To Hell with Youth

I, Chen Mo, was reborn in my senior year of high school on the night I received a wedding invitation from my first love.

But maybe Heaven was playing a prank on me.

Other people are reborn with a golden finger. I got a trial pass for an “overhead view” instead: I can see everyone's future, but I can't change my own ending.

I know my best buddy A Piu is a “troubled student” now, but will become a doctor in the future;

I know our homeroom teacher, Lao Piao, has a lisp and a receding hairline, but carries a gentle heart that treats everyone fairly;

And I know that Zhang Yang, the classmate I secretly like, will marry someone else at twenty-seven.

So my second youth became an immersive drama of exquisitely painful introspection:

I have to solve high school problems with an adult's mind, and act like I know nothing while carrying a heart that knows everything. I carefully preserve the course of history. My only “cheat” was to replace the lonely farewell I remembered when my buddy left school with a firm hug.

I haven't come back to defy fate and change my ending.

I just want to make the journey a little gentler in a story whose ending is already set.