The Tragedy Triggered by Jealousy

Peng Yan would never forget that day.

When she returned from her break exercises that day, she saw that terrifying woman sitting in her seat.

Seeing her enter, the woman gave her a mocking smile.

"You're Peng Yan?"

"Does spreading rumors feel good?"

"Speak up, are you coming out with me willingly, or am I dragging you out like a dead dog?"

Peng Yan was proud and not very pragmatic.

So that day, after Gu Panyan kicked her so hard she couldn't stand, she was dragged out by her collar.

Her classmates watched her being dragged out, completely silent, none daring to utter a word.

Gu Panyan dragged her all the way into the school's broadcasting station.

Upon entering, she discovered several other victims already lying inside.

"If you don't want me to drag you out of the classroom a second time, stay put and don't move."

The dangerous woman said so.

That day, Peng Yan was forced by Gu Panyan to refute the rumors by name on the school broadcast.

It was the darkest day of her life.

After returning home, her first thought was to transfer schools.

She couldn't bear such humiliation; she couldn't stay in this school any longer.

But when her parents asked her the reason for transferring, she stammered and couldn't explain.

In the end, it was dropped.

Peng Yan could only bear the shame, enduring the strange looks from her classmates, pretending as if nothing had happened, and continuing her classes.

She didn't dare to retaliate against Gu Panyan, nor did she dare to speak ill of her.

She could only bury her hatred deep in her heart, constantly telling herself not to stoop to the level of someone like Gu Panyan, that her academics were poor, and her future was bound to be bleak.

Once she had money and made something of herself, she could humiliate her to her heart's content.

Burdened by hatred, Peng Yan studied even harder.

In this year's First Mock Exam, she achieved a good score of 460, already passing the undergraduate line.

This made her look down on Gu Panyan even more.

She knew that Gu Panyan had recently started studying with Wang Ge's encouragement, but so what?

Peng Yan believed that a leopard couldn't change its spots, and a scumbag would always be a scumbag.

Just you wait, Gu Panyan, when I get into university, when I have money, I will repay the humiliation you brought me a hundredfold!

I have been working hard, constantly improving, what can you compare me with?

Amidst Peng Yan's beautiful fantasies about the future, the Second Mock Exam arrived as scheduled.

This Second Mock Exam was more difficult than the first, and Peng Yan barely scored 410.

However, she was already very satisfied because this score caused her class ranking to rise instead of fall.

After receiving her report card and looking at her results, Peng Yan subconsciously scanned to the end of the report card for Gu Panyan's score, wanting to find some sense of superiority.

But suddenly, she couldn't find Gu Panyan's name.

Where was Gu Panyan? Where did she go?

With a suspicious gaze, she searched bit by bit from the last place upwards.

Finally, just above her own name, she found the three characters "Gu Panyan."

Huh?

Her eyes widened in disbelief.

Gu Panyan surpassed me?

How is this possible!?

After flipping through the report card several times and confirming that Gu Panyan's score was indeed higher than hers, Peng Yan's first reaction was:

Cheating!

Gu Panyan cheated! She must have cheated!

Otherwise, how could a failing student who was always last in the rankings score better than herself!?

Peng Yan was completely flustered. The gap in academic performance was her last fig leaf; she relied on this aspect of success to numb herself with mental victory, allowing her to forget the humiliation and barely get by until now.

But now, her last fig leaf was also gone!

Impatient people often do irrational things.

Peng Yan was a prime example; she impulsively rushed into the homeroom teacher Jiang Xiyu's office, accusing Gu Panyan of cheating on the exam.

But Jiang Xiyu told her:

"I know you're anxious, but please calm down first."

"You say she cheated, but how could she have cheated? Did she bring a cheat sheet?"

"Even if she did bring a cheat sheet, how many points could it add? The Chinese dictation of ancient poetry is only worth eight points..."

"Besides, subjects like math and physics aren't things you can solve by bringing a cheat sheet."

"Even if she used her phone to search for answers, the Second Mock Exam questions were all new this year, she wouldn't have been able to find them."

"You say she copied from someone else? In Gu Panyan's exam hall, there wasn't even a single person who could score 350. Who could she have copied from?"

Jiang Xiyu tried to reason with her patiently, but she wouldn't listen at all.

She was still stubbornly refusing to admit defeat, stubbornly believing that Gu Panyan must have cheated.

Jiang Xiyu had no choice but to pull up the surveillance footage from Gu Panyan's exam hall and show it to her.

The video played at double speed, and Peng Yan stared intently at the computer screen, trying to find evidence of Gu Panyan cheating.

As she watched until the end, she gradually became disappointed, even despairing.

She couldn't find anything, absolutely nothing.

Later, Jiang Xiyu also subtly advised her not to be so consumed by jealousy, that everyone is unique, and to focus on herself instead of worrying about others...

But Peng Yan didn't hear a single word of what she said afterward.

Her mind was filled with disbelief.

Could it be that Gu Panyan really didn't cheat, and she had beaten herself with her own abilities?

As she walked out of the office, she felt completely dazed.

After concluding that Gu Panyan hadn't cheated at all, Peng Yan's heart was filled with absurdity, anger, and a jealousy so overwhelming it was about to spill over.

Why?

Why?!

Why was it that the score she had worked for three whole years to achieve was so easily surpassed by that bitch Gu Panyan in just one month?

That bitch, that bitch... How could she have lost to that bitch!

Peng Yan's breathing became rapid, her eyes slightly reddening.

Why? Why could Gu Panyan improve so quickly?

Was she naturally smart and talented?

No, Peng Yan absolutely refused to believe it. Besides fighting, did that woman have any other strengths?

Carrying these doubts, Peng Yan walked back to the classroom and happened to see Gu Panyan in the last row, holding a pen and studying diligently.

A sense of crisis suddenly arose in Peng Yan's heart:

No, this won't do, I can't let Gu Panyan keep improving like this!

Amidst the sense of crisis, her peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of the man next to Gu Panyan.

The man who was laughing and joking every day, sleeping in class, and not focusing on his studies, yet always scored over 700 points.

Wang Ge... Yes, Wang Ge!

Peng Yan suddenly realized.

It must be Wang Ge, it must be because of Wang Ge!

It must be because Wang Ge was tutoring her that Gu Panyan improved so quickly!

I can't let Wang Ge continue tutoring Gu Panyan anymore. We have to separate them, we absolutely have to separate them!

After figuring this out, Peng Yan began to observe the two of them, trying to find a way to break them up.

But she didn't know until she observed, and the observation shocked her.

After observing for a long time, she found that the two of them were abnormally intimate! They didn't seem like ordinary deskmates at all.

Even if they weren't together yet, they were at least in the ambiguous stage!

This reminded her of something she vaguely remembered hearing someone say before – that Wang Ge didn't attend evening study sessions every night because he was actually going on dates with Chen Yanxi, the top student in their grade...

Peng Yan didn't know if this was true or not, but... did it matter if it was true or not?

Drawing upon the many palace intrigue dramas she had watched, a plan slowly began to take shape in Peng Yan's mind...

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