Right now, Ning Shu's entire body ached. Those damned girls hadn't held back at all. Ning Shu waited for her emotions to calm down a bit before proceeding to receive the storyline of this world.
Ace Academy was an elite school where only the wealthy could attend. It was a prestigious place, a gilded stage for the children of the rich and powerful. There was a strict hierarchy, determined by money at the start of each semester.
One day, however, an ugly duckling appeared among the beautiful swans. Her presence was like a blemish on a perfect painting, disrupting its elegance. As a result, this ugly duckling faced the malice of her peers and became the target of relentless bullying.
Every school had its golden figures: those who were handsome, rich, and seemingly blessed with all the good fortune in the world. Princes with noble backgrounds whose mere footsteps could shake the world's economy.
Ace Academy had not just one of these princes, but three. And all three were inexplicably tied to the fate of the ugly duckling.
In reality, none of this had much to do with Ning Shu. She wasn't the ugly duckling.
This body's name was Lin Jiajia, a sophomore in high school. Her family owned a small company, and the only reason she had managed to get into Ace Academy, this prestigious aristocratic school, was purely by a stroke of luck. As for why she was being beaten up...
It was because she had offended that so-called ugly duckling. The ugly duckling was originally a female cultivator from a cultivation world. After her original body was destroyed, she transmigrated into the ugly duckling's body. Thanks to curing an important figure's illness using her spiritual energy, she was able to attend Ace Academy.
The female cultivator wasn't particularly fond of this new body, but she had no way to leave it. Her strength had diminished significantly, and leaving this body would mean her complete disappearance. So, she used a bit of her spiritual energy to transform the body's essence. The once dull and plain ugly duckling instantly became a glamorous goddess.
In the face of student bullying, the ugly duckling—no, it wasn't right to call her that anymore—Ling Xue easily put an end to the childish harassment with minimal effort.
Ling Xue had no desire to stand out at school and continued to conceal herself behind a modest façade. However, this only ended up catching the attention of the school's three princes.
As a female cultivator who had lived for many years, Ling Xue certainly had no interest in those immature boys, but she saw no harm in using their admiration to boost her own sense of superiority.
This wasn't the harsh and dangerous cultivation world she had come from. Now that Ling Xue could relax, she found herself enjoying the attention and the thrill of being pursued