Every society's upper class had its own rules of operation. In fact, every part of society did—the middle class and the lower class included.
In Lin Qi's world, people summed up these social rules with the saying, "Dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and a mouse's son knows how to burrow."
In this world, people had yet to distill such a wise crystallization, but they had something similar—sayings that embodied the wisdom of many generations—
Don't do anything beyond your capabilities. What each person should do had already been decided from the moment they were born! Why did people always say that the rich would get richer while the poor would get poorer?
Why was it that people could work so hard to change their fate, only to discover in the end that they had merely been running in circles? In truth, viewed from a higher level, class solidification and the closure of upward channels were what caused all this. In other words, no matter how hard you worked, you couldn't change your status in society, nor could you change your fate.
Among the graduates of Saint and Harmony Society Colleges, a small number were born winners.
The moment they graduated, they would receive a sum of money from the family fund to start a business. Anna, for example, had yet to claim hers.
Even if their ventures failed, the family fund was enough to let them live lives that most ordinary people couldn't even dream of.
Even the middle class couldn't imagine them! Another group, meanwhile, would serve these truly wealthy people.
They studied hard, using their diligence and excellence to surpass 99.9 percent of their peers, only to exchange it for the opportunity to serve the upper class.
Every year, the entire Federation's attention would focus on graduation