The Second Grave — The School Beauty's Popularity

Where I had once blended in with the crowd, people now began to notice my sudden glow-up. Still, Ella told anyone who would listen that my beauty was nothing next to her intelligence. What good is being pretty? A student's primary duty is to study. Exactly. Annie may be pretty, but Ella is so smart. My idol is still Ella.

Even after living through this all once, she still hadn't learned anything about the app that gave us our In our past life, Ella's task was to win the true love of another person. I had my own mission, which now belonged to my younger sister. In order to keep her ultimate genius power, Ella has to graduate as the top student in our class.

But intelligence alone isn't enough for that. There are plenty of people already capable of reaching those heights. In the end, hard work is more important than any gift you are born with. Life doesn't reward those who seek shortcuts.

My sister would learn that the hard way for a second time. But for now, I'll continue working against her from the shadows. Ella quickly took the top spot in our grade, thanks to her perfect test scores. She was surrounded by other top students, all with outstanding grades, but she

that I was not having the same experience that she had with the beauty perk. In our last life, Ella was disliked by all the other girls in school, and assumed they were just jealous of her looks. And yet, even though I was now completely gorgeous, everyone was still chatting and

laughing with me. Ella couldn't understand why, even though I had become the undisputed school beauty, I wasn't facing jealousy from my female peers. In fact, the reason nobody liked her in her past life had nothing to do with her beauty.