Trading My Heart for the Golden Child System

Summary

To everyone who looked at us, my sister and I were the perfect children, the absolute gold standard.

No matter how brutal the exam, we were the twin prodigies who always clinched the top two spots in the grade, usually with matching perfect scores.

That illusion shattered during the last mid-term.

When I missed the grade-A student’s podium, landing in second place by a single, agonizing point, my mother’s face, for the first time, was a mask of sheer, cold disappointment.

“Audra, are you even embarrassed? Losing the top spot by a single point?”