.She is hoping to give a blow to Nelruision and Riannon at once.This time,Neris destroyed Riannon before she could become a pawn for her opponent to use.

In the berlen class,Ren is chatting with Neris about how Nelruision was angry with riannon situation and how her class is full of troublemakers.(Fr,there's a genius commoner,a high noble being expelled from a upper class,two theft incidents by a baron's daughter and a invasion of the student council to deliver a love letter by a noble)He's worried about her because he thinks she is a meddler and cares about others life's since she gave him advice in their first meeting and Neris thinks this couldn't be farther of her since in her last life,she destroyed and killed people for her family.

Sir Voltaire tells the students to bring their lessons and Neris goes first.Mahradi Annim mutters "show off " loudly enough for the students to hear and Ren confronts him for messing with a child.Mahradi asks if girls six years younger are his type and Neris glares at Mahradi who is angry for flinching at a low student gaze.

Neris didn't bother to confront Mahradi because he is not a person who can control the class mood,but things are getting bigger thanks to Ren.She tells him if he thinks "defending someone" is the same as having a crush on them.She then proceeds to ask what is the age gap between him and Megara.

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Arthur Pendlant saw him being ignored by Megara after the berlen class and laughed.Mahradi called neris arrogant and she she admitted she is ill mannered,so he should tell this to her face like right now instead of muttering like a coward.

The whole class applauded lead by Arthur and they started chainting her name,which made Neris blush since she never had such a favorable reaction.When this convo ended the teacher gave detention to both neris and Mahradi because they disrupted the class.He says even if neris defended herself,she broke the rules.

Neris thinks he is wrong and right,since for things to be fair,opponents should be equally matched against each other and that was never the case for Neris.

After dinner,Neris goes to the teacher office and finds Nelruision thanking sir Voltaire for allowing him to supervise neris punishment and she goes blank thinking of all the betrayal of her past.When Nelruision opens the door he sees neris and they greet ecah other before she asks to be assigned for another since she don't want preferential treatment.Sir Voltaire says there's nothing like this and she leaves with Nelruision.

Nelruision tries to get in her good graces saying sir Voltaire is a little difficult,but neris says he is a good man what makes Nelruision embarrassed since academy children were usually taken back when their teacher aren't so indulgent to them as the people of their home.He brings her the student council office to do her tasks and tries to gain her favor saying things like this paper is expensive and stuff but Neris is aloof and Nelruision is annoyed because he is used to people liking him,saying he is fair,just and kind,but Neris is not moving as he wants.Just then,he gives him a shy smile when she pretended to make a mistake and he corrected,and he was relieved thinking she is just timid.Talking a little more,Neris gives him a bright smile and his head goes blank for a moment.He didn't knew she could look this beautiful.(All the pedos in this story)He is full of glee thinking of all the things she can use her for to obtain power since she is pretty and smart.He tells her to call him oppa nel and asks she have a nickname,and neris acting cute saying she doesn't and only her mother calls her "baby",but she is not a baby so he shouldn't call her like this.From her actions,he thinks Neris is naive and innocent too as befitting of country girl(thats her plan,the girl is playing with the beliefs and fantasies nobles have)and thinks that he would be happy taking care of a sister who is more like the cute Neris than the spoiled Valentin.The situation where Riannon exposed his secret drawer to abelus made him very angry,so he was happy when he heard Idalia Kendall was taking the lead in isolating Riannon Bertha.

Since the student council members liked to be in the office like it was an exclusive club,Nelruision manufactured their privacy planning a card game to them to play somewhere else,but Abelus showed up for a moment and teased Nelruision about telling him to not have trysts with Natasha there,but he brought the most beautiful girl of first grade to be with him.He is only teasing Nelruision,he barely looked at neris and she knows there is no way abelus would think she is attractive when he spent years telling how ugly she is.(My baby!!!)

Prince Abelus finally looked at neris properly remember when he called her a genius,but reprimands himself because a genius is someone like Cledwyin Maindulante who doesn't die no matter how much you try.He thinks that although Neris is smart,she won't be able to do much with her abilities,but the elandria family probably plans to use her as a pawn in a marriage.(Yes,with you)He thinks that even if her jewel eyes manifest,it will only be a symbol and it's not worthy wondering about the marriage prospects of others distant relative,it would be more advantageous to worry about Valentin.Nelruision has been taking care of many things of the administration of the council member,but Abelus thinks is better to change this after the secret drawer incident.He was angry that Nelruision has been hiding things from him in that drawer but after the anger subsided,he realized he always thought Nelruision would do something like this but it's doesn't matter because Nelruision will always be his servant as long as he is a duke of this kingdom.(oh,if you knew)

Nelruision tells him they are only working and offer to him to join them,but abelus leaves saying he is joining the next round of the card game.

The dorms of children of temple are usually supervised by priests.Ren dorm is supervised by two priests,one that is friendly and another who is stiff.The stiff priest is prohibiting him from leaving the dorm to ask sir Voltaire to give neris punishment to him.Stiff priest says the teacher won't concede and that neris relative will probably take care of her.What he meant by this is that the elandria family have their eyes on that girl,so Ren shouldn't get in the way.Ren knows how opportunist Nelruision is since when he had power,he always acted close in such a way that was annoying,but after his family fell he started ignoring him.He is afraid of what he plans to do with neris in the future,but he knows that for now,he will take care of her and that she Voltaire won't give anything very harsh.

The stiff priest tells him to go study if he have free time or instead dedicate himself to his new pleasure.He said it in a way that showed he was reproaching him for smoking.Ren remembered that the friendly priest only smiled and turned a blind eye when he saw him with this.He suddenly notices that there was a technique to destroy people that fell of power in the vatican,and it was os slowly poisoning then with vicious drugs.When Dorgon,a loyal servant of his that followed Ren for years brought the herb to him,he didn't even rationalized that it wasn't something a servant could get.He thinks that the stiff priest and neris are similar in the way they give advice without trying to sound comforting,but it's comforting even so.Ren goes back to his room and just then,Dorgon appears.His lord was screaming his lungs but he didn't show up and Ren wonder how he didn't noticed before.Ren controls his expressions and tells the servant to visit his uncle.Friendly priest,his uncle and dorgon.Ren started making a list of people who betrayed him.He hopes one day he will be able to walk with strength and confidence as Neris.

The children have another socialization class by the lake and all are on Megara who is specially beautiful today.Idalia is also happily admiring her.She knows her appearance is less eye catching than megara and she doesn't think it's something dignified to fight for popularity,megara doesn't even have to do it,she's so pretty everybody want to be her friend and Idalia is happy for her.Just then,her eyes turn to riannon who is all alone.Angharad used to be the sole outcast but riannon joined her in those ranks.She thinks it serves her right.Megara tells her to not look and she does,while one of the boys at their table says bad things about riannon too to what megata only lightly calls him name as if scolding.(Those two girls want to look like good people so bad)

Sir Sheridan announces that the lesson today will be reciting classic poetry and neris knows it's becoming popular because of the empress.Sir Sheridan shows a demonstration of how to properly recite and gives everyone a copy of a poem his friend wrote,so the children can decorate and recite.The children that never been to a party where poetry is recited are nervous,but kids like megara who been to some not so much.Megara knows the teacher does want a perfect recitation too,so she is not scared.She even praises Idalia for having talent for art and poetry and says she is jealous since she doesn't have talent for it.When the teacher asks someone to volunteer,no one does.But then Riannon loudly asks Neris to do it since she is always praised and isn't even looking at the paper,so she should know.

