Chapter 2: This Lifetime, I Will Never Let Go Again

Chen Fan walked through the campus, looking around with a face full of excitement.

He gazed at the familiar buildings, the familiar trees and grass, and listened to the cicadas humming and the sound of crisp reading echoing in his ears.

At this moment, he could no longer hold it in and laughed up at the sky.

"Haha, this is great! I, Hu Hansan, am back..."

"You there, student! What class are you in?"

A teacher shouted from afar. Chen Fan recoiled in fright and hurried toward his classroom.

By the time he returned, the class had already ended.

Seeing that his homeroom teacher, Wang Qiming, had already left, Chen Fan walked into the classroom with his head held high and chest puffed out.

"Ooh..."

As soon as he entered, his classmates immediately broke into a chorus of teasing laughter.

Chen Fan didn't blush; he just chuckled and returned to his seat.

"Brother Fan, you're a legend. You actually dared to kiss our study committee member in class."

As soon as Chen Fan sat down, Guo Shuai from the back row leaned in excitedly.

"Tell me, what's the situation? Did you read too many of those 'special' books last night?"

"Get lost! I never read that kind of trash."

Looking at Guo Shuai in front of him, Chen Fan’s eyes were filled with nostalgia.

In his previous life, Guo Shuai had been his best friend in this class.

The kid came from a well-off family but had a great personality, and they were very compatible.

It was a pity that when the college entrance exams came around, Guo Shuai didn't get into university; he heard he later attended a vocational school.

Later, during his own university winter break, Chen Fan heard from his mother that the guy had gotten into a fight at school and accidentally crippled someone.

Guo Shuai ended up in prison because of it.

After that, the two lost touch...

Feeling unnerved by Chen Fan’s intense gaze, Guo Shuai couldn't help but cross his arms over his chest.

"Brother Fan, can you stop looking at me like that? I’m a real man."

"If you really can't hold it in, how about I tear out two more pages from the rest of that 'A-Bin' book for you?"

Chen Fan was so moved he almost cried.

His best friend was willing to tear pages out of the only half-book he had left for him.

This was a true buddy.

"Keep it for your own research."

Chen Fan reached out and patted Guo Shuai’s shoulder.

"Brother, don't worry. In this life, I will definitely not let you make the same mistakes again."

Guo Shuai looked confused.

"What does that mean?"

But he quickly asked excitedly, "By the way, did you really have a change of heart and fall for our class beauty and study committee member?"

"I remember you used to like Lin Yuwei from the next class, right?"

Guo Shuai scratched his head, looking puzzled.

"What’s so good about Su Ruochu? She’s skinny and flat as a washboard."

"Lin Yuwei is better—big chest, slim waist, round hips, and she’s pretty too. She knows how to dress and wear makeup, and that figure..."

"When did your eyes go blind?"

Chen Fan spoke with the tone of someone who had seen it all: "Young man, you’re still small and don't understand anything. I don't blame you."

Guo Shuai was speechless.

"Isn't that what you said a few days ago, that you just liked girls with big butts..."

As he was speaking, Su Ruochu walked in through the classroom door.

"Get lost, don't sit in my Ruochu's seat."

Chen Fan didn't hold back and kicked the guy away.

Su Ruochu walked over and saw Chen Fan, her pretty face turning red again.

She lowered her head and hurried to her seat, not daring to meet his gaze.

Chen Fan, however, stared at her unscrupulously, a faint smile on his lips, as if he could never look at her enough.

At this time, Su Ruochu was a bit thin, looking soft and delicate. She clearly hadn't fully grown into herself yet and still carried the innocence and awkwardness of a student.

But in Chen Fan’s eyes, she was incredibly beautiful.

How could he have not noticed how beautiful she was in his previous life?

Chen Fan remembered that while they were seatmates, he hadn't been interested in this diligent and stickler-for-the-rules study committee member.

Later, they both went to universities in the same city; she attended a top-tier university, and he went to a second-tier one.

During their sophomore year, they met by chance at a local alumni gathering.

After a year of growth, Su Ruochu had blossomed completely, and her temperament had transformed.

