Chapter 181: The Drastic Transformation of Yukinoshita Yukino’s Life Part 1
Yukinoshita Yukino was the embodiment of cold, classic beauty.
Her waist-length black hair, smooth as a curtain of night, was always neatly tied with two blood-red ribbons at each shoulder. Her blue eyes, as deep as a winter ocean, radiated sharp intelligence and, at times, a hint of disdain.
As a second-year student at Ohananomitsu High School, she also served as the president and founder of the Service Club, an organization she established based on her belief that those around her needed to be "saved" from their own foolishness and weaknesses.
The Yukinoshita family was the de facto ruling power in Chiba City.
With all her arrogance, Yukino had chosen to attend school in Tokyo, hundreds of kilometers from home, as a rebellion against her family’s gilded cage.
Her relationship with her mother was always strained. Her mother was the puppeteer behind every family decision, a woman who demanded absolute obedience and forced every family member to bend to her will without question.
Yukino never got along with her mother, let alone compromised with the suffocating demands.
She disliked her family and the oppressive dynamics within it, yet naturally accepted the luxurious accommodations provided by the Yukinoshita family as if they were the most ordinary thing in the world.
This ingrained arrogance—that comfort was a right, not a privilege—shattered when her older sister, Haruno, called to deliver devastating news: the Yukinoshita family was bankrupt. Not just a minor setback, but utterly ruined.
The Yukinoshita family’s towering real estate and business empire, once untouchable, had been declared insolvent.
The culprit? The Shinomiya family—one of Japan’s four largest zaibatsu, a conglomerate with power far beyond the Yukinoshita family’s imagination—had deliberately targeted them.
In just two days, as fleeting as a blink, the prominent Yukinoshita family of Chiba City was reduced to a middle-class, if not lower-class, household.