Under the Heiress' Facade
Chapter 191

Hera got out of the car while yawning tiredly. The moment she walked through the school gate, she attracted countless students' attention. Gossip began to break out among the crowd.

"Hera Youngworth, you actually escaped from prison! To think you even have the guts to come to the academy!"

Lily appeared out of nowhere and blocked Hera's way.

Ever since she made a fool out of herself in the auditorium last Friday, she had applied for one week's leave from the academy. She planned on returning to the academy only after everyone had forgotten about her humiliating incident.

However, Lily had been seeing threads featuring rumors about Hera committing a crime and getting taken away by the police on the academy forum yesterday. Hence, she voided her official leave and resumed her classes at the academy just to listen to more juicy gossip.

She didn't expect to bump into Hera so soon.

Meanwhile, Hera was jolted awake, thanks to the embarrassing dream she had. Because of that, she had quite a volatile temper. "Get lost."

But Lily refused to step out of Hera's way. "What makes you think you can order me to leave? You don't own this path!"

"Boss!" Katie had caught sight of Hera from far away. She wasted no time in rushing over to Hera's side.

When she noticed Lily standing in Hera's way, she jeered, "Oh? It seems that you haven't had your fill in performing the bunny dance last Friday, huh? Are you planning to perform it again?"

"You!" Lily's anger was stoked.

"You should go ahead and dance in the sports field if that's what you want to do. Don't block my boss' way, you hear?"

Katie shoved Lily away roughly before saying to Hera, "This way please, Boss."

Lily was so furious that she almost had an aneurysm on the spot.

The reason why she resumed her classes at Cavenridge was that the gossip threads featuring Hera had overtaken the threads which primarily mocked her bunny dance. She didn't expect Katie to bring up that stupid dance again.

Lily gnashed her teeth together while glaring at Hera's silhouette. Finally, she decided to look for Zyler in Class A in the junior year's classroom block. While surfing the forum and reading the gossip last night, Lily found out that Zyler was tied to the reason behind Hera's arrest. It turned out that Zyler had applied for leave today, so he wouldn't be attending classes at all.

Coincidentally, Christopher took charge of clearing Hera's name on the forum around the same time. He told everyone not to make malicious speculations about the incident.

On the other hand, Katie started spamming custom-made stickers featuring Lily's bunny dance as a warning for troublemakers who dared to voice out malicious speculations on the forum.

Lily was so pissed that she barely focused on her classes throughout the morning. During lunch break, she sought out her homeroom teacher and got pardoned from classes for the day before rushing to the Gaskell residence.

Meanwhile, things at the Gaskell residence were a huge mess because of Queenie's arrest.

"I've bought the photos snapped by

the paparazzi. Also, I've placed a lockdown on the mass media's news regarding this incident. But this isn't a long-term solution. We need to replace a way to bail Mom out of prison," Amelia said.

"Deputy Chief Hobbs has been taken away by the prosecutors. They won't let me bail Queenie out," Terence said with a sigh.

He and his lawyer had gone over to Norburgh Police Department early in the morning just to bail Queenie out, but Kane had rejected him on the spot. "Let's go to Jedburgh and ask Aurora for help," Zyler suggested.

The reason why Kane refused to let the Gaskells bail Queenie out was because of Shaun's influence. Of course, the Gaskells were nothing before the Thompsons. But things would be different if the Killians were to act on the Gaskells behalf.

Terence nodded in response. "That seems to be the only way."

He summoned the family driver and told him to get the car ready.

At that moment, a maid led Lily into the living room. "Sir, Ms. Lily is here to see you."

Ever since Zyler witnessed Lily's idiotic moment last Friday, he no longer liked being with her. He led her to the backyard before asking sullenly, "What are you doing here?"

"Zyler, Hera went to school today. That's why I came over to visit you."

As Lily spoke, she noticed Zyler's hand. "Is your hand alright?"

Zyler was enraged when he heard Hera's name being mentioned. It was all thanks to her that the Gaskells were in hot soup right now.

How audacious of Hera to go to school as if nothing happened!

"What are you trying to say?" he asked.

"Hera really has gone over the line this time! Not only did she humiliate me in public, but she also treated you like this! Your hands are meant to play the piano!"

Lily continued angrily, "As long as she doesn't leave the academy, we won't be able to enjoy our school lives in peace! Not to mention, you still need to take your SATS next year!"

Zyler got even angrier at the mention of the SATS. His spot on Vardhar University's guaranteed admission list was definitely a goner now.

"You got a solution for that?" he asked suspiciously.

"It's the registration phase for the preliminary round of the national informatics competition right now. We can draft her into the competition.

"The date of the preliminary round

just so happens to coincide with the day of the academy anniversary celebration. We'll only inform her on the day itself. Let's see which event she choose to attend," Lily O suggested darkly.

It didn't matter which event Hera chose to attend on that day. As long as she missed out on the other event, she'd end up breaking the rules. That misconduct alone was enough for the academy to expel her permanently.