Cloud Thinking

"Your Highness! I am only here to teach! I have absolutely no intentions beyond my duties! Your Highness, please do not slander me!"

After all, the teacher was not a servant, but a lady of noble birth. There was no such thing as kneeling down and begging for mercy. She still held her neck and refused to bow her head. Her words were so righteous that it seemed as if Helia was really bullying her.

"Oh, I just asked out of concern. How did I become a slanderer of you? If you didn't bully me, just say you didn't bully me. Why do you have to throw dirty water on me? Do I look like I'm easy to bully? Or do you not even take me seriously?" Helia said coldly.

Her height of nearly 1.8 meters was too oppressive, not to mention that she would take a step towards the teacher every time she spoke, staring straight into the teacher's eyes. When the teacher met Helia's gaze, he inexplicably felt as if he had seen His Majesty Claude, and was so scared that he almost couldn't stand still.

"I didn't! Your Highness is overthinking it!" The teacher said in a shrill voice, as if she was afraid that Helia would find fault with her again. This time she was finally willing to make it clear, "I didn't bully Your Highness Starley, nor did I mean to slander you!"

"Look, you said you didn't slander me, but you attributed all the problems to my overthinking and my intention to embarrass you." Helia sneered, "Do you feel wronged and pitiful? You are just doing your job, but I pick on you for no reason. Will you curse me behind my back when you go back, saying that I am arrogant and domineering and bully others?"

"Your Highness!!!" The teacher was at her wit's end, unable to think of any explanation, so she could only yell at her in frustration. If it was Claude who said this, it might have been of some use, but as a teacher, she couldn't stop Helia from doing what she wanted to do even if she yelled at the top of her lungs.

Seeing her teacher's eyes turn red with anger, Starley couldn't bear it, so she stepped forward and gently grabbed Helia's arm, saying, "Aya... forget it... I'm fine..."

"I don't think this is okay." Helia made it clear that she wanted to vent her anger on Stellar today, and she would not give up until she achieved her goal.

"Since you think that demonstrating walking etiquette in front of me is slanderous and you think it is not something that can be put on the table, then why did you still teach my sister? If you look down on what you teach, how dare you expect others to look down on it?"

“I just want to ask, what’s the point of learning this?”

The teacher was so angry that she was shaking all over. "This is royal etiquette. Every princess must learn it!"

"But I didn't learn it." Helia retorted, "If I don't learn this, then I'm not a princess anymore? Oh! Not at all! Can't I still stand here and teach you a lesson as the unruly princess you think I am?"

"Her Highness Starley has been living outside the palace since she was young, and she hasn't learned many rules and etiquette. We can't let others laugh at the royal family!" The teacher couldn't convince Helia, so she had to change the topic to Starley, but she didn't think about who Helia was arguing with her for.

"I can understand my sister learning the rules. After all, I learned them when I was a child." Helia said, "But I just think that what you teach is meaningless."

"Walking is walking. Big steps or small steps are all walking. How can you walk in a flowery way? Is there any other use for what you taught me besides looking good? It's better to follow me and run to exercise your body."

"As a princess of the royal family, whether I walk sideways, sideways or backwards, my subordinates will praise me for walking well, because I have the royal family behind me. This is my confidence. If anyone dares to laugh at my family, I will make him unable to close his eyes and shut his mouth for the rest of his life."

"Don't you like to watch jokes? Don't you like to gossip? I'll let him watch and talk as much as he wants. I want to see if anyone dares to risk his life to test my temper."

The teacher was so angry that she fainted and fell to the ground with a thud. She was quite picky and stood on a place covered with soft carpet so that she would not hit her head and bleed when she fell.

"Oh! Teacher!" Starley hurriedly went to help the person. She knew that Helia was venting her anger, but she couldn't really let the teacher faint here. It would not be good for Helia's reputation if it got out.

"Someone, the teacher is not feeling well, send her back." Helia shouted, "Also, she doesn't need to come here anymore."

No one dared to disobey the furious Helia, and soon several maids came over and carried the fainted teacher out, looking so anxious that they seemed to be running away.

Helia and Stella were the only two people left in the room. Helia looked at Stella openly and allowed him to look at her. The frightening pressure she had just shown to the teacher was suddenly retracted and turned into a soft and sweet smile.

Helia put her hands on Stailey's shoulders and leaned over slightly to get close to Stailey's head. She was tall, and Stailey was a head shorter than her. With this lean, Stailey was almost completely enveloped in Helia's arms, and she could smell the soothing scent of the other person, which was like the warm sun.

"Sister, let's have dinner together tonight." Helia lowered her eyes and stared at Stella's golden hair, inviting her.

Starley looked up at her, and they both saw their own reflections in each other's similar blue eyes.

"Of course." Starley smiled, her eyes curved, her pupils were like a shimmering lake, flashing with fragments of light, the dimples on her cheeks seemed to be filled with honey, and even the tip of her nose was a little pink.

Oh my god, it's so beautiful. Helia couldn't help but curse in her heart.

