Athena was grounded for the rest of her school year. All she did was obediently go to school and then directly go home.
Li Lifen noticed how unlady-like her daughter is, so an etiquette teacher was hired to train her. Who knew that Hexie Wu's mother was actually very strict. It was different from the woman sweetly calling her "Our precious jewel~" on their first interaction.
There was Lihua Andrea Wang, the novel and drama series' Main Villainess that would visit her every day after school. And everyday, she would pester Athena to exercise and force her to practice extreme dieting until her home tutor comes.
"That's good Hexie~ Straighten your posture! Good girl~"
"DON'T you dare eat that cookie, Hexie! It's full of carbs! Here, eat more sweet potatoes instead~"
"15 more minutes of planking. HEY DON'T SLEEP!"
Lihua's barks filled the afternoons.
'Lihua really is scary! She is worthy of the title Main Villainess when she's annoyed.' Athena sighed in her heart. And an excellent idea hit her mind.
'What if I enroll Lihua in an anger management class? That way she won't get easily annoyed when the female lead comes! Might as well gift her feminist books so she wouldn't fall for that playboy Male lead!'
When the home tutor came, Lihua bid goodbye. The tutor have her copy of grades for the current school year.
This Hexie Wu really have low grades in school year and she have two months to change her standing. She was previously a consistent honor student until she reached her final year in high school. She became muddle headed because of Chen Mingzhu and Li Meixiu, taking her to fun places and fattening her up in the process. She even got lots of acnes due to excessive eating of unhealthy foods as well as those cringey late night chats.
This shocked the whole school. The would-be class valedictorian started acting rebellious (although she was already a big bully to weak students) and she even skipped classes.
In the novel during this side character's flashback, she got expelled from the school especially since she did not attend the National Senior High Examinations. That was because she was busy with the elopement. And the bullying reports were also sent.
Now that route can be avoided because she now occupies Athena Hexie Wu's body, so she has to study really well for the upcoming exam. And avoid making enemies at school.
Due to old habits of this body, she still crave for sweets and since her Father doted on her, she gets to eat every yummy treats. The extreme dieting didn't work and made her lust for food grow. Lihua's efforts seem to not bear fruits for now.
In the next following week, Lihua didn't visit her as she was busy for the runway show in Diamond Country. And due to that, Athena gained another layer of fat.
"Ugh, my uniform almost can't be zipped anymore~" Athena groaned.
Lifen finally snapped and enrolled her daughter in a weight loss program as well as sent her to a dermatologist. She was also brought to a dentist. Braces were installed so she can eat less.
Her Father would still secretly indulge her sweet cravings as he buy soft sweets stealthily bring it to her room, in order to appease his daughter since she kept on nagging about him doing illegal stuff in the Wu Corporation.
"Hexie-er, our Wu Corporation is clean. Believe your father~ Here have some triple chocolate mousse cake, it's from our Wu Hotel's famous desert chef!"
Athena would then shower him with compliments, then George Wu would brag about it to his business partners.
Athena unknowingly became an infamous 'Dad-con' in the Wu Corporation.
In school, she sticks out like a sore thumb due to her bleached hair. The students were still afraid of her so no one approaches her. Athena didn't proactively approach them either, only when she apologized to 'her' victims, but she would be polite towards her schoolmates and teachers. She doesn't mind being alone since she's trying to be lowkey as possible.
Little did she know that she was being watched. And little did she know that people were already afraid of her because of her scary, cold-emitting resting bitch face, but there were still students who fawned over her due to her status, especially the young noble girls.
"Spread around our Ice Queen Wu Hexie's dark past, and you will be punished!" Said a fine looking girl.
"I acquiesce~ Oh my, our Ice Queen is so cool with her bleached hair!"
"Wu Hexie is truly amazing! She's a perfect role model! She personally apologized to her juniors!" Another girl said dreamily.
Athena didn't know she had just gathered a herd of young noble ladies as her body guards.