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China.
Chengfeng City.
Chengfeng University, freshman year, class one of the School of Finance management department.
In the spacious classroom, there weren't many students, about twenty-odd students scattered across one hundred seats. On the podium, a middle-aged man with square-shaped face and glasses was lecturing seriously from a textbook, showing little emotion.
Suddenly.
"Ring Ring..."
The bell signaling the end of class rang.
The middle-aged man closed the textbook and said, "Class dismissed!" Then he promptly walked out of the classroom.
At the same time, the previously quiet classroom finally erupted with some life.
In the middle of the classroom, a girl who appeared to be in her twenties stood up from her seat, after pulling a thermal lunch box out from under her desk.
She was about 170 cm tall, very slender, with a ponytail and skin as white as jade. Light makeup highlighted her beauty, and she was dressed in a white blouse and denim shorts, her long, straight, attractive legs wrapped in flesh-colored stockings. On her feet were flats printed with cartoon patterns. The girl's eyes were bright, like black gems in the sunlight.
As the girl stood up, many students in the classroom involuntarily looked up at her; their eyes gleamed, especially the boys.
Because, this girl was too eye-catching, she was the beauty of the School of Finance and one of the beauties of the entire Chengfeng University. Moreover, it was said her family was very wealthy, and she had a significant background; a bona fide rich and beautiful girl.
The girl's name was Lin Lanxin.
Unlike other rich and beautiful girls, Lin Lanxin was not arrogant and was very approachable. However, she wasn't easy to pursue.
Since the start of her freshman year, three months ago, she had received at least a hundred confessions from male students from the same university.
Without exception, all were rejected.
Some said her pride was innate, looking down on the male students of Chengfeng University, while others said she was focused on her studies and didn't want to be in a relationship.
But only the students in her class knew that Lin Lanxin rejected all the confessions from other boys because of that wastrel!!!
Wastrel!
Yes!
A wastrel!
One with the worst academic performance, who skipped class every other day, a weakling without any strength.
While her classmates watched with envy, jealousy, and frustration, whispering among themselves, Lin Lanxin with her attractive legs had already made her way to the corner of the classroom.
At the corner seat, a boy was sprawled out, sleeping soundly.
"Su Chen, wake up!" Lin Lanxin nudged him gently and whispered, her voice crisp and pleasant.
"What?" Su Chen only felt his head was groggy as he lifted it subconsciously, his somewhat handsome but pale face filled with confusion and bewilderment.
"What's wrong with you?" Lin Lanxin asked with concern, noticing that Su Chen wasn't looking well.
But Su Chen didn't utter a word, the confusion and bewilderment in his eyes intensified. What was going on? Wasn't he refining the Dragon Spirit Pill? Where was the Pill Room? The Pill Furnace? The Herbs? And where was he now?
Suddenly.
Su Chen's body shook violently, his eyes sparkled!!!
He stared at Lin Lanxin like a wild beast eyeing its prey.
Lin Lanxin instinctively stepped back, frightened by Su Chen's gaze.
"Lanxin? This is the School of Finance management... Class two? Chengfeng University?" Su Chen withdrew his gaze, his breathing suddenly became rapid, his mind a whirlwind of shock.
He was reborn!
He had returned to a hundred years prior, just before the most painful and regrettable turning point of his life.
Involuntarily, he pinched his own arm.
It hurt.
It was real, not a dream.
"Su Chen, don't scare me, what's wrong with you? Do we need to go to the school infirmary?" Lin Lanxin asked, her voice tense with concern.
"I'm fine..." Taking a deep breath, Su Chen's body trembled slightly as he quickly calmed himself down, having experienced it all before.
"That's good. Su Chen, this is your lunch; I can't return at noon. A good friend of mine is having a birthday party and has invited me to join. So, I brought you this," said Lin Lanxin with a sigh of relief, placing the thermal lunch box she was holding on Su Chen's desk.
"I'll go with you at noon!" said Su Chen assertively.
"Huh?" Lin Lanxin was taken aback at first, but then her face lit up with joy and she nodded vigorously: "Okay!"
Then, "I'm going back to my seat, we still have one more class, and you... don't fall asleep again!" She turned and scurried away.
Su Chen watched Lin Lanxin's pure and beautiful figure retreating, a flood of memories overwhelmed his mind.
Today, in his past life, Lin Lanxin had died tragically!!!
He could never forget it!
It was because of that damned birthday party, because he hadn't accompanied her.
"Since I've been reborn, Lanxin, in this life, I will definitely change your fate!" Su Chen clenched his fists.
Letting out a breath, he began to consolidate his memories; after all, a century had passed, and even after rebirth, many memories weren't that clear anymore.
About half an hour later, at last, all the memories had come together seamlessly.
First of all, himself.
His name is Su Chen, born in an ordinary wage-earning family in Chengfeng City. Though not rich, he was dearly loved by his parents, and the family of three was very happy.
However, a year ago, during the first half of his senior year of high school, he abruptly received news that his parents had died in a car accident.
From that day on, he became an orphan, and his whole life plunged into despair, causing him to drift through the second half of his senior year with poor grades, plummeting from the top ten of his school to somewhere in the three to four hundred range.
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