Everybody is looking at her unfavorably because it's a breech of etiquette to ask something like this.But Idalia notices that Megara has a look of cold mockery to and is a little scared.The teacher encouraged neris to try if she wants,but she remains so quiet,the ambient starts growing hostile.People curiosity about her already faded since by now,everybody noticed megara doesn't feel comfortable around neris.They think it's a shame Megara is so good,otherwise they would attack Neris.(I don't like those children)

Angharad that she shouldn't be so arrogant if she cant even do it and Riannon laughs.Diane is VERY angry at both of them,since Neris never is arrogant and only minds her own business.Neris makes a gesture for her,so she don't say anything.But Neris rises up and starts reciting the poem of 14 verses in a perfect way without looking at the paper.Diane lead the clapping and other students followed.Sir Sheridan is amazed that someone who never had a tutor can be so good at everything and praises her.

Riannon is angry and says Neris already knew the poem and when Neris says how could she do it when it was written by Sir Sheridan friend,riannon says he could have shown it before.Sir Sheridan asks if she thinks he broke the rules for one student and riannon gets nervous.Riannon says she didn't mean this and Diane mocks her asking if she thinks that she can speak anything and say it's a misunderstanding.She even calls her "Nona".Neris proceeds to recite a poem of one hundred verses to perfection and asks riannon if she still thinks she can't memorize anything.Idalia smiled and clapped seeing this scene.The first 4 verses of the poem were well known,but not everyone know there is more verses and that is about a poet that had upset politicians and was unfairly treated by them.The teacher praised her again and she apologized for taking the class time.Since it's not good to appear to arrogant in society,the students and sir Sheridan are relieved by her apology and he says it's ok since it was today's lesson.When neris looked around,megara was happily chatting with Idalia,no trace of the cold gaze he gave her once she finished reciting,but she can tell from a glance who encouraged Riannon to humiliate Neris.

Neris go back to her hiding place and meets Cledwyn in a light outfit and with a scar on his chest.She asks who did this to him since no one able to hurt him attended this school.He says it wasn't someone from the school and she understands it's another murder attempt.He says that if he already satisfied her curiosity,he wants her to do the same for him and he will pay her price.She answer that there is something she is desperate to achieve but she can do so without his help.Cledwyin disagrees since she was seen by his people and is moving recklessly to people that have no relation to her.Before she can help it,she says she's doing it because they destroyed her and regrets instantly.Cledwyin gives a small smile and asks if it wasn't the contrary.Neris agrees and mindless says she expressed herself badly and she just did it because she felt like it.

Cledwyn says he will not judge her and he knows there is a big fish that she is after.He says that he is interested in her,even with her shortcomings and will help as long as she let's him borrow her abilities.She says she doesn't know if he will will want her when he knows her price and she tells him what it is.(I really want to put the whole monologue here because I got chills but I don't want my post deleted)

She tells him she wants to destroy them.She wants them to be critized and humiliated without knowing why.She wants then to feel despair everyday and look for places to hide and be overwhelmed by betrayal.She wants them to hate everything about themselves that they didn't even notice it was ugly.She wants them to hope for years that things will get better just to have ir crushed.She wants them to resent themselves and just then turn this resentment to the world,hating every single thing about them and believing themselves to be guilt,wrong and odd.She wants them to not believe when someone says they are loved and precious.She wants them to never forget the pain,while the ones who caused the pain have forgotten.She wants them to feel like she did.

Cledwyn is speechless because the things neris said don't match the info he have about her and the way she said it and her gaze are not from a child,so he wonder if she was bullied or saw someone go through it.Neris says its wrong and she is a bad person,but she really wants it.

To herself,she starts thinking that in the past she already did everything she wished for when she was young.She had eat good food,dance in a ball and talked to foreign people.She never pledged eternal friendship or spent her life with a man she loved,but she doesn't believe in this anymore.What she believes it's in revenge and she feels like she will break if she doesn't have it.She wants to give it all back.

Cledwyn aks if destroying Nelruision is in her plans and Neris says that although it will take time,yes.Its not like the things she did so far would have an effect in a Duke's son,but she knows all the weaknesses of the elandrias and she will get them someday.And when she does,the imperial family destruction will be her final goal.She wonders how cledwyin will respond to her dark desires but he surprises her saying that honey trapping Nelruision isn't a good idea since her reputation could take a blow too.Neris says that Nelruision would never ruin his life for a woman,let alone someone unattractive like her.Cledwyn is incredulous that she thinks of herself this way and neris blushs a little as his eyes wide.

She tells him she wants no judgements about her ways and if he help her achieve her goals,she will do everything he wishes as long as is reasonable.

He smiles and says there is no wish of her he can't make come true and that he will put his efforts into making her enemies end up in the situation she described.

After Neris leaves,Cledwyin used his communication device to speak with his subordinate that starts saying that Neris is weird.He tells the Grand duke about what she did before she came to the library.Neris saw that Alecto Islani was alone in the garden and trowed a peeble at her.Riannon Bertha was the only one visible at the garden so Alecto blamed her.The aide says that its not unusual to nobles to be proud so Neris doing those rings are out of line.Cledwyin says he is already aware of her temper and he didn't asked for his review of her.Cledwyn has a secret society called "night fury" with talented inviduals that have no affiliation to external forces.Theres no "good people" there since if you follow superiors blindly you might end up dead,but is exactly this attitude he wants.He doesn't have much time and he needs more talented subordinates.

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Dance class is one of the favorite classes of students since they can aproach popular kids that they like,but to Alecto is the worst.She hates it since she was snubbed by one of the boys there.She used to secretly watch her the balls of her house dreaming of the day she would enchant everyone,but when she arrived at the academy she realized the girls who are chosen to dance are either pretty or wealthy.(This is taking me back to school events of my time...)

