Chapter 2 The weather was getting cold, and the scenery was dilapidated. Wen Han looked at him with a pitying gaze...

Wen Han has to get up at 5:30 every morning.

They live far from the school and have no convenient means of transportation, so they have to get up more than half an hour earlier than other students in the class.

Wen Han complained to the system, "How can I be in good spirits if I sleep so little every day!"

Wen Ruan was about to wash up when she saw Wen Han approaching, so she quietly stepped aside. The system seized the opportunity and said, "Host, you can invite him to come along."

"How can we manage such a tiny place? First, give me a few million to buy a new house."

Wen Ruo frowned when she saw this: "Can you please stop being so domineering and unreasonable? You threw my towel there too, didn't you?"

“Yeah.” Wen Han raised an eyebrow. “What, you don’t want to squeeze his towel, so you squeeze mine on the ground? If you can’t put the towel away properly, then don’t use it.”

Wen Ruan quietly tugged at Wen Ruo's sleeve, telling him to let it go: "It's okay, I can wash up pretty quickly."

Wen Han quickly washed her face. Wen Qingke prepared breakfast and asked, "Hanhan, why haven't you been going to and from school with your younger brother lately?"

“I’m so old, and my brother and I are still sharing a beat-up bicycle. Last time, those thugs saw us and said we were a couple from the old days. They may not care about their reputation, but I do.”

Wen Qingke's workplace was nearby, and the only electric scooter in the family was given to Wen Ruan. Wen Han complained to his friends several times, and his friends agreed to pick him up every day to go together.

"A thug?"

"Hmph." Wen Han said irritably, "The principal must be desperate for money to let these hooligans in here all day long without doing anything productive. They just loiter around after school. I hope they get arrested by the police one day."

Wen Ruan quietly took a sip of porridge, her eyes a little red. According to this timeline, Gu Cheng had already become obsessed with him, catching him at the classroom door every day. Wen Ruan didn't tell his family or the teacher, so he could only endure it.

"I'm finished eating." Wen Han picked up her schoolbag and urged Wen Ruo, "Hurry up."

Although his relationship with his younger brother had soured a long time ago, he knew exactly what Wen Ruo was going to say the moment he turned his backside up. This brat was just dawdling because he wanted to go downstairs with Wen Ruan.

Being a simp to this extent is quite pathetic. Wen Han crossed her arms and tilted her head: "Otherwise, I'll ride to the entrance of the community and leave the bike there, and you can walk over there yourself."

Wen Qingke said, "You should wait for your brother. Walking is tiring."

Wen Han chuckled softly: "Then when are you going to buy another car?"

Wen Qingke kept his head down and remained silent, while Wen Ruo, with a sullen face, picked up her schoolbag and went downstairs on her own.

——

Wen Ruo waited for him silently at the bottom of the building on her bicycle. Wen Han looked at the rust stains on the seat that couldn't be wiped off and became annoyed again.

The tenement buildings were all next to each other, and the alleys were narrow and winding; one could easily brush against the walls. Wen Ruo, after a long silence, said, "Brother."

"Um?"

"Can you please not do that again? It makes everyone feel bad."

Wen Han remained silent, while Wen Ruo continued, "Especially for Wen Ruan, he has had a difficult time as well."

"Shut up!" Wen Han snapped at him. "You're the last person who has the right to say that!"

"I'm going to make you all suffer. How dare you pretend nothing happened? Impossible!"

"elder brother!"

"Don't call me brother, my mom doesn't have a son like you!" he sneered. "If you're so capable, why don't you buy my mom's house back?!"

Wen Ruo remained silent, while Wen Han sat behind him, her chest heaving with anger.

As long as he's still in that house, they can forget about pretending to be a harmonious family.

*

"Wen Han!" Fang Songxia, wearing an adorable bright yellow helmet, waved to him.

Wen Han didn't say goodbye to Wen Ruo and went straight to Fang Songxia. Only after Wen Ruo left did he sigh and say, "Your brother is so handsome, but he's too cold."

