Before this, Vivienne never thought she'd have the chance to face off against Lara again.
Lara was two years older than her, and because of that gap, Vivienne lived in her shadow until she turned eighteen.
In Serena Lowe's teachings, beauty was the ultimate ticket to the circles of power. But the vanity fair of fame and wealth was never short of beauties, especially with a thorny rose like Lara around.
Serena had neither the patience nor the ability. She only wanted to maximize profits using Vivienne's beauty, so she guided Vivienne to imitate Lara.
From twelve to eighteen, every year of a girl's life holds a different meaning, but Vivienne never experienced the true essence of her own age.
At fourteen, she imitated the sixteen-year-old Lara. At sixteen, she imitated the eighteen-year-old Lara. That two-year gap became an uncrossable chasm.
Whenever she and Lara appeared together, everyone's attention went to Lara. Vivienne was like a cheap knock-off, secretly mocked as the budget version of the Arlington family's daughter.
Lara enjoyed the comparison. She would often arrogantly reject suitors, then graciously offer them a suggestion.
"Go find that gutter snipe from the Lexton family. She's cheaper."
Lara didn't know that because of her word "cheaper," Vivienne was branded with a price tag. During that time, she often received inexplicable, harassing messages. Some men even publicly asked her for her starting bid.
Later, Salacious Rumors spread throughout the school. To satisfy the rotten vanity of her tormentors, they spread lies in group chats, fabricating stories and degrading Vivienne to worthlessness.
It coincided with the time Mira Easton's parents came to the school to cause trouble. Vivienne took the fall for Julianne Whitmore's bullying. Because of that, her classmates decided she was a vicious girl with terrible character and blindly believed the rumors in the chat.
Once a girl was tainted by those kinds of rumors, she was considered entirely dirty.
That was Vivienne's darkest time. She didn't dare imitate Lara's words or actions anymore, because if she wore clothes similar to Lara's or wore the same hair clip, her clothes would be cut to shreds the next day, or she would be locked in a bathroom.

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