A Poor Youth's Journey to Success
Chapter 1

Late that afternoon, a young man dressed in a shirt was walking down the stairs at the university. That was Eric Brown. Eric himself can be categorized as a poor student at the university. In this university, poor students often become bullied by children from rich family backgrounds. If they are unhappy or angry they will make it difficult for students under their control.

"Bella, look at that..! I'm tired of seeing him at this university. Can't I see her for a day..?"

a girl named Isabel said as she gritted her feet in annoyance at seeing Eric. She is an arrogant student at the university with a rich family background in the city of Leonard.

In Isabel's words, poor people like Eric don't deserve to be looked at. Hearing Isabel say that, Bella glimpsed a familiar looking youngster. Realizing it was Eric, Bella narrowed her eyes but in the end she ignored Eric.

Bella is a person who doesn't like to make things difficult for others. What else he knew, Bella would not do it.

Isabel then stepped forward while saying to Bella,

"Wait a minute Bella, I want to give her a little understanding. He's really ruined my mood."

after saying that, Isabel then walks towards Eric and will give him a little lesson like what was said before, but before he can do that to Eric, he will be able to do that, Isabel suddenly slipped and fell right in front of Eric.

The view of Isabel who fell in front of Eric was witnessed by many students there. Isabel fell down like a prostrate begging before Eric.

Everyone who saw that laughed.

How not, a campus prima donna would prostrate before a poor young man like Eric?

Is that worth it?

Is that not funny?

Of course this moment is very funny if witnessed in person. Isabel felt herself about to cry seeing herself humiliated like this. Isabel's frustration with Eric's figure immediately increased.

According to Isabel, this embarrassing incident occurred due to the presence of Eric. If Eric hadn't shown up to him today, maybe this kind of shameful incident would never have happened.

At that moment, a group of young people walked towards Isabel as she was attracted by the crowd.

"What happened to you Isabel.?"

a young man named David said with a worried tone to Isabel.

It could be said David was one cycle with Isabel, he liked to make trouble with people under his economy. Seeing Isabella sitting on the floor like a sick person, David then said in a furious tone,

" Who of you would dare to do this to him? Are you guys gonna deal with me on purpose?"

Everyone who had laughed at Isabel before could only go dodge. They don't want to deal with David. Because David himself is also the son of a rich and prominent person in this university.

His parents were also the biggest investors in the university.

So, even though he often made noise, the university never made it difficult for him to solve the problem. Because they are still considering David's status.

The gap between the rich and the poor on this campus is very high. Where the rich will arrogantly do what they want, and the poor can only accept that fact.Not because the campus rules are not strict, but the power of money defeats everything. A person will be immune to the law if they have a lot of money.

Seeing that everyone who was looking at him was gone, Isabel hurriedly stood up then directly slapped eric hard.

Plaque...

"this is your pay to humiliate me."

Plaque...

"It's a payday because you're ruining my mood."

After slapping eric twice, Isabel immediately laughed in satisfaction as if she had already experienced a victory. Eric could only remain silent because he knew that if he fought back, the problem would become even more complicated.

David just nodded in response. Seeing Isabel slapping Eric, David immediately concluded that Eric was the cause of this problem. David looked at Eric and said.

"Ooo, is this the kid who bullied you Isabel?"

Isabel nodded, though,

"Yes, he humiliated me. You have to help me teach him David's lesson."

Bella who was in the distance immediately approached Isabel. Bella knew who was wrong, who started the problem.

"Isabel, don't complicate it like this. Don't be like a child taking care of other people's lives. After all you are also wrong, still blame him! "

bella blames everyone on Isabel. Isabel is speechless to see bella defending eric.

"Ahh bella, are you defending him?" isabella said as she furrowed her brows.

Bella said in helplessness.

"Truly I defended him. He's my friend, so don't make things difficult like that. Let's go, forget about this."

After saying that, bella immediately pulled Isabella's hand away from the scene. Before bella leaves, she looks down apologizing to eric,

"Eric, I'm sorry. I hope you don't put it in your heart. "

Isabella could only leave with annoyance, she could not do much, because bella was her close friend.

Eric's heart felt very happy to get a defense from bella.

To eric, only bella was a girl who did not look down on him. Meanwhile, David is very upset because eric gets protection from bella.

Despite this atmosphere, David's personality really likes to make trouble. So this time David didn't want to let go of eric just like that. Because they also do not like to see the presence of Eric, for them the poor do not deserve to go to college in a place like this.

"You again, you again. Though I have been

warning you to just get out of this University. Free smart but poor..! Your place is not here!" david said with a triumphant laugh.

"I never did anything to Isabel. He himself fell, but after you came he blamed me."

eric answered to clarify the situation so that he was not entirely to blame.

"Dog! How dare you beat me.!" David roared furiously. David looked at the two friends who were with him while saying,

"You guys quickly take him to the back of the university with me." Hearing that, David's two friends immediately brought eric to the back of the university. Eric wanted to fight back, but he was still traumatized by the previous events. He once fought back when treated as such, but eric's results bear all the consequences. Not only was he severely beaten, even that time eric was also about to be expelled from the University.

David and his two friends beat up Eric in the back of the university. When they saw the corner of eric's mouth bleed, that's where they stopped beating eric.

At that time many students who witnessed the incident eric was beaten by David from a distance. But none of them dared to help eric considering David is a difficult child to face.

The gap between the poor and the rich is high at the University. The rich will easily solve the problem by spending a little money. Unlike the poor, they will be difficult to deal with problems because they do not have money to help solve problems. This is the cycle of Eric's life, where he is often considered a miserable loser.

Many also bully by beating him up to have injuries. Instead of Eric being weak or stupid not to fight, Eric always thinks ahead of him like what.

If Eric fought back against his oppressors at this point, it was possible that Eric would be oppressed even more cruelly or even Eric was killed.

If there were a family-like force backing Eric from behind at the moment, maybe Eric would have the courage to fight back against those who oppress him. But Eric doesn't have anyone supporting him in the back. It is better to feel the pain of a moment than to fight back that leads to life being lost.

Only a fool who thinks of fighting back in order to maintain his dignity can end up dying in vain. So Eric loved his life more than his dignity.