Chapter 517: Strive to Improve Instead of Dragging Others Down
"Y-Your Majesty, I’m so sorry. I won’t do it again. Please give me another chance," Narcissa paled and begged on her knees.
"I will not accept your apology now. I need you to reflect and understand your actions first, so I am giving you a month to think about everything deeply," Arabella did not change her mind even when Narcissa cried.
"Your Majesty. Please don’t fire me. I will do better. I won’t do those things again. Just please don’t fire me," Narcissa begged.
[I can’t be fired. My family will be furious. I will become an embarrassment to Ryvaleh for getting fired after just a few months.]
"I am not firing you. Not yet at least. It will depend on what decisions you make and how you behave after a month. So, for now, I’m giving you some time to ponder over things. Competition is not bad, Narcissa.
"It’s fine to feel competitive towards your fellow assistants and desire to perform or achieve better than they do. But you must do it fairly. Do it with your capabilities, not underhanded tactics.
"Remember that Valeria’s law. Your value as a civil servant is defined by your performance. Not anything else. Thus, abiding by this, Ivan had the most value, followed by Nadia and Odette. Then, you. They had more value than you in terms of performance and ability now, so I must choose them. They are also the ones in the right since they did not do anything wrong.
"If you want to defeat them, you must do it with your performance. Strive to improve yourself instead of dragging others down. If your performance becomes better than theirs, it is then that I can say that you are more valuable than they are as an assistant.
"But that doesn’t mean you can bully the others. Look at Ivan, he is already very much capable and had already achieved so much in Cordelia but chose to challenge himself and came here. Yet, he remained humble and didn’t step on others. He only did his best to shine with his abilities.