Reborn to a Bright Future

At twenty-nine, Xie Jing was in his prime, young and successful.

The super AI program he developed was widely praised in the industry and had secured a second round of funding, officially making him a billionaire.

On the night he signed the investment agreement, he died of a heart attack in his luxury home by the river and returned to the year he was fifteen, in eighth grade.

That year, Xie Jing was still a frail, shy kid with thick glasses. The 2008 Olympics hadn't started, prices hadn't skyrocketed, liangpi still cost two yuan, and the guy he'd secretly loved had just transferred to his school...

Wait, the crush he'd pined after for so many years was this arrogant, obnoxious, nose-in-the-air adolescent chuunibyou right in front of him???

Successful businessman Xie Jing: No! Absolutely not! No chuunibyou for me!

Three months later.

Watching Cheng Xunli sweat it out on the basketball court, carefree and dashing, his whole body radiating youthful hormones, Xie Jing thought: Tsk, I suppose it wouldn't be so bad.

With a little guidance, even a chuunibyou has limitless potential.

Later, even after Cheng Xunli grew into someone who could joke and keep his cool in a boardroom, he still went wild every time he drank and had to be hauled home by Xie Jing.

"Cheng Xunli, stand up straight! How are you so heavy? You think I won't leave you here if you don't, Ow! Quit biting me! You bit me again, you bastard! Cheng, I'm gonna fucking kill you!"

"My grandpa's been dead for ages," Cheng Xunli mumbled, burrowing his hot head into the crook of Xie Jing's neck like a giant dog. "If you've got the guts, take it out on me..."

At sixteen, Cheng Xunli was rebellious and cynical, having just suffered the greatest upheaval of his life.

He stepped into an unfamiliar school, bristling with sharp, icy spines, and couldn't stand anyone, until he met Xie Jing.

Xie Jing was a head shorter than him, but bold and confident, strong and kind:

"I'm going to be a billionaire someday!"

"Why are you smoking and messing up your hair? You're too young to be acting like this. Let me have a puff, too!"

"You're a man, so if you need to cry, cry out loud. Here, you can borrow my shoulder for two minutes..."

In time, Cheng Xunli finally grew enough to stand at his side as an equal.

At the company's IPO press conference, a reporter asked through a blizzard of camera flashes, "Mr. Cheng, you're so young and already so successful. What's the secret to your success?"

Cheng Xunli glanced at the person beside him and smiled. "I guess I'm lucky."

Lucky enough to meet the right person at the right time.

Blurb created: April 10, 2022

Theme: Return to youth and grow together