Only a few days into the new school year, the class was surprised to discover that the quiet nobody who never dared to look up when he spoke had snipped off his overlong hair. Beneath it were a pair of bright, lively black eyes, and when he talked, a pair of little dimples appeared. He was actually kind of cute.
Not long after, word spread that students from another class had been arrested. The whole school was in an uproar, eagerly gossiping and guessing what had happened.
Only a handful of people knew that the two who had been arrested had bullied Yu An for a long time. No one knew why they had suddenly been taken down, or how the case had been handled so quickly...
*
Yu An wasn't from this world. A client had dragged him out drinking, and he had drunk himself to death. When he opened his eyes again, he had been reborn in someone else's body.
The good news: he was alive, and had become a rich kid.
The bad news: he was in his final year of high school, already halfway through the second semester.
Getting back to the peak of his intelligence in just three months was asking a lot.
Yu An never expected to take the college entrance exams a second time. He asked his deskmate about physics problems, one after another, over and over, until his deskmate finally snapped. "Do you even have a brain?"
Yu An looked confused but earnest. "Yeah. I can feel that it's there."
His deskmate: "..."
The aloof top student behind him patted his shoulder. "You can ask me whenever you have a question."
Yu An: "Really? Any subject?"
The all-around top student behind him: "Any subject."
So, to the entire class's astonishment, the cold and distant top student who never got close to anyone began patiently explaining problem after problem to Yu An, over and over again.
* Yu An picked up a little puppy and built a good relationship with the former school bully. One day, Yu An said, "That guy in your class looks like a thug. I've seen him bully people."
The former school bully frowned in displeasure. "Did he bully you?"
Yu An: "Not me, but I hate thugs."
The former school bully felt guilty. People used to call him a thug too, and had gone and labeled him the school bully, but that had nothing to do with him! He never picked fights with anyone. Other people had always been the ones to provoke him. What was that called? A hatred of evil? No, self-defense. A justified response. Exactly.
Yu An asked, "Are you listening?"
He said, "I am. Then let's teach them a lesson."
Theme: Only by living in the present can the future hold endless possibilities.
