Chapter 122 - What’s her deal? (1/2)

What’s her deal?

As Lia sat down after answering a question, her professor was nodding his head, content with her answer. “I see that you’ve been studying. That’s good,” he said.

Lia heard the snickers of her classmates around her. Someone even snorted.

“What a show-off.”

“Obviously, she’s been living in the library these days.” The group laughed at that.

The teacher silenced them and continued with the lecture. Lia sat, facing forward with a poker face. ‘Brats. If you want to piss me off, you have to try harder than that.’ She was not going to waste breath on them. It was too tiring to start a worthless fight.

After their class, though, she slowly gathered her books and papers as if making a point, however futile that point was. The last thing she wanted was to be seen afraid, even if that was what she had been feeling these last few months of her life.

Just as she was about to leave, she caught Charlotte looking at her direction with an unreadable expression on her face. Was she angry? Why? Was she also envious like the others, thinking that all the praises should belong to the nobility? But there was something else under that look, something akin to wariness.

Well, whatever’s her deal, that was her problem and not Lia’s. Lia shrugged and went on her way to the library.

She had been reading quite a lot about Sallan, but getting information about this kingdom was tough as though it was not allowed to know more about these things. The more she read the more she felt bad for these people. They only wanted to maintain their peace, something she could very much relate to. They wanted to live their lives away from the greed of the neighboring countries. But leave it to people to grab the first opportunity that comes their way.

In all those readings, she also gathered that Kaeje would not be flourishing now if not for the learned scholars the previous queen brought from her country. If not for them, there probably would not be a Health Ministry where Lia was in.