Back to High School: Clinging to the Top Student

When she wakes up, Xu Xingyang has gone from an unlucky woman who was hit by a car while trying to clear her father’s name back to a lazy, underachieving high school freshman spending winter break catching up on homework.

In her previous life, she drifted along, thinking her family would always bail her out. She planned to study abroad, get a fancy degree, then coast through life under her parents’ protection.

But before she could even graduate from college, her father was falsely accused of embezzling public funds and died unjustly in prison. She ran around everywhere gathering evidence, but never got to see him one last time. All she received was a cold urn of ashes.

Just as she finally pieced things together and set out with the evidence to clear her father’s name, a car sent her ten years into the past.

When she opens her eyes again, her dad is alive, her mom’s hair hasn’t turned white, and their spacious apartment hasn’t been auctioned off. Xu Xingyang throws her arms around her father and bursts into tears, frightening him so badly that he almost takes her to the hospital to check whether something’s wrong with her head.

Given a second chance at life, she crosses paths early with Lin Yuezhen, the future heir to the company where her father works.

And she learns one thing: you can take your time with your studies, but you need to latch onto a powerful patron as early as possible.

Rule One for latching on: study hard and try not to cause your patron any trouble. Rule Two: show concern, be at their beck and call, and become their most loyal little sidekick.

But while she diligently plays the loyal lackey, the way a certain aloof beauty looks at her grows increasingly strange.

“Xu Xingyang, do you like me?”

“?????”

Wait, she only wanted to latch onto a powerful patron. How did the patron himself end up becoming her boyfriend?