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.

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 stopped by on

apart," Antoine said as he adjusted his glasses. "Besides, he's not even taking the exam.

It

but he never reciprocated my excitement. He'd kick me down a notch at every

up at the ranking list and said I did

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

was back to normal. She said sweetly, "Oh, I

I wished to give myself a

"Back to studying!"

homework. Whatever he did or said, it had nothing to do with me anymore! I was fed up with getting worked up and

again after the third trial exam. He took a look at the ranking list and left

didn't care, but I kept overhearing about

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

but his dad's making him

some international conference. It's for a collaboration

Antoine got all this information. He knew everything about Ethan's whereabouts. Worse

would've switched seats ages ago! Though... had Ethan been this busy in my

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

an outrageous request. He asked me to join a banquet with

myself in more work.

slammed the table. "Evelyn Wiley! Don't forget whose money you're spending! My

about this when

and said, "Evelyn, give your father a hand, would you? Don't you like those Galaxia skirts? I'll buy

stuck my hand out, emotionless. "I want five

brand. Five sets could easily cost a few hundred

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