Under the Heiress' Facade
Chapter 121

Christopher paused his studying, looked up, and said, "Didn't you say these contests were boring?"

"Yeah. But I can't accept that country bumpkin Hera taking first place while I'm in second," Zylerreplied.

"Wait... Hera joined?"

Christopher immediately put his pen down and opened the forum on his phone.

On the girls' voting page, he saw Hera leading by a wide margin. Then, on the boys' side, he foundhimself in first place, with Zyler in second. Zyler was only 49 votes behind.

Christopher decided that if Hera participated, so would he. He wanted to perform alongside Hera.

Christopher quickly cast a vote for himself.

"Wait..."

Zyler tried to intervene, but Christopher's screen had already shown a successful vote.

After voting for himself, Christopher shared the voting page in the class group chat and within hissocial circle to campaign.

Zyler was shocked.

"Didn't you also say it was a waste of time?"

He wondered why Christopher suddenly changed his mind and voted for himself.

Christopher replied earnestly, "This is an academy-organized event. As a member of the academyand heir of the Ludden family, I should actively participate."

Zyler was left speechless.

He watched as Christopher finished sharing the voting page and returned to cast another vote forHera.

"Why are you voting for—"

Zyler began.

"Have you cast your vote for the female candidate? If you haven't, vote for Hera," Christopherinterrupted.

Zyler refused, "That country bumpkin doesn't deserve my vote!"

Christopher frowned at Zyler's reference to Hera, saying, "Zee, don't speak of Hera like that."

Zyler felt an indescribable discomfort seeing Christopher defend Hera so adamantly.

"Am I wrong? She's just a girl from the mountains. Even if she's leading in the polls, she'll still bebrushed aside in the speech contest. Why waste public resources?" Zyler argued.

"But she won't fail!" Christopher insisted.

During the entrance exams, Christopher only mentioned the plagiarism incident involving Hera onthe forum. The matter was misunderstood, and the school didn't take any action.

Hence, everyone thought the academy was lenient and that Hera was just a country girl who reliedon her connections.

But in reality, Hera was a true academic genius. If it weren't for Christopher and his family'sreputation, his father wouldn't have asked her to overlook the subject, and people wouldn't judgeher as they currently do.

Thinking of this, Christopher felt guilty and vowed to treat Hera better and study harder in the future.

"You'll see what she's capable of at the speech contest!"

At the sight of Christopher's firm belief, Zyler couldn't help but doubt if Hera had also seducedChristopher.

He thought Hera had a bad personality despite a good outward appearance.

Zyler couldn't let his good friend be deceived.

He would expose her on the day of the speech contest.

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The Belle and Hunk election had been going on fiercely for a week. The top ten male and femalecandidates would be chosen on Friday night.

Meanwhile, Hera was busy in the lab, separating the Eclipse Stones and developing medications.She paid no attention to the election.

She occasionally glanced at her phone while having lunch in the cafeteria on Friday afternoon.

It had been a week since the auction, but Bernard hadn't contacted her.

She wondered if he no longer wanted her to cure him.

She considered that he may have heard that the Eclipse Stone had fallen into someone else'shands and had given up on treatment.