Rebirth: Thirty Thousand Yuan That Summer

Su Chen opened his eyes and found that he was back on the first day of his senior year of high school. The countdown on the blackboard read "298 days until the college entrance examination." The classroom was filled with the smell of chalk dust and wind oil. His deskmate was still poking his arm with a ballpoint pen: "Lao Su, let me copy your Chinese notes." Everything is exactly as in memory. In his last life, he spent his senior year in high school in a muddle-headed manner, failed to get into college, and struggled in society after graduation. He thought his life was like this. Until one day, he heard the news that his high school classmate Lin Yuxin, the girl who always sat quietly by the window and read a book, worked alone to pay off debts after her mother died of illness, and eventually collapsed in a rental house due to long-term overwork. She was only twenty-two years old that year. Su Chen stood at the funeral for a long time, looking at the young face in the black and white photo, and suddenly remembered - in her senior year of high school, her mother was diagnosed with a serious illness, and the surgery fee was only 30,000 yuan short. The whole class knew about it, but no one actually did anything. This time, Su Chen didn't want to stand any longer. He dug out the 30,000 yuan he had saved from working during the summer vacation—all the savings he had accumulated from moving bricks on a construction site for two months and washing dishes in a restaurant without telling his parents. He visited three hospitals, found Lin Yuxin's mother's ward, and stuffed the brown paper envelope into her schoolbag. Then he turned and ran. He didn't leave his name, didn't say a word, didn't even look back.