She Is Brighter Than the Stars

“Cheng Nian, Cheng Nian.”

Hearing someone calling her name, Cheng Nian opened her eyes in a daze.

On the podium, Li Meng, the head teacher, raised her voice a few decibels and said angrily.

“Cheng Nian, He Yunfei! You two stand up behind me!”

He Yunfei woke up with a yawn. He brushed the bangs in front of his forehead, stood up and laughed and said, “Sister Li, don’t be so fierce, be careful or you won’t be able to get married.”

Amidst the laughter of the students, Li Meng threw a chalk tip over and hit He Yunfei precisely on the head.

Shocked, Cheng Nian suddenly got up from the table.

She looked around, seeing the bright and clean classroom and the familiar high school classmates, her mind exploded with a loud bang.

Could it be that she was reborn?

At this moment, all the classmates were staring at her, except for one person.

Cheng Nian calmed down, and subconsciously looked at his back.

The boy’s back was straight, and he didn’t have any intention of turning around to look at her. He was concentrating on the exercises in his hand.

Cheng Nian’s hand clenched into a fist unconsciously, her eyes turned red instantly, and her heart ached like being bitten by a thousand ants.

She said the name quietly through gritted teeth.

“Li Shubai.”

In her previous life, she tried every means to pursue this high mountain flower*.

[metaphor for someone that can only be seen from a distance but cannot be touched, something that can only be longed for but is out of reach for oneself.]

Under coercion and temptation, he finally agreed to marry her.

In order to please Li Shubai, Cheng Nian handed over the entire family business to him.

What she got in return was the other party’s indifference and disdain.

After five years of living in an empty house, Cheng Nian finally couldn’t take it anymore and proposed a divorce with Li Shubai, but was flatly rejected by him.

Cheng Nian clearly remembered that winter night.

After Li Shubai finally came home, she took out the divorce application she had already printed out and handed it to him, but he tore it into pieces and threw it into the trash can.

She insisted again and again, but Li Shubai, who was always gentle and seldom swears, suddenly seemed to be a different person.

He pressed her on the sofa with a tyrannical expression, like a dragon whose scales have been touched.

“Don’t you like me very much?”

I don’t like you anymore.

“Are you willing to leave me?”

Willing to.

The other party said viciously as if he could hear her heart.

“Cheng Nian, don’t even think about it.”

Cheng Nian cried out in anxiety, she begged.

“Isn’t it okay if I give you everything from the Cheng family? I’ll leave the house, okay?”

Li Shubai’s expression was stern and arrogant, and he said coldly: “Everything in the Cheng family includes you, doesn’t it?”

After speaking, Li Shubai suddenly started to kiss her.

All the way to the bedroom.

After tossing on the bed for several hours, Li Shubai finally let her go.

He hugged Cheng Nian tightly and whispered in her ear, turning Cheng Nian’s heart into a cold stone.

Although Li Shubai seldom came back since then, Cheng Nian could still think of his curse-like sentence for many nights in the future.

“Cheng Nian, don’t try to escape from me.”

Facing the empty villa, Cheng Nian’s mood became worse and worse, and finally she suffered from severe depression.

In the last days of her life, she didn’t even want to eat.

Finally, on a moonlit night, Cheng Nian stopped breathing in her sleep.

She didn’t want to die, but she didn’t want to live like this either.

The moment she closed her eyes, Cheng Nian said to herself in her heart.

If she can do it all over again, never choose this life again.

But who knew that when she woke up again, it would be in a high school classroom.

On the podium, Li Meng shouted again.

“Cheng Nian, stand up.”

Cheng Nian looked away, got up silently and walked to He Yunfei’s side.

Li Meng let out a long sigh of relief, she was really afraid that this little devil would make a fuss.

He Yunfei saw Cheng Nian walking towards him, and said with a smile, “You should give Sister Li some face, right?”

Cheng Nian looked at He Yunfei’s face with a little baby fat at this time, and her eye circles turned red again.

Her eyes drifted past the thin figure, and she secretly swore in her heart that she must stay as far away from Li Shubai as possible.

The bell rang for the end of the class, and Cheng Nian and He Yunfei returned to their seats.

Cheng Nian tidied up the messy desk, found six tubes of lipstick, two small mirrors, seven or eight bottles of nail polish in the drawer, but did not find a single pen.

She took out the book that had been handed out for two months.

These books are exactly like new, and they don’t even have their names written on them.

Cheng Nian opened it and took a look, feeling that even if she lived a hundred lives, she would still not understand the contents of the book.

Thinking of how Lao Chengtou was often worried about her studies in her previous life, Cheng Nian was determined to make him happy.

Isn’t it just equations and circuit diagrams, what’s so difficult.

As long as she…

As long as she spends money to find someone to tutor her, there is nothing she can’t learn.

She used to be deviant and caused trouble everywhere, but now she also wants to do something to make her family happy.

If Lao Chengtou sees that she has changed her ways and started to work hard, and then be admitted to a key university and inherit the family business after graduation, he will be so happy that there will be a smile beneath his old beard.

Not only the Lao Chengtou, mother, brother, the whole family will be very happy.

In the next class, Cheng Nian first cut off her colorful nails, then borrowed a pen from a female classmate in the desk in front of her, and wrote her name on all the books.

Seeing Cheng Nian writing, He Yunfei teased, “Miss Cheng has changed her character?”

Cheng Nian focused on the textbook in her hand, without looking at him, and said softly, “Knowledge is power. If you are like this now, what else can you do with your father’s money when you grow up?”

He Yunfei laughed disapprovingly, “I will be in my third year of high school soon, is there still time?”

“It’s not too late, you didn’t read the newspaper saying that a prodigal son was admitted to Qingbei one year later.”

How could He Yunfei know how to read books and newspapers, pouted, “Study, it’s not difficult. I don’t want to learn, otherwise my grades will be better than that Li Shubai you like.”

Speaking of Li Shubai, Cheng Nian’s expression changed slightly.

She looked at her finger bones in a daze, and said in a deep voice, “Don’t mention him in the future, I don’t like him anymore.”

His eyes widened in surprise, his mouth could not be closed for a long time, and he asked incredulously, “Why?”

Cheng Nian lowered her head, her curly and dense eyelashes were half drooping, her whole person looked a little gloomy, she was silent for a while and said vaguely.

“Anyway, I just don’t like him anymore. You and I should stay away from him in the future.”

He Yunfei hated Li Shubai in the first place, but now that Cheng Nian said she wanted to draw a line with Li Shubai, he couldn’t care less about asking so many more questions, and said excitedly.

“But let’s agree, if you go to him again, I have nothing to do it with.”

Cheng Nian gave him a “don’t worry” look, even if she was killed now, she would not provoke Li Shubai again.

This session is a self-study class, and Li Shubai, as the class monitor, sat at the podium instead of the head teacher.

Seeing Cheng Nian and He Yunfei whispering to each other, He Yunfei put his hand on Cheng Nian’s head affectionately, he felt agitated in his heart.

“Quiet.”