The shop was crowded and the dumplings were cooked pot by pot.

There just happened to be enough pots to cook Yun Hua and Qi Zi Heng's portion so Xiao Ru Yue could only stand there and wait in the queue.

Qi Zi Heng looked at Yun Hua, "Now can you tell me? Why do you hate me so much?"

Yun Hua enjoyed the dumpling slowly. The taste was good and so was the soup.

"Do I need a reason to hate someone?" Yun Hua did not even look at Qi Zi Heng, "If there really had to be a reason, then it's your family's riches and status that I have an issue with! Second... You have an annoying face."

Qi Zi Heng was at a lost for words.

An issue with his family's riches?

And, Yun Hua was the first person to find an issue with his looks!

"Hua Hua, these are your honest thoughts?" Qi Zi Heng said.

Yun Hua nodded without hesitation and started eating. She really was feeling hungry now.

Qi Zi Heng only looked at her without touching his portion.

Yun Hua smiled lightly, Qi Zi Heng was a picky eater, refusing to eat any vegetable with a weird taste like parsley, celery, carrot and the likes...

Yun Hua liked parsley very much but she never did dare to order dishes with parsley in her previous life with Qi Zi Heng. If she did Qi Zi Heng would look at her with disgust and even leave on the spot...

Hehe, now she could just eat whatever she wanted without a care in the world.

"Look, this is the difference between us. I'm used to eating in such places, as for you... you don't even have the slightest desire to try it out." Amused, Yun Hua smiled at Qi Zi Heng, "Qi senpai, we are people from two different worlds, your interest in me can end here."

Qi Zi Heng's eyebrows perked up for a moment. He reached out for the spoon and scooped a dumpling into his mouth with a particularly tragic expression...

"Not bad." Qi Zi Heng said as though his actions proved something.

Yun Hua smiled and remained silent.

Xiao Ru Yue finally came back at last with her own portion, see smiled at Qi Zi Heng, "Senpai, it tastes pretty good right?"

Qi Zi Heng nodded in confusion but he could not force himself to call it "good".

Xiao Ru Yue ate dignifiedly, her every action radiating manners. On the other end, Yun Hua was eating without a care in the world. She ate quickly, almost wolfing down the food.

Furthermore, Yun Hua picked a middle-sized portion. How could a girl eat so much? Xiao Ru Yue had only ordered a small portion.

The more carefree Yun Hua ate, the more dignified Xiao Ru Yue appeared.

Even though Xiao Ru Yue thought that she was doing so naturally, Yun Hua was well aware of this.

She quickly finished eating her dumplings and even finished most of the soup. She wiped her mouth with a napkin and looked at Qi Zi Heng, "Qi senpai, it's best if you leave me alone since I've been in a bad mood for a while."

"Bad mood? Why?" Qi Zi Heng quickly asked with a face full of concern.

Yun Hua's gaze was indifferent and her voice lacked any sign of care, "My mom and dad divorced and my mom has been feeling down so that affected my mood too."

"Divorce? What happened?" Qi Zi Heng frowned.

Xiao Ru Yue's face had turned white completely, her fingertips turning white from her forceful grip on the chopsticks, "Hua Hua, why talk about it now..."

Yun Hua smiled lightly and ignored Xiao Ru Yue, she eyed Qi Zi Heng, "A few days ago, my mom got to know that her best friend of over 10 years had long become her husband's mistress and the mistress's child is only younger than me by a few months. My dad even said that the mistress was his true love and asked for my mom to give them her blessing..."

Xiao Ru Yue bit down hard on her lips, her face turning ashen.

In the end, Yun Hua did not tell Qi Zi Heng who was the mistress that destroyed her family.

It would be meaningless to tell Qi Zi Heng.

Rather, handling it this way meant that she could enjoy toying with Xiao Ru Yue, savouring her nervous and fearful emotion... It was splendid!

"In this world, there would be those people who enjoy ruining other people's family." Qi Zi Heng's voice was cold, his tone carrying an undisguised hatred.

Xiao Ru Yue's expression turned even paler, she could not eat any of the dumplings that tasted delicious just a few moments before.

Qi Zi Heng's current mother was a step-mother, his father's first love. Qi Zi Heng's actual mother was married to his father through an arranged marriage.

