Reborn back to the time before I sold my blood to support my scumbag boyfriend's college educat

Xia Yichu walked for over twenty minutes before reaching the small hill Chen Shaoping and the others had mentioned. It was quite large, and the suitcase was hard to find. Luckily, she had bought a small shovel for eighteen yuan after getting off the bus.

It seems Yang Mengru said they were watching the moon on a hillside. The two of them were leaning against a big tree. Xia Yichu glanced up and saw that the trees were quite large. She wondered which tree the person had rolled down from.

Fortunately, there weren't many trees on the hillside. Xia Yichu counted eleven trees, seven of which looked quite large. She started searching down from the largest-looking tree, but it was all grass and difficult to find anything.

Using a small shovel, Yang Mengru could poke the ground with a twig. She only needed to dig down with the shovel, and if there was a hard spot, she could dig a few more times.

"I'm exhausted! Where are the gold bars?"

Xia Yichu searched for over two hours. The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and she was exhausted and hot. She was wondering if she should roll on every tree to see where she could stop.

Xia Yichu quickly banished this foolish idea from her mind. She found a shady spot to rest for a while, thinking she would continue searching later.

Sitting on the rock, I suddenly remembered that Yang Mengru seemed to have said that she sat on the rock and poked the soil next to the rock with a twig. Is it possible that after she twisted her ankle, Chen Shaoping helped her find a rock to sit on, and then she found the box?

Yes, that's possible.

Xia Yichu instantly felt refreshed, neither tired nor hot, and stood up to look for a rock to sit on. One, two, three, four... but none. Had she guessed wrong?

"God, you've already given me a second chance at life, so what's wrong with letting me make a little money too? No, it's not about the money. She's been reborn, so there will be plenty of opportunities to make money in the future. These things absolutely cannot fall into the hands of Chen Shaoping and Yang Mengru like they did in her previous life."

Xia Yichu returned to her previous spot to rest, her eyes fixed on the rock she had been sitting on—the one she hadn't dug up earlier. The rock was on the hillside next to a large tree. Undeterred, Xia Yichu picked up her small shovel and began to dig.

"There really is something there, hopefully it's a box."

She moved the stones aside, and with two shovelfuls, the box was revealed. After digging for a while longer, she took the box out. She eagerly smashed the lock with a stone, revealing eight gold bars and some jewelry inside.

The most valuable item was a string of imperial green jadeite beads that Yang Mengru had sold in her previous life; it was rumored that someone bought it for 60 million. Xia Yichu glanced at it, put the item into the bag she had brought, abandoned the small shovel, found a far place to throw it away, packed the box and the items into the bag, and took the bus home.

It was almost four o'clock when she got home. She drank two glasses of water to calm down. Because of her belongings, she got out of the car and walked straight home. She was very dirty, so she sat on the ground to rest for a while, then picked up her clothes, a bucket, and the bag containing the gold bars and jewelry to take a shower. It was still early, and no one had returned yet.

After taking a shower, I didn't bother with washing clothes and just closed the doors and windows. I drew the curtains—or rather, they were just small, colorful scraps of fabric sewn together. There were two nails and a wire on the window frame to hang them.

Lin Xingcheng brought the things, saying it wasn't good for a girl living alone to not have curtains. Luckily, her window wasn't big, otherwise, with these small scraps of fabric, Lin Xingcheng didn't know how long it would take to sew them.

She had just counted how many gold bars there were and noticed the imperial green jadeite bracelet, but hadn't looked at the others closely. She dumped everything onto the bed and turned on the light.

Inside were a pair of jade bracelets, a pair of gold rings, three gold necklaces, and jade pendants and ornaments of various shapes. Xia Yichu recognized one of the safety buckle pendants; it was the first gift Chen Shaoping had given her.

It was also the least valuable of all these items; the safety buckle was mostly bluish-gray and pale, with uneven and dull colors, and even a layman could tell it was worthless. Yet Xia Yichu cherished it like a treasure, and wore it around her neck until her death.

"Yichu, Yichu, are you there?"

It was Lin Xingcheng's voice. He had come to find Xia Yichu after resigning that morning, moving his things out of the factory so he could leave them with her. He hadn't expected Xia Yichu to be home, so he left his things at Wang Shengli's house, went to buy some things, and then came back.

"Yes, wait a moment."

Xia Yichu hurriedly packed the things back into the bag, put the bag under the bed, and then went to open the door.

"Xia Yichu, where did you go this morning?"

Lin Xingcheng questioned her as soon as he saw her. He was afraid that Xia Yichu would go out with Chen Shaoping again, and he was also afraid that she would say she would not go to university, so his tone was not very good.

"Come in quickly. I didn't have much to do this morning, so I just wandered around outside and bought some things. Did you come looking for me this morning?"

Lin Xingcheng's expression softened a bit; he knew Xia Yichu wouldn't stoop to lying.

"Yeah, I quit my job. I'll find a guesthouse around here to stay tonight, and we'll go to school to register together tomorrow. Oh, by the way, have you eaten?"

"No"

"Let's go then, I'll treat you to dinner."

"No, I mean you should get takeout and eat it. I'm tired from walking this morning and don't want to go out now."

It's more reassuring to keep her gold bars and her 60 million here.

"Alright then, what would you like to eat?"

"I want fried rice noodles and a soft drink."

"it is good"

After Lin Xingcheng left, Xia Yichu took her clothes to wash, carrying water to wash them at the door. She was now worried about where to hide these things; renting a place near the school wasn't practical, and the source of the money was difficult to explain.

She can only rent a place to live after October 1st at the earliest, after she goes to Kyoto to ask her scumbag father for money.

"Yichu, what's wrong?"

When Lin Xingcheng returned, he saw Xia Yichu hanging up clothes with a serious expression, seemingly lost in thought.

"It's okay, I'm just hungry."

"Then come and eat quickly, I also bought you a roasted chicken leg."

No wonder she smelled the aroma of meat. The best person in the world was right beside her; why didn't she cherish it? Wait, before she met Chen Shao-ping, she and her cousin would share even a single piece of candy.

They had never argued before, but things changed after she fell for Chen Shaoping in her third year of junior high. She would argue with Xiao Cheng every few days because of Chen Shaoping, and sometimes they wouldn't speak to each other for a week. Every time, her cousin would apologize first before they made up.

"Do you have it yourself?"

"I've been feeling hot and bothered lately, so I don't want to eat."

Xia Yichu picked up the chicken leg, tore off two pieces of meat with her hands, placed them on top of her rice noodles, and then handed the chicken leg to Lin Xingcheng.

"This is too much, I can't finish it all, take it quickly."

Lin Xingcheng took the chicken leg with slightly trembling hands. Apart from last night's meal, it had been three or four years since the two of them had sat down and had a proper meal together like this.

Not to mention that Xia Yichu sharing food with him and buying him things to please him always had an ulterior motive, and it always ended in a bad mood.

"Xiao Chu, Xing Cheng, you two are eating!"

Seeing Chen Shaoping at the door, Lin Xingcheng's face darkened. He put down his chopsticks and said, "Chen Shaoping, what are you doing here?"

Xia Yichu trembled upon hearing that voice. She used to think that Chen Shaoping's voice was gentle, soft, and pleasant, and that it made her feel at ease.

Hearing that voice now felt like hearing a demon, like a sharp blade, making Xia Yichu feel trembling and powerless.

This was the same sense of powerlessness she felt in her past life after learning Chen Shaoping's true colors. All her relatives were either dead or living miserable lives. Chen Shaoping was rich; he could hire two bodyguards to accompany him whenever he went out. She had no way to seek revenge.