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?

Lyla asked, interrupting my

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

adjusted his glasses. "Besides, he's not even taking the exam. What results

me. It felt like there was a lump

past life, I would boast to Ethan about even the smallest improvements I achieved, but he never reciprocated my excitement. He'd kick me down a

the ranking list

so meticulous! He even came

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

I see. How I wished to give myself a beating for letting my thoughts

"Back to studying!"

fed up with getting worked up and

showed up again after the third trial exam. He took a look at the ranking list and left in a hurry. He never showed up again after that. He must have

I kept overhearing

competition. A Novel-Prize-winning professor from overseas is inviting him to his study program. What

home, but his dad's making him handle company

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

all this information. He knew everything about

not for me having to ask for his help with homework, I would've switched seats ages ago! Though... had Ethan been this busy in

clearly remember him always being in school during our senior year. I would

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

response, I buried myself in more

forget whose money you're

was speechless. Jack was going to talk about this when

a hand, would you? Don't you

my hand out,

no cheap brand. Five sets could

was just enough to push Jack's buttons. He'd have to spend a fortune, but it