Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack
Chapter 152 - 141: Conspiracy

Chapter 152: Chapter 141: Conspiracy

When Luo Qianqian arrived at school in the morning, she was startled to see a McDonald’s breakfast laid on her desk. It wasn’t ten years later, after all, and such a meal couldn’t be bought with just a few bucks.

Seeing the bewildered look on Luo Qianqian’s face, Xu Tianyi walked over to his seat, frowned at the breakfast, and tossed it into the trash bin.

Luo Qianqian’s expression changed, but she said nothing. She wouldn’t dare eat it; ever since the peanut milk incident, she only drank water she brought from home.

She set down her backpack, placed her homework in her desk, and furrowed her brow. What was this protruding from inside her seat, wedged in her workbook?

She pulled it out to see a pink envelope. With a twitch of her lips, she thought, How old am I to be receiving such letters? What did I do wrong? Her face wasn’t exceptional, she was short, lacking an appealing figure—the only thing she had going for her were good grades.

Xu Tianyi was taken aback, glanced into Luo Qianqian’s desk, but unexpectedly found his own seat bulging with a similar envelope in his workbook. With a stunned face, he took out the envelope.

Luo Qianqian, no longer minding her own envelope, burst into laughter at Xu Tianyi’s, "Who would’ve thought our own Xu Datian, the Genius, would be claimed. Open it quick, let’s see which talented girl it is."

Xu Tianyi’s mouth twitched, about to throw it into the trash.

"Don’t! Let’s exchange and read," Luo Qianqian said, swiftly grabbing the pink envelope that was almost flown into the bin.

Xu Tianyi looked at the envelope thrown on his desk and opened it, too.

As Luo Qianqian read the love letter, she became more and more baffled—the signature was her own?

With a clueless face, she looked at Xu Tianyi. He also looked back with a puzzled expression, holding the love letter. In unison, they said, "It wasn’t me."

Luo Qianqian spread out the love letter, then pulled out another workbook, "Look, my writing is nicer than hers, even the name is slightly different. Plus, I wouldn’t make such a low-level mistake, writing a love letter with typos, and the typo is your name." She pointed at the paper where ’Dear Xu Tianyi’ was written at the beginning.

Xu Tianyi unfolded the love letter, "It looks like I don’t need to explain then."

In the classroom, no one paid attention to the two of them. Luo Qianqian whispered, "Is someone trying to frame us?"

"A classic divide and conquer tactic," Xu Tianyi said through tightly pressed lips, seriousness replacing the youthful look on his delicate face, giving him a more mature air.

"Sun Xuan has already left. In this class, I think the only one capable of plotting against me is Wang Wei, right?" Luo Qianqian knitted her brows. "But what’s the use? We’re so young, it’s not like we could be in a romantic relationship. You know how your family is, and so do I." Such a family background—how could they possibly be interested in a commoner girl like her?

Xu Tianyi’s face turned pale. She knew? Knew about his family situation, that he was dependent on others, knew that he... "Right, impossible." How could the granddaughter of the Luo family ever look his way, a person so lowly.

Luo Qianqian failed to notice the sudden change in Xu Tianyi’s complexion and continued, "I bet it’s Wang Wei, huh."

"Qianqian, you’re here." Gu Yanzhi passed by the door, saw Luo Qianqian frowning, and entered Class Nine’s classroom, "What’s wrong?"

"First thing in the morning, I found breakfast on my desk. Someone tried to get me with peanut milk last time, making me sick, and now I don’t know what someone’s up to again." Luo Qianqian spoke indignantly. "Then, Xu Tianyi and I found love letters addressed to each other in our desks, obviously not our handwriting, and even with misspelled words. The problem is, we don’t know who sent them and is trying to set us up."

"...The breakfast was from me, a congratulatory gift for your midterms..." Gu Yanzhi didn’t miss the only bag in the empty bin, and with a twitch in his lips, he spoke slowly.

"Ah?" Luo Qianqian quickly rescued the breakfast from the trash, "Good thing it has a handle, didn’t get dirty, heh heh, thank you."