Back then, the Qi family was in a dangerous state and through the arranged marriage, using the power of his mother's family, Qi Zi Heng's family managed to get by hurdle and even climbing higher up.

However, in a few years, Qi Zi Heng's father asked Qi Zi Heng's mother about divorce, saying that he wanted to marry his first love who had been waiting for him all this while...

That person had waited for him for so many years. She watched as he got married and had a child. The first love still would not give up and kept on waiting.

Qi Zi Heng's dad was touched and fessed up to Qi Zi Heng's mother. Qi Zi Heng's mother was already weak and in bad health from giving birth to Qi Zi Heng so such a relevation caused her to fall into depression and then commiting suicide soon after.

Hence, Qi Zi Heng also hated mistresses from the bottom of his heart.

Because of that, Yun Hua could never figure out why the previous Qi Zi Heng would fall to Xiao Ru Yue. After all, Xiao Ru Yue's identity as an illegitimate daughter would be enough of a reason for Qi Zi Heng to hate her.

In the end, the previous she was still at fault for being an idiot and falling into Xiao Ru Yue's traps again and again, causing Qi Zi Heng's impression of her to turn into that of an uncultured village girl!

From Yun Hua's deductions, Xiao Ru Yue probably cleared her identity early on.

Otherwise, how could he choose Xiao Ru Yue with his hatred for mistresses?

Now...

Yun Hua smiled.

She wanted Xiao Ru Yue to know very clearly that even if she did not want Qi Zi Heng, she would not let her have the engagement so easily!

Just like now, Xiao Ru Yue would have to be mindful of Yun Hua's mood, afraid that Yun Hua would reveal the truth about her identity.

Of course, this was only the start!

After the meal, Qi Zi Heng insisted on sending Yun Hua back to the school.

On the way back, Xiao Ru Yue tried her best to remain inconspicuous, afraid of annoying Yun Hua, causing Yun Hua to reveal everything in front of Qi Zi Heng.

Qi Zi Heng sent Yun Hua to the entrance of the teaching building, "Since you want to be alone for this period of time, I'll leave you alone. In a few days, how about going to disneyland for a breather?"

"I don't have time, I have the sports meet to prepare for!" Yun Hua said lightly.

"What about after the sports meet? National day happens to come after." Qi Zi Heng said gently.

Yun Hua wanted to refuse at first, but after a look at Xiao Ru Yue's expression, she said with a mild smirk, "We'll see then, just don't bother me for now."

After she finished speaking, Yun Hua headed upstairs without looking back.

Qi Zi Heng remained there, watching her head upstairs. Xiao Ru Yue could not bare to leave, so she also stayed there with her lips pursed, looking at Qi Zi Heng with a gaze of nervousness and desire.

"Qi senpai, Hua Hua has always been capricious, so don't mind it. I'll talk to her." Xiao Ru Yue appeared well-behaved and sensible.

Qi Zi Heng did not even glance at her, his gaze chasing after the distancing Yun Hua. He smiled lightly, "I like her personality, she's still cute even while she's being capricious."

In an instant, Xiao Ru Yue went straight to the verge of crying.

When Yun Hua returned home at night, Editor Sugar's messages popped up after she logged onto QQ.

Sugar, "Master Drawing, have you seen the announcement? The technical department has completed the check and your statistics are normal. There were also a few people using alternate accounts to slander you and have been dealt with by the technical department! All these have been announced to the entire site!"

Revived Drawing, "Thank you, I'll release a bonus chapter today to thank the readers."

Sugar, "Wow, that's great! Also, there's something I want to tell you about. Most works would join the VIP plan after 60k to 70k words, when do you plan to join?"

Revived Drawing, "Probably around 200k words, the readers can enjoy more for free. This book should be at least a million words."

Sugar, "Wow, that's great news! I'm looking forward to that! Also, the website wants to interview you, do you have a good photo of you?"

Revived Drawing, "Let's do the interview on text and leave out the photo."

Sugar, "Alright, I got it. It'll send you the questions for the interview. Pass them to me when you're done and I'll get it sorted out! Also, did you draw the cover page yourself? It's beautiful!"

After ending the chat with Sugar, Yun Hua quickly started typing. She had to post an extra chapter today.

But when Yun Hua opened the writer's dashboard and was stunned by the numbers.