Chen Fan had been stunned and immediately pursued her.

They only became a couple after that.

Their relationship lasted for four and a half years, until Su Ruochu passed away in an accident.

Those were the happiest times of his life, ones he would never forget.

Looking at the blushing, nervous, and flustered Su Ruochu in front of him, Chen Fan wanted to slap himself.

He had truly been blind, stone-blind.

Why hadn't he pursued her earlier in his past life?

He had wasted such a good opportunity.

But it was fine now. He was reborn.

He was her seatmate.

Her husband was here.

All of her future suitors could just get lost.

Thinking of this, Chen Fan couldn't help but giggle like a fool.

Seeing Chen Fan staring at her with a lecherous, foolish grin, Su Ruochu quietly shifted away.

The bell for class rang.

The math teacher walked into the room, and the noisy classroom instantly quieted down.

"Students, take out the test papers handed out yesterday. Today we will go over..."

Chen Fan had no heart for class; he secretly wrote a note and slid it in front of Su Ruochu.

She hesitated for a moment but opened it to look.

"Are you angry?"

Su Ruochu picked up her pen, wrote a sentence on it, and passed it back.

Chen Fan opened it excitedly.

"Please don't make such boring jokes in the future. Otherwise, I will never talk to you again."

Chen Fan hurriedly wrote back.

"I'm sorry. Without your permission, I won't dare to do it again."

"If you're still angry, how about you kiss me back?"

Su Ruochu looked at it, then expressionlessly crumpled the paper into a ball and put it in her pocket.

It was over; his wife was really angry.

Chen Fan hurriedly wrote another note.

"I was just joking, you aren't really mad, are you? I won't do it again!"

Su Ruochu glanced at it, crumpled it up as well, and didn't reply.

Chen Fan refused to give up and kept writing.

"I had a dream. In the dream, I missed out on a good girl and lived with regret for the rest of my life."

"In this life, I will never let go again."

This time, Su Ruochu stared at the note for several moments.

Finally, instead of crumpling it, she tucked it under her textbook.

Still ignoring him.

Was she really that angry?

Just as Chen Fan was feeling anxious, Su Ruochu suddenly spoke in a low voice.

"Listen to the lecture properly."

Chen Fan was overjoyed, immediately sitting up straight and assuming a proper posture.

"Yes, ma'am!"

...

The final bell of the afternoon rang.

Students packed their bags and left in a noisy rush.

Su Ruochu sat in her seat, not daring to get up; she seemed nervous and at a loss.

Chen Fan, as if he had been prepared, quietly took out a pack of sanitary pads he had hidden in his desk.

He slipped it to her without a trace.

"What is this?"

Su Ruochu looked confused and opened the plastic bag.

When she saw what was inside, her face turned bright red.

"You..."

"Shh!"

Chen Fan made a silencing gesture, quickly took off his own school jacket, and tied it around her slim waist.

"Go ahead. No one will notice."

Su Ruochu looked at Chen Fan with a blushing face, hesitated for two seconds, and finally got up quickly, clutching the pack of pads as she ran out of the classroom.

Watching her slim back and swaying ponytail, Chen Fan couldn't help but stretch.

"My wife is getting more beautiful every time I look at her."

"It's just that she's too thin; look, she’s almost lost all her curves."

"When I make money in the future, I’ll definitely buy her lots of good food to nourish her..."

"Chen Fan!"

A voice interrupted his daydreams.

At the classroom door, a tall boy stood staring at Chen Fan.

It was the class monitor, Huang Hu.

"Oh! Mr. Monitor, are you calling me?"

"Come out here."

Chen Fan slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked out of the classroom.

"Mr. Monitor, something up?"

Chen Fan’s devil-may-care attitude made Huang Hu frown; he really disliked it.

"Chen Fan, did you kiss Su Ruochu in class today?"

Chen Fan paused slightly.

"So what if I did? So what if I didn't? That doesn't seem to have anything to do with you, right?"

Huang Hu gave a cold snort.

"I’m warning you, stay away from Su Ruochu in the future."

"Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite!"