Chapter 1: The Simp's Rebirth
Deep Blue Star, Hua Nation, at the gates of City No. 1 High School in Zhenzhu City.
At 9:00 PM, the moonlight was exceptionally bright, washing over the students waiting for transport alongside a gentle evening breeze.
The expressions of a few students standing near the entrance were difficult to read.
Some looked conflicted, some angry, others regretful, and there was no shortage of schadenfreude.
The only thing they had in common was that they were all unanimously staring toward the western suburbs.
"Ji Feng took Wunnuan away. Who knows what's going to happen to her now..."
"A bunch of grown men dragging a young girl off somewhere—what do you think is going to happen?"
Unlike the conflicted boys, certain girls couldn't help but revel in the misfortune, especially the ones with a strong streak of jealousy.
"That Ji Feng is an absolute beast!" a male student said with a face full of bitter resentment.
"So pissed off, are you? Why didn't you step in and stop him just now, then?"
"Tch, if my older brother had been here..."
"Never mind your brother. Even your old man wouldn't have been able to do a damn thing."
"Heh, the girl you can't bear to let go of has probably already been 'let into' by someone else," remarked a chubby girl with a face full of freckles.
"Damn it, shut up."
With just that single sentence, the chubby girl completely shattered the mental defenses of several boys.
Yet there was nothing they could do, nor did they have the guts to intervene.
We are talking about Ji Feng, after all!
He wasn't just your run-of-the-mill delinquent; he was a bona fide scourge to City No. 1 High School, infamous far and wide.
Not only did he refuse to study all day long, but he hung around the school perimeter picking fights.
He was practically the schoolyard bully!
Just brushing past a guy like that left you reeking of garbage—let alone trying to block his path.
Now that Wunnuan had been dragged off by Ji Feng, well... she'd just have to pray for her own fortune.
...
In an abandoned construction site in the suburbs of the city.
A young girl was cornered against a wall by several males. It was none other than Wunnuan, who had been brought here against her will.
She bit down gently on her lower lip, her right hand gripping her left elbow. A broken hair tie hung loosely in her slightly disheveled hair.
Her blue school uniform trousers were covered in dust, and a hole was torn right at the knee.Pulled hair, dust-covered trousers, and torn knees at once suggested what had recently happened to her.
For instance, being grabbed by the hair and dragged here very roughly.
Wunnuan lowered her head and averted her gaze, her expression still cold.
She did not speak or beg for mercy, yet her slightly trembling fingers betrayed her state of mind.
Having been brought here by these few people to an abandoned suburban construction site, she had already prepared for the worst.
Yet Ji Feng, standing before her, looked dazed.
At this moment, memories surged backward like a tide, forcibly cramming themselves into his head.
He had been reborn...
No, not just reborn; he had first transmigrated, kicked the bucket after transmigrating, and now been reborn back here.
He remembered that the world he had transmigrated to before was called Earth!
And this was Deep Blue Star.
Although the countries, cultures, and so on were very similar, it was a completely different place.
According to his memories, the current time was 2012, his third and final year of high school.
Normally, with the transmigrational experience of a lifetime on Earth and over a decade of living through transmigration, he should have matured a great deal.
He ought to be able to remain calm and collected in the face of any situation.
Yet what a pain in the neck—his younger self from the Deep Blue Star era... had a past that was simply too shameful to behold.
A punk from City No. 1 High School, a school bully, the kind who stopped at nothing.
Actually, none of these were truly big issues.
The most absurd problem was that in this life, he was also a hardcore simping dog, hopelessly infatuated with a young girl named Gu Xueting.
Gu Xueting—at the thought of her, Ji Feng let out a long, heavy sigh.
She was the white moonlight he once regarded as his most precious treasure, haunted his dreams, and whom he feared would shatter if he held her in his hands.
Breakfast every day, instant replies to her messages, bubble tea on demand, carrying her shopping bags, birthday surprises.
