Chapter Summaries

After dying in 2024, Chen Fan was reborn in his final year of high school in 2000, where he reunited with Su Ruochu, the girlfriend he had lost. He was thrown out of class after kissing her, then hurried off to buy sanitary pads for her.

• As he prepared to die, Chen Fan confirmed that he had donated his wealth and remembered his late girlfriend Su Ruochu while holding her red cord bracelet.
• Chen Fan woke in his high school classroom 36 days before the 2000 college entrance exam and recognized Su Ruochu beside him.
• Overjoyed, Chen Fan hugged and kissed Su Ruochu, alarming her and drawing laughter from the class.
• Wang Qiming angrily ordered Chen Fan out of the classroom, and Chen Fan promised Su Ruochu he would take her home after school.
• Chen Fan went to the school shop and bought a pack of sanitary pads, claiming Wang Qiming had sent him.

Reborn Chen Fan returned to high school determined to protect his friend Guo Shuai and win over Su Ruochu, his late wife from his previous life. After helping Su Ruochu leave school discreetly, he was confronted by Huang Hu, who warned him to stay away from her.

• Chen Fan reunited with Guo Shuai and vowed to stop him from making the mistake that had led to prison in his previous life.
• Chen Fan teased Su Ruochu with notes, apologized for kissing her in class, and told her he would not let her go this time.
• Su Ruochu told Chen Fan to pay attention in class, and he eagerly obeyed.
• Chen Fan gave Su Ruochu sanitary pads and tied his jacket around her waist so she could leave without being noticed.
• Huang Hu confronted Chen Fan and warned him to stay away from Su Ruochu or face trouble.

Chen Fan confronted Huang Hu over his crush on Su Ruochu, then walked with Su Ruochu after school and learned she still wanted him to keep his distance. After Guo Shuai reminded Chen Fan that Su Ruochu had attended a top university in his previous life, Chen Fan resolved to get into the same university as her.

• Chen Fan warned Huang Hu to stay away from Su Ruochu, and Huang Hu left when Su Ruochu appeared.
• Chen Fan offered to walk Su Ruochu home, but she refused and told him not to follow her beyond the school gate.
• Su Ruochu thanked Chen Fan for helping her and asked how he knew she had gotten her period; she also warned him not to repeat what had happened in class.
• Guo Shuai teased Chen Fan about trying to win Su Ruochu over and pointed out that she would attend a top university while Chen Fan had barely entered a second-tier university before.
• Chen Fan decided to work toward admission to a Project 985 university so he could attend the same university as Su Ruochu.

After returning home, Chen Fan reunited with his parents and tried to persuade them to buy an apartment, but they refused. He resolved to use his knowledge of the future to build wealth and first focus on scoring high enough to attend Su Ruochu’s university.

• Chen Fan returned home, embraced his mother Li Jinqiu, and learned his father Chen Jianye was working overtime.
• Chen Fan told his parents he planned to enter a first-tier university, but they doubted his chances.
• Chen Fan proposed selling the family home and buying an apartment in the city, but his parents dismissed the idea.
• Chen Fan considered using his knowledge of future property, stocks, and Bitcoin to make money, but realized he lacked starting capital.
• Chen Fan decided his immediate goal was to score at least 553 and attend Cloudsea University with Su Ruochu.

Chen Fan focused on using his memories of the college entrance exam to improve his score while growing closer to Su Ruochu and teasing his friend Guo Shuai. After lunch, several young men arrived at the restaurant looking for Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan greeted Su Ruochu, received his washed uniform, and spent the morning reviewing textbooks and recalling likely exam questions.
• Chen Fan went out for lunch with Guo Shuai and joined Su Ruochu and Li Na at a crowded restaurant.
• Li Na teased Chen Fan about kissing Su Ruochu, and Chen Fan openly admitted that he liked her, prompting Su Ruochu to leave in embarrassment.
• Guo Shuai revealed that he was interested in Li Na, and Chen Fan encouraged him while ordering more chicken drumsticks.
• After Guo Shuai went to the restroom, several young men came into the restaurant asking for Chen Fan, and one confronted him.

