Some of them couldn't take it any longer.

"Ethan! Evelyn is going too far! She's bullying Leah!"

Leah's eyes reddened. She spoke as if she had been wronged and was holding it in. "I'm fine, Ethan. I think Evelyn's just misunderstanding me." Ethan's cold gaze landed on me. The atmosphere became tense.

I looked at him emotionlessly. My fist clenched on instinct, and I mocked him silently. Now what? Was he going to speak up for Leah?

His gaze suddenly shifted to the ranking list. He stared for a while before looking at me. His brow furrowed. "You only scored this high in languages?"

He was stern, and his tone was upset. It sounded like he was mocking me. Was he saying this on behalf of Leah?

I wasn't having it. I scoffed and prepared to retort, but Ethan's brow relaxed. He said softly, "You did decent overall though. Keep it up."

"Huh?"

He spoke nonchalantly, as if he was talking about the weather. I was dumbfounded. I stared at him like I had seen a ghost. Had Ethan gone nuts?

He saw my confused expression and said coldly, "What's with you? If you've got nothing to do, go practice writing essays. Quit thinking about nonsense."

With that, he left and ignored everyone else's reactions. Looking at him walk away, everyone was confused. He was scolding me... right?

I was shocked, but I felt better looking at Leah.

She was young now and wanted to maintain her youthful gentleness. However, her expression was warped. Her smile was forced.

I scoffed and dragged Lyla along as I left. When I got back to the classroom, Ethan's seat was empty. I flipped through the practice papers on the table. As I did, I noticed that they looked familiar. Wasn't this the set that my homeroom teacher gave me in my past life?

At the time, I was shocked. I was like the questions prepared were specifically designed for the topics I was weak in. Why would this be in the bag Ethan gave me?

praising you earlier, right?" Lyla asked, interrupting my thoughts. She

sat diagonally behind me, was shocked too. He said, "Isn't Ethan going overseas for a competition today? He should be on his way to the airport by now! Why would he come to school?' "He must have

locations are worlds apart," Antoine said as he adjusted his glasses. "Besides, he's not even taking the exam. What results are there for him to look

the practice papers before me. It felt like

I achieved, but he never reciprocated my excitement. He'd kick me down a

at the ranking list

clique walked over. "Leah, Ethan's so meticulous! He even

to normal. She said sweetly, "Oh, I didn't expect it

give

"Back to studying!"

and losing control of my life because of him! Time flew by while I was busy studying. Eventually, I ranked 10th in the third

at the ranking list and left in a hurry. He never

but I kept overhearing about

Novel-Prize-winning professor from overseas is

but his dad's making him handle company matters. He's going to be

went overseas again. He's at some international conference. It's for a collaboration with

knew where Antoine got all this information. He knew everything about Ethan's whereabouts. Worse still, he just had to keep saying it

me having to ask for his help with homework, I would've

in school during our senior year. I would pester him to teach me all the

the college entrance exams, Jack made an outrageous request. He asked me

response, I buried myself in more work. "I'm not going!"

forget whose money you're spending! My

about this

that I wasn't convinced, he softened his tone and said, "Evelyn, give your father a hand, would you? Don't you like those Galaxia skirts? I'll buy you the latest

my pen and stuck my hand out, emotionless.

could easily

was making an absurd request, but not an unreasonable one. It was just enough to push Jack's buttons.

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