The First Year Reborn

Twenty-seven-year-old Zhao Mengjin is a doctor who dies of cancer.

When she opens her eyes again, she is locked inside a sports equipment room.

Her hair is tied in a high ponytail, she's wearing a clean blue-and-white school uniform, and the asthma medication she always carries is gone.

The equipment room is dim and covered in dust.

Zhao Mengjin covers her mouth and nose, doing her best to stay calm and keep her asthma from acting up.

As she tries to save herself, a young man crashes through the equipment room door, sending dust flying everywhere.

Zhao Mengjin weakly raises her head. When she sees his face, she asks in confusion, "Chen Bozhou? What are you doing here?"

The wind-tossed hair falls across the young man's face as he gasps for breath.

Zhao Mengjin looks behind him.

The young man's somber gaze is fixed on her.

"Chen Bozhou, who did you come looking for?"

Chen Bozhou walks toward her step by step, bends down, scoops her up by the backs of her knees, and says hoarsely, "Zhao Mengjin, hold on tight."

Zhao Mengjin falls into a warm, clean embrace.

It takes her a long while to understand what happened.

Wasn't it He Chengyang who saved her in her past life?

*

The day Zhao Mengjin died was the very day she asked He Chengyang for a divorce.

She mailed He Chengyang the divorce papers, but she has no idea whether he signed them after she died.

Twenty-eight-year-old He Chengyang doesn't like Zhao Mengjin.

Eighteen-year-old He Chengyang still doesn't like Zhao Mengjin.

The day after the mock exams end, He Chengyang confesses to his first love.

He turns off the classroom lights and celebrates his first love's birthday with the class.

It's Zhao Mengjin's birthday, too.

He Chengyang has never celebrated her birthday, and she's never seen him look so happy.

Everyone gathers around them, congratulating them and watching them make a wish and blow out the candles.

Naturally, no one notices the small flame flickering in an ignored corner.

The handsome young man clasps his hands together, carefully sheltering the tiny, feeble flame. He says softly, "...Zhao Mengjin, happy birthday. I'm not so bad, you know."

Stop liking him. Look at me, too.

*

At the graduation-day teachers' banquet, everyone gets a little drunk.

Chen Bozhou gets drunk, too, and a few boys from his class drag him into a game of truth or dare.

He, who usually dominates every contest, loses several rounds in a row tonight.

"Tell us the truth. How long have you liked Zhao Mengjin?!"

Chen Bozhou obediently rests his head on her shoulder, bleary with drink, like a big dog. Zhao Mengjin's face turns red.

Amid the crowd's teasing,

Chen Bozhou says, "Sixteen years."

*

In the first year after Zhao Mengjin is reborn, she discovers that Chen Bozhou has loved her for sixteen years.

Naturally sweet, well-behaved girl X proud, unruly young master

Princess X loyal puppy

Warnings:

1. Both leads are reborn. The male lead returns to his first year of high school, and the female lead returns to her third year.

2. Before being reborn, the female lead was married to the second male lead. Neither of them did anything fundamentally wrong, and they divorced amicably.

Theme: Facing life positively is another kind of wonderful