Chen Fan and Guo Shuai escaped Huang Hu’s punks by hiding out at White Birch Grove, where Chen Fan browsed the early Chinese internet. He realized domain names could be his first opportunity to make money.

• Crow confronted Chen Fan on Huang Hu’s behalf, but Chen Fan and Guo Shuai dumped kitchen slops on him and ran away.
• Guo Shuai realized Huang Hu was targeting Chen Fan over Su Ruochu and warned that the punks might be waiting at the school gate.
• Chen Fan and Guo Shuai took a detour to White Birch Grove, where Guo Shuai started playing Red Alert while Chen Fan used a computer.
• Chen Fan browsed Sina.com and considered how the coming internet winter would affect Chinese companies.
• Chen Fan decided that buying and selling domain names could help him earn his first pot of gold.

Chen Fan tried to profit from registering valuable domain names but discovered they had all been taken, then joined Guo Shuai in humiliating Huang Hu after learning he had threatened him and pursued Su Ruochu. Su Ruochu scolded Chen Fan for skipping class and later asked whether he truly liked her.

• Chen Fan listed famous website domains and tried to register them, but found that every one he thought of was already taken.
• Chen Fan and Guo Shuai followed Huang Hu into the internet café restroom, where Chen Fan trapped him under a trash can and Guo Shuai kicked him into the filthy toilet.
• Chen Fan and Guo Shuai returned to class before the bell, and Guo Shuai joked that Huang Hu had fallen into a toilet when Wang Qiming asked where the class monitor was.
• Su Ruochu warned Chen Fan not to skip class and urged him to care about his studies and future.
• After school, Su Ruochu asked Chen Fan whether he had meant what he said about liking her.

Chen Fan confessed to Su Ruochu, who agreed to discuss dating after the college entrance exam if he got into her university. As Chen Fan focused on studying and Guo Shuai tried to get closer to Li Na, Chen Fan suddenly had an idea and rushed off with Guo Shuai toward the White Birch Grove.

• Chen Fan asked Su Ruochu to be his girlfriend, but she refused to date before the college entrance exam and agreed to talk if they entered the same university.
• Li Jinqiu and Chen Jianye noticed Chen Fan studying hard and decided to support him by buying him milk.
• Guo Shuai teased Chen Fan for spending less time with Su Ruochu and dragged him to lunch with Su Ruochu and Li Na.
• Guo Shuai praised Li Na's dancing and suggested the four of them eat lunch together every day, while Su Ruochu and Chen Fan barely spoke.
• Chen Fan suddenly shouted that he had figured something out and pulled a confused Guo Shuai toward the White Birch Grove.

Chen Fan checked whether the Easy Domain Network had launched and decided to build his own domain-trading website, but he realized he lacked the money and computer needed to make it happen. As Su Ruochu worried that she had upset him, she passed him a note near the end of class.

• Li Na teased Su Ruochu about her feelings for Chen Fan, and Su Ruochu said she would not think about romance before the college entrance exam.
• Chen Fan checked online and confirmed that the Easy Domain Network had not launched, so he resolved to build it before Yao Jinbo could.
• Chen Fan hurried Guo Shuai back to school without letting him play Red Alert, then spent afternoon class sketching plans for his website.
• Chen Fan worried that he lacked the money to promote the site or buy a computer of his own.
• Su Ruochu wondered whether Chen Fan was avoiding her, then wrote him a note and nudged him near the end of class.

Chen Fan exchanged a flirtatious note with Su Ruochu, then confronted Huang Hu when he tried to confess to her. Su Ruochu chose Chen Fan and left with him, while Huang Hu realized Chen Fan and Guo Shuai had been behind the internet café incident and swore revenge.

• Su Ruochu passed Chen Fan a note telling him to pay attention in class, and Chen Fan listened to the lesson for the rest of the period.
• Guo Shuai offered to let Chen Fan use his family’s computer, but Chen Fan declined and joked with him about pursuing Su Ruochu.
• Chen Fan found Huang Hu trying to speak with Su Ruochu at the bicycle shed and told him to stay away from her.
• Huang Hu confessed to Su Ruochu, but she rejected him and said she would choose Chen Fan to go home with.
• Chen Fan left with Su Ruochu, while Guo Shuai taunted Huang Hu and Huang Hu recognized them as the ones behind the internet café incident.

