"She really is Yukinoshita Haruno's little sister..."
"Her sister is outstanding, and she's no less impressive..."
"Can she do better than Yukinoshita Haruno? The sisters..."
For a long, long time, Yukino Yukinoshita seemed to have been branded with a label—she was Yukinoshita Haruno's little sister.
No matter what achievements the younger miss attained, people considered them only natural because she was Yukinoshita Haruno's little sister, because her sister was just that outstanding...
However.
Whenever her achievements fell even slightly short of expectations:
"The little sister can never compare to the older sister..."
"Even full sisters have differences between them..."
Her sister was simply too exceptional!
But...
Yukino Yukinoshita did not grow jealous because of it. She admired her sister, and even more so, she wanted to do better than her. Other people's remarks instead became the motivation for the younger miss to work hard. She wanted to surpass her sister!
Improving oneself, surpassing others—no matter who looked at it, that was the right mindset.
However...
The Yukinoshita Family was a rather traditional noble family. Though in the eyes of conglomerates like the Doma, Shinomiya, and Suzuki families, the Yukinoshita Family was little more than a country nouveau riche household, Mrs. Yukinoshita, the head of the family, clearly did not see it that way.
Mrs. Yukinoshita was a traditional yet forceful woman. In her eyes, her eldest daughter, Haruno, was the rightful heir to the Yukinoshita Family. As for her younger daughter, Yukino—
Though she upheld traditional values, as a woman, Mrs. Yukinoshita had never considered sacrificing her younger daughter's happiness to help her sister. However, she had also never considered allowing her younger daughter to replace her eldest daughter as the official heir of the Yukinoshita Family...
Thus...
Yukinoshita Haruno learned far more than Yukino. Setting aside textbook