Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl-Chapter 27 - : The Grace of Helping Hands

Zhen Yu reluctantly glanced at Little Bun Bai Yong's chubby cheeks, really wanting to pinch them! Really wanted to!

But ultimately, she followed Bai Xue into the house to find Fu Yu and her brother.

"Zhen Yan! Fu Yu!" Bai Xue yelled as she charged into the house, and the people inside responded to her calling.

"What are you guys playing?"

"Yangla (second tone) zi!" As Zhen Yu slowly walked in, she heard these three words.

"!" Bai Xue visibly flinched, stopping at the door, not moving forward.

"Coward!" Fu Yu mocked his cousin.

"If you're not a coward, then catch one with your hand and show me!" Bai Xue immediately retorted.

"I'm not catching it! Do you think I don't know that the hairs on its back are poisonous? I've heard it's both itchy and painful if you touch them~"

"Little sister? Aren't you going to read?" Zhen Yan saw Zhen Yu enter and asked in surprise.

"Going."

"What book to read! Look how interesting these bugs are! Look! Quick, look!"

The moment Zhen Yu walked in, Fu Yu immediately grinned deviously, brought the cardboard box with the yanglazi closer to her, and almost dumped the box on her face.

Before Zhen Yu could speak, Bai Xue had already let out a scream.

"Ah! Fu Yu! What are you doing scaring Xiao Yu! Don't you know that girls are afraid of caterpillars!"

"What's the harm in looking? It's not like I threw it at her!" Fu Yu argued nonchalantly.

Zhen Yu looked indifferently at the box in front of her, which contained a dozen or so caterpillars, each thick and large.

She took a step back, stared into Fu Yu's eyes with a cold tone, and said: "Take it away!"

Fu Yu felt a sudden jolt in his heart, his hand trembled imperceptibly, and he turned around without a word.

As he turned, he thought, "Why should I listen to her? She's just putting on a fierce front!"

Seeing how obedient Fu Yu was, Bai Xue couldn't help but exclaim in amazement: "Whoa~~~ Is this still my cousin who can't stand not bullying Xiao Yu? Zhen Yan, look, is he running a fever or what?"

Zhen Yan also noticed that Fu Yu was behaving differently with his sister than before, but then he remembered his sister's Combat Power and immediately thought it was normal.

Laughing, he said: "He's afraid my sister will beat him! Now everyone knows my sister is really tough!"

"I'm not afraid! It's not yet clear who's tougher!" Flustered and exasperated, Fu Yu stubbornly refused to admit it.

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Zhen Yan and Bai Xue noticed he was getting angry and didn't continue teasing him, instead, they changed the subject to talk about other things.

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"Zhen Yu! I heard you finished your summer homework? Give it to me to copy!" Fu Yu's eyes darted around everywhere, avoiding looking at Zhen Yu and commanded in a firm tone.

Zhen Yu blinked and said, "Not lending it."

"You! What's so great about you! It's just a summer homework! What's wrong with copying?" Fu Yu said angrily, "If it weren't for us being in the same class, do you think I would want to copy yours!"

Zhen Yu said indifferently: "There's also Han Jiayang, you can copy his."

"Pfft~" Zhen Yan couldn't help but burst into laughter, "Little sister, don't trick Fu Yu! It's more likely that Han Jiayang would copy from him, maybe that guy hasn't written a single word yet~"

"Then he should write." Zhen Yu said lightly.

Fu Yu asked with a stern face, "Are you going to let me copy or not?"

"Not lending."

"Hmph! Fine, don't lend me then! Later on, later on I..." Fu Yu, out of anger, wanted to drop some harsh words but found he had nothing to say, which made him even angrier.

Bai Xue sidled up to Zhen Yu, nudging her with her elbow.

She gestured toward Fu Yu with her chin, "Just let him copy~ It's just homework~"

"That's not just homework."

"Then what is it?"

"It's studying."

Bai Xue flipped her white eyes, "If he wants to learn, he will learn even without doing homework. If he doesn't want to learn, copying homework won't make him learn!"

Zhen Yu looked at Bai Xue helplessly, "Why do I feel like you're talking about yourself."

Bai Xue made a face at her, "I just don't like studying, okay? I can't get it into my head!"

"Don't want to go to high school?"

Bai Xue laughed dismissively, "High school? With my grades, I wouldn't pass for sure~"

Zhen Yu's expression darkened slightly, "You still have time if you start now; school just started and you're only in the first year of junior high!"

"Don't even think about it! Just looking at books gives me a headache!" Bai Xue waved her arms frantically and shook her head non-stop, terrified that Zhen Yu would force her to study.

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In her previous life, Bai Xue dropped out after junior high school and wandered in society for three years before marrying early.

Zhen Yu maintained contact with Bai Xue only until Zhen Yu graduated from high school. Once Zhen Yu went to college, she lost touch with her.

Later, all news about Bai Xue was learned through 'someone else', and that someone was Han Mingyue.

She heard from him that Bai Xue got divorced in less than three years and the daughter was awarded to Bai Xue.

She heard him say that Bai Xue left her daughter at home for her mother to take care of while she went to work alone in the north.

Having experienced the hardships of living alone in a strange place in her previous life, Zhen Yu deeply understood how hard it is for a single woman to work and earn money, especially since Bai Xue was much more beautiful than her.

This life, within her capabilities, Zhen Yu wanted to give her a helping hand, not only because of the friendship from her previous life but also to repay the favor from back then.

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In her previous life, when her father remarried, Zhen Yu moved into the school dormitory the moment the new term of junior high started. During that year's winter break, Zhen Yu stayed in the farmhouse only one night before her father sent her to her grandfather's.

From then on, she never returned to the farmhouse------her former home.

Her father and stepmother quickly had a daughter.

After that, apart from the living expenses that arrived on time every month, Mr. Zhen disregarded Zhen Yu.

Her grandfather was just an ordinary old farmer in the countryside with no income in his old age, relying on support from his children.

But surviving in this world requires money, and just the living expenses were far from enough.

Just before junior high graduation, the school urgently required a fee, and Zhen Yu had almost nothing left from her living expenses; it was Bai Xue, who had come to visit her at school, who paid for her, insisting that she did not need to pay her back.

That was the first time Zhen Yu had cried her heart out since Zhen Yan and Mrs. Zhen had passed away years before, holding Bai Xue and wailing like a fool.

It was also the last time Zhen Yu cried in her previous life if not counting that last tear before her death.

From then on, Zhen Yu lived like a walking corpse.

Before the college entrance examination, her grandfather passed away due to a stroke.

Before the start of her freshman year of college, Mr. Zhen suddenly died of a myocardial infarction.

Zhen Yu did not cry at either of the funerals, as her five aunts and her stepmother took turns cursing at her.

The aunts berated her as an ungrateful wolf, accusing her of being unfilial.

Yet the stepmother's words were like a knife, stabbing her heart sentence by sentence.

"The scourge of death! The debt-collecting ghost who brings death to both father and mother! You've wiped out your whole family, why don't you just go die, too? Are you satisfied only if you bring death to my daughter?!"

No matter how they cursed her, Zhen Yu just listened quietly, not saying a word.

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After being pulled back from the brink of suicide by Han Mingyue, Zhen Yu completed her associate degree with the help of student loans and part-time work, thereafter drifting alone in the unfamiliar city.

Over the years, feeding herself, Zhen Yu turned her heart as cold and hard as ice.

Besides food and warmth, she cared little for anything.

The only thing she cared about was Han Mingyue...

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Now reborn, she could not play the saint, but she would repay a hundredfold the warmth she once felt in her previous life in this one.