The Madman I Met When I Was Young

[Clear-headed and realistic, Shi Qing doesn't like meddling in other people's business × Lu Bai is a ruthless, quiet, genuine lunatic, cold on the outside but warm within, with no words and no courage]

[Transmigration + she runs, he doesn't chase + clearing up misunderstandings + morally gray characters + healing]

When Shi Qing heard that Lu Bai, her middle-school classmate, had accidentally killed someone and ended up in jail, she was stunned. She hadn't heard his name in a long time, and by then, she no longer felt much of anything about him.

Then, by chance, she got a matchmaking photo of him from her parents. Looking at that familiar face, she remembered the past: the orange cat they'd run into at the alley entrance, the stars over the river at night, the silhouette an art student had sketched on the sports field, and the feelings she'd written down in her diary…

Shi Qing had a bad cold. One night, she was walking home in a daze when a group of students coming from evening study approached her. Through blurred vision, she thought she saw a former classmate. She tried to catch up but was knocked down. When she opened her eyes again, she was in a cramped school infirmary.

Her best friend's youthful face, the familiar campus, her own younger self, the red-and-white school uniform, pomegranate blossoms scattered along the Starry Avenue, and Lu Bai standing outside the classroom as punishment… Everything told her she had returned to eleven years earlier.

Lu Bai's gloomy, depressed eyes fixed on everyone who passed, sharp as an eagle's. No one dared meet his gaze; they all hurried by. Only Shi Qing kept staring as she walked past. He frowned impatiently and lifted his chin, looking down at her arrogantly. When that failed to scare her, he changed to a fierce expression and stamped his foot with a threatening roar. Only then did Shi Qing falter. She finally realized he wasn't just a delinquent. He was a future murderer, and she ought to keep her distance.