Lu Zhe’s place was relatively run-down. The narrow living room didn’t even have space for a dining table. By the window was a faded sofa and a coffee table, and directly opposite stood a TV cabinet and a television. The small space could be seen at a glance.

Su Ci was placed on the coffee table by Lu Zhe. Looking at the bowl of rabbit feed in front of her, she was a little surprised. She leaned in and sniffed the feed — there were oats, corn, and the smell of grass. It wasn’t hard to smell, but it wasn’t pleasant either.

Had Lu Zhe finally realized she was just a baby rabbit and that she wasn’t suitable for, nor did she like, eating carrots?

Su Ci was someone who cherished her life very much. In order not to starve to death, she took several deep breaths and still ate a mouthful of rabbit feed.

Once the feed entered her mouth, the grassy taste was heavy.

Just as Su Ci was nibbling small bites of feed, Lu Zhe came over carrying a plate of stir-fried beef and set it beside her. Then, he sat on the sofa and prepared to eat dinner.

So fragrant.

The fresh, savory smell of meat rushed to her nose. Smelling the aroma and looking at the beautifully colored, glistening beef, Su Ci instantly felt that the rabbit feed in her mouth was unbearable.

Lu Zhe noticed the rabbit, who had been burying her head in the feed, suddenly stop. She stared fixedly at the plate of beef in front of her, as if she would pounce on it the very next second.

In her pitch-black eyes, there was finally a flicker of emotion. Lu Zhe pressed his cool fingertips against the rabbit’s soft pink nose and spoke in a cold voice, “You can’t eat it.” It was stir-fried meat — salty and oily — not suitable for her.

With her nose being pressed, Su Ci’s eyes grew even redder.

Wu… she was too miserable. Now that she had become a rabbit, she couldn’t even eat meat.

Early in the morning, when the sky brightened, the rain had already stopped. The entire city seemed washed clean, the air filled with the scent of grass and soil, brimming with vitality.

The room was narrow, only enough to place a single bed, just barely accommodating the tall, broad-built youth.

In a haze of sleepiness, something furry brushed against his arm, tickling. Lu Zhe opened his eyes, the darkness within them carrying drowsiness.

He turned his head and saw that the little baby rabbit that looked like a ball of snow had somehow gotten onto his bed. Its fur was brushing against his arm as it leaned closer to him.

Lu Zhe grabbed the rabbit in one swoop and lifted it before his eyes.

Suddenly facing the youth’s black pupils, Su Ci froze. He woke up? She had been planning to secretly kiss him.

Originally, Su Ci thought that if she acted cute and act coquettish a little, she could easily get Lu Zhe to kiss her. After all, with a soft, adorable little creature like her, very few people could refuse.

However, that did not include Lu Zhe.

Ever since he picked her up and brought her home, aside from preparing food for her or occasionally patting her head, Lu Zhe had never shown any other close interaction with her.

Lu Zhe was too cold and aloof, truly hard to get close to.

Now that her attempt at a secret kiss had failed, Su Ci felt a little discouraged. Her two rabbit ears drooped powerlessly.

A tiny ball of snow, with drooping ears and a pitiful look — it was cute enough to make one’s heart tremble. Lu Zhe’s pitch-black eyes stared at the small baby rabbit before him, his gaze softening a little. He raised his other hand, and his fingertips gently pinched her long ear.

Fluffy, a little soft.

One should know that a rabbit’s ears had many blood vessels. With the tip of her ear suddenly being lightly pinched by the youth’s cool fingers, Su Ci’s whole body trembled. A tingling, numbing sensation spread through her, directly making her body go limp.

Why were her ears so sensitive!

The baby rabbit in front of him was about the size of a palm, small enough to fit entirely into a cup. Her pair of red eyes were bright, like glistening rubies, and at this moment she stared at him blankly, making one’s heart soften.

Lu Zhe played with the rabbit’s pink-white ears a few more times. Feeling her trembling slightly in his palm, the corner of his lips curved.

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The greenery inside No. 1 High School was excellent. After being washed by the rain, the leaves were a lush green. White magnolia petals had fallen all over the ground, and the campus overflowed with the fragrance of flowers.

Zhao Youyou was reborn. After an entire night, she had already regained her composure.

