Who Reported Me!?

"Xixi, tell me, what exactly are people living for?"

During evening self-study in the library, Wang Ge propped up his chin and asked that question.

"Hmm... To go to the harbor and get some fries?"

"Don't fob me off with something from a manga!" Wang Ge complained.

Chen Yanxi read her book without looking up. "You just lost to me on an exam again. There's no need to start pondering such profound questions."

"You've got some nerve saying that!" Wang Ge glared and slapped the table. "Weren't you always scoring 730? How did you suddenly get 740 this time?"

"Good luck."

Wang Ge: "..."

Faced with Chen Yanxi's perfunctory reply, he let out a resentful sigh and asked again like a broken record, "Xixi, tell me, what exactly are people living for?"

"I don't know."

"You can score 740, and you don't know?"

Chen Yanxi: "..."

She simply shut her mouth and stopped talking.

However, it wasn't long before Wang Ge started repeating himself again. "Xixi, tell me, what exactly are people living for?"

"All right, stop chanting it." Chen Yanxi rubbed her temples. "I'll let you take first place next time."

At that, Wang Ge's eyes immediately lit up. "Really?"

But then he rubbed his chin and asked suspiciously, "You're not drawing me a pie too, are you?"

"You can choose not to believe me." Chen Yanxi remained calm.

After thinking for two seconds, Wang Ge decided that Chen Yanxi probably wasn't as awful as Gu Panyan, the Queen of Empty Promises. He cheered, "I love you to death, Xixi! I knew you were the best!"

"Can I give you a kiss?" he asked timidly.

"...No."

"So heartless... But it doesn't matter!" Wang Ge said solemnly. "Even if you reject me, I'll still be your loyal fan, still be a loyal iXi!"

He clenched his fist tightly. "Crowned in gold, I'll sail with Xixi forever!"

"..."

Chen Yanxi sighed helplessly. "My homeroom teacher told me to stay away from you."

"Huh?" Wang Ge was astonished. "Why?"

"He said you weren't a good person."

"What? Isn't that slander? I'm absolutely a good guy!"

Ignoring Wang Ge's defense, Chen Yanxi continued, "He told me that you've been reported these past two days for having improper relationships with girls."

"Huh? Improper relationships?" Wang Ge was shocked. "When did we get together? How come I didn't know?"

Chen Yanxi shot him a glance. "I'm not the only one who's been reported for having an improper relationship with you. There are others too."

"...Who else could there be besides you?"

"How would I know?"

Chen Yanxi calmly turned the page of the book in front of her, seemingly unconcerned about the matter.

"Strange..."

Wang Ge looked composed on the surface, but inside he was already panicking.

What's going on? Who reported me?

And it wasn't just Chen Yanxi who had been reported. It seemed Gu Panyan had been reported as well.

The matter could still be explained to Chen Yanxi by pushing the blame onto his homeroom teacher... But if Gu Panyan found out that he skipped evening self-study every night to meet another girl in secret... he wouldn't even be able to put up a dying struggle!

Tsk... Just thinking about Gu Panyan's temper made Wang Ge's scalp prickle.

He had thought he could continue enjoying his carefree life for a while longer, but he hadn't expected the battlefield of rival affections to arrive so suddenly. He wasn't prepared to deal with it at all.

Damn it, who had reported him?

Wasn't this blatantly targeting him?

But he hadn't made enemies with anyone...

Wang Ge furrowed his brows and thought hard, trying to figure out who wanted to harm him.

It wasn't a secret that he and Chen Yanxi went to the library together at night. Several boys in the class who were close to him knew about it.

It made sense that someone would report him and Chen Yanxi, but on the surface, he and Gu Panyan were merely ordinary deskmates. They weren't particularly close at all.

Although they occasionally held hands, they generally did it in secret. Besides, they sat in the last row, so it was basically impossible for anyone to notice.

Hmm... He had only been reported over the past two days. Had anything happened recently?

The only thing that seemed relevant was that the Second Mock Exam results had been released.

The Second Mock Exam results... Wang Ge narrowed his eyes as a suspicion suddenly surfaced in his heart.

Peng Yan was a thoroughly ordinary female high school student in Wang Ge's class.

Average looks, an average figure, an average family, average grades, and equally average abilities.

She studied very hard every day, but her grades never improved. They remained stuck at around 450 points.

Yet even someone as ordinary as her had once loved a boy deeply—so deeply that it had reached her very bones.

--At least, that was what she believed.

However, the boy she loved so deeply didn't like a hardworking and ambitious girl like her. Instead, he confessed to a girl who did nothing all day but sleep and fight.

Even after being rejected, the boy continued fawning over that girl every day while treating Peng Yan with disdain.

Why? Peng Yan refused to accept it.

What exactly was so good about that woman named Gu Panyan?

She thought she was far superior to Gu Panyan. She ranked among the top twenty-something in class, while Gu Panyan was at the very bottom!

Wasn't that slut who seduced men every day merely a little prettier?

What use was being pretty? With grades at the bottom of the class, she would definitely amount to nothing in the future. She might even have to sell her body to survive someday!

Yet even while denigrating Gu Panyan like that in her heart, Peng Yan still couldn't suppress her jealousy.

She was jealous of her looks, jealous of her tall figure, jealous that men from all walks of life fawned over her, and jealous of that gaze of hers—which was always lofty, as if it mocked everything around her...

Why?

Why could Gu Panyan, whose grades were so poor and whose personality was so awful, receive the affection of so many boys?

While she, who had a good temper and worked so hard and diligently, had to be like a weed by the roadside, ignored by everyone?

Watching the man she loved deeply constantly fawn over Gu Panyan while Gu Panyan treated him with disdain drove Peng Yan nearly insane with jealousy.

But whenever she came face-to-face with Gu Panyan, she could only bury her jealousy deep in her heart and offer her a humble, ingratiating smile.

She couldn't afford to provoke Gu Panyan.

She didn't dare provoke Gu Panyan either.

Peng Yan felt that this was merely knowing when to bend and when to stand tall, not cowardice. After all, there were only a handful of people in the entire school who dared to provoke Gu Panyan.

Thus, she hid her deep jealousy in her heart without anyone discovering it.

Until one day, she happened to overhear two boys whispering among themselves.

They were talking about some rumors concerning Gu Panyan.

Peng Yan immediately became excited, her face flushing with excitement.

She didn't doubt the truth of the conversation in the slightest. After all, what good girl would grow up to look like Gu Panyan?

She hadn't originally considered taking revenge on Gu Panyan, but this hearsay gave her mind something to work with.

At the time, Peng Yan wasn't afraid that Gu Panyan would come after her.

After all, so many people were spreading the news. Even the law didn't punish everyone involved. There was no way that woman could take revenge on them one by one, right?

But what she never expected was that Gu Panyan came knocking on her door the very next day.

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