In the real world, Lin Chu was accidentally reborn due to decadence in college and frustration in life. When he returned to high school on his first day of enrollment, he found himself in a world of thinking. Only by being admitted to Beijing Peking University as a graduate student could he change his destiny. Once again, she abandoned the love mentality and female competition mentality in her previous life, focused on her studies and method innovation, and her grades steadily improved to second in the class. She formed a subtle triangle relationship with academic tycoon Xu Fengzhou and aloof male god Ji Kaize - Xu Fengzhou was restrained and suppressed his feelings due to his studies; Ji Kaize gradually fell in love with her because of his friends' concern. Both of them struggled with the tension between academics and emotions, but Lin Chu only regarded them as close friends because of the scars from his previous life.
During her three years in high school, she rejected all ambiguities and turned into friends with her mortal enemy Su Jingyan. Eventually, she went to study in northern Beijing with Xu Fengzhou and Ji Kaize. During the four years of college, the three of them became each other's most important partners, until Lin Chu successfully passed the postgraduate entrance examination, woke up from the dream and returned to reality, and found that his rebirth was actually a dream on the day after the college entrance examination. But this "dream" has completely reshaped her soul - she decided to face real life with a new attitude.
Concept: "The Second Mock Exam" tells the story of an ordinary girl, Lin Chu, who gets a chance to be reborn at a low point in her life and returns to her high school days. On the surface, it is a common rebirth counterattack routine, but in fact it is a profound reflection on the dilemma of contemporary education. When Lin Chu returned to school with the memories of her past life, she gradually realized that the real change did not lie in repeating efforts, but in breaking the shackles on three levels: on the survival level, she turned from the ineffective involution of a small-town problem solver to methodological awakening; on the gender level, she deconstructed the deep-rooted female competitive thinking and reached a reconciliation with her former rival Su Jingyan; on the existential level, when rebirth was revealed to be a thought experiment, she began to question: How can ordinary people without the blessing of supernatural power complete self-salvation? Through the subtle emotional game between Lin Chu, Xu Fengzhou and Ji Kaize, as well as the struggle process from a fourth- and fifth-tier town to Peking University, this work shows the difficult exploration of contemporary youth in finding subjectivity in the context of educational alienation. The ending that finally returns to reality is not only a subversion of "rebirth and refreshing literature", but also a gentle inquiry to every ordinary person who is living with the exam-oriented education system.