You are all bad women! Don't come over!-Chapter 68 - 66: Princess’s Past (1 more Chapter remaining)
In the hearts of all students at Gaotang State Public First Middle School, there was a name that seemed unreachably high—Catherine Petrovna Alexandrova.
She was the daughter of an Earl from the Roman Empire, and it was said that her grandfather had been one of the Roman Empire’s top ten Marquises before his death. His title was inherited by her uncle, her father’s brother. Her uncle, now past sixty, had neither children nor siblings.
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That meant Catherine was very likely to be the sole legitimate heir to the Alexandrov Family.
Not only would she inherit her father’s Earldom in the future, but she would also become the first female Marquis in the Alexandrov Family’s more than four-hundred-year history.
As one of the two most powerful entities in the world, the Roman Empire maintained an imperial system with a multitude of nobility. Although their power wasn’t what it once was, they still controlled key institutions of power and held important positions.
In the Roman Empire, aside from the five Grand Dukes who were members of the Royal Family, the top ten Marquises were the most exalted nobles.
However, Catherine was currently only the daughter of an Earl, and although the Roman Empire was immensely powerful, Yupi Country too was strong enough to rank within the top ten internationally. It wasn’t so weak as to be entirely at the mercy of others.
Gaotang, as the third richest state in Yupi Country, had First Middle School gather most of the region’s noble elite offspring. Everyone was worldly; it wasn’t so easy to blindly worship a foreign noble. Even out of pride, it was difficult to sincerely bow down to a foreigner.
You might be noble in Romany, but this is Yupi Country. The saying goes, "Even a mighty dragon cannot crush a local snake," let alone when there’s a whole nest of them.
Nevertheless, these local snakes eventually submitted.
The fact proved that there’s no local snake that can’t be subdued by a mighty dragon, unless the dragon isn’t mighty enough.
Catherine arrived at First Middle School two years ago, just after her parents were transferred to work in Yupi. Although it was not long after the start of the freshman year, she, like Shen Mochen, was a transfer student.
But unlike Shen Mochen, upon entering the school, her unrivaled beauty dazzled everyone and quickly propelled her to the top of the Goddess List on the forums.
The proportions of her facial features could be called a perfect balance by God, more three-dimensional than the people of Yupi but without too deeply set eye sockets or overly prominent nose bridges. Her refinement knew no excess or imperfections.
Her hair, a pale gold rare in density, sometimes shone like a faint early morning sunlight, at other times appeared as pure and white as the snow under the moon.
Her deep blue eyes rarely showed emotion, not purely cold, but rather indifferent, like fragments of shattered glaciers drifting between the sea and sky.
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Of course, if it was only beauty, her status would not be so elevated.
As a student, Catherine was top-level too.
Even though she was Roman, for her TAST foreign language subject Catherine chose Huaqi instead of her native Roman, which would have been advantageous. And yet, as soon as she arrived, she dominated her peers and took her place as the number one in her grade. For two years, nearly no one could shake her position.
Beyond her studies, Catherine proved she was not just a bookworm with grades—she was the Gaotang State high school girls’ tennis singles champion, the strongest external support for the school basketball team, and the holder of the school’s athletic meet records in the girls’ one hundred meter dash and three thousand meter long run. Her speed even surpassed some of the male finalists.
As a class officer too, Catherine executed her duties flawlessly; neither teachers nor students could find fault in her.
She was noble yet not haughty, confident but not arrogant. Although her nature was somewhat indifferent, she managed to get along pleasantly with everyone.
So before long, Catherine had acquired another nickname among the students, "Princess," which was a sort of symbol akin to submission, much like how ancient subjects would bestow honorific titles upon their monarchs.
Catherine had long been aware of the "Princess" nickname, just as she had said to Shen Mochen; she actually didn’t like it but was too lazy to correct others.
She was essentially a "sluggish" person, which stemmed from her dislike of looking back.
Some said she was like a cat, languid and indifferent every day, rarely taking the initiative to concern herself with the affairs of the outside world.
This description was only half right—she was a cat, but a big cat like a lion. She lay atop the mountain summit, and all the beasts crawling below were her subjects. Yet she was too lazy to care about these unthreatening creatures, even too lazy to look down upon them, spending her days basking in the sun out of sheer boredom.
Catherine was always first in rank, often having been so for as long as she could remember. Even if temporarily not in some aspects, she would ultimately be the first.
She wasn’t always the best, but she would become the best in the end.
Those familiar with Catherine might think she was highly competitive, but this was a one-sided understanding.
Catherine didn’t relish the glory of being first, or rather, she wasn’t that interested in the act of defeating everyone.
She simply didn’t want to lose, and she hated the feeling of being behind others.
Holding up the champion’s trophy brought no joy to Catherine; she only felt an incomparable thrill the moment she overtook someone ahead of her and left them trailing behind! Before that moment, she would grind her teeth in agitation as she stared at her rival’s nape, then gather the strength to surpass them!
And so, by the time Catherine came to her senses, there was no one left in front of her.
Having no one in her way meant she had no more targets to surpass. With her character being the type that was too lazy to look back, the moment she overtook a competitor, she would instantly lose interest in them.
She carried the honor of being first every day, yet she no longer felt the tension and exhilaration of surpassing others!
She was left with only loneliness and boredom, and boredom was the most painful aspect of life.
Until Shen Mochen arrived.
Initially, Catherine didn’t pay much attention to this unremarkable transfer student, she was even too lazy to remember his name, as she had been bored for too long and had grown numb to other people’s emotions.
In her view, this odd person with bangs covering his face was likely just someone who had gotten in through the back door; it wasn’t worth wasting precious brain cells on him.
But not long after, came the first TAST simulation test since Shen Mochen transferred.
On the day the results were released, she stared at her second-place ranking for a long time.
For the first time, someone was ranked ahead of her, and her inner peace, still as an ancient well, was rarely, once again, disturbed with ripples.
It was an excitement like rain after a long drought, so she wrote Shen Mochen’s name on a blank sheet of paper.
Shen Mochen’s arrival finally put an end to Catherine’s boring school life. Because of him, Catherine, who had not prayed in a long while, once again thanked God.