Whenever anyone upset her, Ji Feng would step up and settle the score to vent her anger.If she threw a tantrum for no reason, Ji Feng would simply act as her punching bag and let her vent her anger on him.
Well, doing those things didn't really amount to much.
So what if he was a bootlicker? Plenty of people had played that role; it was no big deal.
The crucial issue was that he had been an elite simp of the highest order.
After licking her boots for three years in high school, all he got in return was Gu Xueting's line:
"We're great as friends. I don't want to date right now."
Then, right on Gu Xueting's WeChat Moments, he saw her officially announce her relationship with Yan Honghao, a top student at the school.
Their status updates had changed to:
"So glad to have met you, Mr. Yan!"
"Thankful to have you for the rest of my life, Ms. Gu!"
And that wasn't even the most ridiculous part. What was even more absurd was that after Gu Xueting and Yan Honghao made their official announcement, he had continued to fawn over her for several more years.
He kept it up all the way until they got married, and at the wedding banquet, he even uttered an utterly abstract phrase:
"Xueting, congratulations. I wish you both happiness."
Then he drank too much, suffered alcohol poisoning, and kicked the bucket, bringing his humiliating life to an end.
It was safe to say that in his past life on Deep Blue Star, he had checked every single box for pathetic behavior—so utterly repulsive that it couldn't possibly get any worse.
If he had been reborn a bit earlier, back when his bootlicking efforts weren't so aggressive, he wouldn't be feeling quite so miserable now.
Take the current situation, for instance: it had all started because Yan Honghao had dropped by the classroom to see Wunnuan a few times, sparking rumors that the two of them were dating.
And then, in this month's mock exams, Wunnuan's score had completely surpassed Gu Xueting's.
Not just by a little, but by more than ten points—leaving her in a league of her own.
Seeing this, Gu Xueting had cried.
When the goddess cried, a hopeless simp like him naturally had to stick up for her, which was why he had dragged Wunnuan to this place.
"Unbearable!"
Recalling the incident, he realized that because his mind had been entirely occupied by Gu Xueting, he hadn't actually gone through with any truly sordid acts.
Instead, he had burned Wunnuan's schoolbag to ashes, dumped her here, and left her to fend for herself.
Yes, it was a beastly thing to do, but an even more beastly consequence was waiting just around the corner.
Because Wunnuan got home too late, her mother had gone out to look for her and died in a car accident halfway.
Wunnuan's father had abandoned the two of them long ago, meaning her mother was her only remaining relative and lifeline.
Losing her mother, handling the funeral arrangements, and facing pressure from relatives—all these burdens were dumped onto the shoulders of a young girl.
And Wunnuan, her studies derailed, spent her days in a daze.
From then on, Wunnuan, once the top student in the school, fell into a downward spiral, ultimately bombing the college entrance exam and choosing to commit suicide.
Tonight, everything Ji Feng had done had stripped Wunnuan of almost everything she had.
Thinking about it this way, he felt like even more of a brute.
Out of habit, he reached to light a cigarette, but upon hearing Wunnuan let out a soft "cough-cough," he instinctively dropped the cigarette to the ground and stamped it out.
The young girl was right in front of him. Beneath her raven hair was a stretch of fair skin on her neck, and the dust on her face could not conceal her smooth complexion and exquisite beauty.
Looking lower, her somewhat oversized school uniform fell almost all the way to her feet.
Ji Feng had to step back just a fraction to catch a glimpse of the tear in her pants.
A helpless young girl was currently pinned against the wall by him.
Alas, if this young girl went back just a little bit later, her mother would be struck and killed by a car, and yet here he was, still in the mood to check out her figure.
"What an absolute beast!"
Seeming to catch Ji Feng's self-deprecating curse, Wunnuan's eyelashes fluttered.
Their eyes met. Ji Feng saw a hint of confusion in her gaze, followed immediately by boundless coldness.
Ji Feng felt a headache coming on. He pinched the bridge of his nose, suddenly released his grip, and let his face go slack with listlessness.
"Tch, bullying a woman is really no fun at all. Whatever, off you go."