Chapter 8: Tearing Up All the Fairy Tales_4

She walked past Pei Shangxuan's front door, gazing through the kitchen window at the lights inside the house. The last time she saw Pei Shangxuan had been a long time ago, so long it felt as if an entire lifetime had passed.

She had lost contact with Han Yichen, and the middle school classmates had only met once during the National Day holiday of their first year in high school; several people were absent, including Pei Shangxuan and Han Yichen. The pace at which rumors spread was astonishing, and everyone at the gathering seemed to understand the situation, which made Li Li incredibly bored. To those oblique inquiries, she feigned ignorance every time.