Reborn: I’ll Lead the Big Shot Down the Right Path

The alley behind the school was a shortcut. Yan Suiran rode her bicycle up to it, where shadowy figures loomed inside.

"Take another way." Jiang Zheng braced his long leg against the wall at the alley entrance, blocking her path. He jerked his chin toward the dim alley. "There's no one decent in there."

The boy had pale, cool-toned skin, and wisps of hair fell over his eyes. He spoke lazily, yet stood firm at the alley entrance, refusing to let this well-behaved girl take the shortcut.

The good girl said, "You're no good either."

Jiang Zheng scoffed, feeling that his good intentions had gone unrewarded. Of course she and he lived in different worlds.

But the good girl said, "Come with me, and you'll be a good person from now on."

Jiang Zheng: "Huh?"

"Haven't you heard that being near vermilion turns you red? I'm the vermilion."

"..." Jiang Zheng said, "You're a pig?"

The good girl was furious. "Jiang Zheng! You're coming with me today, whether you like it or not!"

Yan Suiran was reborn into her high school days. The school was still on its old campus, and the dim alley behind it was still crawling with hooligans.

At the entrance stood the same pale-skinned boy, refusing to let her take the shortcut.

Back then, the well-behaved girl had hurriedly said "Thank you" and turned around to leave. She hadn't known the boy's eyes had followed her as she walked away.

Years later, he became someone people feared.

When he died, people said that bad people deserved an end like that.

Now Jiang Zheng was alive and well, and Yan Suiran was determined to pull him out of that shadowy alley.

She patted the back of her bicycle. "Come with me, or don't talk to me for the rest of your life."

The hooligans jeered and egged them on. "Brother Zheng, teach her a lesson!"

Jiang Zheng thought it over, still a little worried. "Can you handle people?"

"Don't underestimate me!"

"How about I take you instead?"

"Quit stalling and get on!"

That day, the hooligans in the alley behind the school stared in shock as Jiang Zheng, infamous for his viciousness, obediently climbed onto the back of that girl's bike.

She pedaled off at full speed, taking him with her.

This time, she would bring him into her world.

[Pins him against the wall by the waist, red-eyed, willing to give his life (seriously)]

Blurb written September 2023

Theme: Study when it's time to study, strive when it's time to strive, and fall in love when it's time to fall in love.