Reborn: I Became Desk Mates with the Campus Belle Who Has Social Anxiety

[Urban slice of life] [Reborn] [One female lead] [Sweet romance] [Making money and lying flat]

Chen Yi died from overwork and was reborn in the summer after his junior year of high school in 2011.

Armed with twelve years of future memories, the first thing he did was write down a lottery number worth 514 million. The second was turn on his computer and start buying up Bitcoin.

“Studying broadens your horizons, romance makes life more comfortable, but investing is what gives you the means to lie flat.”

After scoring just 300 points on a diagnostic exam and placing last, Chen Yi is moved by his homeroom teacher to sit beside the top student in the entire grade: Lin Zhixia, a cool and aloof school beauty, future top scorer on the college entrance exam, who always keeps to herself and never shares a desk with boys.

The whole class erupts: “What makes Chen Yi so special?”

He offers her an egg burger and smiles innocently. “Zhixia, can we be desk mates? I promise to bring you a different breakfast every day.”

Her ears turn red as she lowers her head and murmurs, “…Don't put too much chili in tomorrow's rice rolls.”

From then on, a warm breakfast appears on the corner of Chen Yi's desk every day, while Lin Zhixia fills her draft paper with notes on the problems he got wrong. From the library to the rooftop, from wonton stalls to barbecue restaurants, their relationship goes from “solid desk-mate friendship” to “The moonlight is beautiful tonight.”

When Li Hongjie spreads rumors that he cheated, the socially anxious Lin Zhixia steps up to the front of Class Four for the first time. “He improved by working through one problem at a time. You can't accuse him of cheating.”

When Chen Yi makes a pledge to Old Li that he'll break into the top hundred, she predicts the major questions on the monthly exam and sews him a good-luck charm herself. “I'll do well on the exam for you.”

In his previous life, he was a 996 office worker who died from overwork, after thirty years of being single. This time around, he wants a stable, sweet romance where both people love each other just as much.