Reborn and awakened, this time I won't be a love-struck fool.

Zou Xun really wanted to say, "None of your business."

But looking at the 20,000 yuan transfer on his phone, the words lingered in his mouth for a long time, and he just couldn't say them.

He gripped his phone tightly, his knuckles turning white. "Mm."

Lin Wu's gaze fell on his fingers.

With fair skin and slender build, his joints were clearly defined, like a work of art untouched by the dust of the world. His fingertips were white from gripping his phone so tightly. His expression was cold, and subtle details revealed the young man's financial distress and his unwillingness to admit it.

Lin Wu felt inexplicably depressed.

She got up, took a bottle of mineral water from the freezer, handed it to Zou Xun, and said calmly, "You're a student, your task now is to study hard."

Zou Xun stiffened, instinctively resisting the topic. He took the bottle of water, unscrewed it, and took a few sips. "I'm not smart. I'm bad at studying."

They don't even listen to the lessons, just brushing it off with "I'm stupid."

Lin Wu sighed, seeing through it all but saying nothing.

It seems this person has many unspeakable secrets.

She asked, seemingly out of curiosity, yet also casually, "Is your dad... usually very strict with you?"

Zou Xun gripped the mineral water bottle tightly. "Why are you suddenly asking that?"

"Because my dad is very strict with me." Lin Wu put her arm around Shen Mingluo's shoulder. "My friend's dad is too. We can't even skip class if we want to, so I'm really envious of you."

Shen Minglu paused for a second, then bit off a piece of noodle and said in agreement, "Yeah, my dad is so controlling of me, it's driving me crazy."

Zou Xun pursed his lips, deciding to lie: "They don't really care about me."

Lin Wu: "Oh..."

"Today..." Zou Xun is usually good at fighting and being sarcastic, and he likes to talk nonsense. He is particularly bad at saying thank you.

Because he lived for more than ten years, and very few people helped him.

When he was young, he lived with Zou Lian in Zoujia Village. Because he had no father, the villagers all said that he was the child of Zou Lian and a client. Because Zou Lian was too promiscuous and had taken in countless clients, no one even knew whose child he was.

He has disliked going to school since elementary school.

Because as long as he was around, the kids would gang up on him, insult him, and give him all sorts of nicknames.

He wasn't good-looking back then, and he was malnourished, so he was as thin as a skeleton, with a sallow complexion and a bald head, making him a target of public criticism.

The junior high school was in town, and many of his elementary school classmates were there. Rumors were like the wind, everywhere, but he remained alone and out of place.

Even now, though he's in high school in the city, he still doesn't want to go to school because his foundation is too weak and he doesn't want to study.

Zou Xun bit his lip, the pain sweeping through his cerebral cortex, and he managed to say thank you with difficulty.

"...Thank you."

He acted too formally.

So Lin Wu replied earnestly, "You're welcome."

"I'll be going now. Just let me know if you need any help in the future," Zou Xun said.

"Let's add each other's contact information then," Lin Wu said, fiddling with her phone.

"Okay..." Zou Xun proactively scanned her WeChat QR code.

After being accepted as a friend, he grabbed his bottled water and phone and was about to leave.

"Wait a minute..." Lin Wu called out to him.

Zou Xun looked over, puzzled. "What's wrong?"

Lin Wu: "Keep the bottle; let the boss sell it for money."

The boss wiping the table nearby: "..."

He looked at Lin Wu with a deeply moved expression.

Zou Xun paused for a moment, then put the bottle on the table. He had just drunk quite a lot, and now there was only a little left.

After the boy left, the shop owner was deeply moved. "Thank you so much, beautiful lady."

"You're welcome," Lin Wu said. "I'm taking this bottle back to sell for money."

Boss: "…………"

Shen Mingluo looked at the bottle with a puzzled expression, then looked at Lin Wu with a puzzled expression.

After a few seconds of brainstorming, it dawned on her: "Oh, I know!"

Lin Wu swallowed his food, unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip of water, and asked, "What do you know?"

Shen Mingluo smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry, I'll help you pursue him. This handsome guy is definitely got a lot of appeal."

"Pfft..." Lin Wu spat out a mouthful of water onto the ground. "What are you thinking about?"

Shen Mingluo quickly tore off a tissue for her. "Isn't that right?"

Lin Wu wiped her mouth: "No! I don't have anyone I like right now."

"Oh." Shen Minglu tilted her head and didn't ask any further questions.

After finishing their meal and paying, Lin Wu casually picked up the bottle of water that Zou Xun had drunk from.

She first went back to the classroom, put the bottle in her schoolbag, and then sent a message to Lin Si, saying that she didn't need to go in the afternoon.

Silly younger brother: [Okay.]

Melancholy Sweetie: [Aren't you curious why?]

Foolish younger brother: [The story of Miss Lin's furious outburst at the noodle shop to defend her sweetheart has spread throughout both schools.]

Melancholy Sweetheart: [?]

Silly younger brother: 【^-^】

Lin Wu was angered by that expression.

As if sensing something, she opened the school forum.

The forum is always lively when there are school events, and this time was no exception.

Lin Wu never expected that the most popular post would be mocking her for acting impulsively for the sake of her male friend.

Lin Wu flipped through it, and then his vision went black.

Half of the people thought she had fallen for someone else, while the other half thought she was just seeking something new.

They're just bored and have nothing better to do.

Lin Wu then browsed through the other posts.

Someone entered through the front door of the classroom, and the heavy footsteps were particularly clear in the empty classroom.

She glanced over instinctively.

Xu Jingwang changed out of his class uniform and put on a black coat, his expression indifferent.

Lin Wu greeted him, "Hi, hi."

The boy paused, his gaze turning slightly uneasy as he looked over. "You're back?"

"Mm." Lin Wu nodded.

Xu Jingwang didn't say anything more. He returned to his seat, took out a set of questions from his desk, and handed them to Lin Wu. "Physics questions."

Lin Wu took it and, noticing his pale face, asked, "Are you sick?"

"No," he replied casually, "I'm just a little unhappy."

Lin Wu paused for a moment, then asked, "Why are you unhappy?"

He didn't speak, he just stared at her.

Lin Wu tilted her head. "If it's inconvenient, then forget it."

"Nothing's inconvenient," Xu Jingwang said, pursing his lips. "I just feel like I'm a bit incompetent."

"what?"

Lin Wu quickly asked, "Why do you think that? You're not bad at all, don't underestimate yourself."

My phone rang in my pocket.

Lin Wu guessed it was probably Li Ma calling.

She just called Li Ma and asked her to bring Jiang Fanxing's hair to Huaguang.

The ringtone kept vibrating.

Sunlight streamed in, and the boy was right in front of me.

His trembling eyelashes, his slightly parted lips, his heavier breathing, his expressive eyes.

Everything was reflected in Lin Wu's pupils.

She didn't answer the phone, waiting for Xu Jingwang's reply.

The second after the ringing stopped.

Xu Jingwang said, "You seem to have a lot of friends, while I don't even seem to be a friend."

Your attention is always drawn to others.

I was at a loss.