Reborn: I Only Want to Be a Top Student

Research + top student System + secret crush + reborn

After graduating from a vocational college, working in a factory, and losing his job in a round of layoffs, thirty-year-old Chen Yu was at the lowest point of his life when a car accident struck. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the first day of his senior year of high school. Reborn with all the regrets of his previous life, he unexpectedly awakened the “Academic Prodigy Growth System”: doubled study efficiency, upgraded abilities, and a steady stream of unlocked hidden-task rewards. From near the bottom of his class to the top ten in his grade, from an unknown student to the center of attention at school, this time he would hold on to everything he had once missed. In the face of doubt, he silenced his critics with one outstanding exam score after another. In the face of competition, he surged ahead with competition gold medals, top-tier papers, and research breakthroughs. The top scorer in the college entrance exam, a Tsinghua prodigy, international academic conferences, world-class laboratories... While his peers were still anxious about the future, Chen Yu had already taken the world’s academic stage.

But the System was no cure-all. A hidden cost lay behind the efficiency boost, and as his abilities continued to improve, the mysterious truth behind a project called “Spark Plan” gradually came to light. His rebirth had not been an accident, and the System’s origins were tied to a shocking secret that crossed the boundaries of time and space.

Meanwhile, Lin Siwan, the girl he had once only dared to watch from afar, gradually drew closer as he grew. From their youthful school days to the pinnacle of their lives, the two witnessed each other’s brightest years.

This is the legendary story of a struggling student rising to become an academic prodigy, then growing into a scientific giant. It is also the passionate journey of an ordinary man who gets a second chance, changes his fate through knowledge, and changes the world through scientific research.