Her work was now in 15,000 collections!

Gosh, even the website's most popular book was only in 20,000 collections by the time it concluded!

Her book had not even been monetised and it has already been added to 15,000 collections!

Of course, it was not hard to come to the conclusion that this incident of her being slandered and being proven to be innocent served as a sitewide advertisement for her!

Many readers would check out the book due to curiosity and then add it to their collection after finding it to be enjoyable. This was the reason behind the spike in her collection count!

Many readers in the review section were asking for a QQ group but Yun Hua really had no time to manage one so she put it off for now.

The sports meet would arrive soon.

In this period of time, Yun Hua went to the villa to practice and she felt that her condition was great!

Qi Zi Heng did not come to harass her in these few days but he kept sending snacks to her. Today was chocolate and yogurt, the next day would be custom ordered strawberry cake and even things like beef jerky that could not be found on the market or biscuits imported from France.

Each time, Xiao Ru Yue would bring it to Yun Hua and Yun Hua would just chuck it into the bin.

However, Yun Hua turned speechless when Qi Zi Heng kept sending people with another serving of the same thing when she dumps something!

Now the entire school knew that Qi Zi Heng was chasing Yun Hua.

At times, Yun Hua felt like cracking the head of those people open to see if they were filled with mush.

She was only 13, turning 14 in two months, but her body was lacking and was undeveloped. Qi Zi Heng must be crazy to turn down Su He who had good looks, family background and was fully devoted to him to chase after this brat from a rural village.

She really could not figure out what was in the minds of those idiots who were spreading rumors that Qi Zi Heng was "captivated" by her!

"Captivated"? Just sending some snacks meant that he was deeply in love with her? Yun Hua was willing to bet that Qi Zi Heng could just task someone to handle such a commitment. How could he possibly go around personally picking out snacks for Yun Hua?!

Turns out, Yun Hua's guess was wrong.

Xiao Ru Yue even had Qi Zi Heng's phone number and texted him regularly.

"Qi senpai, Hua Hua threw away the stuff you send her again. I've already tried convincing her so many times but she still insisted on throwing it away. Those were clearly things that she liked so why throw them away? What a waste."

"Qi senpai, Hua Hua seems to already have a boyfriend, she'd leave immediately after school and my mom once saw her going to the microdistrict of high end villas..."

Yun Hua was lazy to bother with Xiao Ru Yue's moves.

Tomorrow was the sports meet!

Originally, the shorter runs would take place on the first day, then the longer runs would take place on the second day with the swimming events happening on the third day as they were add ons.

However, the Ministry of Education suddenly requested the schools to promote swimming as an exercise and encouraged students to learn swimming and life saving skills.

The city also repeated the request to the various schools to emphasise on the message.

After some consideration, Nan Xi Middle School's leadership decided to shift the swimming competition forward to the second day and shift activities like shot put and long jump to the third day.

The opening ceremony was held in the morning and in the afternoon were the short run events.

Long run events were held on the second day morning and the swimming events held on in the afternoon of the second day.

Yun Hua was at a bit of a loss. She had the 1500m long run event in the morning and the swimming competitions?

However, Yun Hua believed that she could do it!

On the second day's morning, Yun Hua prepared her swimsuit, swimming cap, towel, bottles, chocolates and other necessities into a backpack before heading to school.

She had just entered the school and met the Han Luo Luo who had been absent from school for some time.

In the few days that she was gone, Han Luo Luo's look had changed a lot.

Her gaze turned dark and cold after seeing Yun Hua. As she walked past Yun Hua, she even bumped into her. However, she remained silent throughout.

Yun Hua frowned, having no clue as to what was happening.

The swimming competition only started in the afternoon so Yun Hua kept her bag in the classroom locked in her desk drawer.

The long run competition started at 9:30am.

First was the men's 800m race.

A boy from their class who played basketball regularly won third place.

Next up was the women's 800m race.

Xiao Ru Yue wore an Adidas branded sports attire, appearing delicate and weak, standing up among the group of girls!

At first, Xiao Ru Yue was still at the front of the group but after 300 meters, she slowed down and the other competitors passed her one by one...

She still had 500 more meters to go when the other competitors were more or less at the finishing line. Xiao Ru Yue could not find any more energy to continue, her face red as she teared up.