Idalia who is walking by her side,notices that riannon is all alone again and being treated as if she was invisible.Alecto doesn't tolerate the small insult and picks a peeble on the floor.Idalia asks what she is doing and Alecto can't stand how she acts innocent but she can't say anything because Idalia is a marquess daughter.She throws a small peeble into Riannon's head.Riannon knew it was alecto and idalia had a lot of satisfaction in her face.She started looking for someone and saw Neris and Diane.Diane usually only joined the slow dances because of her leg and Neris was helping her out her dance shoes.Riannon was making eye contact with neris before so she knows nerid saw what happened but Neris kept denying.Alecto was satisfied because even though Neris is smart,it doesn't mean she would have common sense enough to know in which side stand since she acts so different from everyone.Is she had picked riannon,Alecto would have to bully neris too.Alecto is someone with a huge inferiority that gives hell to someone who she thinks is mocking her and Neris is aware of it,so she purposely set her against riannon.Riannon complained and Neris asks if she wants to blame everyone since before was Alecto and now it's her.Idalia cautiously smiles and Alecto laughs while asking riannon if she has any evidence.The other students curse at riannon and Idalia again pretending to be innocent leaves with Alecto.(Small spoiler:From what I saw from part 3,Idalia and Alecto are next on Neris "You're going down" list)

Back to her dorm,Neris is quite satisfied with the events of the day.She didn't feel very good watching it but she couldn't stop since it felt like retribution to all she went through.It was annoying seeing the kids having fun and going along with the situation.She knew Alecto had to go next and cinically hoped riannon would enjoy.She sees a letter in her bedroom and knows its from Cledwyn.Its a note congratulating her.Neris writes in the same card what it's the reason for congratulations and asks him to buy her seeds of some plant(she will start making money).

She put it between her door and the next day,the card was gone.

I have summarized the first 25 chapters of the webnovel.The webcomic fan translation(ep 10) covered until chapter 12 of the novel and I wrote about the earlier chapters too because there are some informations that the webcomic have either cut or changed.
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THIS is the kind of summary I like. Thank you so much for the effort! Much appreciated

luliibunny · Feb 29, 2024

Aisha_1213 said: ↑

@luliibunny who is the villainous in this story and can you give a photo
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There are many villains and villainesses in this story,including the ones I added in my post with the characters pictures.And I'm not there yet,but according to Namu site,Princess Camille is the final boss.Neris starts giving her trouble in chapter 141.

There's no official novel illustration of Camille yet but I found some sketches of the characters in the illustrator ig @be_20__ and I have a suspicious this is Camille.

BoredNovelFinder said: ↑

THIS is the kind of summary I like. Thank you so much for the effort! Much appreciated
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Aaawn,thankyou so much for saying it!
It really was an effort summarizing 25 chapters but luckyly the next arcs have less chapters

yuraalessia · Feb 29, 2024

luliibunny said: ↑

There are many villains and villainesses in this story,including the ones I added in my post with the characters pictures.And I'm not there yet,but according to Namu site,Princess Camille is the final boss.Neris starts giving her trouble in chapter 141.
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There's no official novel illustration of Camille yet but I found some sketches of the characters in the illustrator ig @be_20__ and I have a suspicious this is Camille.

Aaawn,thankyou so much for saying it!
It really was an effort summarizing 25 chapters but luckyly the next arcs have less chapters
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there is so many villains that who want to make Nerri suffer actually there 4 Major there Megara,Nelussion,Natasha,Abelus my grammar sucks really so only i write simple to their ending
Megara's ending after someone reveal that is she not the daughter of Marquis got humilated at party trying to kill Abelus she end up in jail & die after while in prison.
Nellusion's ending also end up in jail got dead after that (probably he kill himself) but he had sibling cant tell if is a girl or boy because name is Valentine was sent in monastery.
Natasha's ending Neri in previous life she is the reason why Neri became infertile but in current timeline she planning to do the same trick but on Megara & other ladies who is wanted to get closer to Abelus well... karma bounce on her so she is the one got infertile instead Abelus'ending basically end up in prison tower.

KristinaMariaSara · Feb 29, 2024

12 years old noble children: scheming
Me at 12: how do I tie my shoes?

Cheshirecat04 · Feb 29, 2024

So basically, everyrone who made MC's life Hell end up either in jail or dead.
That is really savage but I love that.
Thanks for all the spoilers so far

luliibunny · Feb 29, 2024

KristinaMariaSara said: ↑

12 years old noble children: scheming
Me at 12: how do I tie my shoes?
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Children like that really exist unfortunately.When I was younger than this some girls in my private school schemed and blamed me for stealing something and when I was thirteen,I found out my bff was saying bad things about me and broke the friendship,but she didn't take this well and shared a picture of me with a caption saying I'm ugly on Facebook.There were like three comments agreeing but at the time it really broke me,added to the things I heard from my classmates since I was young and the clear difference that boys treated me compared to other girls,it resulted in life long self steem issues.
Kids usually have no idea of how words they say so lightly can destroy someone.I was never severely bullied like Neris but I had my share of painful moments,so perhaps that's why this novel really resonates to me.

lucy56 · Mar 1, 2024

@luliibunny …they make me so mad. You don’t deserve that! I hate that they treated you that way. I hope the novel doesn’t trigger your trauma though.

ZXCasdqwe123 · Mar 1, 2024

luliibunny said: ↑

Children like that really exist unfortunately.When I was younger than this some girls in my private school schemed and blamed me for stealing something and when I was thirteen,I found out my bff was saying bad things about me and broke the friendship,but she didn't take this well and shared a picture of me with a caption saying I'm ugly on Facebook.There were like three comments agreeing but at the time it really broke me,added to the things I heard from my classmates since I was young and the clear difference that boys treated me compared to other girls,it resulted in life long self steem issues.
Kids usually have no idea of how words they say so lightly can destroy someone.I was never severely bullied like Neris but I had my share of painful moments,so perhaps that's why this novel really resonates to me.
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As they say "The axe forgets but the tree remembers", most bullies forget what they did and even if they remember they brush it off as them having fun, while the victim is stuck with that trauma for the rest of their lives.

After Megara was expelled the other students who participated in bullying Neris pinned all the blame on Megara and acted like they were the victims, Cledwyn proceeds to chew them out for this

Cheshirecat04 · Mar 1, 2024

luliibunny said: ↑

Children like that really exist unfortunately.When I was younger than this some girls in my private school schemed and blamed me for stealing something and when I was thirteen,I found out my bff was saying bad things about me and broke the friendship,but she didn't take this well and shared a picture of me with a caption saying I'm ugly on Facebook.There were like three comments agreeing but at the time it really broke me,added to the things I heard from my classmates since I was young and the clear difference that boys treated me compared to other girls,it resulted in life long self steem issues.
Kids usually have no idea of how words they say so lightly can destroy someone.I was never severely bullied like Neris but I had my share of painful moments,so perhaps that's why this novel really resonates to me.
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I feel you
I was also bullied when I was younger than that. I faced racism and physical abuse (not suite often but still happened).
And the bullying only stopped when I start fighting back
I understood then that most kids were just dumb and not really evil. They followed the one who was the strongest. Once I dealt with him, I was free.
And luckily for me, there were no social média at that time.

I think this is the main reason I love revenge stories.

luliibunny · Mar 1, 2024

lucy56 said: ↑

@luliibunny …they make me so mad. You don’t deserve that! I hate that they treated you that way. I hope the novel doesn’t trigger your trauma though.
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Surprisingly it doesn't.I think so many things happened already that those things don't really pierce my heart anymore,they are just bad memories now.