Wen Han opened his mouth, but swallowed back what he wanted to say. After watching the drama yesterday, his friend, who rarely doesn't swoon over the male lead and then obsessively make things difficult for Wen Ruan, actually fell for Wen Ruo.

Wen Han said coldly, "He doesn't wash his feet every day."

"Huh?" Fang Songxia was unwilling to believe it.

Wen Han continued her slander: "He doesn't even brush his teeth."

"Well, there's nothing I can do about it then." Fang Songxia sighed. "I don't like being sloppy."

Wen Han's favorite time was going to and from school with Fang Songxia every day. The two of them would sit on their electric scooter, laughing and talking about school gossip, and badmouthing people they disliked. This was the most relaxing and enjoyable time for Wen Han.

Fang Songxia suddenly asked, "Wen Han, do you still remember Gu Cheng? Isn't he still pursuing Wen Ruan?"

"What happened to that thug?"

"Have you heard? His father is—"

"A very wealthy man".

"Wow, how did you know?"

Wen Han rolled his eyes; he hadn't even mentioned the more disgusting things yet.

"Let's not talk about him, let's talk about something else."

"Oh, we have a transfer student in our class."

Wen Han asked curiously, "You're already in your second year of high school. Could it be that you didn't do well in your third year and used connections to repeat the year?"

"Who knows?"

——

When they arrived at the classroom at 6:30, Fang Songxia excitedly nudged Wen Han: "Look at Wen Ruan's desk!"

Upon hearing this, Wen Han looked over and saw sandwiches and milk on Wen Ruan's desk. Fang Songxia remarked, "I heard that Gu Cheng now comes to school on time every day just to bring Wen Ruan breakfast."

“He already ate breakfast this morning.” Wen Han shook her head. If she remembered correctly, the next part of the story was that Wen Ruan took the breakfast to return to Gu Cheng, but Gu Cheng cruelly pinned her against the wall and kissed her forcibly. He then questioned her with “red eyes” whether she looked down on the breakfast given by the thugs. In the end, Wen Ruan was the one who rescued Wen Ruan.

Wen Han tried hard to shake those scenes out of his mind; if this continued, his digestive system would break down.

At 6:45, everyone stood up to prepare for morning reading. Wen Ruo was absent-minded and kept glancing outside. Finally, she ran out.

Wen Han's deskmate suddenly dropped out of school at the beginning of this semester, so these two desks became his alone. He took a piece of paper and tucked it between his books.

He memorized all the key moments in the drama, including the locations where Gu Cheng fought each time, and the Gu family's businesses. Wen Han also knew that at some point in the future, the real estate market would decline, and gold prices would surge.

Halfway through morning reading, the homeroom teacher came in. He noticed that Wen Ruan and Wen Ruo's seats were empty and asked Wen Han, "Wen Han, where are Wen Ruan and Wen Ruo?"

Wen Han pretended to be troubled: "Teacher, Gu Cheng keeps harassing Wen Ruan. Wen Ru is probably worried about him, so she went out to look for him just now."

The homeroom teacher immediately left with a stern face. Wen Ruan and Wen Ruo were both well-behaved and good students, but Gu Cheng was always fighting and causing trouble. We couldn't let him ruin his promising future.

Sure enough, when the morning reading session ended, Wen Ruan came in with her head down, and Wen Ruo was bruised, with a bruise on the corner of her mouth.

Wen Han lazily flipped through the book, unaware of who had won.

*

The first class was the homeroom teacher's math class. Wen Han rubbed his temples. He was so disgusted by the show that he lost his temper and couldn't remember the other details. He asked the system, but the little thing refused to tell him.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the classroom. Wen Han looked over and saw Yang Lanjun standing in front of Wen Ruan's desk with an angry expression, questioning him about his relationship with Gu Cheng.

