The Chinese Teacher Who Can Tell at a Glance When a Colleague Will Die

Zhou Yu had spent three years as a laid-back Chinese teacher, his only hobbies in life grading homework and lying flat, just trying to get by.

The lesson from his previous life, when he died for meddling in other people's business, was etched into his bones. He swore that this time around, he would stay out of life-and-death matters and steer clear of cause and effect.

Then one day, with his red pen poised above an exercise book, he saw a glaring blood-red countdown ticking above Old Wang's head across the room: [72:00:00].

Heart attack. Death in a car.

He tried pretending not to see. He tried turning around and walking away. But the obsession he carried over from his past life, and the compassion he couldn't suppress in this one, ultimately drove him to crouch in the parking lot and slip some emergency heart pills into the gap in Old Wang's car door.

Save one person, lose three months of your life.

Fail to save someone, and you'll lie awake at night.

Worse still, after he saved Old Wang, the countdown before his eyes never went away.

[Next target: 300 meters away]

[Next target: 200 meters away]

[Next target: 95 meters away]

The numbers kept getting closer, the shadows closing in step by step.

The mysterious school doctor in the infirmary, the oddball head of discipline, the shadow beneath the streetlamp staring at his window...

Clutching his red pen, Zhou Yu watched the blood-red numbers ticking before his eyes and cursed.

So much for being a laid-back slacker. There was no way to keep his head down after all?