Roseslemonade · Mar 5, 2024

Does anyone know how I can get the raws?

ZXCasdqwe123 · Mar 5, 2024

Neris actually marries Cledwyn and becomes archduchess, but it is a contract marriage at least at first

TheSkyIsFalling · Mar 7, 2024

what is the ending of the pink haired guy who is her friend?

luliibunny · Mar 7, 2024

Academy Graduate-Mid Twenties
•Joyce McKinnon(Diane's Brother)
Son of Count

Mid Twenties
•Nuallan Mckinnon(Diane's Evil Cousin)
Nephew of Count

•Joanne Maurier(Supporting Character)
Employee of Rayling Merchant Guild

16 years old
•Heather Rayling(Minor Villainess)
Daughter of Merchant
Bonus(Baby Diane with big brother)

I will post part 2 tomorrow.I thought I would take longer but this arc was so interesting that I started writing the spoilers sooner.

wtfalien_xyz · Mar 8, 2024

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Academy Graduate-Mid Twenties
•Joyce McKinnon(Diane's Brother)
Son of Count
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•Nuallan Mckinnon(Diane's Evil Cousin)
Nephew of Count
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Employee of Rayling Merchant Guild
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•Heather Rayling(Minor Villainess)
Daughter of Merchant
Bonus(Baby Diane with big brother)
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I will post part 2 tomorrow.I thought I would take longer but this arc was so interesting that I started writing the spoilers sooner.
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yey thank you ✨

luliibunny · Mar 11, 2024

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The seasons change and winter is approaching,along with a national holiday that will allow the children to return home for for a week.After many refusals,Neris finally agreed to go to Diane's home to the festivities.Diane is informing her of how they always receive lots of guests for the festivities,the decorations they use at home and is worried she offended neris by telling her to borrow her dresses since Neris said she doesn't have money to buy another dress and only have one appropriate to the event.Diane says that Neris is very beautiful so she really wants to dress her in beautiful clothes too.Neris is confused because she never met anyone like Diane that is so selfless and feels happy by dressing someone up when most nobles are self centered.She keeps being bothered because she can't remember Diane,so she wonders if she changed departments in the past or if something happened in the present.Diane doesn't seem the bully type.Diane asks if she has a favorite food or decoration so she can inform home to which neris says she can sleep or eat anything.In the past,she was feed nasty and unthinkable things by Megara in the academy,and once she became Princess,Abelus ordered her to sleep in a pigsty.She wonder what kind of face Diane would make if she knew this.

On the road,Diane is pointing to her home and Neris is amazed at how big and magnificent it is.She also tranquilizes Diane when she is worried that is vulgar to brag about her home when her family is relatively new,they only lived in this land for 50 years.

Diane tells her she can't wait to show her dance moves to Heather Rayling and show how the things she taught her were wrong.She tells Neris,Heather is the daughter of Merchant,Angelo Rayling that is close to her family and she always picks fights with Diane.Neris is surprised not only because a commoner is picking fights with a Count's daughter,but because in the past,she recruited Angelo and his merchant guild to work to Elandria.He was a evil and greedy man and really loved his daugther,offering her to be a maid for one of the elandria daughters in hope she would find a noble to marry.Heather was a cute girl who seemed inoccent but she did many things to make life difficult to Neris by Valentin orders,even though she was Neris personal maid.If she hadn't left to marry a low rank noble,Neris would suffer under her as a crown princess too.Betty,Diane's maid from when they met Neris for the first time,says Diane is being unfair to Heather and that if she didn't had the context of what happened,she would agree with Diane,but everybody saw and heard the wooden horse incident.(I want to know what it was...)Diane is annoyed that Betty isn't taking her side and just then they hear sounds of horses and they see Diane's brother outside.(The novel illustration doesn't really do it to me,but Joyce in the webtoon is so fineeee)

Joyce McKinnon already graduated from the academy and is an adult,but he really cares for his baby sister and the way he keeps calling her for cute names shows it.Seeing Diane embarrassed by being treated this way,Neris can guess she grew up very beloved.His brother notices Diane keeps gazing at her friend and when Neris greets him perfectly he is surprised because there wasn't one letter from Diane that didn't mention how Neris was amazing in everything and he thought she was exaggerating but now he knows it's true and wonders if neris is approaching Diane for shady reasons.The moment Neris saw Joyce,she was reminded of something.In the past,Joyce McKinnon reported Angelo Rayling for shady reasons and the elandria exiled Joyce from the country,but the McKinnon household remained.What is more strange is that she remembered Joyce as collateral relative,not a direct family member and the heir for the count,and from what Diane said,she has no other siblings.Diane had told her before her father has two brothers and one sister and that because of this she has many older cousins and is the youngest in the family.

When they enter the manor gates,Diane tells him to stop glaring at her friend and Neris thinks this wary look suits his solemn and cold face compared to the warm eyes he shows Diane.The servants of the manor like maids,butler and chef all hug Diane and make a fuss over her.Once they enter the house,they meet some of Diane's older cousins and when Diane greets them elegantly and politely they only laugh and Neris is annoyed that they don't use polite language to Diane even though there is a clear difference of collateral and direct relatives.

Diane's sixteen years old female cousin,Muriel,asks if Neris is her maid.Neris only laughs because this type of mischievous is only cute but Diane is angry because everyone knows Diane is bringing a friend from the academy home.Before she left to the academy,Count McKinnon told Diane they should always trust family because other nobles look down on their history.Once Diane went to the academy,she saw it was true and decided to be nicer to her family,but Muriel is already picking fight again even though she had trouble convincing Neris to come with her and that no one would look down on her.But Diane eyes bright once Neris introduces her as Diane's friend.(NERIS SAID THEY ARE FRIENDS!!!)Muriel says the famous classes of the academy must not be all that since Neris can't greet the aristocracy properly and Neris legitimately asks which aristocracy she is talking about since the only ones there are Joyce and Diane.Which is true,she doesn't need to be overly polite to collateral descendants and even quotes the rules of some noble manual.That's one of the reasons for Riannon inferiority complex.While her grandfather is alive,she is a noble,but once her uncle gets the title,she and her father won't be direct descendants anymore and thus,the law says they are not aristocracy anymore and of the same status as neris.

Muriel is so angry she can barely speak and her mid twenty brother laughs and says she picked a fight with someone smart because she was mean and got served.He introduced himself as Nuallan and welcome Neris to McKinnon household.The fact that Nuallan is a name that means "noble" and is too much to the son of the first brother of a count,and the fact he welcomed Neris as if it was HIS house even though he doesn't live there,wasn't ignore by Neris.Joyce is thankful this didn't scalate into a bigger argument.(In my country,Joyce is a woman's name so it's kinda weird to me to read about him)Just then,Neris see a woman called Joanne Maurier that right now is a employee of Angelo Rayling,but in the future,she would become the leader of a guild that was destroyed by Angelo Rayling and Neris.This left our fl wondering how so many people from her past reunited into Diane's family home at the same time.