"Tsk tsk tsk," Wen Han sighed. Yang Lanjun was clearly a famous beauty at school, from a wealthy family, and academically excellent, winning awards in every competition. Yet, she was completely obsessed with Gu Cheng, like someone suffering from hysteria, refusing to give up no matter how much he humiliated her. In the end, not only was she outshone by the angelic Wen Ruan in terms of looks, but even her prized award was taken by Wen Ruan, leaving her utterly humiliated.

Wen Han walked over, and the students, who were all watching the show, automatically made way for her.

Wen Han advised, "Yang Lanjun, we're all classmates, why are you arguing over a hoodlum?"

Yang Lanjun wouldn't allow anyone to speak ill of Gu Cheng: "Who are you calling a thug? Heh, aren't you Wenruan's brother? What, are you here to take sides?"

"Don't you understand? It's clearly Gu Cheng who's harassing him every day, and your fussing with Wen Ruan won't help." Wen Han frowned. "His grades are at the bottom, he gets into fights everywhere, and he even has weird dyed hair. What else could he be but a hoodlum, a scoundrel?"

Seeing her "Don't talk about my husband" look on her face, Wen Han was puzzled: "How come you're so beautiful but have such bad taste in men?"

Although Wen Han was the same age as them, she always had a cold and mature demeanor, speaking slowly and deliberately with a cold face.

"You!" Yang Lanjun, hearing him praise her beauty, forgot all about Wen Han calling Gu Cheng a scoundrel and ran away with a slightly flushed face.

...Hopefully she can wake up soon.

Wen Ruan was touched: "Wen Han, thank you."

Wen Han gave him a strange look: "Next time he sends something, just throw it in the trash. Returning it is like you're just asking for trouble."

Wen Ruan stammered, "But that's not right, since we paid for it after all."

"He's not short of money." Gu Cheng is so unscrupulous because he takes advantage of Wen Ruan's tendency to be soft-hearted towards him.

Class was about to start, and Wen Han sat back down in his seat. He had only written one page of his revenge plan.

The system saw this and shouted, "Host, what are you doing!"

"I need to make money quickly to buy a phone so that next time Gu Cheng gets into a fight and bullies someone, I can film it and post it online. Humph, I don't believe the Gu family has that much power to suppress everything."

"You're courting death!"

"Shut up," Wen Han said irritably. "Doing nothing is just waiting to die."

The class became restless again. What's wrong with them this time? Is everyone going crazy because spring has arrived?

The homeroom teacher brought in a boy, presumably the transfer student Fang Songxia had mentioned. Wen Han looked up impatiently, her eyes instantly shifting from impatience to deep sympathy.

Although the transfer student was an Alpha, "beautiful" seemed more appropriate than "handsome." He had fair skin and captivating eyes, so exquisitely beautiful that compared to him, the oddly shaped people in the class looked like they'd been dug out of the Sanxingdui Grottoes.

Isn't this Jing Yu? What's he doing here? Wen Han had a pretty deep impression of him because of his face. He was so handsome, but he ended up as cannon fodder.

Wen Han sighed. No matter how beautiful she was, it was useless. In the end, she ended up in a worse situation than him.

If Wen Han offended the protagonist (the bottom), then Jing Yu offended the protagonist (the top). However, to be fair, Wen Han felt that Jing Yu was much more unlucky than herself, as he was completely implicated by her brother.

Jingyu's brother offended Gu Cheng, leading to the downfall of their once-wealthy family overnight. Feeling responsible for their family's ruin, the brother committed suicide by jumping off a building. In revenge, Jingyu kidnapped Wen Ruan, wanting Gu Cheng to experience the pain of losing someone important to him.

Those who fight against the protagonist usually don't have a good ending. Jing Yu was tortured to death by Gu Cheng, who then kept him alive in the hospital, dragging his life along. Compared to that, becoming a homeless person on the street seems quite ordinary.

That's so tragic.

Wen Han looked at him with pity, which Jing Yu caught her in the act.

The homeroom teacher looked around, considering which seat to choose. Jingyu whispered something to the teacher, who then said, "Wenhan, there's an empty seat next to you. Let the new student be your deskmate."

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