Give You Another Chance

"Surprised?" Gu Panyan curled her lips.

Wang Ge's mouth twitched. Thinking back on all the rumors about Gu Panyan circulating around school, he suddenly found them quite reasonable.

Unexpected, yet perfectly logical.

"You trained before?" Wang Ge asked.

"I learned from my grandpa for a while when I was little," Gu Panyan said.

"Don't tell me your grandpa was some martial arts master?"

"What are you thinking? Do you think this is a wuxia novel?" Gu Panyan snorted. "My grandpa was a carpenter."

A carpenter... Wang Ge fell silent.

Seeing that Wang Ge was quiet, Gu Panyan asked, "Is there anything else you want to know?"

She curled her lips. "Didn't you say my life sounded exciting and that you were curious about me? I'm giving you a chance now. Ask away. I'll answer anything, as thanks for bringing me out to look at the stars."

"Just tell me. I'm listening." Wang Ge grew interested as well. "Start with that 'very dark' period you mentioned."

"Sure." She answered easily. "I forget when it started. Maybe four or five years ago. There were a few well-known little punks at school who came to harass me every few days."

"Heh."

She gave a cold laugh and continued.

"At first, they just bought me snacks and wrote me love letters. I returned everything every time. Later, when they saw that buying snacks didn't work, they started deliberately blocking my way in the hallways, like a bunch of flies.

"Even though I rejected them every time, you know how it is. There are always a few idiots in class who think they're so smart, that they've seen through everything. They thought I'd already started dating one of them; they just didn't know which one.

Gu Panyan cursed with remarkable calmness, then continued, "Later, I couldn't stay at that school anymore. I wanted my grandpa to help me transfer."

"But before I could tell him, he passed away."

At that, Gu Panyan paused. It wasn't because she was sad or anything. It was because she felt her hand being taken in a large, warm one.

"You already kicked me once. Holding hands isn't too much, right?"

Wang Ge's soft chuckle sounded beside her ear. Gu Panyan was silent for a moment. In the end, she did not pull free, merely punched him with her other hand.

Wang Ge grinned and tightened his grip on her hand. "Go on."

She rolled her eyes and continued. "After Grandpa died, no one could help me handle the transfer paperwork, so I could only keep going back to that school."

"Heh. After I went back, things didn't improve in the slightest. They even got worse."

"Do you understand? The rumors and those flies had already driven me nearly insane, and Grandpa's death hurt me deeply.

"So naturally, I completely lost it."

"Losing it felt absolutely amazing. I stopped caring about other people's stares and voices. Using the skills Grandpa taught me, I retaliated without restraint."

"That feeling was really satisfying."

Gu Panyan gently swayed. Having her hand held like this still felt somewhat unfamiliar to her.

"What happened afterward?" Wang Ge's gentle voice came over.

"The rest was much simpler." Gu Panyan's tone remained relaxed, as though she had long since let it go. "After I lost it, my personality changed drastically. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I became a completely different person.

"That part isn't interesting. Anyway, in the end, it became more or less like it is now. No one dared to openly spread those rumors in front of me anymore."

After hearing her story, Wang Ge was silent for several seconds before sighing softly. "How are you so amazing..."

That way of breaking the deadlock was far too outrageous.

Her fists smashed through the prison of rumors, and one kick shattered the cage of malice!

Wang Ge would call Gu Panyan a modern-day female Sett.

"Actually, I owe a lot of it to my dad and mom." Gu Panyan shrugged. "My dad used to be a top student, and he had several classmates with connections. My mom also hooked up with a rich guy. Yeah, someone like me being able to attend my current school is thanks to that uncle of mine."

A mother who hooked up with a rich man... Gu Panyan's family situation was pretty complicated... Wang Ge muttered inwardly as he said:

"You're still the impressive one. If it were me, I probably would've broken down long ago. I wouldn't have been like you..."

"Save the flattery." Gu Panyan yawned and said lazily, "Do you still want to hear the rest? You probably know a little about what happened afterward, right?"

"Everything I know is hearsay." Wang Ge shrugged. "Compared to that, I'd rather believe what you, the person involved, have to say."

"Heh. I'll definitely tell it in the way most favorable to me."

"That's fine. I'll decide whether to believe you based on the circumstances."

"Hm?" Gu Panyan turned her head with a half-smile. "Are you sure? I'm giving you another chance. You're still holding my hand right now."

"I trust you one hundred percent, unconditionally!" Wang Ge immediately said with a serious expression.

"Tch."

Gu Panyan rolled her eyes disdainfully, but a smile appeared on her lips.

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