I Might Have Fallen in Love With My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 84 - 80: The Transformation of Breaking Away

Chapter 84: Chapter 80: The Transformation of Breaking Away

Xie Ying’an’s retribution came quickly and swiftly.

In the morning, he had just torn Qingran’s love letter; in the afternoon’s class, while grabbing his books, five or six pink love letters tumbled out from the desk hole along with the books.

Actually, receiving love letters was already a common occurrence for Xie Ying’an. However, he hadn’t behaved well when tearing up Qingran’s letter in the morning.

Qingran glanced over indifferently, quickly bending down to pick up the fallen love letters before Xie Ying’an.

Xie Ying’an’s expression panicked for a moment but he quickly regained his composure. He pushed the two letters that hadn’t fallen to Qingran: "Tear them as well, please, it’s troublesome."

Qingran’s hand holding the pink envelopes paused.

Boy, your move is quite sly!

Xie Ying’an calmly waited for Qingran to help him tear the love letters.

Suddenly, Qingran lost the mood. She didn’t know what those girls who wrote the love letters were feeling, but surely they were hoping for some kind of response, not for their heartfelt emotions to be mercilessly thrown into a dirty, stinking trash can.

She pushed the few love letters across the desk back to Xie Ying’an: "You handle them yourself."

Xie Ying’an looked at her for a long while before glancing at the pink envelopes and, in the same manner, tore them up and threw them into the trash can.

Qingran’s hand holding the pen paused, leaving a small black dot of ink on the book.

Suddenly, Xie Ying’an leaned in close, his cool mint scent wafting over. Qingran heard him say, "I am not in a rush for a relationship either, Li Qingran."

You’re not in a rush, and I’m not either.

The boy’s voice was lowered, carrying a husky teenage tone. Qingran’s hand gripping the pen tightened, leaving a long mark on the book.

Qingran panicked momentarily, but it passed quickly and she responded lightly, "Oh."

Oh, I’m looking forward to seeing you get proved wrong next year.

Obviously, Xie Ying’an could see that Qingran didn’t believe him; however, he couldn’t prove anything about such matters, only time could testify.

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It’s really difficult for other students to accept that a school bully is also a top student, and his sister is a top student too.

These days, because of the school bully’s sister’s matter, people cleaning the schoolyard each day were endless.

Song Shize seemed addicted, if there was anyone not cleaning, he would block them at their classroom door.

It didn’t matter if they were boys or girls, once stopped by him, cleaning for one evening wasn’t enough to settle it.

After Qingran ranked second in the grade this time, it seemed like reversing some plots, not only Li Ce and Zheng Chunming, but even the students of Class One gradually noticed her change.

A change to being beautiful.

Like a dust-covered pearl seeing the sunlight again.

Qingran’s appearance now, it could be said, surpassed the school beauty Luo Lan.

On the way home after school, Huang Qianyu was cursing while shaking off the dirt from her hands: "Damn, Song Shize is just crazy."

Zhang Ping and Chen Xiweng nodded in agreement, the faucet in the schoolyard was turned off by Song Shize, they didn’t even have water to wash their hands after weeding.

The group of five girls walked together, with Wang Yanru from Class Eight mingling with them.

When they reached the garden, Huang Qianyu was too lazy to walk anymore. She plopped down on a stone stool and said to Sun Xin: "You, go get us some bottled water for hand washing, I’ll transfer the money to your WeChat."

The grocery store was somewhat far from there, Sun Xin nodded and headed outside the school, where the grocery store near the school gate was closer.

Zhang Ping and Chen Xiweng exchanged looks, seeing the schadenfreude in each other’s eyes.

The only one not in their class, Wang Yanru didn’t know the situation. She glanced at Sun Xin’s back and quietly asked Chen Xiweng, who was sitting closest to her, "Did Sun Xin offend Huang Qianyu?"

Chen Xiweng nodded and whispered, "Sun Xin is elbowing outsiders, Qianyu is angry."

The relationships among girls can sometimes be fragile and cold.

Wang Yanru pursed her lips, "No wonder."

Sun Xin came running over with ten bottles of mineral water. Despite it being mid-April and not too hot, she was sweating profusely, with bangs wet and sticking to her forehead.

Even so, Zhang Ping was still complaining, "Why are you so slow?"

Sun Xin’s expression changed several times; she saw Huang Qianyu also had a stern face, showing impatience, and she ultimately did not respond.

Chen Xiweng took out a bottle of mineral water, opened the cap, and said to Huang Qianyu with a smile, "Qianyu, I’ll pour the water for you, you wash your hands first."

Utterly bootlicking.

After Huang Qianyu and several others washed their hands, there was less than one bottle of mineral water left. Sun Xin didn’t use it to wash her hands but sat in the corner and drank it.

Huang Qianyu felt she hadn’t rested enough and sat on a stone stool, pulling out her phone to play.

With Huang Qianyu there, the other girls naturally didn’t dare to leave.

Wang Yanru suddenly said, "Hey, have you guys noticed that your classmate Li Qingran has become really pretty recently? Did she wear makeup?"

Zhang Ping shook her head, "I can’t tell if she’s wearing makeup. I also think she became prettier after the exams. I even suspected whether she had some minor cosmetic procedures done."

"No way," Chen Xiweng interjected, "Li Qingran hasn’t taken any leave. Even if she had cosmetic procedures, she wouldn’t have recovered that quickly."

Wang Yanru continued, "I always thought she looked just okay - pleasant without being striking. But this time, seeing her, she seems completely transformed. It startled me."

Huang Qianyu frowned at Wang Yanru, impatiently retorting, "What’s wrong with your eyes?"

Wang Yanru immediately clammed up; she forgot Huang Qianyu’s taboo – in front of Huang Qianyu, one absolutely must not praise other girls for looking good.

But Li Qingran has indeed become really beautiful recently.

Clearly, she wasn’t the only one who noticed; even Ruan Ruan was crazily captivated by Qingran’s looks lately.

"Damn, my Ranran!" Ruan Ruan held her phone close to her face while looking at Qingran, "Tell me what face wash you’ve been secretly using lately?"

Qingran, sitting at her desk doing homework, appeared puzzled, "It’s still the same brand we bought together last time."

Ruan Ruan didn’t believe it, "Impossible! Ranran, tell me secretly, I swear I won’t tell anyone else."

Saying that, she even raised three fingers.

"Really," Qingran said helplessly, holding her phone as she walked to the washroom, "I’ll show you."

Ruan Ruan finally believed it when she saw Qingran using the same brand of face wash, at a hopeless point over Huang He.

"Wuuu!" She pretended to sob loudly over the phone, "Ranran, it must be because you are blossoming. When will I blossom?"

Qingran laughed, "Don’t rush, who knows, maybe after a night’s sleep, you will blossom tomorrow."

"Okay!" Ruan Ruan wiped non-existing tears with her sleeve, then suddenly said, "Now I know why God Ji was looking for you during that time. My Ji has fiery golden eyes ah, he saw it, you little beauty embryo, haha ~"

Qingran was startled, it took her a while to gather her bearings.

She had been busy with exams, revisions, and various papers lately, and no longer had the energy to think about Ji Yanchen.

This villain shared the same fate as hers, now far away in a foreign land. When he returns three years later, will he repeat the same mistakes?

Or could his fate also find a chance for a turn, just like hers?