Shi Yiqing's face turned deathly pale as the girl finished speaking.
"I, I don't understand what you mean…"
She stammered out her words.
"Not understanding is fine, as long as I know what happened."
Resentment and venom filled the girl's eyes as she spoke.
The girl's family was modestly affluent back home, not wealthy, but comfortable.
Before entering Ruihe High School, she had been a pampered little princess in her household.
All that changed when Shi Yiqing came into the picture.
Ruihe High School was an elite institution, with a student body mostly consisting of nobility.
In such a gathering of nobles, her family background wasn't noteworthy.
In this kind of school, she only had two choices.
Either to become a vassal.
Or to fade into the crowd.
Yet, without fully understanding the rules, she bypassed those options.
She shone brightly in piano class.
In the beginning of her freshman year, everyone knew there was a girl who played the piano exceptionally well.