Once Personality Wins (Seventeen Jihan)

Lesson 1: Scoping Out the Kingdom

In this world, there is the privileged, the beauty, the power, and the money. And it was truly rare to have all these 3 unless you were from royalty itself. Princes and Princesses were gifted with the finest things, had nothing to fully worry about. They didn't have to wonder where their next meal would come from, they didn't have to worry about losing their home from higher-ups too often. But I guess life did give some people a better chance of living or to the fullest.

Beauty...that is all you need if you beautiful then you are set for life. Girls who have the beauty will find a wealthy husband to marry and even help them out of their poverty if they are in it. Their family was blessed with giving birth to someone to actually flip their lives around.

Boys with looks are more likely to get a better job as the face of the company or someone to deepen connections with others. Even though they could be below poverty beforehand they will quickly climb the rope and become very wealthy.

And you want to know what the ugly people are left with, nothing. Absolutely nothing, dirt to work with to barely survive in a society that is ruled by looks. Why is that though? Why must only the beauty be able to have a good shot at life?

In this world, people who don't have all three or t least beauty will struggle, struggle to get a job, struggle to get money, struggle to find love, just about everything you can imagine. Looks are what defines someone. You have long silky hair that seems to always blow in the right direction to give you a goddess presence, instant fame. You have the picture-perfect smile that will literally blind someone if they looked at you too long, promoted to the highest position ad becomes the face of the company. You have the ideal body proportions, long legs, rounded hips, waist that everyone workout in the gym to achieve, make sure you are prepared to have money come flooding into your bank account.

For me, Joshua Hong it is my job to fix that. How might I fix this wide spread problem you may ask?

Easy...well not so easy, but easy.

I will change this mindset from the top-down. Meaning, changing how the royalty views this and hoping they will learn from my lessons. But of course, not everyone learns the same ways so I have different tactics to see if they would work for that specific student.

I know this is clearly a process that doesn't seem to work out but trust me, take my word for this. I have succeeded, on multiple occasions too.

There are 5 kingdoms in this world, North, South, East, West, and Center. All these kingdoms have a specific name to them but, these are the most general of them.

Out of those 5 kingdoms, I succeeded in changing 3 of them with a failed one. The North, South, and West had adapted to what I had taught them. But the Eas, on the other hand, was the one kingdom that just couldn't adapt to this change. So, now it is my time to change, the biggest, the worst, the harshest of them all. The Center kingdom, also known as Aleumda Kingdom.

I'm in my personal limo as coach rides me through the village. I observed the villagers as they went about their everyday life. Once I entered the gate at the Aleumda Kingdom it seemed that the poorest people lived along here.

I looked around at this area, the dark gloomy streets that were covered by plastic wrappings on top of the walking pathways. Trash all over the muddy and overflowing roads. Mold and rot growing on the building that seemed to look pretty abandoned but at the same time still alive and functioning. As I passed by the supposed shopping area of this part of the kingdom, we started to drive by the housing locations. And as I expected these people lacked the 3 requirements to have a breezy life, or basically the one trait that would have helped them.

Notably, they all weren't the best looking, they didn't fit the ideal image of a perfect person by looks. I observed how they acted and their corresponding surroundings. They lived in makeshift houses using tarp sheets and sticks to shelter themselves the most they can. They had big families, some people even having 6.