Qiao Lan successfully entered the finals in the afternoon after participating in the preliminaries in the morning.

During lunch, Hao Ying and a few other boys in their class asked them to have lunch together. Bai Yu and the others looked at Qiao Lan with an 'I knew it' expression and were about to persuade Qiao Lan to go. However, Qiao Lan immediately rejected them, saying that she had something to do back at the dormitory and that they could go with her.

Bai Yu looked at Hao Ying, who couldn't hide her disappointment, and then looked at Qiao Lan, who didn't seem to be in a good mood. She decisively chose to go back to the dormitory with Qiao Lan.

After everyone else left, Bai Yu asked Qiao Lan if she was in a bad mood.

"Not really," Qiao Lan said. She was just a little annoyed.

Qiao Lan hadn't seen the Qiao family for almost half a year. Now that she suddenly bumped into Qiao Yuan today, Qiao Lan couldn't help but feel annoyed. If it wasn't for the law, she really wanted to immediately move her household register out of the Qiao family's household register and cut all ties with them.

After chatting with Bai Yu for a while, the topic of their conversation shifted to Tan Mo.

Bai Yu had only been in close contact with Tan Mo for a while today. She recalled her conversation with Qiao Lan and said, "It's just like what you said. Tan Mo doesn't seem to be easy to get along with, but he doesn't seem to be scary at all."

"Right?" Qiao Lan smiled and said, "I don't understand why you were afraid of him before. He doesn't look scary."

"He's not scary, he's not scary. He's too good-looking. Really. After observing him closely for a while today, I feel that Tan Mo's face isn't any worse than Chen Yaoyang's and Hao Ying's."

"He's good-looking to begin with. You only realized it now."

"It's not too late to realize it now," Bai Yu said. She suddenly sighed and said, "Now that you mention it, I suddenly feel a little sad. He's good-looking and smart. I heard that his family is very rich too. If his legs were fine and he could stand up, the girls in school would definitely line up to chase after him."

Qiao Lan's eyes darkened when he heard this.

If he could stand up and did not have Asperger's disease, he would definitely be more popular than Chen Yaoyang and Hao Ying.

Many people said that God was equal, but in reality, there was no such thing as equality. Qiao Lan could not find any trace of God's favor in Tan Mo. He was autistic, physically disabled, his parents divorced when he was young, and his mother died in a car accident when he grew up. It was as if all the misfortunes had befallen him.

But what did Tan Mo do wrong?

No one knew better than Qiao Lan how kind and pure Tan Mo was.

If only Tan Mo could receive treatment.

Bai Yu looked carefree, but in reality, she was a very attentive girl. When she saw that Qiao Lan's tone was a little sad, she thought of the scene when Qiao Lan brought Tan Mo here this morning. After holding it in for a while, she could not help but ask, "Lan Lan, I'm really curious. Why are you so nice to Tan Mo?"

Even she felt that Qiao Lan's attitude towards Tan Mo when they were playing cards today was too intimate. Qiao Lan cared about Tan Mo almost all the time. Bai Yu did not even care so much about her own brother.

Even if he pitied Tan Mo and felt sorry for him, there was no need to go to this extent. If Tan Mo was a normal person, Bai Yu would have suspected the relationship between Tan Mo and Qiao Lan.

However, after hearing Bai Yu's words, Qiao Lan asked her back, "Do you think I'm nice to Tan Mo?"

Without waiting for Bai Yu to speak again, Qiao Lan continued, "But compared to how well he treats me, what I do is nothing."

Nothing …???

Bai Yu was stunned. After a long time, she asked Qiao Lan tentatively, "What did Tan Mo do?"

What did Tan Mo do to make Qiao Lan say something like that?

What did he do?

Qiao Lan thought about it for a while. She helped her earn money, gave her a Christmas present, deliberately skipped the exam and gave her the scholarship, taught her classes every day, appeared by her side when she had nowhere to go, took her in, and trusted her wholeheartedly …

"There are too many, I can't count them all," Qiao Lan said, "If I have to say, it's that if it wasn't for Tan Mo, I might not even be able to study now, my grades wouldn't be so good, and my life would be a mess right now."

If it wasn't for Tan Mo, she would still have to think of ways to earn money every day. Her life would be full every day and it would be very hard. If it wasn't for Tan Mo, she might have to endure the Qiao family and continue to live in that suffocating environment, living in fear every day.

Bai Yu had always thought that Qiao Lan only treated Tan Mo out of sympathy and pity, but she didn't know that so many things had happened between them.

"Tan Mo is very important to you, right?" Bai Yu suddenly asked after a long time.

"Of course," Qiao Lan smiled, "Very important."

When she came to this world from her original world, she didn't have any relatives or friends. In that disgusting family and cold class, Tan Mo was the first person who was really good to her. He was also the person who treated her the best in both her lives.

Tan Mo was the person she cared about the most in this world, the most important person to her.

The school's sports day was very fast. The preliminaries were just finished in the morning, and the finals were in the afternoon.

After the morning run, Qiao Lan felt that something was wrong. Other than Bai Yu, a few people in the dormitory and many people in the class mentioned Hao Ying's name in front of her. Later, she found out that Hao Ying accompanied her when she was running. The bottle of water she drank at the end of the run was also bought by Hao Ying.

