Ruan Xi was not very interested in them and just asked a few questions and then stopped. She took Ruan Hongjun and a few others to have lunch at the restaurant, then sent Ruan Hongbing back to the compound, and then went straight to school.

When I walked outside the school gate, I suddenly saw Xu Zhuo and a few others gathered not far away smoking. Some of them were lying on the handlebars of the bicycles, while others were sitting on one leg on the bicycles. When they saw Ruan Xi, they all straightened up.

Ruan Xi naturally pretended not to see them and went straight to the school gate.

Ruan Jie didn't dare to look at them at all. She was subconsciously afraid of these people and just wanted to stay away from them.

Although Ruan Changsheng also lived in the countryside and claimed to be the boss, he was her fifth uncle. She did not feel any oppression when facing him. However, the oppressive feeling from Xu Zhuo and others was particularly strong and scary.

Only after she entered the gate and was out of the sight of Xu Zhuo and his men did Ruan Jie slowly relax.

After sitting down in the classroom and waiting for class to start, she took out her textbook and endured for a while, but still asked Ruan Xi in a low voice: "Sister, are they targeting you? I feel uneasy and I get scared when I see them."

Ruan Xi smiled, "What's there to be afraid of? Can they eat people? Even if they fight well, we didn't provoke them. They can't beat us for no reason, right? Just ignore them."

Ruan Jie was still worried and spoke in a lower voice, "Could it be that because you ignored them, they felt that their face was hurt, so they took revenge on us or something? I got nervous when I saw them staring at you."

Ruan Xi took out the textbook and said, "Don't scare yourself. We are all children after all."

Ruan Jie said: "They are not children, they are almost adults and are in their second year of high school."

Ruan Xi patted her hands, "Don't worry too much. If their character is really that bad, Hong Jun and Qiu Yue would have said it long ago. They just like to show off and save face. They generally won't bully the weak, let alone girls."

Ruan Jie looked into Ruan Xi's eyes and felt a little more at ease with her comfort.

The new semester started. We spent half the morning cleaning and classes didn’t start in the afternoon.

All the classes in the school were organized, and the junior and high school departments moved stools to the playground to attend the opening ceremony.

Because Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were older and taller, they sat in the last row of seats in the classroom. When they lined up to participate in activities, they stood at the back. When they sat down on the playground, they were at the back.

School leaders and representative teachers sat on the rostrum in the playground.

Because listening to the speeches was boring, the students just kept their heads down and played by themselves. Some brought extracurricular books to read, while others gathered together to chat and talk about how they spent their winter vacation.

It was Ruan Jie's first time to attend such a large-scale ceremony. She sat up straight and listened very attentively. Ruan Xi didn't talk to her and just sat there in a daze for a while.

Just as I was daydreaming, someone patted my shoulder.

She was startled and came back to her senses. She turned around and saw Xu Zhuo and another boy.

Xu Zhuo looked at her and smiled, saying, "Ruan Xi, right? I'm Xu Zhuo, and I'm in Class 2, Grade 2."

Ruan Xi didn't say anything, just looked at him and blinked - he really didn't care about school rules and regulations at all. At the opening ceremony, he could run directly from the second-year high school team to the first-year junior high school team without any fear of being caught by the teacher.

When Ruan Jie heard the voice and turned around to see him, she instantly became nervous again, tucking her hands into her thighs and rubbing them together.

Ruan Xi ignored Xu Zhuo and asked the boy next to him: "What's your name?"

The boy next to him was a little surprised. He was stunned for a moment, then he quickly laughed and said, "My name is Chen Weidong."

Ruan Xi looked at him and smiled, "Hello."

Chen Weidong smiled happily, "Hello, hello."

Xu Zhuo glared at him with a dark face, and he stopped smiling instantly and raised his hand to touch his head.

Ruan Xi stopped talking to them and turned back to watch the opening ceremony.

After the first few rounds of speeches, everyone was listless. Now it was the turn of the student representatives and the female representatives to speak on stage. The atmosphere on the playground suddenly became a little livelier, and many people started to cheer when Ye Qiuwen came on stage.

