The system makes me so beautiful that I don't care about anyone else's life or death.

Liu Nana had heard about Su Ran's actions at Qingcheng Conservatory of Music.

But she didn't take it too seriously.

She tormented Su Ran for three years of high school, firmly believing that she would be the biggest shadow in Su Ran's heart.

For her, destroying Su Ran's psyche was an easy thing to do, because she deeply understood that when the perpetrator stands in front of the victim, no matter how strong the victim becomes, as long as the perpetrator raises his hand slightly, the victim will still be unable to help but tremble with fear.

Ziwei Hall, Qingcheng Conservatory of Music.

The hall was bustling with people, filled with students engaged in lively discussions.

Yu Meng waved her hand incessantly, her face beaming with a warm and radiant smile. "Nana, over here."

At this moment, Liu Nana was wearing a very fitted moon-blue dress, looking dignified and ladylike, showing no trace of her former arrogance and domineering nature.

She sat down. The stage curtain hadn't been drawn yet, and Liu Nana was already looking forward to seeing Su Ran's appearance. She wondered if Su Ran would panic and ruin the musical.

A moment later, the lights suddenly went out.

As the stage curtain slowly rose, to Liu Nana's disappointment, Romeo was not the first character to appear in the more than two-hour-long musical.

It's Death!

Death danced gracefully atop the tower, while the crowd sang passionately below. Accompanied by rousing music, two groups of people, one in red and one in blue, began to clash with each other on stage, driven by Death's encouragement, desperately trying to kill one another.

After much anticipation, Romeo finally appeared, only to discover that he was an understudy. Su Ran's Romeo only appeared when singing the theme song "King of the World".

Liu Nana was getting a little impatient, so she greeted Yu Meng and then secretly went backstage.

Sure enough, I saw another Romeo who hadn't entered yet—Su Ran.

She was unbelievably beautiful, sitting cross-legged on a chair, her back languidly leaning back. Every button on her impeccably tailored costume was perfectly fastened, and she toyed with the red rose she was going to give to Juliet.

The scene made Liu Nana's heart skip a beat.

He was secretly delighted, as if an adventurer had discovered an unknown treasure.

She smiled as she walked toward Su Ran, concealing a complex mix of emotions—jealousy, disgust, and anticipation.

But when she faced Su Ran's face, she was stunned by the beauty that had returned to her, and a surge of excitement welled up in her heart.

"Long time no see, Su Ran. You seem to be doing well without me around."

She looked at Su Ran expectantly, wanting to see her with that stunningly beautiful face display an expression of pleading or fear, which would give her even greater satisfaction.

It's said that victims are prone to developing Stockholm syndrome when facing their perpetrators, and at this moment, she actually hoped that Su Ran would develop this symptom towards her.

That way she can control her forever!

"It's very good." Su Ran looked at her with a cool gaze.

"Hate me?"

"hatred."

"Are you afraid of me?"

“I have never been afraid of you,” she said calmly.

"Really? You weren't afraid even when I threw you into the river in winter?" She didn't believe it.

“You’re too arrogant. I was just barely suppressing the urge to kill you back then, but now I’m not worried at all.”

Liu Nana's eyelids twitched involuntarily.

Liu Nana is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy family in Kyoto. Because of this identity, she was sent to the countryside to avoid being discovered and damaging the family's reputation.

She greatly envied her half-siblings who had their own social circles and lived glamorous lives like princesses and princes, unlike her, who was surrounded only by a group of mud-covered country bumpkins.

Although she was also a daughter of a wealthy family, she lived a life completely different from theirs.

It was then that she discovered Su Ran, the "weak" one in the crowd.

Su Ran has no parents to protect her. She only has her over-sixty-year-old grandmother who farms and collects recyclables to earn a living. She also relies on her teacher's help to pay for her tuition every year.

Will Liu Nana sympathize with her?

No, she derived immense satisfaction from Su Ran's tragic past!

She started bullying Su Ran, using Su Ran as her punching bag.

It was through Su Ran that Liu Nana began to enjoy the privileges of a true heiress—as long as Su Ran wasn't ruined, the family would always be there to smooth things over for her.

So she started bullying Su Ran even more severely.

The more aggressively you play, the more it proves that you have supreme privileges in this school!

Even her classmates didn't dare to resist, and she finally experienced the life of being adored by her half-siblings.

In the cold winter, they locked Su Ran in the toilet and poured cold water on her; in the hot summer, they cut up all of Su Ran's clothes that she kept in the dormitory; and even burned the cloth shoes that Su Ran's grandmother had sewn stitch by stitch.

That was the most ferocious Su Ran had ever rebelled; she burned all the clothes of everyone in the dormitory who had bullied her.

But what can you do about it?

In the end, it was Su Ran's maternal grandmother who knelt down and begged the school not to punish Su Ran. It was only because Liu Nana was magnanimous that Su Ran was allowed to continue her studies.

Now that Liu Nana's biological mother has successfully taken over, she has moved from the countryside to Kyoto. However, she can only live in the Liu family as an adopted daughter and has to endure the wrath of her half-brother and sister every day.

This made Liu Nana very unwilling. She also wanted to have the same circle of upper-class people as them, so she set her sights on the Qingcheng Conservatory of Music next door.

"Even if you have undergone tremendous changes since then, under the power of authority, you are nothing but an ant."

Su Ran paused slightly, as if she was thinking carefully about something. She looked at Liu Nana intently, and a smile slowly appeared on her lips.

"You're right, in the face of power, everyone is just an ant."

A slight smile crept into Liu Nana's heart. Sure enough, Su Ran was still afraid of her.

"Well then, my dear ant, I heard you've also put me on the SR blacklist. I'm very unhappy. If you can release me, your college life will be smooth sailing for the next four years."

She is now convinced that Su Ran will not rebel against her. As for whether things will go smoothly in the future, that depends on her mood.

"No."

The rose in her hand had somehow been replaced by a sharp knife, which startled Liu Nana.

Before he could even call out, Su Ran grabbed him by the neck and slammed his head onto the table.

With a "whoosh," the knife was slashed.

Liu Nana felt a sharp pain on her face, and her heart pounded wildly, almost bursting open.

"Su Ran, what are you doing?"

"Destroy the face of the ants."

Su Ran's calm tone made it sound like she was saying the weather was nice today.