After taking a bath,Neris goes back to her bedroom to find it full of dresses.Diane tells her not to be angry and she would throw them away anyway since they don't fit her anymore,but Neris is not angry since she figured Diane would do something like this.Diane is still a child so she yearn for shopping and beautiful things,but Neris already used all type of style in her real past so she is not interested.Diane was very excited when she talked about the bright dresses and how they would look good on Neris,but in the end,Neris chose a dark dress with a purple jewel saying it would look better on her.Diane is disappointed she chose such a simple dress and asks why she thinks that.In the past,she tried many styles as a daugther of elandria and once she became royalty,she was dressed in a way that fitted the imperial family majesty,not her appearance.

In the end,Diane and her maid saw she was right as the dark dress looked great on her,and other light dresses looked good on her,but not as much as the one she chose.(From grown up Neris illustrations it seems she will really keep up with dark colors style,but I'm glad it's not for a reason like it's to hide herself ot luxury items don't suit her,it's just because a mature look suits the elegant Neris better)

They hear a knock in the door and asks who is it,but the person enters without asking if it's ok.Its Muriel and Heather.Diane greets Heather coldly and Heather's acts shy.She notices that neris is wearing a dress too big for her and notices it's from diane,so she disdains of neris in her mind,but Muriel is the one who says that a smart girl like Neris can pay her academy tuition but needs to borrow dresses.Then Neris asks Muriel if the reason she doesn't attend the academy is so she can afford dresses.(QUEEN OF BURN)

Muriel is very embarrassed as neris looks at her with pity and Diane laughs.She keeps saying she could go if she wanted and Heather takes her away.Diane wonders why Muriel reacted that way since she always said to Diane she didn't envied the fact she attended the academy.When Diane says she didn't brag about it first,Neris says Muriel probably couldn't pay the tuition and is jealous that they can.When asked,Betty tells them that Muriel and Nuallan father is in charge of the medicinal herbs department and it was in red for many years and he always came to the McKinnon Manor asking for loans.Neris did though Muriel was wearing clothes of an inferior material and semi jewels,so now it makes sense.Diane is very surprised and feels enlightened when Neris says that when people say they are not jealous of things you didn't even bring up first,it's because they are.(I think I forgot to explain in the beggining,but all the directed descendants of nobles are obligated to attend the academy,while children of knights like Neris and children of second sons like Riannon,can attend if they wish and if they can pay for it)

Betty was watching everything and she can't blame neris for reacting that way,since Muriel started,but she feels sorry for Heather that will have to deal with Muriel and it's too good to react.When Diane says Heather isn't a good person,she feels happy when Neris agrees with her and says she trusts Diane's eyes.

The next day,there's a lake party that Diane and Neris can attend.(It's tradition that children only participate in official events when they are over 15)Neris and Diane are very beautiful and Neris is attracting lot of attention an people think she is from a prestigious family,but Muriel starts talking loudly about her origins and how she borrowed Diane's clothes to attend the party.She trusts in Heather's sense quite a bit so she stops shouting when she says people are looking.Neris figured out what happened when people smiled less seeing her and eyes her clothes.Angelo Rayling is a foreigner who came to win his life in the Vista empire,he asked Heather about Neris in case she was someone important since he wants to make powerful connections.Joyce and Nuallan go chat with them a bit and Nuallan starts saying they were worried about sending Diane to the academy because of her health.They invited the girls to dance.Diane went with Nuallan and Joyce with Neris.Neris had met the count couple the day before and they really liked her and have been protecting her identity when people asked about her in the party,but the thing is that they are not the count couple she should have met ten years later,so she already have a hunch of what happened.She chats about some things with Joyce and says that he looks like Diane in the sense that he does anything for the people he care about,without thinking it's something big,but he should be more wary of the people around him.When he asks what she's talking about she says that Muriel always is rude to Diane as she pleases and he shouldn't think it's doesn't hurt Diane.Joyce tries to pass it off as girls being girls but just then,they see that Diane fell while dancing.

Joyce is angry at Nuallan for not taking better care of her when he apologizes for not holding her properly and Diane confirms she fell by accident.Muriel aproaches them and subtle mocks Diane pretending to be worried and Joyce tells her off,but Diane already feels ashamed and worried.(One thing I really like in this story is that Diane being limp is not a big deal.There are mentions of it,of children being curious and her relatives subtly taking about it,but its not her whole personality or arc.You actually forget that she has this condition if it isn't addressed and she is show in the story as just a normal kid)

Heather says Diane should wait for a slower dance and sit a little and ehen she leaves with Neris,she invites herself saying she wants to hear about the academy.Neris leaves for the restroom and Diane is alone with Heather.

Diane ignores Heather that says the manor was lonely without her revealing she was here for two weeks.She asks if Diane made any friends at the academy and when Diane says she already met her best friend Neris,Heather says that even though Neris is smart,when the count couple sent Diane to the academy,they probably wanted her to make friends of a better pedigree and Diane gets angry.Some noblewomen see Heather looking sad and aks what happened and when Heather explains,they say to Diane that Heather is right and worried about her,and that Diane should be careful making friends.(Piss off,ladies!Do you have any idea who this knight daugther will be in the future?You're all gonna bow in her presence)

Diane defends Neris and gets nervous when she arrives because she don't want her friend to hear bad things.Neris greets the ladies in a way that is better than most adults and they are surprised because they heard she is a poor girl that is leeching off Diane.Aftwr they leave,Neris express worry from Diane falling and Heather asks them if Diane attends when dance classes at the academy.Diane is angry because Heather was always like this,saying hurtful things and then acting sad and pitiful once adults arrived,so Diane always looked like the villain.Heather says that Neris seems smart and that Diane praised her for and when Neris asks if she is a friend of Muriel since they are always together,Heather is humble and says that with her status she wouldn't dare to say they are friends.Neris says that it seems she is aware of her own status and that she is smart too.Neris is flustered and blushes but then manages to cry and apologize if she offended Neris.

Her father arrives and asks what happened and Heather "tries" to pass it as nothing but Neris says she complimented Heather but she started crying and wonders if there is something in her eye.People who heard Heather before saying it was nothing and saw her smiling earlier,leave thinking it's really nothing.Heather is annoyed because if the girls tried to defend themselves they would look bad,but it turned out like this.

Angelo Rayling insists on the subject and the count couple arrives and some people aproach too.They think the girls fought and are throwing dirty looks at Diane since there is an imbalance between a fight with a commoner and a noble.(I'm sorry,why you guys chose to ignore social class when the good guys are the victim?)Neris in angry in Diane's behalf.(You like her)

Diane says the same thing as Neris because she trusts her friend's plan.Neris mentions to them that she Dianne fell while dancing with Nuallan and that they get worried about Diane and decided to enter.Neris dont forgot to mention to them that Diane didn't cry when she fell since she is very mature.

