From the Heavens Descended an Immortal Sister

"Yeah, Brother Zang, I really think it's possible!" Sun Yan said excitedly.

"Right, the girlfriend that little Shuai fought over with that trash, was it the girl with white hair?" Wang Cang asked.

"Uh, no, but that girl with white hair was also tricked by him with some despicable means!" Sun Yan insisted, smearing the other's name.

"Such a character! Petty-minded and malicious! Very likely to kill someone over a minor disagreement!" Wang Cang said with a stern face.

"Then, Brother Zang, should we immediately take some people and arrest him?" Sun Yan asked.

"Arrest him?" Wang Cang sneered, "Even if we arrested him, we wouldn't have the evidence to convict him, and he'd just bounce around in the police station.

It would be better to play dirty myself, find a chance to cripple him, press him with severe torture, if he's the murderer I'll kill him on the spot, if not, then consider it as helping little Shuai settle a grudge!"

"That's right, Brother Zang, taking matters into our own hands is much more effective than locking him up in the police station!"

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Fang Ren was registering Mu Huanqing at the Academic Affairs Office when Liu Qianqian ran into the office with a smile on her face.

"Director, I heard we have a new student in our class?" Liu Qianqian started the moment she entered.

Fang Ren looked at her smiling face, which had shed the worry of the past two days, suggesting that last night she must have thoroughly studied the notes given to her, and must have found hope in them.

But the moment after Liu Qianqian finished speaking, when her gaze shifted to Fang Ren and Mu Huanqing, the smile abruptly froze, her eyes becoming somewhat vacant as she looked at Mu Huanqing.

"Qian Qian, the new student is her, Mu Huanqing, a graduate of Tianjiang Medical University, she's here to study abroad. Could you show her around the school and then introduce her to the other students in the class?" the academic director asked from his desk.

Liu Qianqian suddenly snapped back to reality, a smile forced onto her face, though it seemed more strained, not the genuine smile she wore when she first entered.

"Oh, sure, Director." Liu Qianqian said, "Hui Qing, come with me, we've already met."

Leading the way, Liu Qianqian left the office first. Fang Ren paused, puzzled by Liu Qianqian's momentary vacancy and her forced smile.

He had resolved the issue for her; she should be happy.

Following Mu Huanqing out of the office, Liu Qianqian stood at the door and said to Fang Ren, "Class is about to start, are you coming too?"

Fang Ren turned to look at Mu Huanqing, knowing Liu Qianqian would take some time to show her around the campus, and said, "I'll pass, otherwise I'll be late and lose points."

"Okay."

Mu Huanqing nodded, and Fang Ren took her uniform from her hands and ran off toward the teaching building.

Watching Fang Ren leave, Liu Qianqian's expression relaxed slightly. She turned to Mu Huanqing with a smile and said, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Liu Qianqian, from now on I'm your class leader, you can come to me with anything you need."

"Okay," Mu Huanqing responded.

"Come on, I'll show you around the school."

...

The two girls left the academic affairs office and walked onto the main road of the campus. While pointing out some of the school's buildings, Liu Qianqian also started making small talk with her.

"By the way, how did Hui Qing get to know him?" Liu Qianqian asked with a smile.

"Ah Ran? Our families arranged for us to meet." Mu Huanqing replied.

"A blind date?"

"You could say that."

"When did it start? He never mentioned anything like this to me before," Liu Qianqian said with a laugh.

"May fifth," said Mu Huanqing.

"May fifth..."

Liu Qianqian stopped mid-sentence, suddenly recalling that afternoon on May third, when Fang Ren had abruptly asked her to sit with him by the river. She got there first but didn't see Fang Ren, so she messaged him to ask when he would come, but he never replied.

When she couldn't stand the wait anymore and was about to go look for him, she suddenly saw him running toward her, dressed in a neat white suit. He was carrying a bouquet of flowers, his hair was meticulously trimmed, and it was brushed back.

Fang Ren was naturally quite handsome, and although he might not be considered extremely attractive, Liu Qianqian thought he looked handsome after putting in the effort to dress up.

She still vividly remembered the riverbank that afternoon, his face slightly flushed with a shy look, and when he confessed to her, he blurted out nearly five hundred words of love talk, stammering and avoiding her gaze, now and then fiddling with his hair, then his trousers...

nervously twisting and turning like a girl.

Liu Qianqian had to admit, she liked that shy and clueless demeanor of his because it was all for her.

Unfortunately, with the global university alchemy competition right around the corner, she couldn't reciprocate his feelings.

That day was Fang Ren's second confession to her. After the first time, she had made up her mind to be ruthless in rejecting him, so she was quite harsh with her words during the second rejection.

That day... Fang Ren must have been heartbroken.

She remembered that self-deprecating smile of his at the end and how he uttered, "It's all my own wishful thinking, I'm sorry."

After saying that, Fang Ren turned and left, not too fast, with his head down, and not looking back the entire way. Finally, in the distance, he let out a wry laugh and tossed the bouquet into a trash bin.

She just stood there, watching his sorrowful departure, feeling a stifling mix of frustration, impulsiveness, sadness, and heartache... All of which turned into tears that slid down her face.

But as Fang Ren left, he really didn't look back even once. If he had, he would have seen her in tears, clutching the corner of her skirt and sobbing.

After saying those heartbreaking words, she understood that certain things were destined:

Fang Ren would never know how long she sat by the river crying that night, how far she walked alone in the night, the forced obligations of her family... nor would he ever know that she had liked him for a very long time.

But they couldn't be together; she couldn't escape her fate.

If she had accepted him, when the Liu Family came to this city, it would have caused him immense emotional pain. Later, when she married a genius, he would be upset upon seeing the news.

She was very sensible, but Fang Ren didn't understand her heart.