Reborn, I Stole Away Her Youth

Chen Mo, 25, is a dropout known as the “King of Failed Classes,” scraping by on jokes he writes. Reborn at the age of twenty-five, he finds himself amid the everyday bustle of Jiangzhou, where short-form videos are just starting to take off and capital is stirring beneath the surface. He is so broke he can afford nothing but instant noodles, yet every night at midnight he briefly returns to his high school classroom for the final five minutes.

He steals the notes, duty roster, and candy wrappers Shen Zhiyi leaves behind. Each old keepsake gives him a boost of “certainty,” helping him write viral hits and turn his life around.

She is a top-tier star, an heiress, and a cool, untouchable dream girl. She is also the hand he never dared to hold back then. Using fragments of a youth everyone else has forgotten, he rewrites reality.

No System, no golden finger, only the light he steals from his regrets. This time, he will turn the feelings he never confessed in his youth into an ending he can face with pride.