Chapter 1414: The Blackened Good Girl (49)

One day, Wu Lingling and several delinquent girls happened to pass by Tang Guo's school right around dismissal time.

Standing to one side and chewing gum, Wu Lingling no longer dressed in those heavy metal outfits.

Instead, she wore a T-shirt and a denim miniskirt. Of course, her hair was still dyed in several colors.

She had also deliberately done her nails in gaudy designs. A row of piercings lined her ears, each adorned with various trendy earrings, with mismatched ones hanging on each side.

Around her neck was a skull necklace. Among girls like them, these things were considered fashionable.

Having left home and dropped out of school, all of Wu Lingling's expenses now came from Lu Jing.

Lu Jing felt deeply guilty for causing her to have two abortions.

Basically, whatever she wanted, he gave her.

“Only one month until the college entrance exams. My God, Tang Guo got first place again this time. That's terrifying.”

“I passed by the teachers' office the other day and heard the Chinese teacher say she really wanted to give Tang Guo full marks. But she deducted one point because she was afraid she'd become too arrogant.”

“Why does a monster like that even exist? And why did I have to be born in the same grade as her? It's painful.”

Wu Lingling hadn't been paying attention to the conversations around her, but the moment she heard the name Tang Guo, she became unusually sensitive.

In her mind, if Tang Guo had answered that phone call back then, she wouldn't have ended up like this.

The reason she had become this way, been entangled by those hoodlums, and gone through two abortions was all because of Tang Guo.

If not for Tang Guo, the incident of stealing the ID card wouldn't have been exposed.

If not for Tang Mother's meddlesome classmates, the entire family wouldn't have found out about her abortions.

Hearing that Tang Guo was still so outstanding, even more outstanding than before, anger surged within Wu Lingling.

Why had she become like this while Tang Guo still stood in that dazzling position?

Last year, she hadn't attended the family gathering.

She didn't even go home anymore. Why bother keeping up appearances?

But she was still in the family chat groups and could still see everyone's social posts.

In that family, all of her peers who had been close to Tang Guo seemed to have improved tremendously.

She had heard that one of Tang Guo's cousins had been specially admitted to a prestigious university because of his talent in mathematics.

And there were many stories like that.

In short, everyone seemed to have their own strengths. One of Tang Guo's older cousins had apparently stumbled upon incredible luck and actually become the disciple of a renowned master of traditional Chinese painting.

The more successful and outstanding her peers became, the less Wu Lingling wanted to see them.

Occasionally, when she encountered familiar faces on the street, she instinctively turned away and pretended not to notice them.

What she feared most was being asked how she was doing.

But strangely enough, no one ever asked.

Even when she deliberately took a detour, no one called out to her.

Thinking about how Tang Guo was about to take the college entrance examination made Wu Lingling feel miserable.

Why?

There was no need to guess. As long as Tang Guo took the exam, she would definitely perform at her best.

By then, she would surely become the top science student in the entire city.

Countless interviews, newspaper articles, and news reports would follow.

Tang Guo would become that dazzling star.

And she…

She was nothing more than mud hidden in the shadows.

She refused to believe that no one secretly compared her with Tang Guo.

Tang Guo was the model example.

She was the cautionary tale.

She felt that the whole world was filled with malice toward her.

Listening to the people around her continue praising Tang Guo with envy, Wu Lingling angrily spat her chewing gum onto the ground and turned around to leave.