What did people rely on to get by in society?
One: ability.
Two: connections.
Ability.
It could refer to many things: the ability to learn, the ability to handle matters...
It was difficult to define it specifically.
But people with at least a little ability could be found everywhere.
For example, those with simply good academic results could be found in droves at any decent school.
So it was not especially valuable.
The abilities people truly valued were the rare ones.
For example, powerful scientific research capabilities, scarce inherited skills, or extraordinary abilities bestowed by fate...
In short, one in ten thousand, one in a hundred thousand, one in a million...
However, most people spent their entire lives possessing only a little ability.
They could not be called talented.
But neither could they be called useless.
The same applied to so-called connections.
Most people were ordinary.
After struggling through an entire lifetime, they could only be said to have a few minor connections.
Major connections?
If they truly had major connections, they would not have wasted away their years...
That belonged to a realm ordinary people could not reach no matter how hard they racked their brains.
But within Jingting Private Aristocratic Academy...
For many students, major connections?
They themselves were the major connections in other people's eyes—or rather, super-major connections...
Their families either ran large companies, or their relatives were all high-ranking officials of one kind or another.
This meant that many students from excellent backgrounds could change the circumstances of a whole host of families with just a single word.
And because of their age, these offspring of the powerful tended to be less utilitarian than adults and their parents, making them easier to get along with.
Therefore.
A lot of the time.
These walking humanoid treasures only