Rewriting My Heart's Fate

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?

right?" Lyla asked, interrupting my thoughts. She seemed

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

he's not even taking

papers before me. It felt like there

would boast to Ethan about even the smallest improvements I achieved, but he never reciprocated my

at the ranking

"Leah, Ethan's so meticulous! He

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

see. How I wished to give myself a beating

"Back to studying!"

down and buried myself in more homework. Whatever he did or said, it had nothing to do with me anymore! I was fed up with getting worked up and losing control of my life because

ranking list and left in a hurry. He

but I kept overhearing about

a competition. A Novel-Prize-winning professor from overseas is inviting him to

his dad's making him handle company matters.

He's at some international conference. It's for a

He knew everything about Ethan's whereabouts. Worse still, he just had to keep

for his help with homework, I would've switched seats ages ago! Though... had Ethan

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

before the college entrance exams, Jack made an outrageous request. He asked me to join a banquet

more work. "I'm not going!" I

Wiley! Don't forget whose money

speechless. Jack was going to talk about this when

"Evelyn, give your father a hand, would you? Don't you

stuck my hand out, emotionless. "I want five sets for every

cheap brand. Five sets could

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