Ruan Xi watched Ye Qiuwen go on stage and read her speech in the afternoon sun, her face glowing.

Ruan Qiuyang, who was sitting in the front, seemed to be more excited than Ye Qiuwen. After Ye Qiuwen came on stage, she deliberately turned around to look at Ruan Xi, as if telling Ruan Xi with her eyes that she tried her best to grab the limelight in school but was not even one-tenth as dazzling as Ye Qiuwen.

But when she was provoking Ruan Xi with her eyes, she naturally saw Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong behind her.

She felt unhappy again, and decisively turned back to continue looking at Ye Qiuwen, straightening her back and taking advantage of the situation.

Her face was full of pride, and she said to Su Mengmeng complacently: "See, no one can compare to my eldest sister."

Su Mengmeng nodded vigorously, "Excellent people are indeed different."

Ye Qiuwen has always been a near-perfect person in their school. She has been set as a role model. She is good at and loves to perform. No matter what large or small activities the school holds, she is usually there.

She is pretty and graceful. Before Ruan Xi came, she was the most beautiful girl in their school. She is also versatile and capable. Whether it's the way she treats people or the way she speaks and does things, she is so thorough that no one can find any fault with her.

Ruan Qiuyang said proudly: "Some people can only work hard in crooked ways."

Hearing this, Su Mengmeng subconsciously turned around to look back. Seeing Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong sitting at the end of their class, she naturally knew what Ruan Qiuyang meant, but she didn't say anything else.

She was afraid that Ruan Qiuyang would be unhappy if she said that, because being favored by Xu Zhuo was quite enviable.

Xu Zhuo's family background is the strongest among all the students in their school. Even though he is uneducated, smoking and fighting every day, his starting point in life may be the end point of many people's lives.

To put it in an exaggerated way, many people may never reach his starting point in their entire lives.

But as she thought about it, she whispered, "If I were this beautiful, I would also take the crooked path."

If I could really marry into the Xu family, I wouldn't have to worry about anything in my life.

Ruan Qiuyang's eyes widened instantly as he looked at Su Mengmeng: "???"

Su Mengmeng realized what she had said, and suddenly raised her hands to cover her face in embarrassment - hehe, she was so shy that she couldn't help but say what was in her heart.

Ye Qiuwen was speaking on the stage, and Xu Zhuo asked Ruan Xi below: "She was adopted by your parents, right?"

Ruan Xi didn't look back and answered him directly: "Yes, my parents' pride."

Xu Zhuo asked again: "So you have always lived in the countryside?"

Ruan Xi turned around and looked at him, "Are you asking about me?"

Xu Zhuo smiled, "Isn't it difficult to ask such a question?"

Ruan Xi looked at him and said, "It's no use asking. I don't want to be friends with hooligans."

Xu Zhuo was choked up, and after a long while he said, "You said I'm a gangster?"

Ruan Xi looked at him and said, "Those who don't study and smoke and fight in school are all hooligans."

Xu Zhuo: “…”

Just when he didn't know what to say in refutation, Ye Qiuwen finished her speech and stepped down from the stage, and a male representative took over.

When Ruan Xi heard the name of the male representative, her nerves jumped and she repeated subconsciously: "Lu Yuanzheng..."

Xu Zhuo looked at her, "Why? You want to be friends with someone like him? He's already taken."

Ruan Xi turned her head and looked at him again.

He said: "It's the female representative just now, your sister."

Ruan Xi's eyes paused. As expected, she remembered correctly. Lu Yuanzheng was the male protagonist of the original text, Ye Qiuwen's official partner, and the person the original body wanted to fight for after her mentality became distorted. Her failure to win the fight led to her further darkening.

Ruan Xi would not touch Ye Qiuwen's things, and she was too lazy to even fight for her parents' love and approval.

She asked Xu Zhuo: "How did you know?"

After all, dating is not allowed in school, so even if Ye Qiuwen was dating, no one would know.