"Ah!" Xiao Ru Yue fell onto the ground.

The fall rubbed off a layer of skin on her knee and bright red blood came flowing out.

Xiao Ru Yue remained crouching on the ground for a long while without standing up. He Yu Xiang who was preparing for the upcoming 1500m event quickly came over to support Xiao Ru Yue, "Yue Yue are you alright? Can you stand up? Let's resign."

Xiao Ru Yue was already in tears but she insisted, "No, I'll make it to the finish line even if I have to crawl."

He Yu Xiang was moved by her perseverance.

Yun Hua stood at the side of the track and sneered.

He Yu Xiang stared daggers at her.

Under He Yu Xiang's support, Xiao Ru Yue finally made it to the finishing line in the last position!

Immediately after was the 1500m race.

The 1500m and 3000m race were both conducted with participants of mixed gender to save time. Unlike the shorter events, the 1500m and 300m had no rules against temporarily switching tracks.

Xiao Ru Yue quickly send He Yu Xiang off, "Faster go get ready, the referee is already calling for participants!"

He Yu Xiang was still worried, "Will you be fine alone? I'll bring you to the infirmary to treat your wound when I'm done with my race."

"There's no need for that, I'm fine." Xiao Ru Yue quickly said. She then continued pitifully, "Hua Hua is also in the 1500m race, help me take care of her, don't let her get injured!"

He Yu Xiang's eyes narrowed into two slits.

The 1500m had begun.

Yun Hua raced off in the instant the starter gun fired.

Her starting speed was not quick and even placed her last in the group.

There was an athlete among the girls who was pacing the fastest guy.

Yun Hua did not rush and maintained her pace.

Half a lap later, she had already caught up with a few of the girls. A full lap later, she had even caught up with some of the slower boys.

One and a half lap later, there were only 4 boys and 1 girl in front of Yun Hua.

At this moment, in front of Yun Hua were He Yu Xiang and some male athletes as well as that girl.

With only 400 meters left, Yun Hua quickened bit by bit!

200 more meters to go, Yun Hua was neck to neck with He Yu Xiang and the other guy!

Yun Hua continued to speed up.

At this instant, He Yu Xiang stretched out his leg and bumped into the other guy!

Nearing the end of such a long run, a person's strength would mostly be used up and their body would be barely managing, as a result of being bumped by He Yu Xiang, the guy staggered and crashed into Yun Hua from behind!

"Crash!"

Not expecting the sudden force, Yun Hua forward, sliding across the ground for 2 or 3 meters, her knee rubbing against the rough concrete...

Instantly, bright red blood started flowing.

Pain!

Yun Hua breathed in through gritted teeth.

Even though she was fit, but she also barely hanging on in the last section of the 1500m race!

The impact combined with her own inertia made it seem as if she was flying.

Her knee had rubbed across the ground for over a meter.

A large patch of skin had been completely rubbed off, revealing the white coloured flesh underneath from which bright red blood kept flowing from...

Her wound was similar to the one Xiao Ru Yue received but the size of the wound was at least three times larger and while Xiao Ru Yue had only lost a layer of skin, Yun Hua's wound was so serious that even flesh had came off!

Such an abrasion would be extremely painful at the moment of injury.

The guy who knocked into her was panicking and quickly came over to support her. He Yu Xiang also came over, acting innocent, "Can you still continue? We're almost at the finish line!"

Yun Hua glared at He Yu Xiang with an icy stare, "He Yu Xiang, it seems like you've completely forgotten about my warning."

He Yu Xiang put on a look of innocence, "What are you talking about? If you aren't continuing, I'll go ahead first, the people behind are almost catching up!"

Yun Hua sneer and got onto her feet and continued running while enduring the pain from her knee.

Bit by bit, the other contestants started to catch up to her.

Luckily, the girls did not have much stamina and Yun Hua still finished in third place!

Upon reaching the finishing line, Xiao Ru Yue quickly came over with a face full of concern.

"Hua Hua, you also got injured? You still have the swimming competition in the afternoon, but this wound... It shouldn't be in contact with water, what do we do?! What about resigning..."

Before Xiao Ru Yue could finish speaking, Yun Hua glared at her coldly before leaving with an emotionless face.