A Young Woman's Heart

"Ugh, how cheesy." Mo Zhuyou shuddered.

Cha Li, however, thought it was quite good: "It's alright, the feelings seem quite genuine, right?"

"Hmm..." Ye Banxia weakly agreed and nodded.

"Huh? Are you guys really that naive? This must have been copied from some book." Hua Yinyin waved her hand and said with a look of disgust.

While everyone else was looking at the love letters, Mo Xueyao became more at ease and casually unfolded a piece of paper torn from her notebook.

"Mo Xueyao, you're a gentle girl, and I know you're kind, so could you please ask the class monitor if she likes slightly chubby boys?"

“Uh…” Mo Xueyao paused for a moment, then reached out from the gaps between the girls surrounding her and tossed the note to Li Wanyan.

Li Wanyan remained calm despite receiving nothing, but she paused for a moment when unfolding the note, and then looked at Gao Yuan sitting behind her without hesitation.

Gao Yuan was playing Pokémon on a GBA when he noticed the class monitor's gaze. He looked up, slightly puzzled, and asked, "Hey, class monitor, what's up?"

"Did you write this?" Li Wanyan placed the note on his desk.

"I wrote this?" Gao Yuan asked rhetorically, picking up the note and examining it closely. "Damn, it definitely wasn't me!"

"Really?" Li Wanyan picked up the notebook he had placed on the table, glanced at it, compared it with the handwriting on the note, and nodded slightly. "It was written by Liu Xiaowei."

"Yeah, yeah, class monitor, how did you guess? It must be this bastard!"

Li Wanyan raised an eyebrow but did not answer.

"Well, can I say I like you now?"

"An April Fool's joke?" Li Wanyan stared intently at Gao Yuan, making the latter shrink back and chuckle awkwardly.

"Ha, haha... Yes."

"Hmm." Li Wanyan ignored him and turned back. As both the class monitor and the group leader, she began collecting homework from the others.

Gao Yuan tugged at his hair in frustration and absentmindedly picked up the game console again.

On Mo Xueyao's side, everyone read through all the love letters she received. Most of them were sent because she was pretty, while some were more like pranks.

Only one letter looked the most exquisite. Although the handwriting wasn't great, it was written neatly and with great sincerity.

"This person might really like you. There's no name on it, so I don't know who it is." Mo Zhuyou looked at it carefully, word by word. "Hmm, it's definitely someone from our class."

Mo Xueyao shook her head with her eyelids drooping: "It doesn't matter who sent it."

"Xiaoyao is so heartless~ Aren't you going to pick one? High school life without romance is incomplete!" Mo Xiao laughed, covering her mouth.

"Tch, it's pointless, and I'm not interested in most guys anyway." Mo Xueyao picked up the love letters on the table. "Finished reading them? If you're done, I'll throw them in the trash."

"Don't you want to add it to your favorites?" Ye Banxia asked enviously.

This is probably what they mean by "the unattainable is always the most alluring."

Having received too many love letters, Mo Xueyao lost all interest.

Or perhaps she simply wasn't interested in receiving love letters from boys.

"You can throw away those stinky men's love letters, but you can't throw away mine!" Hua Yinyin said, taking a love letter out of her bag and handing it to Mo Xueyao. "This is my love letter, take it, little Yaoyao!"

"..." Mo Xueyao's lips twitched slightly. "April Fool's jokes are so boring, aren't they?"

"Maybe it's not a joke?"

"Come on, you're the one who loves playing pranks the most."

"Aren't you going to open it and take a look?"

"...Not interested."

"Eh—?" Hua Yinyin stood up and took back her love letter. "That wretched little Yaoyao, she doesn't care about my feelings at all. Fine, I'll just read it myself!"

Without hesitation, Hua Yinyin tore open the envelope and read aloud: "Little Yaoyao, do you know, the first time we met, you stole something from me. That's right, it was my heart..."

The girls couldn't help but burst into laughter because it was so funny.

The key point is that Hua Yinyin is so serious.

If it were someone else, they might actually have believed it.

But if it's Hua Yinyin... then it must be a prank.

Therefore, Hua Yinyin's expressive recitation earned her praise for her superb acting skills.

"Amazing, it's a shame you're not an actor." Cha Li gave a thumbs up.

"Hmm, this kind of April Fool's joke is quite interesting~" Ye Banxia nodded in agreement.

"Maybe it's not a joke," Mo Zhuyou muttered.

"It wasn't a joke to begin with! You wretched little Yao Yao!" Hua Yinyin stuffed the love letter into Mo Xueyao's collar, but this time it didn't slide down smoothly. It got stuck halfway and paused for a moment before continuing to slide out.

"Flower! Silver! Silver—!"

"Hehe, little Yaoyao, this is a loving hug!" Hua Yinyin hugged Mo Xueyao across the table, her hot little hands groping all over.

