Chapter 2

Chapter 2

My name is Chen Nian. On the surface, I’m just a handsome seventeen-year-old high schooler.

But what no one knows is that I’ve actually died once before.

That’s right. In my previous life, when I was thirty, I committed suicide by jumping off a building due to depression.

But for some reason, I didn’t stay dead. Instead, I opened my eyes to find myself back in 2008, on the day of my seventeenth birthday.

Is this what people call soul transmigration?

I remember that when I was seventeen, my parents got a divorce.

My mother moved back to her hometown in southern Zhejiang alone.

My father and I stayed in Shanghai.

Recalling the miserable and pathetic life I led the first time around, I decided that since I’ve been given a second chance, I might as well make a different choice at seventeen.

Instead of staying in Shanghai with my father, I chose to go back to her hometown with my mother.

My mother arranged for me to transfer to a local high school to continue my senior year.

My homeroom teacher looked out for me quite a bit and assigned a very pretty girl to be my desk mate.

However, when I saw the girl’s face and name, a cold sweat broke out down my back.

This girl’s name was Gu Pan. I had actually known her since the third grade.

Back then, for various reasons, I had come to my mother’s hometown to attend primary school for a brief year.

She was my desk mate back then, too.

But that wasn’t the point.

The point was that in the memories of my previous life, this girl committed suicide when she was eighteen.

I think people said it was because she failed the Gaokao or something like that.

Calculating the time, that should be just one year from now!

Why would she kill herself?

Could it really be like my mother said back then-that she had some kind of mental illness?

No, I have to save her!

And on the other hand, there’s something I’ve always been curious about.

In my past life, I could always hear a girl’s voice in my ear calling out to me: “Little Stone.”

When I jumped off that building, a girl suddenly appeared behind me as well.

The name “Little Stone” was something only Gu Pan had ever called me back in the third grade.

I wasn’t sure if the person calling me was her.

I turned my head, deciding to observe her more closely.

A long time passed.

Then, she raised her hand. “Teacher, Chen Nian keeps staring at me during class.”

The teacher said, “New kid, take your textbook and get the hell out into the hallway.”

However, based on my preliminary judgment, I suspected there was a high probability that Gu Pan had studied herself into a stupor.

She worked so hard that she must have pinned all her life’s hopes on the Gaokao.

If she performed poorly on the exam, it would be easy for her mental state to collapse.

This deduction was perfectly logical.

In that case, wouldn’t it be better to give her something else to look forward to in life?

Like, for example, dating?

To save her, I didn’t mind sacrificing my own charms a little.

During class, I nudged Gu Pan’s arm with my elbow. “Gu Pan, look at this problem. How do you calculate the distance from Point A to Point B?”

Gu Pan took the book, looked at it, and then patiently explained the logic for solving the problem.

I nodded, then shook my head. “No, I still can’t calculate this distance.”

Gu Pan frowned. “Look, aren’t these steps very clear?”

I said, “I get that distance, but there’s another distance I can’t figure out.”

Gu Pan asked, “What other distance?”

I said, “The distance between you and me.”

Gu Pan’s face instantly turned red.

Heh heh. Gu Pan’s heartstrings must have been plucked by my flirting.

Suddenly, Gu Pan stood up and said loudly, “Teacher, Chen Nian keeps talking and harassing me in class!”

The teacher said, “New kid, are you fucking sick in the head?!”