If people knew about this, wouldn't her image as a goddess in school be ruined again?

Xu Zhuo smiled, "Lu Yuanzheng is in our class, and his father is my father's adjutant. Can't you see that?"

Ruan Xi looked at him and said, "Maybe they are just ordinary friends."

Xu Zhuo: "I don't care what kind of friends they are, and I'm not interested, but he probably won't be friends with you."

Ruan Xi rolled her eyes and said, "I'm willing to be friends with him."

Xu Zhuo: "Then you can be my friend. I am definitely more prestigious than Lu Yuanzheng. Many people want to be my friend, but I usually don't even look at them. They have to line up to see me."

Ruan Xi glanced at him and said, "I don't need to rely on others to gain face."

Xu Zhuo: "You have quite a personality, I didn't realize it."

Ruan Xi ignored him and turned to look at Lu Yuanzheng who was speaking on the podium.

Regarding the plot of the original text, she only knew the general outline and didn't know much about the details. She didn't know how many sad stories there were between Lu Yuanzheng and Ye Qiuwen, and of course she had no interest in knowing, let alone getting involved.

Let them play out their own story.

After the opening ceremony, we returned to the classroom for another class meeting and then it was time to go home from school.

On the way back, Ruan Jie asked Ruan Xi: "Do you think the story between the male representative and Ye Qiuwen is true?"

Ruan Xi shook her head. "I don't know, and I don't care about these things."

Just stay out of it. There's no need to waste your time on them.

Ruan Jie whispered, "But if it's true, don't you feel disgusted? On the one hand, they say that we are seducing people in school by crooked means, while Ye Qiuwen is secretly dating. What is this?"

Ruan Xi laughed out loud, "Since we arrived in the city, there have been disgusting things everywhere. Is this one more thing? Even if this is true, even if Feng Xiuying knows about it, she will protect Ye Qiuwen. Don't worry about it."

Ruan Jie took a deep breath and said, "I understand. Ye Qiuwen is her face and pride."

As the two were talking, Xu Zhuo and his friends passed by them on their bikes.

This time he didn't go over, but slowed down and followed Ruan Xi, asking her: "Do you want me to give you a ride?"

Ruan Xi shook his head at him and said, "No need, you guys go first."

Xu Zhuo did not leave first, but rode his bike slowly beside her, talking to her in casual conversation.

A few dozen meters behind, Ruan Qiuyang walked slowly with his arm around Ye Qiuwen.

Because of what happened at noon, the two are now reconciled.

Ruan Qiuyang looked at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie and said, "Sister, did you see that? On the first day of school, they did nothing else but seduce Xu Zhuo to follow them. They are really capable. It's hard for others to talk to Xu Zhuo."

Ye Qiuwen looked at the backs of Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, then at Xu Zhuo and the others.

She said: "After the novelty wears off, I may not pay attention to her anymore."

Ruan Qiuyang: "I think so too."

But when she saw Xu Zhuo following Ruan Xi, she couldn't help feeling jealous.

After a moment she muttered again, "I wish I was this pretty. We are both born to the same parents, but she is the only one who is this pretty. It's really unfair."

Ye Qiuwen was actually also very upset. She hated to see Ruan Xi in the limelight even more than Ruan Qiuyang, because Ruan Xi was stealing her limelight. Originally, all the eyes and attention in the school should have belonged to her.

Moreover, ever since Ruan Xi came to the city, her life has been affected so much that she often feels that Ruan Xi is here to bring bad luck to her.

Every day she felt that Ruan Xi was trying to steal her position and pull her down from the sky and trample her under his feet.

She also didn't expect that Ruan Xi could attract Xu Zhuo's attention and make Xu Zhuo follow her.

You know, Xu Zhuo usually acts like a big shot in school and doesn't take anyone seriously.

Taking a deep breath, she said, "Beauty brings disaster, and beauty brings misfortune. Being too pretty is not necessarily a good thing."

Ruan Qiuyang thought about it and nodded, "Since the idiom says so, it must be correct."