Chen Fan walked with Su Ruochu after school and explained that he visited White Birch Grove to learn about computers, not to play games. Su Ruochu took him to Honghai Computer School to help him learn, where Honghai mistook him for her boyfriend.

• Su Ruochu asked Chen Fan to walk with her, while Chen Fan waved off Guo Shuai.
• Su Ruochu confronted Chen Fan about going to White Birch Grove, and he explained that he was trying to learn about computers while preparing for university.
• Su Ruochu offered to help Chen Fan learn about computers and led him to Honghai Computer School.
• Su Ruochu greeted Honghai, who noticed Chen Fan beside her and asked if he was her boyfriend.

Chen Fan offered to inspect a wealthy woman’s broken laptop at Zhou Honghai’s computer shop and repaired it after cleaning and checking its components. The machine powered on, leaving Zhou Honghai and Su Ruochu astonished.

• Zhou Honghai welcomed Su Ruochu and Chen Fan to his computer shop and teased Su Ruochu about walking home with a boy.
• A woman whose expensive laptop would not turn on learned that Zhou Honghai could not repair it, and Chen Fan offered to try.
• The woman agreed to let Chen Fan inspect the laptop, and he opened it, cleaned its dusty components, and checked its RAM and motherboard.
• Zhou Honghai and Su Ruochu came out of the lounge and rushed over when they saw Chen Fan dismantling the laptop.
• Chen Fan pressed the power button, and the laptop started up; he told the woman it was fixed.

Chen Fan impressed Fang Ling and Zhou Honghai with his repair and typing skills, earning free access to Honghai Computer School so he could build his website. As the college entrance exam approached, he raced to finish the site, while Su Ruochu watched him change and finally appeared outside the school with an umbrella.

• Chen Fan repaired Fang Ling's laptop, and she paid him five hundred yuan for his work.
• Chen Fan told Zhou Honghai that he wanted to build a website, then amazed him and the students with his fast touch-typing.
• Zhou Honghai offered Chen Fan free computer use in exchange for demonstrating his typing to prospective students.
• Su Ruochu asked Chen Fan about his typing, reminded him to focus on the college entrance exam, and rode away.
• Chen Fan spent the next few days studying and working urgently on his website to get ahead of Boss Yao.
• With three days left before the college entrance exam, Su Ruochu waited outside Honghai Computer School holding an umbrella.

Su Ruochu brought Chen Fan an umbrella as he finished building and launched his Domain Name Network website. When she offered him the umbrella in the rain, Chen Fan pulled her into his arms.

• Su Ruochu rode to Honghai Computer School with an umbrella for Chen Fan, hesitating outside as she recalled secretly watching him work and dreaming about him.
• Chen Fan finished the Domain Name Network forum, and Zhou Honghai praised its polished design and asked to be its first customer.
• Chen Fan launched the website immediately and agreed to visit Zhou Honghai's computer school during summer vacation.
• Chen Fan left the school on his bicycle as the rain began, then spotted Su Ruochu sheltering beneath a shop's eaves.
• Su Ruochu offered Chen Fan her umbrella and tried to explain that she had brought it because rain was coming.
• Chen Fan stepped forward and pulled Su Ruochu into his arms.

In the rain, Chen Fan confessed his love to Su Ruochu and persuaded her to become his girlfriend before the college entrance exams. Su Ruochu agreed but began setting conditions, leaving Chen Fan eager to hear them.

• Chen Fan embraced Su Ruochu and told her how much he had missed her, while she tried to understand his intense feelings.
• Su Ruochu admitted she had brought Chen Fan an umbrella, and he held her hand and insisted he would never love anyone else.
• Chen Fan kissed Su Ruochu once and asked her to be his girlfriend; after questioning whether she had any choice, she agreed.
• Chen Fan joyfully lifted Su Ruochu and spun her around, then she said her agreement depended on three conditions.
• Su Ruochu began stating her first condition.

Chen Fan and Su Ruochu became a couple in private and agreed to keep their relationship secret until after the college entrance exams. Lin Wanxiu grew suspicious that Su Ruochu was dating someone, and she and Su Xuecheng decided to wait until after the exams to discuss it while Lin Wanxiu urged him to find out who the boy was.