In the morning, she no longer acted as ignorant as she had in her previous life, listening to her friend’s advice and wearing heavy makeup that ruined her naturally delicate features. She was now eighteen, in the prime of youth, and didn’t need foundation at all.

Smelling the long-missed floral fragrance on campus, she arrived in class full of spirit.

As she expected, the originally noisy classroom instantly fell silent the moment she stepped in.

Facing the stunned gazes of her classmates, Zhao Youyou met their assessing looks with poise and calm, her expression unchanged.

“Why do I feel like Zhao Youyou became prettier?”

“Damn, that’s Zhao Youyou? She took two days off and somehow looks totally different?”

“Is she… not wearing makeup today?”

The suddenly fresh and delicate Zhao Youyou, whose temperament had also changed, stirred waves of discussion in the class.

Sitting in the last row, Lu Zhe set down his backpack and sat in his seat, not paying attention to the commotion Zhao Youyou caused.

When he left home, he had already noticed that his left leg had begun to weaken as well, causing him to arrive at school a few minutes later than usual today.

Lu Zhe’s eyes darkened, his eyelids lowering.

Beside him, Li Dongliang dragged the desk which usually served as a clear boundary between them — over to Lu Zhe’s side. He grinned cheekily. “Lu Zhe, did Zhao Youyou get plastic surgery over the weekend? How did she suddenly get so much prettier?”

Lu Zhe was the top student in the grade, and combined with his outstanding looks, he had been very popular at school. But Zhao Youyou exposed on the school forum that Lu Zhe was an adopted child taken in by her parents — nominally her older brother, but actually a servant used by her family. Overnight, Lu Zhe fell from the altar.

The boys were relieved to lose a strong competitor, and the girls had their pink hearts shattered.

What shocked everyone even more was that at the start of the semester, Zhao Youyou exposed one of Lu Zhe’s medical reports. The entire school learned that Lu Zhe had a terminal illness.

Already cold and withdrawn by nature, with no parents, considered a servant of the Zhao family, low in status, and afflicted with an incurable disease — Lu Zhe became someone the class avoided at all costs.

Many expressed sympathy, but just as many ridiculed him, even maliciously slandering him. Some even left comments on the forum questioning why, with so little time left to live, he didn’t simply drop out.

Lu Zhe lifted his eyelids and shot Li Dongliang a cold look.

“Forget it, I didn’t say anything.”

Meeting Lu Zhe’s gaze, Li Dongliang felt a chill.

That time when Lu Zhe had been cornered by five people in an alley, they had wanted to bully him. Lu Zhe, who normally didn’t say a word, unexpectedly fought back viciously — one against five, with a desperate ferocity — forcing those five delinquents to flee the alley in a mess.

So, when it came to facing Lu Zhe, Li Dongliang had no desire and no courage. It wasn’t like he wanted to die early.

Lu Zhe ignored him. He unzipped his backpack, preparing to take out his textbook, when his fingertips accidentally brushed against something soft and furry.

He lowered his gaze.

Inside the backpack, the little snowball-like rabbit opened her ruby-like eyes and stared at him blankly.

Lu Zhe fell silent.

When exactly had it crawled into his backpack?

The originally dark backpack was suddenly illuminated. Su Ci looked up and immediately saw Lu Zhe’s handsome, cold face.

She didn’t hide. Instead, she deliberately softened her gaze, looking at him with complete reliance.

Lu Zhe’s temperament was far too cold. Even a gentle, harmless little creature like her found it difficult to get close to him, let alone make him kiss her.

This morning she had secretly crawled into his backpack for the sole purpose of staying by his side, hoping for more chances to interact with him. She absolutely didn’t want to sit around in a cardboard box waiting to die.

Under Lu Zhe’s scrutinizing gaze, she used her bunny head to nuzzle his hand that had reached in, soft and obedient to an extreme.

It was Lu Zhe’s first time raising a pet. He didn’t know if other rabbits were like this — a little troublesome, escaping from the cardboard box several times on their own, yet also somewhat well-behaved, looking at him with soft, pitiful eyes and gently nuzzling his palm.

Feeling the warmth in his hand, Lu Zhe lightly stroked the rabbit a few times.

He didn’t zip the backpack completely closed but left a small opening, then tucked the backpack into the desk drawer.

Zhao Youyou’s transformation shocked the entire class. After several periods, she continued to be the center of attention.