Qiao Lan felt a headache coming on.

She had just finished her run and was surrounded by her classmates. Someone handed her a bottle of water. She thought that it was prepared for all the athletes in the class, so she didn't think much of it and drank it.

She didn't know that it was bought by Hao Ying.

In the past, Hao Ying often came to her with questions. Qiao Lan felt that something was wrong, but at that time, Hao Ying was still quite reserved, so Qiao Lan didn't say anything. After all, they were good friends. Qiao Lan felt that if she kept her distance, Hao Ying would understand.

However, after what happened today, anyone who knew Hao Ying probably knew what Hao Ying meant. Not only did they know, but they might have misunderstood something.

Qiao Lan felt that she had to find time to talk to Hao Ying. She had to kill this little sprout before it grew and not many people knew about it.

However, plans couldn't keep up with changes. On the last day of the Sports Meet, which was also the day before the holidays, because there were no classes or evening self-study sessions, the management of the class and the dormitory was a lot looser.

In addition, a few classes in the first female dormitory had moved from the second dormitory to the first. In order to move faster, the boys in the class were allowed to enter the female dormitory to help the girls move their things.

Hao Ying took advantage of this opportunity to confess her love in a high-profile way.

On the evening of September 30th, in front of the crowded dormitory, under the shocked gazes of the other boys and the envious gazes of the girls, Hao Ying snuck into the female dormitory with a large bouquet of fiery red roses. Amidst the dormitory auntie's belated yelling, she delivered the flowers to Qiao Lan's dormitory.

Such a blatant act of confessing with flowers was already a hot topic. Because the main character of this incident was Hao Ying, the explosive nature of this incident could no longer be described as hot.

The girls who passed by Qiao Lan's dormitory were all envious. Even the girls in Qiao Lan's dormitory were crazy about how daring Hao Ying was.

Qiao Lan happened to be away that day. When she came back, the flowers were still on the table. Everything had already become an unexplainable situation.

If Hao Ying's escort was considered a small commotion, then after the flowers were delivered, the whole school knew that Hao Ying was chasing after the beautiful girl who had stunned everyone at the Sports Meet. Her boldness and initiative made people's hearts flutter.

Even Tan Mo knew.

Hao Ying repeatedly expressed his love to Tan Mo in a more and more high-profile way. He made Tan Mo understand the meaning of love and the strong and complicated psychological stimulation that came with love.

He was finally able to distinguish the layers of emotions from the simplest annoyance.

Anger.

Jealousy.

Madness.

When Tan Mo first understood what love was, the first taste of it was bitter.

When Qiao Lan came back from the holidays, what was waiting for her was not the first monthly exam, but the class teacher who had been holding her anger in for a week.

Hao Ying made a big fuss this time. Even the class teacher heard about her student's spectacular deeds. When she found out that this person was Hao Ying, she was even more furious.

When Qiao Lan and Hao Ying came back from the class teacher's office, one after another.

The class teacher was very "snobbish." Her attitude toward students with good grades and students with bad grades was worlds apart. When she spoke to Qiao Lan, she spoke gently. When she heard Qiao Lan say that she absolutely did not want to date in high school, let alone date Hao Ying, she was satisfied and let Qiao Lan go.

When Hao Ying left, the anger that she had been holding in for a week all exploded.

That day, almost all the students on the first floor heard the class teacher's roar.

"If you don't want to learn, don't lead my good student astray!"

Hao Ying was reprimanded during the morning self-study. Almost all the students in the class looked at Qiao Lan. A few of Qiao Lan's friends in the class, including Pei Ning from Class 28, sent WeChat messages to ask if Qiao Lan was with Hao Ying.

Qiao Lan was in a bad mood.

This state of not being able to explain herself made her very irritated.

She couldn't figure out what she had done wrong. Did she give Hao Ying a hint and cause Hao Ying to misunderstand? Or was Hao Ying too confident that no girl would reject him?

Was that why he chose such a high-profile method?

There were too many rumors and slanders. What made Qiao Lan even more annoyed was that many people believed that it was true.

Tan Mo had just arrived at school when he saw Hao Ying walking out of the office dejectedly. Hao Ying nodded at Tan Mo as a greeting and then went into the classroom.

Tan Mo looked at Hao Ying's back and suddenly remembered the way Hao Ying ran behind Qiao Lan. He remembered that someone had taken a picture of Hao Ying striding into the girls' dormitory with a bouquet of flowers. He also remembered the nameless students who had commented that they were a good match.

The rose was fiery red and dazzling.

It was a simple word, but it was more dazzling than the rose.

For a moment, Tan Mo suddenly didn't want to go into that classroom.

He stopped in the corridor outside the classroom. After a long time, he saw the noisy students suddenly exclaim. He didn't want to go into the classroom. Qiao Lan and Hao Ying walked out of the classroom one after another.

Everyone's exclamations and suppressed screams filled Tan Mo's ears.

Where did they go? What did they do? What did they want to say?

Tan Mo didn't know. He didn't dare to think about it.

He vaguely remembered that Qiao Lan had said in a low voice that she found Hao Ying annoying when he asked her questions every day. However, he also remembered other people's words.

"That's Hao Ying."

"Who can reject Hao Ying?"