The Campus’s Dark Queen

As moonlight slid across the classroom windowsill, I curled up in a corner, watching the lofty figures cast shadows over me. If fate was a chess game, I was nothing more than a pawn to be moved at will. But no one knew that my eyes held the reflection of an entire world.

Hardship swirled around my feet, turning into a quagmire. Grades, family circumstances, connections: each one was a chain pinning me to the very bottom of this pyramid. They laughed at me for being timid and called me useless, never knowing that every time I lowered my head, I was merely concealing my edge. Playing the fool to catch the tiger was my only way to survive.

Everything changed after an accident. That day, I heard the System whisper to me for the first time. It told me that fate could be changed. I began using insight to glimpse their futures and disguises to dull their guard. They strutted about in the sunlight while I advanced step by step under cover of night. Those who had once tried to crush me were walking straight into the web I had spun.

The price was the gradual loss of my tenderness. The higher and farther I went, the more the self who once longed to be accepted faded away. Friends, love, and trust became the most precious, and most burdensome, bargaining chips in my hands. Every choice felt like a blade slicing through my heart, but I couldn't stop.

Fate wound around me like a vine, while emotions flickered like flames. In this campus jungle, I went from prey to predator, from an insect to a queen. But when darkness finally submitted to me, I couldn't help asking: To rewrite my fate, would I have to give up my innocence?

(This book is divided into three volumes: upper, middle, and lower. This volume concludes in chapters 1 to 254.)