This time, I'd learned my lesson. I didn't sign my name, but maybe my chicken-scratch handwriting stood out too much at one of the Empire's finest high schools. Together with my previous confessions, practically everyone knew that Shang Yu was being pursued by a C-class Alpha from some insignificant family.
Imperial High School truly was a gathering place for aristocrats. Even the way everyone ostracized me was distinctive. There was no physical bullying or anything like that. I was simply treated as invisible by everyone in the school—including the teachers.
Thinking back on it now, that feeling really was awful. But I was unbelievably thick-skinned back then. Even after all that, I could still keep following Shang Yu around.
Funny enough, Shang Yu became the only person who didn't ignore me. Or maybe he simply didn't care. He treated everyone the same way.
The first time he spoke to me,
he said, "I don't like Alphas."