After my rebirth, the first thing I did was pull my phone out and search for Simone Hogg online. It just so happened that she had started a livestream.
“Hi, everyone! Welcome to the livestream for the second day of the semester. Do you guys want to see the way I train Andrea?”
She was talking about me, Andrea Lane.
Immediately, the people who had flooded her livestream started typing their comments.
“I’m here for it! I love seeing the way you put an heiress in her place, Simone.”
“Hahahaha. All those rich people always act so high and mighty, but Simone manages to train them into anything she wants anyway.”
“Don’t let her put on any sunscreen today! No sunscreen for her!”
After reading the comments, Simone said, “Sure! I’ll do as you guys suggested. Today, I’ll forbid Andrea from putting on sunscreen!”
As I watched the way a bunch of flippant comments on the livestream ended up deciding my fate for the day, my eyes dimmed.
They were a bunch of people who amused themselves by toying with another person, and yet they smugly considered themselves superior, thinking they stood on a moral high ground. It was truly ironic.
Simone was my roommate.
When I moved into the dorm on the first day, my butler brought me up to my room. Simone had been all warm and friendly as she helped me with my luggage. She said she came from the rural countryside and had studied hard so that she could improve her circumstances.
I was moved by her strength and resilience. Plus, she seemed smart, humorous, and kind. In just a single day, we formed an unusually strong bond.
She loved preaching to me about how the ability to endure suffering was a blessing. She said I was too focused on enjoying life. A young person needed to survive hardships, and she was the only college student from her village because she could do just that.
Simone managed to brainwash me. From then onward, I walked around without wearing any makeup or sunscreen. I even stopped buying sweet drinks. I consumed nothing but plain water and bread.
Meanwhile, she dolled herself up immaculately and attempted to seduce my boyfriend, Jeremy Gardner.
She told me not to try and please a man. She claimed that women need to learn how to be independent and blamed my obsessive pursuit of enjoyment on my relationship with Jeremy. According to her, he had tricked me into becoming more and more spoiled. She told me to break up with him.
