Rebirth begins with studying hard

Chapter 2 This time I'm going to start studying seriously!

Lu Jie had a nightmare in which he returned to the college entrance examination hall, but he couldn't answer a single question.

He was startled awake and was completely bewildered.

It actually was an exam hall.

After a moment of silence, he murmured, "Still not awake."

He lay down on the table and fell asleep again.

He was quickly startled awake by a shout:

"Sleeping during the exam?! Focus on your work!"

Is this not a dream?!

Lu Jie looked up and saw the proctor standing next to him, glaring at him angrily.

A jolt went through him, and his instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm compelled him to obediently look down at the exam paper.

[Feicheng No. 12 Middle School 2007-2008 Academic Year (Second Semester) Grade 11 March Teaching Quality Test - Mathematics]

The monthly exam in the second semester of the first year of high school?

Thankfully it wasn't the college entrance exam, or it would have been really scary.

But soon, sweat began to bead on his forehead.

[I. Multiple Choice Questions: This section contains 10 questions, each worth 3 points, for a total of 30 points. For each question, choose the one option that best answers the question.]

1. Given z = -1 + i, the point corresponding to z in the complex plane is located in ( )

[A. Quadrant I; B. Quadrant II; C. Quadrant III; D. Quadrant IV]

If I remember correctly, this question tests trigonometric functions.

Hmm... odd changes, even remains the same; the sign depends on the quadrant.

It looks so simple, so I'll choose...

Damn, no way!

What are z and i again?

He continued reading, and after finishing all the questions, he took a deep breath.

As expected, I couldn't understand a single question.

I have absolutely no idea how to begin writing.

If you don't know Chinese, you can just write something random; if you don't know English, you can just fill in random blanks; even English essays can be copied from reading comprehension passages.

But I really can't do math!

All I can do is write a solution.

The weather in March was still cold, but he was sweating profusely with panic.

However, soon, fragments of long-forgotten memories slowly resurfaced.

Looking at the test paper again, although there were still questions I didn't know how to answer, I no longer didn't understand them at all.

After letting out a sigh of relief, he lowered his head and began working on the test questions.

......

After the exam ended, Lu Jie stepped out of the exam hall, stood in the corridor, and felt the cold wind blowing. He finally realized that he wasn't dreaming.

If it were a dream, it couldn't be this real.

He really did return to March 2008.

Perhaps his tragic fate moved heaven and earth, so he really struck it lucky and came back to make up for his regrets?

In his past life, he did not study hard, did not cherish his loving mother, and did not truly live for himself.

In this life, he wants to start anew and live a different life.

Everything changes starting with studying diligently.

"Lu Jie, why are you only coming out now? I've been waiting for you until now. Come on, let's go online. Naruto has an update today."

Lu Jie, who had been leaning on the corridor railing in a daze, snapped out of it.

The speaker was Sun Bo, his childhood friend.

We were elementary and junior high school classmates, and we were very close. I filled in No. 12 Middle School with him when I took the high school entrance exam. Before the start of the semester, I even went to the academic affairs office to find the teacher and we were assigned to the same class.

In their previous high school days, the two of them spent all their time playing soccer and surfing the internet instead of studying, and ultimately only scored a little over 300 points on the college entrance exam.

He didn't continue his studies and went into business. Influenced by the idea that education is useless, Sun Bo didn't go to college either and went straight to a regular class.

Later, Sun Bo's self-built house was demolished, and he received several apartments and more than one million yuan in cash.

Originally, after becoming a "second-generation demolition beneficiary," their life was quite comfortable.

But because his partner disliked him for being incompetent, he took the compensation money from his family's demolition and started a business in order to prove himself.

I was preparing to join Mixue Ice Cream, but I was tricked into joining a fast-recruitment company and becoming a franchisee of an unknown milk tea brand.

After losing hundreds of thousands of yuan, he was still not satisfied and went on to join Dicos.

This time, they weren't ripped off and actually opened a Dicos restaurant.

However, due to poor site selection and mismanagement, the losses were even greater, with more than two million yuan invested.

In the end, he lost all his money, broke up with his partner, and ended up with nothing but a mess.

Ultimately, it was because they didn't understand anything and lacked knowledge that they suffered.

"I'm not going. I have two exams tomorrow, and I want to go back and review them." He shook his head and refused.

Sun Bo was shocked: "Didn't you just say yesterday that only dogs study?!"

Lu Jie was also shocked: "Did I say that?"

Sun Bo didn't press the matter. He glanced downstairs and said, "Zhu Ke and Fan Bin are waiting for us. Let's go!"

Lu Jie shook his head again: "My mom is waiting for me to go back, I really can't go."

Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Sun Bo said, "Alright, I'll go then."

In his previous life, Sun Bo was influenced by him and didn't continue his studies. In this life, Lu Jie will definitely find a way to make Sun Bo study hard under his influence again.

As long as he finds a reliable job after graduating from university, doesn't mess around, and enjoys the life of a second-generation demolition beneficiary, his life will surpass that of most people.

However, since Sun Bo was focused on going online, it would be too abrupt to suddenly urge him to study, so he didn't say anything more.

In the stairwell, he ran into an acquaintance, someone who had once haunted his dreams.

Ding Yiming.

And Song Qian, who is inseparable from her.

"Ding Yiming found a super delicious potato noodle shop, let's go together!" Song Qian said, blinking her big eyes.