"No problem, I’m glad I came, otherwise, I might have ended up looking like your assailant, right?" Gu Yanzhi felt relieved seeing her look: "Give me the letters, let me take a look." He compared the two pieces of paper, and after a long pause, said, "These were written by the same person, who changed the paper and even the pen used for writing, to avoid suspicion. But they have a habit, the side components of ’冂’ and ’门’ are always drawn as circles, and ’口’ is just a circle. You should check during homework collection, it shouldn’t be hard to find—the handwriting isn’t that bad."

"You’ve observed quite attentively," Luo Qianqian said after a careful look, sighing in admiration.

Gu Yanzhi smiled and said, "I often help my dad out at home, so I pay more attention to details. Once you get the homework book, you can call me to look at it with you."

"Sure," Luo Qianqian nodded, continuing to marvel internally at what an outstanding young man he was.

"Well, I should get going, my classmate is waiting for me to play basketball," Gu Yanzhi said with a smile, greeted Luo Qianqian, and then left.

"Playing basketball?" Luo Qianqian was startled, "Uh, good luck."

"Xu Tianyi, what’s wrong with you?" Luo Qianqian put away the two letters and, looking at Xu Tianyi who had been silent for a long time, asked with concern.

"Am I rather useless?" Xu Tianyi asked dejectedly, looking at Luo Qianqian, his eyes filled with the weary wisdom of seeing through the ways of the world.

"How could that be? You have good grades and you’re diligent—that’s a precondition for success. Isn’t intelligence and hard work more important than anything?" Luo Qianqian shook her head to reassure him: "Physical weakness can be compensated for with exercise. Look at my little uncle... I mean, Luo Xiying. He’s rather burly and agile, which has a lot to do with his job and results from exercise, but that doesn’t mean he never gets sick. Some people say that fools never catch a cold, but do fools really never catch a cold?" Luo Qianqian blinked. Thousands of miles away, Luo Xiying on a mission sneezed and wondered, "How could I catch a cold when it’s so hot in the South?"

Xu Tianyi, listening to Luo Qianqian’s words, found them quite sensible. Maybe he should start making exercise a priority? Even Gu Yanzhi had begun to exercise, so why should he be left behind?

"The Chinese teacher should still have the essays that were handed in," Xu Tianyi said after a moment of silence.

"Right, there’s definitely going to be essay writing in today’s double Chinese class. I’ll go get them now. We just need to compare the handwriting; it’s not something that can be changed easily." Luo Qianqian clapped her hands and ran out of the classroom.

The Chinese teacher very trustingly let Luo Qianqian take the essay books and even complimented her on her well-written essays. Luo Qianqian shyly smiled and carried away the essay books.

"This writing is so bad, it definitely can’t be that one," Luo Qianqian said, flipping through a few pages and coming across some utterly indecipherable gibberish scribbles. She made a face and, with a sense of distaste, put it to one side.

Xu Tianyi also quickly looked through one book after another, and soon frowned, "This one looks a bit like it."

Luo Qianqian leaned over to take a look, "It does look similar." Closing the book, her eyes fell on the name on the cover—it wasn’t Wang Wei. She paused, "Let’s finish looking through them all first."

There were only thirty-one books in total, and only this one had handwriting that wasn’t terrible. The characters were almost all the same size and it met the criteria of the circular strokes.

Luo Qianqian put the other essay books away and placed them on the teacher’s desk. She returned to her seat, puzzled as she looked at the name on the book, "I’ve never had any interaction with him, what could possibly motivate him to harbor such resentment towards me?"

"Sun Xuan," Xu Tianyi said after a long while, "If it isn’t about money, then it must be the naive love of a young boy and girl." He gave Luo Qianqian a meaningful look on the side.

"He likes Sun Xuan?" Although Sun Xuan wasn’t ugly, her character left much to be desired. She targeted not only Luo Qianqian but also Li Qi, Xia Qi, and even Shen Yan, as well as any classmates who didn’t fall in line with her wishes, including Xu Tianyi.

"If it’s not related to money, then feelings are the only explanation," Xu Tianyi concluded.

Luo Qianqian nodded in agreement.

"Do you remember which homework book the letter was in?" Luo Qianqian asked.

There weren’t many things in Xu Tianyi’s desk, and after taking everything out, he said, "The math homework book."

Math homework? As the math class representative, she usually collected homework from those around her first, and as everyone knew, she kept her own homework in her desk as soon as she finished it. Was this intended to reach the teacher?

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