Chapter 1: Reborn

  Liu Yifei felt like he was being raped, not by women, but by life. He graduated from university eleven years ago and had worked for twenty-one jobs, the longest one lasted two years, and the shortest one only three days. However, he didn't achieve anything remarkable in any of those jobs, instead, his edge was worn off, and he could only struggle to make a living. He felt like an ant in an anthill, with no ideals or future beyond work, watching the soldier ants show off their strength, and the queen ant being worshipped by others.

  Liu Yifei had complained before, had struggled before, but no matter what, he still couldn't break free from the layers of oppression, and was mediocre in his struggles for a living.

  Maybe Liu Yifei's complaint worked, and some god heard it and took pity on him. Maybe heaven wanted to give him another chance, so the angel sister moved with a little kindness. Or maybe the old lady who managed the cycle of time just happened to have her period these days and was in a bad mood, mistakenly making Liu Yifei reborn all at once.

  In the previous moment, Liu Yifei's car was in close contact with the truck opposite, but in one second, Liu Yifei was riding a bicycle and rubbed out sparks of love with another bicycle, then the two cyclists fell to the ground at the same time, and Liu Yifei still pressed the other person tightly under his body.

  He shook his head, and Liu Yifei first looked around, to the left was a two-meter-high red brick wall, and to the right was a half-meter-high green cornfield. Liu Yifei's brain short-circuited for a moment, earlier he had clearly been in a serious car accident on the highway, his unit's Jetta sedan had collided with a large truck, but somehow it had turned into two bicycles, and there was no sign of the highway around him. Although his body felt some pain, it was very weak, but the soft and fluffy feeling from under him was quite moving.

  "Ah! You're crushing me... it hurts so much!" A soft and weak voice came from under Liu Yifei's body, a pair of small hands struggled to push against his chest.

  Liu Yifei hastily raised his arms, and a pure and innocent girl's face appeared before his eyes. A pair of big eyes sparkled with tears, her pale face was flushed with redness, looking both shy and embarrassed, she turned her head and dared not meet Liu Yifei's gaze. Her two arms were propped against Liu Yifei's chest, her palms soft and weak.

  This made Liu Yifei feel very guilty, with both arms using force and both feet retracting, wanting to stand up, but behind him came the sound of clattering, two bicycles that were only half leaning over at this time all fell down, all smashing onto Liu Yifei's body.

  Liu Yifei felt a sharp pain and his body involuntarily plunged down again, once more pressing onto the girl's body.

  "You..." The girl bit her lip hard, and at this time, both of her hands had already been pressed against her own chest by Liu Yifei.

  "Sorry, sorry!" Liu Yifei apologized repeatedly, then propped himself up with one hand on the ground and hastily pushed away the two bicycles that were on him with the other hand before finally standing up.

  The girl waited for Liu Yifei to stand up, and she also sat up with her hands on the ground. When she was about to get up, Liu Yifei hurriedly stopped her and said: "Don't be in a hurry, move your arms and legs first, see if there's any particularly painful place. If there's something wrong with the bones, getting up now will definitely make the condition worse."

  The girl's face changed, she first looked at Liu Yifei, then gently moved her hands and feet, slowly shook her head and said: "I'm fine."

  "That's good, I'm really sorry, I don't know what happened just now and bumped into you, sorry little sister." Liu Yifei stretched out his hand to pull the girl, but the girl withdrew her hand. Liu Yifei had to put down his hand with a sullen face, he still didn't understand how he bumped into this girl.

  The girl slowly got up by herself, then took two steps back, avoiding eye contact with Liu Yifei, gently rubbing her arm, and looked even more pitiful.

  "Huh? I feel like I've seen you before!" Liu Yifei took another look at the girl, and suddenly had a feeling of déjà vu. It was as if he should have remembered such a distinctive girl, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't recall where he had met her before.

  "My name is Wang Ke, I'm from Class 4 of Grade 2."

  "High school sophomore class 4?" Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, and then looked up and down at Wang Ke again. She wore a light green dress with a style that seemed very old-fashioned, but it didn't prevent her from being elegant and refined, just like a blooming lily.

  "I've also seen you in school, you're from Class 2." Wang Ke said again.

  "What?" Liu Yifei's eyes widened in shock as he let out a loud cry, almost disbelieving his own ears.

  Wang Ke's body suddenly shrunk in fright, staring at Liu Yifei with a tense expression, her small mouth slightly open and her two eyes wide with fear, clearly startled by Liu Yifei's sudden shout.

  Liu Yifei opened his mouth and then raised his hand to point at his own nose, stuttering: "Y-you said I... am a second-year student in Class 2."

  Wang Ke's body took two steps back and nodded lightly.

  Liu Yifei slowly lowered his head, looked at his body, a shirt full of patterns, a light blue shorts, and on his feet were a pair of ordinary sneakers that couldn't be identified as any brand. His gaze swept across the books scattered on the ground, one of which was an exercise book with several large cursive characters written on it... Liu Yifei.

  Liu Yifei was stunned, his eyes scanning the surroundings again, and the memory gate suddenly opened, remembering where this was. This was clearly the small road he liked to walk on during high school, and the black 26-inch straight-bar bicycle on the ground was also his ride in high school. There was also a green small backpack, which was the most popular military-style backpack in high school. All of this seemed to indicate that he had suddenly returned to his second year of high school, which was 1994.

  Rebirth-themed web novels, Liu Yifei had also read a lot of them. His ability to accept such things was obviously stronger than that of ordinary people. Looking at Wang Ke who was frantically picking up books from the ground and occasionally stealing glances at Liu Yifei, he seemed extremely nervous, clearly intimidated by his own actions earlier.

  Taking a deep breath, Liu Yifei suppressed the turmoil in his heart and tried to speak in a calm tone: "Wang Ke, I'm really sorry. I was a bit abnormal just now, maybe it's because my head was hit earlier. Didn't scare you, did I?"

  A pure girl is generally kind-hearted, and Wang Ke is obviously the same. As soon as she heard Liu Yifei say this, the flustered expression in her eyes suddenly subsided, and she said, "Is there anything wrong with you?"

  "It's okay, I'm fine now. It's just that I bumped into you and it's really not good. If you're really hurt, then it's my fault." However, in his mind, he was desperately trying to recall who this Wang Ke was, but all he could remember was that she was a beauty in school, yet they had no connection with each other.

  Wang Ke was apparently not a good talker, and now there was no movement. At this time, there were no other people, and Liu Yifei was thinking about how to say a few more words with Wang Ke, and then he could also get some information out of Wang Ke's mouth. After all, for Liu Yifei, although it was just his past sixteen years ago, many things had already been forgotten, and he urgently needed someone to remind him.

  At a glance, Wang Ke picked up a book from the ground, the title was "Camellia Girl", Liu Yifei's eyes lit up instantly, and finally found a breakthrough.