Heather can't even say anything because it would go against her image as a sweet girl who can't fight back and Neris turned her game against her so now no one thinks anything happened between the girls.(Neris is a queen for adressing a grown woman crying over anything,so many annoying villainesses that use tears as a weapon but I think it's so strange how people in those novel don't think it's not dignified to cry in public for reasons like being offended.Use your words to express yourself like an adult,not your tears like a child)

Neris left saying to her they would see each other better later.Once everybody leaves,Heather shows her real face to her father and he advises her to control her expression since the only reason she is somewhat welcomed in the social circles is because of the good image she built in the McKinnon family.Joanne Maurier was watching the whole thing from the sidelines.

(A little info,but in the old times,merchants were essentially commoners so even though some were very rich they would have been looked down by society.We can see examples of this in the og tale of Beauty and the Beast,and also in the character Caroline Bingley of "pride and prejudice".Caroline was the sister of a wealthy merchant,so even though Elizabeth Bennet was poor,she would have be seem as a more proper match to Mr Darcy compared to a commoner like Caroline.This was subtle addressed close to the end of the novel:"He is a gentleman, I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.")

Back inside,Diane and Neris are drinking cocoa and talking about what happens.When Diane asks why Heathet would do this,Neris says she probably wanted Neris to look like a villainess and be trow out of the manor.The things about Heather is that she distorts the meaning of words so it will benefit her,so the way to win is stop her from saying anything at all.Diane agrees,but is worried that Heather will spread rumors about them.Neris asks if this happened before and Diane makes a very sad face.(MY BABYYYY)

Diane tells Neris that last year,she received a beautiful toy wooden horse It was very detailed and had jewels on it,so it was a lovely decoration and the envy of all.But shortly after,the horse was found broken.Muriel,Heather and a maid were the only ones who went to the room were the gifts were,but Muriel and Heather advocated for each other and the maid was fired.But Diane thought it was strange that the maid who was fired was the same one who found the broken horse.If she broke,she could just say it instead of lying she found this way.And there was too,that Heather interrupted the maid when she tried to say something.Diane was suspicious of Heather and rumors started to spread that Diane was jealous of her.Her parents sat Diane down and asked why she is doing this and Muriel was angry saying if she thinks she is guilty too since she was with Heather.Heather said that it was ok and that it was because lady Diane is kind and young.Everybody was satisfied with her mature answer,but Diane saw her sneering at her like she does sometimes.Now Diane knows the gaze of contempt Heather holds.Diane was angry and couldn't properly express herself because she was a child,so she was seem as a stubborn girl and branded as the villainess of this story.The McKinnon couple sent a valuable gift to apologize to Heather.

This incident made Diane doubt herself if she was really just jealous and Neris can read it in her face and says she wasn't wrong and that she trusts her judgment,what made Diane very emotive.Neris reminds her of what she said the day before about jealousy.There were many things that Diane would be suspicious of Heather,so why did it say jealousy?Between a commoner who is praised for being mature,but needs to flatter the higher powers and a beloved noble who can gets her hand in anything,who is the one that is really jealous?Neris believes Heather was really the one who spread the rumor and that she is jelaous of Diane,this again makes Diane surprised because she never saw it this way.Diane wonders if Muriel was on it and when Neris agree with Diane that Muriel isn't very smart,Diane laughs loudly.Neris goes blank for a moment in the warm atmosphere of the room.(Friendship,friendship...)

Neris tell her that it isn't impossible that they did it together,but she doesn't think Muriel is that good of a liar.She thinks perhaps Heather had hidden the broken wooden horse among other gifts so Muriel wouldn't see it.Diane face goes cold because Muriel only said she didn't saw the horse when she entered the room and they went to the room "almost" at the same time.Seeing her expression,Neris tells her that her parents love Diane the most and if she explains she doesn't really feel comfortable around Heather,they would stop inviting her.Diane is worried because her parents are close to Angelo and Heather and Muriel are good friends.But It's about other people that neris is worried,people who can cause real damage

Later that night,the adults will have a dinner and since Neris and Diane haven't debuted,they will stayvin the children playroom.Neris is watching the ballroom from the stairs when Nuallan arrives asking if she wants him to hold her above so she can see it better.They chat a little and Neris praises him saying he is a very kind person to which he happily says he is specially kind to children,especially Diane because of her leg condition.Neris tells him Diane can move along well even with her leg but Nuallan says they since her leg became like this after a fever she had when she was a baby,her family is aways worried she will get hurt and have no one to help her and he reminds Neris of the dance incident.(Dude,you made a child fall)Also,it seems one of Diane's hand is more slow too but it's not very noticeable.

He also says that because Diane grew so cherished sometimes she gets into fights with important guests like the Raylings(lol)This gets Neris to know that his father,Sivna works with Angelo Rayling in the medicine department,with Angelo providing herbs.Diane also had told Neris that Nuallan works alongside his own father.Nuallan says is lucky that Diane made a mature friend like her and Neris asks if Diane is going somewhere.Nuallan pretends to be worried about revealing it and Neris pretends to be innocent and naive,and Nuallan tells her there is a doctor overseas that could cure Diane.Neris knows he is saying it in hope that she will help convince Diane.Neris is disgusted to how Nuallan ressembles Nelruision in the sense they always pretended to be nice and say the right things to get other to pity them or do what they want.

She then reminds that Joyce said when they arrived that Sivna had introduced them to a doctor called Lemartre.Lemartre is foreign word to "quack",so Neris knows there's no way this is a real name of a doctor.Also,when she was princess she spent much time with the fussy lady Mariah,the sister of the emperor.Since the imperial family is known for their strong composition,the fragile princess that had a fever and became limo because of it was hidden from society and spent her whole life inside.From her,Neris learned that there was never a foreign doctor that could heal her and that the empire where they live is the most advanced in medicine.If Sivna and Angelo work together,Angelo was probably the one who introduced the "doctor".

She thought hard and finally reminds what Joyce accused Angelo from:harming one of his family members.So her conclusion is that be it from brokenheart or giving all the money to this doctor,Diane and Joyce parents relinquished their title and Diane either died or was harmed in foreign land.This explains why the there was different count when she was grown.She is appaled of how they are bold to steal from the people that treat them with so much affection.

Neris put a hand in her heart that she thought it was completely frozen,but she still can feel a heartbeat.Now she knows why she can't remember Diane.They only studied one semester together,what means she wasn't there when the bullying started.There's no reason for her to hate Diane and Nerid doesn't know what to do with this information...

Joanne sees Neris staring at her in the warehouse and asks if she is lost.She had heard her boss,Angelo Rayling,saying how she is domineering and ill tempered child when Neris tells her she saw one of Angelo's goods being delivered to the manor,only to be hidden in a garbage and delivered to the manor once again.Neris said this in a very calm voice as if she was suggesting a stroll,but Joanne heart nearly stop.Joanne has five younger siblings to raise and she is a very capable worker,so Angelo promoted her but also gave her all kind of shady works to do.Joanne asks if nerid told this to someone and she denies,and asks if she will do something to her.Joanne briefly thinks about this but reproaches herself.She says she couldn't do it and Neris says that its interesting how she stole the products they sold,just to deliver it again and receive twice for the same item,but she draws the line in harming children.

