Dad Is Reborn

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[This story does not promote or encourage suicide. Cherishing life is everyone's responsibility.]

Ran Zhi grew up in a single-parent family.

For the first fifteen years of her life, her father controlled everything.

Didn't practice piano? She would get beaten.

Didn't do her homework? She would get scolded.

Played with her phone in secret? Her father smashed it in front of her, even though it had been her reward for coming first in the high school entrance exam.

Ran Zhi wanted to study abroad, write novels, and paint, but her father saw all of that as a waste of time. She didn't dare try, and wasn't allowed to.

She kept a secret notebook filled with wishes her father would never let her fulfill. It was her Garden of Eden.

But on the first day of her second year of high school, her father found the notebook.

To Ran Zhi's surprise, her father's hand didn't come down on her face as it usually did. He simply gave her shoulder a gentle pat and said nothing.

Later, Ran Zhi discovered that every wish in her secret notebook had come true.

After his wife died young, Ran Zheng raised his daughter alone, always adhering to his educational philosophy: "A tiger's father won't raise a dog of a daughter."

Ran Zheng was willing to take out loans and work part-time for his daughter, spending tens of thousands on tutoring. He only wanted her to succeed one day and avoid a life of mediocrity like his own.

But he put too much pressure on her, and the conflict between him and his daughter grew ever worse.

On the day the college entrance exam ended, his daughter took her own life.

Two months later, Ran Zheng woke from a nap and found himself back two years in the past. He was sitting in his daughter's room, holding her secret notebook. His daughter stood at the door with her schoolbag on her back.

Ran Zheng realized this was the first time he and his daughter had clashed before he was reborn.

Looking at his daughter's face, drained of color with fear, Ran Zheng chose to do things differently from his previous life.

He walked over to her. Instead of yelling at her like before, he simply gave her shoulder a gentle pat.

In this life, Ran Zheng no longer asks his daughter to achieve greatness. He only wants her to live a safe and happy life to the end.

Notes:

1. This story is also known as A High School Student's Study Guide, A Guide to Choosing a Major Under the New College Entrance Exam, and The Study Method of Balancing Work and Rest.

2. Although it is the father who is reborn, the female lead is the protagonist.

3. Absolutely no romance while the characters are minors! Semi-alternate setting, logic be damned.

4. Editing schedule is irregular.

Finally, a recommendation for a friend's story:

Friend 1: Deng Qian Bao Xi

Title: The Care and Feeding of a Silly Little Childhood Friend [Book Transmigration]

Yandere, cunning male lead x silly, strong girl

Friend 2: Su Ziqi

Title: Try Talking Back to Me Again, Childhood Friend

Theme: Healing each other