Chapter 001: Meeting You is the Beginning of My Nightmare

  That summer in Mo Xi Wu's memory was sweltering and long, in her memory, that summer even the air was filled with passionate particles, inhaling into her lungs, scorching her heart. If she hadn't met him, everything wouldn't have been this way.

  As the dusk rises, the morning dew is born, and the cycle of day after day goes on quietly, not stopping for anyone. The morning sun shines into the dark green shade, in front of the majestic provincial key high school gate, a girl wearing a pale pink long dress, like a fluttering butterfly, falls into the eyes of passersby, becoming a beautiful scenery, only...

  But this scenery doesn't match people's first impression, it feels inexplicably out of harmony.

  Where is the harmony? No one can understand Mo Xi Wu's depth better. When a slender figure appears in front of you, you hope she will turn around and smile, but when she turns around, what is revealed is a face that makes you feel nauseous!

  She could feel the unusual gaze even without looking, Mo Xi Wu couldn't help but glance at her own pink long dress, which was still Ai Lian's. She hadn't refused it before, but she couldn't resist her mother's tearful eyes.

  She smiled self-deprecatingly, Cinderella would always be Cinderella, even if she wore crystal shoes at this moment, she didn't have the innate beauty of a princess. She buried her head lower and pushed up the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose, at this time Mo Xi Wu thought that if her bangs could grow to her chin, they would cover her face, and even wearing a mask to school wouldn't be noticed by these gazes.

  Mo Xi Wu was born in a suburban county near the provincial capital. In the past, her mother's health was poor and her father had no job opportunities, so the three of them lived a tight life. Later, her father went to work in the city for a large company as an accountant, and her mother also became a small employee of this company, leaving Mo Xi Wu behind as a left-behind child. Leaving her parents too early, Mo Xi Wu grew up quickly and was very sensible, never causing her parents any worry in life or study, which also made her develop a calm and independent personality, without the pampering typical of an only child. This kind of separated life continued until Mo Xi Wu's first year of high school.

  Parents have been struggling in the provincial city for many years, with little savings, and also realized the backwardness of the suburban county middle school education level. In order to let their only daughter get into a good university, her father used his personal connections and money to transfer her to a key high school in the provincial city.

  For her parents' arrangement, Mo Xi Wu was very helpless. She always thought that as long as it's gold, it will shine wherever it is. She believed even more that as long as she worked hard, there would be a harvest. Originally, she didn't want to go at all, but her mother held onto her hand and cried: "In the past when our family was poor, Mommy and Daddy left you alone at home and didn't take good care of you, letting you suffer so much at such a young age. Now that Daddy and Mommy have the ability, bringing you here is to make up for these years of owing you."

  She knew all of this, the love of her parents, who wanted to give her the best in the world. She couldn't bear to disappoint their eager expectations, so from the beginning of her first year of high school, she became a transfer student at this prestigious high school.

  Mo Xi Wu had long expected that entering a new environment would bring discomfort, and her mother seemed to have known she'd feel this way, taking her in and out of various high-end stores, Mo Xi Wu could only watch with a heavy heart as her mother spent all the money on her clothes.

  She can't acknowledge her mother's behavior, it's because in this key high school, students are all from wealthy families, so she has to wear branded clothes to school. She can't understand even more, her family is obviously not a wealthy one, she comes to study, not to compare with others, doing so, can she really blend into the school? The answer only she knows.

  Impossible!

  At first, when she stood in the classroom wearing a famous brand and introducing herself to everyone for the first time, she regretted it. She shouldn't have been soft on her mother, so she was destined to come to school like this every day from now on, just like today, being stared at by those eyes every time. She despised herself in her heart for this, originally she also had a side that was greedy for vanity and pretentious.

  Secondly, her grades were not bad, and in her original school, she was always ranked among the top ten in exams. However, after transferring schools, her first monthly exam made her feel the cruel gap for the first time, and she was actually third from last in her class. The results were posted on a bulletin board in the classroom corridor, and at that time, she was ashamed.

  That night, she, who was normally strong, hid under the covers and cried, feeling guilty for her parents' hard-earned money. She thought about how her classmates looked at her after the grades were announced that day, despising this "third from last transfer student" who wasn't as great as they thought. This made her unable to lift her head.

  Later, she was ashamed and worked hard, but things went against her wishes. No matter how hard she tried, she never managed to make up for her past mistakes. Today is the first day of a new semester, which means she's entering her second year of high school and will be facing the division between arts and sciences, which is also what worries her the most. Apart from Chinese and math, which are compulsory subjects, physics is her strongest subject, chemistry is average, and biology is particularly bad - to use chemical terminology, it doesn't trigger any chemical reaction! However, if she chooses liberal arts, apart from geography being not so good, her scores in politics and history are above average. She's wavering between the two options, unable to make a decision.

  If it hadn't been for what happened, she might have hesitated for a few more days and wouldn't have made such a clear and decisive decision.

  As Mo Xi Wu walked to the classroom with her head down, passing by a corridor filled with boys, a sentence drifted into her ears on the wind, "......Nonsense, of course I'll choose science, who doesn't know that only bookworm girls and useless guys will choose liberal arts......" Then there were several boys' exaggerated laughter.

  Mo Xi Wu's mind buzzed with a loud noise, and all the blood in her body rushed to her face. She knew very well that these words and the laughter of others were not intentionally directed at her, but her sensitivity and proud self-esteem made her feel that she was precisely the "inferior student" they were mocking.

  Mo Xi Wu suddenly lifted her head and glared at them fiercely, these people all had the same face, a detestable and hateful face that made her feel loathing.

  She was most afraid of passing through this "human wall" formed by boys, every time she had to pass by, even her hands didn't know where to put them. At this moment, she couldn't stay for long, with a hint of anger, quickening her pace, and turning back to walk away.

  She made up her mind, she would choose science! Knowing that it was her proud self-esteem at work, not starting from her own reality, choosing liberal arts would be the best for herself. But in her ears still echoed the words "Who doesn't know that only bookworm girls and poor students who can't make it would choose liberal arts..."

  In her indignation, her pace quickened unknowingly, and the corridor soon came to an end. Mo Xi Wu thought for a moment, class was about to start, so she might as well go to the bathroom first and wait until the bell rang, at which point that group of "human wall" would disperse, and then she could enter the classroom. As for what happened after she left, she naturally didn't know.

  If Mo Xi Wu had known that her unintentional actions at the time would bring so much trouble to her life afterwards, perhaps she wouldn't have been so impulsive and just endured it.

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