She apologizes to Neris and says she will pay the price of her crime.She's a little relieved someone found out actually.Neris smiles with her eyes.In the past,she though Angelo only wanted to destroy Joanne because she was a rising head of guild,but now that she has context,Angelo probably was afraid she would reveal any dirty on him.People like him and duke elandria were not trustworthy so they always had to work with threatens and preying on the weak,but Neris knows Joanne is trustworthy and wants to made a deal with her.

She tells Joanne that there's someone also that should pay the price and that if Joanne was a truly shady person she wouldn't be so fast to assume her fair of blame or look like they want to die everyday.Joanne is so surprised because most low ranking ladies always had a little of malice when looking at someone low like her but neris is not like them in this or manners and it seems like she really sees that Joanne lost her happiness while working im Rayling.Joanne says adults reach points of no return and Neris says it's not true.(fr,she literally returned)

When Joanne asks why she is helping her,Neris says they can help each other and Joanne thought she wanted to do something with Heather,but Nerid says she has her eyes on someone bigger.Joanne noticed that no one was going in the warehouse and that it was probably neris doing,so she had something she wanted to hear and Joanne had hunch of what it was.She bowed down and whispered something to Neris.Nerid thanked her and said the manor isn't safe to her anymore.Neris told her to go the laundry room and one of her people(she paid an elderly maid)would tell her next steps

Neris remained in the warehouse and heard footsteps behind her.It was Heather wearing a ball dress and surrended by a not insignificant number of boxes of her father's guild.She asks angrily if this is what Neris wanted and says that her father is not a fool and whatever Joanne says she probably doesn't have proof and she so the count couple won't believe her.She tells her that here she is nothing without the silly Diane.She expects Neris to be flustered being caught but Neris only smiles and says that meanwhile,Heather is nothing even with Diane here,which makes her angrily and threatening says to Neris that she will never return here again.Neris tells her she is free to think so,but that it's up to her and calls Heather "poor thing".Heather was creeped out because she thought of Neris as nothing,but her eyes are not of a normal child.Her father betrayed many people and she saw many miserable and desperate eyes,but never like Neris.

The information Joanne gave her was better than Neris expected.Neris actually wanted Heather to follow her,so she walked by her bedroom and told the servants to leave the warehouse in a loud voice.Muriel was acting as of this house would be hers soon and Neris hoped that by getting on the nerves,they would be reckless and tell their parents to fasten the plan.And it was what Heather intended to do after threatening Neris and Joanne and receiving a courtesy by Neris,that is just legitimately mocking her status.This made Heathet very angry and she is already aware she can't win from Neris with only words.(they are all chess pieces in Neris hand♡)

There's the last feast of the holiday and the adults are celebrating together.People are taking about how the Count is about to invest in a diamond mine in a foreign country.The mine was introduced by Angelo and now I will introduce their plan.Sivna,Nuallan and Angelo work together in the medicine department and they "found" a doctor that could heal Diane,but he won't leave his country to a house call,so what they can do is send Diane.But by law,Diane can't stop attending the academy for a health reason that doesn't highly affect her daily life,so the only way that she would be able to leave is becoming a non aristocrat and this will be able to happen if her parents give up the title to a relative and become collateral descendants.Diane is the most important person to Joyce since she was born and became attached to the cold Joyce who wasn't very popular and expressive.He is willing to do anything to her.Since they will lose power over assets and property,once the family leaves they will have to take much money and win their life,so Angelo introduced them to a diamond mine worthing being invested on.(SCAM)They will give the title to Sivna that isn't especially bright but is kind so many people will be willing to help.Nuallan will be a good heir and even the rude Muriel would probably become more calm after being a real lady.Nuallan and Sivna are very aware of this plan and pretend to not care and make sure their family thinks well,but Diane is completely unaware that her brother and parents are planning to do this for her.Count McKinnon gives a speech and people are stunned because it's customary to honor the guests before family members,but he is singing high praises of his younger brother and people turn to Angelo wondering what this is about since they are close.Nuallan tells Joyce he will check on Diane and when Joyce tries to go together,Angelo interrupts him.

(I WAS BARELY BREATHING WHEN I SAW THIS,THIS IS ANOTHER LEVEL OF SCAMMING)

After his grandfather died and Nuallan and his family becane non aristocrats,he started resenting the law and wanted to change things so he could get his privileges back.Once Angelo started working with his father,his vague plans started getting form.The Count family was too nice and weak to their family members.Diane was the most perceptive but she was young so it was easy for other to ignore her.Muriel and Heather were assigned with the role of making Diane feel hatred for her condition and want to leave,and Nuallan would make sure the count family see that diane can't be left alone.After Heather told him about Neris,they decided to hasten the plan.He found Diane spying in the stairs and offered to hold her so she can see the ballroom better.While Diane was getting enchanted by the atmosphere,her arms holding him loosed and he started to loose his grip so she would fall from the second to the first floor.He would blame Neris for it and says she ran away scared and if Diane tried to accuse her cousin,Heather would come forward with her ability to fake rumors and make it seem Diane is covering for her friend.Even if Diane died,he thought it was ok,his uncle and aunt would be too devastated to take care of the countdom and could snatch it away.But then Neris showed up and asked what he was doing.She told him she knew he was going to drop Diane and told him about the whole plan.Neris being there and knowing what his family planned was not part of the plan and when Diane sighed as if she knew he would do it,he got angry and his grip on Diane got stronger enough to hurt her,but she made an effort to not cry.Neris says its too late and he sees there are servants in the first floor now so he won't be able to hurt Diane without witnesses.

Frustrated Nuallan asks how she knew and Neris smiled saying it wasn't hard to guess when he didn't correct Diane using polite language to him,made her fall in the lake shore and that she is used to seeing people like him.She thought about her past and gave him a glare glare gave him chills.They heard footsteps from the stairs and when Jouce arrived he asked Diane why she is crying and then Neris started crying loudly like a child and collapsed on the floor.Nuallan was flabbergasted and gave Diane to Joyce and other people arrived too asking what is happening.Nuallan was trying to get calm and remind himself that even they told the truth,it would look ridiculous and no one would believe.

Joyce asked again what happened and Diane couldn't speak easily because it was something very big and Nuallan read her hesitation and gave her a persuasive smile as if to say she should just say she fought with neris and he would take care of her later.But Nerid acted faster and said Nuallan tried to hit Diane and she tried to stop him,still crying and people were shocked.

When Joyce asked Diane if ot was true,Nuallan said "no" for her,but seeing Diane resentful gaze,Joyce could tell the truth.He put Diane down and punched Nuallan.