"Hey, hey!" Hua Yinyin and Mo Xueyao were making a ruckus, and the other girls couldn't stop laughing.

Just then, Mo Xueyao felt a small hand gently pat her shoulder.

Then Huang Yuxi, with a sweet smile that could heal hearts, handed her a love letter with the three big characters 'Mo Xueyao' written on it.

"Huh? You're here too?" Mo Xueyao turned her head to look at him speechlessly.

"Happy April Fool's Day~" Huang Yuxi took out a whiteboard with words already written on it and shook it gently.

Then he put down his backpack and took out several pre-written 'love letters' and handed them to several other girls he was on good terms with.

There are silver flowers, black bamboo, tea leaves, and pinellia leaves...

This isn't a love letter, is it? It's just a friendly gift?

Mo Xueyao breathed a sigh of relief, took the opportunity to get rid of Hua Yinyin, and opened the 'love letter' to take a look.

There was a small note inside thanking her, along with two chocolates and two gummy candies.

Mo Xueyao secretly glanced at what Hua Yinyin had received and noticed that the messages he wrote to everyone were different.

That's really thoughtful of you.

“Oh, in that case, wouldn’t we all be Xiaoxi’s ‘lovers’?” Mo Xiao smiled and covered her mouth with her hand, “Xiaoxi is a little greedy.”

Huang Yuxi's face flushed slightly as she shook her head vigorously, trying to explain, but she could only make babbling sounds and couldn't say anything that others could understand.

Mo Xueyao suddenly realized that April Fool's Day was actually a pretty good holiday.

It's just that different people have different feelings about it.

In junior high, it felt like most of the pranks were a bit malicious.

But in high school, especially for Huang Yuxi, it became a gentle holiday.

The girls teased Huang Yuxi, making his face turn even redder, but he still insisted on sending out the 'love letter'.

Mr. Xue and Li Hongran also received it.

Li Hongran was a little embarrassed, but knowing it wasn't a real love letter, he accepted it quite readily and gave Huang Yuxi a few pieces of beef jerky in return. Mr. Xue, on the other hand, remained calm and accepted it with a smile.

Then, Huang Yuxi looked around and finally saw Zhou Yong, who was staring blankly at the windowsill at the back of the classroom.

From the moment the girls gathered around Mo Xueyao, he distanced himself from them as if to avoid suspicion.

At this moment, his mind was completely blank, and he felt somewhat lost and disoriented.

A cool little hand gently patted his shoulder.

Zhou Yong turned his head blankly and saw Huang Yuxi smiling as she handed him a letter.

"Hey."

I also saw him raise the whiteboard in his hand—

Happy April Fool's Day.

……

Chapter 185 I Like You

There were no clouds in the sky at all.

Even the so-called dark clouds were nowhere to be seen.

It felt as if the sky had been dyed with a bluish-gray pigment, and the gray sky and earth seemed to merge together.

At noon, on the rooftop of the laboratory building.

The playground was filled with noisy students, and shouts could be heard from the basketball court from time to time, sounding like a fight was about to break out. However, in reality, they were just excitedly shouting while playing basketball.

The soccer field at Yukong High School is smaller than the standard size, but as long as the grass isn't too slippery, people still play soccer there every day.

Most of them are from the school team, but sometimes other enthusiasts also participate.

Luberon scratched his head, waiting anxiously on the rooftop.

He sometimes leaned against the wall, sometimes paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, a mixture of anticipation and nervousness.

"It's almost noon, and there's only half an hour left before the indoor lunch break. Are they not coming... or did they just not see me?" Lu Bolun muttered to himself, when he suddenly heard a soft footstep coming from the stairwell.

His heart suddenly raced, and he subconsciously swallowed. He didn't dare to stand guard at the door, so he took a few steps to the side and hid behind the wall surrounding the top floor stairwell, listening to the footsteps getting closer and closer.

He vaguely heard some rapid breathing, and after a few seconds of stunned silence, he realized it was his own.

Despite the bustling activity on the playground below, the rooftop was so quiet that he could almost hear the sound of his own blood flowing.

"Click..." The doorknob was turned gently, and then a creaking sound came out. A small foot wearing a little leather shoe stepped out first, and then a petite figure peeked out and walked outside the door.

"Nobody's here..." Wang Jiale muttered, looking around. He smacked his head in frustration. "Tch, I guess I was tricked after all."

"Cough cough!" Just then, Lu Bolun coughed twice and walked out from behind the wall with an embarrassed smile.

"Huh—Lü Bolun, is that you?" Wang Jiale stared at Lü Bolun in surprise, then her cheeks flushed as if she remembered something. "You, you wrote this?"

“Ahem, it was me… I wrote it.” Lu Bolun took a deep breath. “This… this isn’t an April Fool’s joke, I’m serious.”