Chapter 1

After the exam, my head teacher, Mary Lewis, held the test paper and scolded me.

"Charlotte Mason, looking at your test results this time, you are third from the bottom in the class! You are about to graduate, you know? If you continued to be irresponsible for your life, you will end up jobless!"

Mary glanced at my test paper with disdain and threw it in my face. "Tell your parents to see me tomorrow!"

I was humiliated in front of the whole class, while the last and second-to-last students in the class were not only even mentioned because one of them was the niece of our school's vice principal, and the other was born in a government official's family.

"What about the other two people who got even worse scores than me? Why don't you tell their parents about the test result?"

I couldn't accept that Mary only targeted me.

Before this test, my right hand was injured due to a small accident, so I had to rest for half a month.

Even though I hadn't fully recovered yet, I managed to take the test with my left hand and couldn't even finish it when the time was up. That was why I got such a terrible grade.

However, as my head teacher, Mary should care more about my injuries than my scores.

Mary glared at me and said, "Why do you care about other people when you can only take care of yourself? Tell your parents to go to my office tomorrow!"

I would definitely surrender!

My dad, Alexander Mason, earned millions of dollars every minute, so I couldn't waste his time on this.

Not to mention my mother, Jaqueline Morison. As a superstar, if she came to my school, she would definitely draw everyone's attention, and my high school life would be totally messed up.

My brother, Jake Mason, was the most popular professional racing driver in the Formula Racing League, with thousands of fans.

And my grandfather, Felix Mason...

I had nothing to say.

I didn't dare to tell Felix to be scolded by Mary since he was a retired soldier who had been stern since I was a child. Though he wouldn't scold me, Alexander and Jake would suffer Felix's anger on my behalf!

Chapter 2

After class, Patricia Clemens and Janice Carter immediately rushed toward me aggressively.

Patricia said, "Charlotte, what did you mean?"

I glanced at them as if they were idiots. "What do you mean?"

Janice jostled me and said, "Just now you were scolded by Mary in front of the whole class, and you also implicated us. Do you want us to be scolded by her as well?"

Patricia crossed her arms, looked condescendingly at me, and sneered, "I didn't expect you to be so vicious under your disguise! I ranked last in the exam because I didn't want to get a good grade!"

The girls in the class who wanted to gain Patricia's favor immediately flattered her. They looked at me with disdain but looked at Patricia with flattering smiles on their faces.

"Patricia, don't waste your time on her. She is just a poor girl from the countryside. She can't even afford a designer dress. She can't compete with you at all!"

Since I didn't respond to her jostle just now, Janice probably thought I was a pushover and bullied me more arrogantly. "Apologize to us!"

I was immediately furious and glanced at them coldly. "You don't deserve my apology."

Janice and Patricia were probably stunned by my cold eyes.

They came back to their senses and were about to say something, but I took the opportunity to squeeze past Janice, who was blocking in front of me, and said, "Stay out of my way."

No matter how strong their family background was, I would hit them back if they hit me.

Chapter 3

In the evening, I returned to the dormitory and saw my roommate, Elodie Clemens, eating potato chips and staring at her phone.

Maybe she was obsessed with some cute boys again, I supposed.

When she saw me coming back, she ran to me and said, "Charlotte, Patricia seems to be in love."

"Oh, it's none of my business!"

I wasn't interested, so I reached out and took some potato chips from Elodie.

Elodie fangirled so hard that her saliva even dribbled. "It seems that her boyfriend's last name is Maxwell whose family is super rich. She even showed his photos. Oh my god, he is so handsome! No wonder she has been strutting these past two days."

I paused while chewing potato chips.

Patricia's boyfriend had the same last name as one friend of Jake's.

Benjamin Maxwell and I could be considered childhood sweethearts, but he was six years older than me.

I heard from my parents that my family and the Maxwell family had agreed to the arranged marriage for their children so that the two families would be bound.

Unfortunately, Jaqueline gave birth to a son first, and Benjamin's mother also gave birth to a son.

Later, I was born, and the two families decided to fulfill the marriage agreement they had made that year. When I graduated from high school and entered college, Benjamin and I would get engaged.

So Benjamin naturally became my future fiancé.

Because of the last name, I asked curiously, "What does her boyfriend do?"

"Business man or some thing. I'm not sure about that. Here's her boyfriend's photo. He's stunning. Only if he could be my boyfriend!"

Elodie excitedly opened her phone and showed the photo to me.

When I saw the photo, I was stunned because it was my future fiancé!

"How did he become Patricia's boyfriend?! Am I being cheated on?" I thought.

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