Nuallan denied everything and Joyce asked why is Diane crying then if he didn't hit her.The parents arrive and are wondering what happened when Nuallan says it's a misunderstanding and that Joyce got a little heated and they should all talk in particular.He wants to sound as a peacemaker and make Joyce seem impulsive and it was working but Neris ran to Diane and started sobbing asking if she is already after nuallan tried to hit her and chaos installed.Nuallan understands what is happening,no one would believe if Nerid said he tried to kill Diane,but hitting her would seem plausible and the worst I'd that he did bruise her.the uncle start feeling the defeat and telling Nuallan to apologizes but the guests only think he is shameless since he should apologize to his brother first for not raising his son right.The count and the Countess tell Betty to check Diane in a close room and everybody hears Betty shocked voice so now everybody knows Nuallan did harm to Diane.The couple tell the guest to leave the room since it's a family matter,Joyce and Nuallan to got their bedrooms and they would talk the next day.Neris is surprised when the Countess calls her with an endearing name and tells her to go to her bedroom too,but she stays and wants for Diane and they don't stop her.

When Diane finally leaves the room and sees Neris waiting,her pitiful face turned brighter.Neris accompanied her to her bedroom and meant to leave,but Diane asked if they could sleep together with Betty encouragement and Neris agreed.She haven't really thought before that unlike her,Diane is a child who almost died today.Diane was too sad to even accept snacks and Betty was heartbroken.Once the girls were alone,Diane finally broke the silence and asked how Neris knew,to which Neris gives the same answer she gave to Nuallan(Inside she is thinking that if she weren't curious to why they didn't studied together before,she might have never know)Diane is amazed at Neris mind and this makes her a little lively.Neris assures that her parents won't let her meet them anymore and that they would be devastated if they lost her.Neris know it's true.She also told her that Angelo and the other planned to frame Neris and that they wanted to get Diane to hurt he reagents and get the title,what made Diane very more shocked and sad.(babyyyyy)

Diane asked how Neris knew it would be today,and Neris said it's because he probably would want to to it in a big event but with no witnesses and that she lied to the servants saying the Countess asked them to remove the decorations and thats how she got witnesses and stopped nuallan.She asked Diane to cover her lie and Diane agrees.She didn't told Diane,but one of the reasons she knew was how nuallan looked at her in the stairs when he offered to hold her.She knew he was developing a vile plan.Neris tries to sleep to save strength to tomorrow,but Diane just can't understand how she can sleep and start telling Neris that she doesn't know how she will face her relatives tomorrow and Neris assures that her parents won't let her meet them anymore.Diane then asks why she didn't told the truth that Nuallan meant to kill Diane and she said it was because people don't believe when children say extreme things,but they always believe the things they imagine.So Neris just had to say something plausible and their minds eventually would get the conclusion they wanted.She finally closer her eyes and Diane rolled hers because she wants to talk more and after thinking a little,she gets close to her.Neris could fell her arm hugging her and her leg resting in her body,but she stayed still.Diane closed her eyes and smiled before falling asleep.

The next day,Neris is called to Joyce's office and both of them have eyebags,but for different reasons.(Diane lied about being a quiet sleeper and turned the whole night XD)Neris sees a wrinkled Joanne there too.Aftwr she hard what happened,Joanne came back and confessed everything to Joyce about the corruption,that Sivna was helping with this and that Neris helped her escape.He questions Neris and she plays dumb making a childish expression making the two shocked.(She's cute toooooo)

She tells him that he trusted Angelo because he was introduced by his uncle,a family member,so by the logic he should trust Neris since his family member Diane introduced her.And that he doesn't really want to see if it's true or not since he have ways to discover it,so he called her to see if he can get a grasp of her intentions.She perfectly got Joyce's intentions and he is wondering how this girl is the same age as his sister and why she has a gaze sad and cynical.Neris asks him to protect Joanne and he agrees.

Some days after,the traitors are finally punished and the girls are being sent back to the academy.The servants are shocked to see Nuallan cursing them since he was always do nice and Sivna is begging for his brother saying it's as misunderstanding and that they should know how he cares about Diane.The Count couple is not even looking at them while they say their goodbyes to Diane,but Neris is looking at them.Punishment to noble relatives are different in every state,but in this one,they are basically put in a bad wagon and exiled out of the territory with nothing.Nuallan gazes angrily at Neris and Joyce covers her.He bows her head to Neris and thanks her but Neris says there's no need and he can see she is not trying to be humble,she really is.He smiles to her and advise about it.

I was watching TV today and it there was this scene from Hannah Montanna and it fits so well haha

Their relatives had spent days in the basement with the Raylings after it was found proof of their embezzlement and that they tried to kill Diane.Since the Raylings are commoners they will leave from the back gates and are not being treated with as much care as Nuallan and his father by the servants that knew what Angelo did.Angelo Rayling start screaming that he was framed and that he didn't could oppose the brother of a count.Joyce goes tell the servants how to proceed and behind Angelo,Heather is also being held and in a bad state after days in the basement.Legally,she committed no crimes,but after what her father did to the McKinnon and other families,he would receive a harsher punishment than exile and Heather would never seet foot in the McKinnon Manor or society ever again.She sneaks scared glances at Joyce and her gaze goes to Neris before get set on Diane.Neris covers Diane,even though the latter is taller and Diane is happy because her friend is trying to protect her.She ignores Heather and Diane and Neris start talking about how they had fun doing different activities in the last days of the trip.Heather is forced to leave sobbing miserably.

Diane asks Neris to come back next year too too her father assures Neris she will always be welcome.The Countess says the winter vacation is short,so she should come back in summer.Nerid days she will stay with her mother on summer,but thanks the Countess and she gave Neris a kiss on her forehead.Its been a long time since a adult woman was affectionate toward her,she even had to separate from her mother as soon as she came back,so this made her want to cry and laugh but she controlled her expressions.The girls left in a rush since Diane's father wanted her to overstay and sent many guards with her.In the carriage,Neris noticed Muriel in the terrace and the girls talk about how she will be sent to the temple.She said she didn't knew about the plan,but Diane's parents won't take her in because it's strange and her other relatives hate her even more.There were worse criminals,so Muriel was almost forgotten and unless a marriage proposal suddenly arrived she would never leave the temple and cause trouble.The count couple would probably make a reasonable monetary contribution to her even if she left.The girls think that Muriel was really on the dark,but she probably knew her relatives would leave since she walked around as if the manor was hers but she would be careful if she knew that Diane would be killed.Neris never heard about the young lady of the McKinnon family in the past,so she believes Nuallan got rid of her or sent her to get married in case she said something she shouldn't.Diane asked if Neris wanted to sleep om her dorms sometimes and she refused instantly since Diane moves and kicks so much while she sleeps.The laugh of the two could he heard through all the journey.♡

I think something we quite ignore is how many rotten things Neris acknowledged she did to bad and good people in the past in behalf of her "family".And I really liked Diane before but after this arc,she became my favorite character!She's so precious and deserves to be protected at all costs

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