Especially the boys. Many had disliked her heavy makeup and overly dramatic behavior before, but now she had suddenly become fresh and delicate, wearing the white and blue school uniform, lively and youthful, refined and pretty. The boys blushed and couldn’t help but tease each other.

They suddenly realized that the current Zhao Youyou wasn’t far off from the school beauty of the neighboring class.

Hiding in the backpack inside the desk, Su Ci could also hear the others discussing Zhao Youyou. Between the lines, all their words were full of surprise and compliments about how much prettier Zhao Youyou had become.

Su Ci knew — the heroine’s halo was fully activated after rebirth.

But what she found baffling was that before rebirth, the heroine had been a poor student. Yet after rebirth, she suddenly ranked in the top ten of the class and later continued her rise until she reached the top ten of the entire grade. The reborn Zhao Youyou seemed to have switched brains, going from a poor student to a top one.

Envious, Su Ci stuck her little head out of the backpack inside the drawer, tilting her head to look up at Lu Zhe. Right now, all she wished for was to quickly return to human form.

There was P.E. class in the morning.

As class time approached, the students gradually left the classroom for the gym.

Li Dongliang, who had been lying on his desk asleep, instantly perked up. He grabbed the basketball in the corner, spun it in his hand, and strode out.

“Youyou, let’s go too, class is starting soon,” her deskmate Ling Hui urged.

She noticed that not only had Zhao Youyou become prettier, even her personality seemed to have changed. She was no longer sharp, aggressive, and difficult to get along with like before. Zhao Youyou even smiled at her gently now, and Ling Hui quite liked this change.

Zhao Youyou looked toward Lu Zhe in the last row. She remembered that because of his illness, the teacher allowed him to skip P.E. After all, if something happened, the school would be responsible. So whenever the class went to P.E., Lu Zhe stayed alone in the classroom.

Zhao Youyou withdrew her gaze. “Okay, let’s go.”

Only Lu Zhe remained in the classroom. The room was excessively quiet.

A small white ball of fluff quietly crawled out of the backpack and jumped straight toward Lu Zhe, landing on his lap.

Lu Zhe’s pen didn’t stop moving. He reached out with his other hand and easily picked up the rabbit lying on his leg.

He placed the rabbit on the desk, his voice pleasant to hear. “Don’t move around.”

Su Ci lay there, carefully observing Lu Zhe. The boy’s side profile before her was sharply defined, the lines cold and angular, his brows deep. He was seriously calculating something.

There was no denying it — even if Lu Zhe was a supporting male character, he was still an outstandingly handsome one.

When Lu Zhe put down his pen, he immediately saw the small white baby rabbit lying quietly on his textbook, obedient to an exaggerated degree.

He lowered his head.

Seeing his enlarged handsome face in front of her, Su Ci’s eyes lit up. Hurry up and kiss her — she was such a well-behaved, adorable little baby.

Lu Zhe reached out and rubbed the rabbit’s head, then picked up the cup behind Su Ci and stood up to walk out.

Watching his figure leave the classroom, Su Ci slumped down listlessly. Another failed attempt at getting a kiss.

At that moment, a tall, slender boy walked in. Seeing the empty classroom, he was slightly surprised. Then his gaze shifted to Lu Zhe’s seat, his eyes darkening.

The boy, Jia Mingyang, strode over to Lu Zhe’s desk.

Su Ci hadn’t expected someone to suddenly appear. She lay motionless on the desk. Clearly, he didn’t pay any attention to the little rabbit on Lu Zhe’s table.

Jia Mingyang quickly pulled out Lu Zhe’s backpack from the drawer. He removed the watch from his own wrist and hid it inside the backpack.

Su Ci widened her eyes, watching him use such a clumsy trick. Her gaze fell on the inside of the boy’s wrist — on his life bar, the horizontal strip showed five small yellow squares.

Su Ci remembered what Fugui had told her: one red square on the bar represented one year; one yellow square represented ten years; one green square also represented ten years and indicated a lifespan over a hundred years.

Even without seeing the number beside it, Su Ci knew the boy had at least fifty years of lifespan left.

This boy’s character was lacking, but his lifespan was quite long.

Watching him stuff the backpack back into the drawer and hurry away, Su Ci narrowed her red eyes slightly.