• Su Ruochu agreed to date Chen Fan on the condition that they kept their relationship private until the exams and that he got into her university.
• Chen Fan and Su Ruochu embraced in the rain and marked July fifth as their anniversary.
• Su Ruochu hurried Chen Fan away when Lin Wanxiu called for her, then told her mother she had been with a stranger.
• Lin Wanxiu told Su Xuecheng that she suspected Su Ruochu was dating a boy, citing her late return, nervousness, and the borrowed school jacket and missing umbrella.
• Su Xuecheng advised Lin Wanxiu not to question their daughter until after the exams, but Lin Wanxiu insisted he find out who the boy was.

As the college entrance exams approached, Chen Fan and Su Ruochu grew closer, while Guo Shuai prepared to confess to Li Na. The class received its exam assignments and said goodbye to high school, leaving Chen Fan reflecting on the years they had shared.

• Lin Wanxiu insisted on taking Su Ruochu to and from school until the exams ended, and Su Xuecheng agreed to investigate Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan and Su Ruochu exchanged his uniform jacket and her umbrella at school, smiling at each other.
• Guo Shuai realized Chen Fan had won Su Ruochu over, then asked about confessing to Li Na after school; Chen Fan encouraged him.
• On the final day before the exams, Chen Fan reassured Su Ruochu that he would attend whichever university she chose.
• Wang Qiming handed out the admission tickets, and Chen Fan learned he would take the exam in the same room as Huang Hu.
• Wang Qiming announced the end of classes and gave exam-day instructions as Chen Fan looked fondly at his classroom and classmates.

On the last day of high school, Chen Fan and Su Ruochu shared a tender moment amid the students’ farewells. Chen Fan sang her a song as memories of their past life came back to him.

• Chen Fan and Su Ruochu signed Li Na’s farewell notebook, and Chen Fan teased Su Ruochu about signing his future marriage certificate.
• Guo Shuai decided to confess his feelings to Li Na while helping her carry her books back to the dorm.
• Chen Fan held Su Ruochu’s hand and promised they would never be apart, just as a boy from another class shouted that he liked her.
• Students celebrated the end of school by singing, shouting confessions, and throwing papers from the corridors.
• Su Ruochu asked Chen Fan to sing for her, and he borrowed a guitar and sang while remembering their moments together in his previous life.

Chen Fan sang a song he claimed to have written for Su Ruochu, and the two shared an emotional farewell before the Gaokao. After encouraging Guo Shuai to focus on his exams, Chen Fan reviewed at home and resolved to change his life starting with tomorrow’s test.

• Chen Fan sang “Missing You” for Su Ruochu, who loved the song and agreed that he could sing it for her.
• After selling his old books and exam papers, Chen Fan found Su Ruochu at the school gate and she hugged him, promised to remain his girlfriend if he did his best, and left with her mother.
• Chen Fan gave Guo Shuai a bottle of Coke and encouraged him to focus on the Gaokao while he waited for Li Na’s answer.
• Chen Fan reviewed at home, received warm milk and reassurance from Li Jinqiu, and vowed to rise above the crowd by doing well on the Gaokao.

On the morning of the Gaokao, Chen Fan left for his exam but ran to Nanyang Road after receiving a note claiming Su Ruochu was in danger. He realized it was a trap and fought the thugs sent to break his arm, but a blow to the head left him bleeding and staggering.

• Chen Fan reassured his mother, Li Jinqiu, and rode his bicycle to First High School for the Gaokao.
• A young man gave Chen Fan a note saying Su Ruochu was in trouble and directing him to 14 Nanyang Road.
• Chen Fan hurried to the address, entered a dead-end alley, and found seven or eight armed young men waiting for him.
• The red-haired leader said someone had paid the group to break Chen Fan's arm, and Chen Fan suspected Huang Hu had hired them.
• Chen Fan protected his exam documents, armed himself with a broken beer bottle, and slashed the red-haired leader and two other thugs.
• One of the thugs struck Chen Fan on the head with a club, leaving him bleeding and staggering.