Even though she is surrounded by many beauties, and she even looks at her face in the mirror every day, she is still stunned by Stella's beauty. Should we say that she is worthy of being the heroine?

Starley and Helia have two different looks. She has a bright and majestic look that makes people feel aggressive. Just as everyone calls her, she is as dazzling as a pearl and a red rose with thorns.

And Starley was the type that made people want to protect her. She was as gentle and quiet as a flower in the water, very charming. In Helia's eyes, she was like a small cake that made people want to take a bite.

Helia smiled brightly in response and pushed the person out of the house. "I have just instructed that my sister will move to the Jade Palace next door to me tomorrow. It will be close to me and we can visit each other in the future."

"Eh! So sudden?" Starley asked in surprise. She didn't think she lived in a bad place, after all, she was in the palace. Even the most remote and deserted Quartz Palace was a mansion that ordinary people could not dream of.

"Is it too much trouble? Actually, it's fine for me to be here. Although it's a bit far from your Amber Palace, Aya, I can come to find you."

"What's the problem? You're my sister, isn't it my duty to do things for you?" Helia said, "Besides, the Quartz Palace is too remote. I don't think it's worthy of you, my sister."

"Also, after dinner, sister, show me your schedule and I'll cut some of it for you. For example, there's no need to learn today's class."

"This is not good... This is all ordered by father... No, His Majesty Claude..." Starley said hesitantly.

Although she herself did not like these classes, as the teacher said, she grew up outside the palace and was used to having no rules. If she did not do well when standing in front of people in the future, she would lose the face of the royal family.

"I will make it clear to father. You are a noble princess of the empire, not one of those young ladies from noble families. Your every word and action is as strict as if you were cast from the same mold, like a doll." Helia said.

"Moreover, we are the ones who make the rules. We use rules to restrain those under us and to maintain order. But if the rule conflicts with our interests, it means it is no longer applicable and we have to break it."

"The reason why we still selectively abide by the rules is just to make the people below willingly obey us, obey our rules, and obey our interests."

“When rules become a symbol of status, people at the bottom will carve the rules into their bones in order to get the respect that matches their status, and will desperately defend the rules that bind them, keeping this loyalty firmly in their hearts and passing it down from generation to generation.”

She raised her hand and nodded, "Sister, what changed you was not these external things, not those etiquette rules, those gold and silver jewelry, those gorgeous dresses, but this place."

"You have to change your mindset first, find your own position, figure out who you are, what you want, and what kind of person you want to be."

"As my father told me, we have the royal blood of Abraham flowing in our veins, so we have the opportunity and capital that others don't have to try anything."

"You are the princess of the empire. This is an undeniable fact. But at the same time, you can be more than just a princess of the empire. It all depends on you."

Starley nodded in confusion. Although she still didn't quite understand, she still felt that what her sister said was so powerful. Her sister was so smart and charming, just like the dazzling sun in the sky, dazzling and making people covet her warmth.

How could Helia be so good? As a sister, she had to be better too! Otherwise, she would not be able to keep up with her sister and would not be worthy of her! Today, her sister helped her, and one day, she also hoped that she could be a helper to her sister!

"Well! I will think it over carefully! I will definitely not drag Aya down!" Starley said firmly with clenched fists.

Helia smiled and held her fist. She flexibly slipped her fingers between her fingers and interlocked theirs. Then she raised it in front of her eyes and said with a smile, "We are family. There is no need to talk about being a burden or not. I like my sister and I am happy to help her. I just can't stand others bullying my sister."

Starley blushed at Helia's straightforward words. She didn't know what she was thinking about, but her eyes suddenly turned red, and the corners of her mouth rose and drooped. She moved her lips but couldn't say a word. She just silently held Helia's hand tightly, trying hard not to cry.

Her younger sister is willing to be close to her and says that she likes her, so she should be happy. In such a good atmosphere, she cannot shed tears and ruin it.

She sniffed, smiled again, and said with a sob:

"Well...we are family, forever family."

Seeing that Stellar's eyes were blurred with tears but she was still holding on, Helia simply pulled over their tightly clasped hands, gently placed a comforting kiss on the back of Stellar's hand, looked at her sincerely, and said, "Well, we are a family forever."

Looking at Starley, Helia felt a wonderful mood. How to describe it? It's like, no one in the world knows you better than me. I know everything about you, your experiences, I have seen you fall to the bottom, and I have also witnessed your happiness. I have seen every side of you and see through the color of your soul. I am the person in this world who understands you best.

But I am not your God. I cannot ignore or dominate everything about you. I was originally just a spectator outside this world who liked you. At that time, you were just a virtual character to me. But now, you are standing in front of me alive. I can no longer look at you and treat you with a condescending attitude. You and I are in the same world. We are all people living here, real people with flesh and blood.

I can touch your warm skin, feel your breath, and hear the sound of your heartbeat. Everything tells me that you are truly living in this world and not illusory.

Maybe it's really as the system said, I was lucky enough to be chosen to travel through time. I was lucky enough to get a chance to live in the same world with my favorite character, communicate with her face to face, and create new stories with her. How could I not be happy?