After Leaving the Entertainment Industry, I Got Into Tsinghua

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Xu Yifan, the entertainment industry's infamous black rose, replied to the hashtag thread #Day 1001 of Xu Yifan Leaving the Entertainment Industry# and reposted it to her personal Weibo: "As you wish."

She officially announced her retirement from show business.

Everyone: ??? Is this the latest publicity stunt?

Right after that, Xu Yifan posted again: "Starting tomorrow, I'll study hard and do my best to get into Tsinghua."

The haters laughed and declared loudly: "Publicity stunt! Publicity stunt! A blatant publicity stunt! Just wait, she'll fail and get humiliated!"

The first time, they got a rumor that #Xu Yifan Appears at a Certain High School and Enrolls as a First-Year Student#;

The haters laughed and declared again: "It's definitely a publicity stunt! If it's not, we'll eat our keyboards! Just wait!"

The second time, they got news that Xu Yifan had taken the college entrance exam, along with a few blurry candid photos;

The haters nearly danced with joy: "She's only been studying for a year and a half since enrolling. If this isn't a publicity stunt, what is? Just wait! Let her get cocky!"

The third time, a netizen uploaded a high-definition, uncensored video of a Tsinghua freshman representative's speech.

The representative in the video appeared barefaced, confident and radiant, and gave an especially unusual speech titled "It's Never Too Late to Start." The speaker was Xu Yifan.

This time, before the haters could say anything, the bystanders couldn't hold back: "Anyone who still says this is a publicity stunt should try getting into Tsinghua first!"

#First we had Grandma Moses, now we have Tsinghua freshman Xu Yifan. What excuse do you have not to work hard?#

#Is it scary to start late? Yes, but not working hard is even scarier!#

#Take a page from 27-year-old Sister Fan, who got into Tsinghua. Did you work hard today?#

Content warnings:

1. The author has never attended Tsinghua. The Tsinghua storyline is made up, so please go easy on me.

2. "Tsinghua" in this book is a stand-in for an extremely, extremely, extremely good university. Please don't take it as a depiction of the real school.

3. This is the story of a 27-year-old woman starting over.

4. Note: Applicants taking the college entrance exam as independent candidates without a high school diploma must study at a high school for at least one year. The protagonist studies at her old high school as a non-degree student. Other details are fictionalized.

[Please add my upcoming novel Reborn at 16 to your collection]

Xu Yuan looks back on her youth and sees three major regrets:

First, she was so focused on romance in college that she didn't get into graduate school.

Second, after starting work, she was so busy preparing for graduate school that she didn't make any money.

Third, after ten years of hard work, she realized she had no home in a first-tier city.

Her best years were spent doing the wrong things at the wrong times, and she never looked back.

Xu Yuan: Who the hell can you blame for that?

Actually, she has another regret: the year she graduated from high school, her family was caught up in a housing demolition, but they missed their chance to get compensation. Other people got a house and money, while her family received only 20,000 yuan for refusing to move. The reason was that her father couldn't bear to pay the 500 yuan transfer fee.

If she could do it all over again, she'd definitely convince her father: they had to transfer the title!

When she opens her eyes again, she sees her mother cheerfully taking out a stack of money. "This is what they paid us."

Xu Yuan: ...Even being reborn, she was one step behind everyone else!

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[Please add my school story Your Name Has Mine in It to your collection]

On the first day of class assignment in their second year of high school, the student ranked above Li Xu was Xu Yue.

The teacher taking attendance smiled and said, "Those two names are pretty interesting."

Because of that remark, two people who had never spoken to each other became the subject of their classmates' private jokes as the "name ship."

No matter how much their classmates talked, the two of them never exchanged a word.

Until the end of a monthly exam, when rain poured down. Li Xu carried her shoes in one hand and walked barefoot through the rain, in a terrible mood and a terrible state.

Suddenly, the rain stopped over her head. A black umbrella was held above her, the hand gripping it long-fingered and pale as jade in the night.

It shielded her from the wind and rain all the way, and hid the disheveled state she left behind.

At the time, she thought: She didn't dare hope someone would walk beside her holding an umbrella, but when someone like that appeared, she discovered the romance of youth.

So she waited until the end of the journey to turn around. Seeing the face of the person holding the umbrella, she paused, then thanked him warmly. "Classmate, your name has mine in it. Thanks."

The one holding the umbrella, Xu Yue, had a gentle expression and polite manner. He replied softly, "So it was you."

So, I've always known that your name has mine in it, too.

Xu Yue.

Screenshot dated November 8, 2020, as proof.

Theme: If you keep working hard at life, it's never too late to realize your dreams.