The first thing Qiao Yueshu did after being reborn was change her college entrance exam application.
For the second, she took the pocket money she'd saved for half a year and went to the post office in town.
"Excuse me, could you help me with something?" She pushed the money and a fake admission letter across the counter. "If someone comes to pick up my admission letter a week from now, please give them this fake one."
Twenty yuan was no small sum in 1983. The clerk hesitated for a moment, then accepted the envelope.
A week later, Qiao Yueshu received the admission letter reflecting her changed application.
She didn't hurry to leave. Instead, she waited in the shade of a tree across from the post office.
Sure enough, less than half an hour later, the familiar army-green jeep pulled up outside. The door opened, and Lu Yuanzhou stepped out in a crisp military uniform, with her full sister, Qiao Jingyi, following behind him.
Qiao Yueshu dug her fingers hard into the wall. In her previous life, she had died without ever knowing that on the day her admission letter was switched, Lu Yuanzhou had brought Qiao Jingyi here himself.
"Excuse me, I'm here to pick up Qiao Yueshu's admission letter," Lu Yuanzhou said, his voice as calm and stern as ever.