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Is it Xia Liang? This completely awkward guy is once again insincerely cheering for himself?

At first, she subconsciously thought this, then quickly realized that wasn't the case. Xia Liang was cheering for the little girl beside her.

She and Xia Liang were no longer "friends."

It would be more accurate to say that they had never been friends in the first place.

Li Yaqing hated Xia Liang, which was actually no secret among the small circle of girls.

Where did this hatred stem from?

Was it because Xia Liang was more beautiful than her and had stolen the attention that was originally hers? Or was it because Xia Liang always managed to smile in the face of anything, making her own irritable character appear particularly ugly in comparison? Or was it because Xia Liang had provoked her in some way?

It seemed like none of these reasons.

She could still recall the afternoon she met Xia Liang, after school when she came across that girl lingering alone in the courtyard, her peaceful and innocent smile, her lively and adorable appearance so striking, like a princess who didn't belong there.

She had already known Xia Liang at that time, the one everyone whispered about as the "murderer's child."

What's wrong with being a murderer's child? Doesn't it sound cool? It's certainly more formidable than the crimes of her own father, and not so embarrassing to talk about, right?

However, compared to Xia Liang, she was undoubtedly lucky; with all the elders in the family being criminals, her own scandal did not become the laughing stock of the entire grade.

She didn't know whether it was because of that mentality, whether to call this feeling "empathy" or "sympathy," but before she knew it, she had walked over and struck up a conversation with the girl sitting alone in the courtyard.

What had she been thinking at that time, why did she want to talk to Xia Liang? It seemed there was no other reason; she just wanted... to be friends with Xia Liang?

When this thought crossed her mind, even she was disgusted enough to laugh.

She took Xia Liang out of that courtyard, introduced her to her other friends, taught Xia Liang how to apply makeup, took her to places she liked to hang out, told Xia Liang all of her favorite things, showed her the real her, including things she was involved in, things she was numb to.

However, she had never been able to forget the expression on Xia Liang's face after she told her all these things.

Was that a subconscious disdain?

"Maybe we shouldn't do this anymore, Yaqing,"

Back then, Xia Liang, as if struggling to suppress her disgust, restrainedly pushed away her hand: "I don't want you to be like this, stop doing those things."

At that moment, Li Yaqing, stunned as her hand was pushed away, finally understood, Xia Liang was different from all of them.

She was like a swan among the ugly ducklings, not only because she was more beautiful, but also her temperament and character were not the same as hers, a "defective" person like herself.

She deserved to be loved by others, her current pitiful state was only because she had not yet met the right person.

Whereas she herself did not deserve love; her situation was entirely of her own making, she was already a trashy failure.

Li Yaqing hated Xia Liang.

Because Xia Liang's existence seemed to be telling her—"She could have turned out differently."

But now, she had already started down this path, there was no turning back for her, she could never become pure like Xia Liang again. Find adventures at empire

With such thoughts in her heart, she felt as if her mind was overwhelmed by an endless morass. Dark and vile thoughts like a flood destroyed all her sanity, turning all her feelings towards Xia Liang into the most vicious jealousy.

Even though she had already given up, why did she have to remind herself of such possibilities?

She really liked her, they could have been great friends, but she couldn't get any closer because such an existence was torture for her.

She really wanted to blatantly ask, to start over without preconceptions, to be bad kids together, to sink into this mire; otherwise, what right did she have, who had strayed, to walk alongside Xia Liang?

With these thoughts, Li Yaqing kept tempting Xia Liang to become what everyone perceived as a bad kid.

However, no matter what, Xia Liang was unwilling to agree.

She began to isolate Xia Liang, to insult her, to bully her.

But no matter how she treated Xia Liang, her smile remained, she was still obedient, even offering up the little money she had for the group's expenses.

Li Yaqing felt as if her heart was being torn apart: she hated Xia Liang, she liked her, she wanted to pull her close, she also wanted to push her away.

She really wanted to ask: how humiliated do you want me to feel before you're satisfied?

She wanted her to leave, but whenever she saw her smile, she could never bring herself to speak.

Until one day, when Xia Liang appeared to agree to her request to join in, just as an ugly joy began to bloom in her heart, Xia Liang said to her lightly,

"I suddenly have something to take care of, I might have to leave early today. Have fun, okay!"

At that moment, although she didn't know why, Li Yaqing just had the feeling that her "friendship" with Xia Liang had come to an end.