He Will Come Back Before Dawn

18

All the girls in the class changed, but Fang Minjun suddenly lost too much weight. Now Fang Minjun's appearance, surprisingly, overlapped with the person she remembered. Fang Minjun was now thin and had high cheekbones. In just one winter, Fang Minjun changed and didn’t look like Chang Xue anymore.

She was no longer pretty and had a decrepit air about her, but she had become more popular.

The vibes around Fang Minjun were quite awkward, but Fang Minjun pretended not to care.

Hua Ting supported her chin, "I didn't like her before, but now she's quite pitiful. It was Chang Xue who did something wrong, but she didn't do anything wrong."

Bei Yao nodded approvingly.

"Do you know, there used to be people discussing whether the school flower is Fang Minjun or Shang Mengxian. But as soon as Fang Minjun came back this semester, everyone thought that it was Shang Mengxian for sure. Where does Fang Minjun still look like a school flower."

‘Shang Mengxian?’ Bei Yao thought the name sounded familiar.

Bei Yao had studied a year earlier, and many people and things around her were different from her past life. She racked her brain to think of distant memories, only to find that there was indeed such a person.

She was two grades younger than Shang Mengxian in her last life.

By the time she was completely changed and became pretty in the third year of her junior year, someone once whispered to her, ‘If you had looked like this then, it would never have been Shang Mengxian’s turn to be the school flower. You look countless times better than her!’

However, Bei Yao, who still had a baby face, sighed. It didn't matter whether she looks pretty or not. She'd better celebrate Unhappy Pei's birthday first.

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At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, Shang Mengxian, who was in the second year of junior high school, took on the name of the school flower.

The fourteen-year-old girl, with a beautiful appearance, had a bit more charm than her peers. The one who benefited the most from the decline of Fang Minjun was Shang Mengxian, who had recently collected a large stack of love letters in the drawer of her school desk.

"Shang Mengxian, I'll say it, that Fang Minjun is nothing. Wasn’t she like that star? Now that the star has fallen, Fang Minjun looks really skinny and ugly. That Ge Bo, who used to like her, now pretends not to know her. Hahaha, you don't know how funny it is.”

Shang Mengxian put down the mirror and laughed as well.

"But well." The best friend said, "Ge Bo told me that when they used to be in the seventh grade, which is the first grade of junior high school, everyone liked Fang Minjun. But there was someone who never even looked at Fang Minjun directly and kept a cold face."

Shang Mengxian was somewhat interested, "Oh? Who is it?"

"Pei Chuan from their class. I heard that the boy doesn't have legs, and his calves are prosthetic legs. Do you know what a prosthetic leg is? It's just made like a real leg, the kind that can be fitted to walk."

Shang Mengxian's expressions showed a hint of disgust.

"But such a cripple can't even see Minjun. Don’t you think it's funny? What do you think? Does he despise her, or is afraid to like her?"

For girls of this age, the topics of interest had gradually transitioned from small snacks and games to who liked whom and who had a crush on whom.

Shang Mengxian's said in a contemptuous tone, "It is mostly because Fang Minjun’s charm is not enough, and is so cocky all day long. If I say that I'm going to make that Pei Chuan confess to me, do you believe it or not?"