Back to Sixteen: The Scholar’s Comeback Begins

Lin Xi, a thirty-year-old office drone, opens her eyes after endless overtime and finds herself back at the tender, brutal age of sixteen!

No golden finger, no System, just a glaring score of 46 on a mock college entrance exam and a mind full of knowledge she’s “given back to her teachers”!

Mediocrity, regrets, and resentment from her past surge over her like a tide, drowning her!

[Ding! You’ve received a challenge from your past: Get into your dream university and make up for every regret!]

How can a girl written off by her teachers as a hopeless laggard, and mocked by her classmates as a good-for-nothing, defy fate and change her life?

She stays up late alone, battling the forgetting curve and declaring war on her own laziness!

Every setback brings tears and heartache; every moment of perseverance is a cry of defiance against fate!

Teacher Wang’s eyes go from disappointment and helplessness, to shock, and then to great expectations!

Her classmates’ whispered comments shift from ridicule and disdain, to disbelief, and finally to admiration and requests for help!

With an adult’s mindset, she plans every minute and uses an iron will to master every concept!

At midterms, she stages a stunning comeback and shoots up the class rankings!

[Task: Make the classmates who once mocked you come to you for help!]

Lu Yanshen, the handsome, lofty top student, begins to notice this “odd one out.” Curiosity turns to admiration, and his gaze lingers on her more and more!

At finals, she pushes past her limits again, shocking the whole school with a top-ten ranking in her year!

But just as she thinks the worst is over and her future is bright

[Ding! Emergency event: A sudden family crisis! What will become of your future?]

Will she hold on to her dream, or sacrifice it for her family? The hardest choice of her youth is only just beginning.