His thoughts drifted back to a long time ago, about six months ago at this point in time, but it felt very distant to him.

Back then, he and Victoria Song took the same bus to school. He was immediately struck by her beauty when he first saw her.

This was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

Unfortunately, the bus broke down that time, and he, Song Qian, and several students on the bus were all late.

He was only allowed to enter the school after being severely reprimanded at the school gate.

But that's how he met Victoria Song.

No one dislikes pretty girls, and he does too.

Having developed a natural liking for each other, he would naturally take the initiative to chat with Song Qian whenever they met on the bus or at the bus stop.

We always had a great time chatting, and our relationship got better and better the more we talked.

Ding Yiming was Song Qian's classmate and they also took the same bus.

Because of Victoria Song, he and Ding Yiming also became familiar with each other.

Later on, Song Qian often invited him out to karaoke or stroll along the pedestrian street under the names of both her and Ding Yiming.

At that time, he thought that Song Qian was interested in him, and he was secretly pleased for quite some time.

He later learned that eight out of ten times, it was Ding Yiming who instigated Song Qian to invite him out.

Perhaps Victoria Song has some feelings for him, but her real purpose is to keep him as a pet.

At that time, Ding Yiming was genuinely interested in him, but she wasn't confident she could win him over. So, taking advantage of Song Qian's fish-raising business, she made precise fishing attempts.

Only he, the fish, was completely indistinguishable.

"Lu Jie, let's go together!" Ding Yiming said again, her eyes filled with expectation, when she saw that he didn't speak.

Lu Jie gave Ding Yiming a deep look.

How innocent she is now.

Even the most naive person can change.

He finally shook his head: "I'm not going, you guys go."

Before the two could react, he simply turned and left.

In his past life, Ding Yiming killed him after they came ashore, while Song Qian broke down his defenses by saying "I understand Ding Yiming." After that, he and Song Qian lost contact.

In this life, he no longer wants to have anything to do with these two people.

Song Qian and Ding Yiming were stunned, neither of them expecting Lu Jie to react this way.

"If he doesn't want to go, then so be it. Let's go together." Song Qian pouted.

"Okay." Ding Yiming felt that Lu Jie's gaze was strange, an indescribable feeling. "I feel like he's acting a little odd today."

"Really?" Song Qian followed Ding Yiming's gaze and looked at Lu Jie again, then said, "Okay, let's not worry about him, let's go."

......

Lu Jie once pondered why he trusted Ding Yiming so much in his past life, considering her the closest and most important person to him even before they were officially dating, and being willing to do everything for her without reservation.

This is clearly problematic.

Later he realized that everyone's flaws often stem from their family environment.

His flaw is that he lacks love.

When he was just old enough to remember things, his father died in a car accident.

My mother, who was a worker in a state-owned enterprise, was also laid off around the turn of the millennium.

To take care of the mother and child, the community arranged a fruit stall for them at the market.

His mother raised him with this fruit stand, gave him his first capital for starting a business, and saved him 500,000 yuan as a down payment for a house and money for his wedding.

With his mother so busy making a living, she naturally didn't have much energy to care for him.

In addition, parents of that generation rarely expressed their love; they would keep it buried in their hearts and silently do their best as if it were a matter of course.

Therefore, subconsciously, he didn't feel his mother's presence was strong.

He even complained that his mother didn't care about him, couldn't provide emotional support, and couldn't offer any material assistance during his entrepreneurial journey, making her a burden to him.

It wasn't until my mother passed away that I realized how much she had sacrificed behind the scenes.

But by then it was too late.

Standing outside the market, Lu Jie watched his mother busy at the fruit stall, feeling a sense of satisfaction and peace.

I have a mother now.

After gazing at it for a long time, he walked up to the stall and said as usual, "Mom."

"School's out so early today? Why aren't you home doing your homework? Did you forget your keys?"

While busy, Gu Yunshu glanced at her son and asked him a few questions before introducing the prices to the customers at the stall.

"We had our monthly exam today, so school let out early."

"I forgot my keys."

Lu Jie felt his pockets, but couldn't find the keys.

"You always forget to bring your keys, you're so forgetful."

"How did the monthly exam go? What score did you get?"

"You must study hard and get into a good university, so you don't end up like your mother, forced to sell fruit from dawn till dusk..."

In the past, Lu Jie only felt annoyed when he heard his mother say this.

Now he is only kind and genuine.

He said, "Hmm... I think I did just okay on this test. I'll try to do better on the ones I take next time."

Gu Yunshu was taken aback, sensing that her son was acting a little differently today.

However, she soon became somewhat angry.

"Mom, are you feeling unwell anywhere? Let's go to the hospital for a check-up this weekend."

She glared at Lu Jie: "I'm perfectly healthy, why would I need a medical checkup!"

"Stop daydreaming all the time, focus on your studies."

"If I study hard, your mother can live ten more years."

Lu Jie wanted to continue speaking, but seeing that his mother completely ignored him and didn't care about his words, he could only shut his mouth.

Although he really wanted to take his mother to the hospital for a check-up the next day, it was impossible without her cooperation.

Fortunately, the lung cancer that developed more than ten years later was probably still a lung nodule at this time.

There is still time.

He watched his busy mother quietly for a while, then smiled and put down his schoolbag.

"Mom, I'll help you."