The night before the college entrance exam, my top-student boyfriend, Lin Chen, told me to memorize an “absolutely guaranteed essay topic.” He promised that if I wrote exactly what he told me, I would get a high score.
Trusting him, I memorized the essay word for word.
To my shock, the essay topic really did appear on the test.
I wrote the essay with excitement, certain of my success. But when the results came out, my once-unshakable first place was gone—I only scored 280 points in total!
Meanwhile, Xu Yiran, who had always been at the bottom of the class, suddenly became the top scorer in the entire province. In the end, she walked off happily with my boyfriend.
Devastated, I ended my life.
When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back in time—ten minutes before the exam.
That’s when I noticed the malicious glint in Xu Yiran’s eyes as she stared at me.
I was reborn, ten minutes before the college entrance exam. My boyfriend, Lin Chen, was smiling at me reassuringly, giving me his final instructions.
“Yun Qing, don’t worry. Just write the essay exactly as I told you. I’ll be waiting for you at Minghua University.”
“You’ve always been an excellent student, and you’re both hardworking and smart. I believe in you.”
To make sure I remembered the essay, Lin Chen had quizzed me on it countless times.
But now, I could only laugh coldly in my heart.
In my previous life, he had said the same things to me.
When the results came out, my essay was marked as plagiarism, and my entire Chinese exam was given a zero. But why was I accused of plagiarism?
I rushed to confront the so-called “victim,” Xu Yiran. She flatly denied everything, looking down at me with a smug expression. “Yun Qing, I handed in my test early. How could I have copied your essay? The surveillance cameras even show you glancing at my desk—you’re the one who looks suspicious!”
On top of that, all my other subject scores were abnormally low—my math score was only 20. When I tried to appeal, everyone dismissed it as “making excuses.”
I couldn’t figure out what had really happened.
It wasn’t until Lin Chen handed me a pencil case and I saw the pen inside that I finally understood.
It was a pen whose ink would disappear after twelve hours.
Without hesitation, I took the pencil case. Lin Chen’s smile grew even wider.
“Yun Qing, I’ll be right here for you. If you get nervous, just look over at me and think of me.”
In my previous life, I had unconsciously glanced toward the window, and the surveillance footage made it look like I was peeking at Xu Yiran’s test.
Through it all, I never suspected Lin Chen—I only thought Xu Yiran had begged him for the essay topic.
I swallowed my disgust, looked at him sweetly, and teased, “Lin Chen…”
Chapter 01
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