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?

was praising you earlier, right?" Lyla asked, interrupting my

Antoine, who sat diagonally behind me, was shocked too. He said, "Isn't Ethan going overseas for a competition today? He should be on his way

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

It felt like there

I would boast to Ethan about even the smallest improvements I achieved, but he

at the ranking list and said

over. "Leah, Ethan's so meticulous! He even came to school just to see your

was back to normal. She said

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

"Back to studying!"

to do with me anymore! I was fed up with getting worked up and losing control of my life because of

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

kept overhearing about his

won a competition. A Novel-Prize-winning professor from overseas is

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

He's at some international conference. It's for a collaboration with his

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

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

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

outrageous request. He asked me to join

buried myself in more work. "I'm not

Wiley! Don't forget whose money you're spending! My

was speechless. Jack was going to talk about this when I was just three

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

pen and stuck my hand out, emotionless. "I want five sets

sets could easily cost a few hundred

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