I Don't Want to Be Reborn With You
Copyright© 2025 by YANGLIQIANG
Chapter 22: The Last Step
This was the eighth time that Chu Jingyi was elected as the monitor. She stood proudly on the podium and read out the insurmountable class rules. From childhood to adulthood, she has always been the monitor, grade leader or president, and she has always been the highest level on campus. Idle students would tremble when they saw her, and rebellious students would not dare to act rashly when they saw her. From the first complete primary school to the first middle school of Chuanhai, Chu Jingyi’s name spread to all schools - she was Chu Xiaodong’s only daughter.
Chu Jingyi didn’t like the feeling of being overly respected. Everyone who saw her would inevitably mention her father, grandfather, and her family. “How is your grandfather doing recently?” “How is your father?” are the two sentences she heard the most. In addition to the principal, some precocious classmates of the same age asked these questions. But she was clearly standing in front of them and talking, why did they always like to associate it with her father and grandfather?
This kind of life continued until the first year of high school, when Chu Jingyi met her first troublemaker. He was a handsome and quiet boy. He didn’t dress up carefully, but simply wore a school uniform, and his hair on his forehead was casually blown by the wind. He was very good-looking. This was Chu Jingyi’s first impression, clean, calm and natural, always smiling, as if there was nothing to worry about in the world. If she only looked at his appearance, Chu Jingyi would never know that he was the problem student with the highest absenteeism rate in the next three years of high school.
“Is it Lu Li? Lu Li Lu Li, it’s a nice name.” Chu Jingyi took the roster and finally knew the name of the boy who was always alone.
For the whole semester that followed, the name Lu Li left a deep impression in her mind - he was really too much. It was fine that he didn’t come to the class meeting, nor did he come to the morning reading. He didn’t know where he went in the middle of the class. He owed 17 self-reviews. What’s more, the head teacher was still protecting him. In Chu Jingyi’s world, students should sit in the classroom and talk about astronomy, geography, and love. Instead of appearing and disappearing all day long and being infected with strange rumors.
At the beginning of the first year of high school, the head teacher asked each student about their goals and ambitions. Chu Jingyi remembered that Lu Li said he wanted to go to college and make a lot of money, which attracted many people’s secret ridicule - among all the students in the class, only Lu Li had stained his dreams and ambitions with the smell of money. But since he was going to college, why didn’t he study hard? Although his grades were not bad, they were just ordinary. There was still a distance from going to college, right?
Even though Lu Li repeatedly ignored the class rules, Chu Jingyi still planned to persuade Lu Li calmly - she had always done so, and it worked every time. But when Chu Jingyi finished her long speech to the boy, she only received Lu Li’s disdainful eyes:
“What you said is useless to me, you don’t have to care about me.”
Is it the rebellious period? Chu Jingyi thought, the book said that people will have a rebellious mentality when they reach adolescence, and Lu Li should be in the rebellious period. In this case, she, as the class monitor, should correct the misguided classmates. In the following days, Chu Jingyi just quietly paid attention to Lu Li and looked for the right opportunity.
Inadvertently, Chu Jingyi remembered his living habits - he always arrived at school on time, and was the first to leave after school. It was said that he would secretly work outside the school; he liked to look into the distance, as if thinking about some profound questions; he didn’t study much every day, but he could always keep up with the teacher’s progress; when he encountered a difficult problem, he would not smile, but would only show a very distressing expression; nothing could ever make him depressed, and he had never seen him angry.
By the way, she had also seen the poem written by Lu Li, which was a modern poem written on the cover of his Chinese textbook. The words were simple and plain, and it didn’t look like a poem. She had seen the award-winning works of her classmates in the literature club, all of which were poems with gorgeous words and neat parallelism. Was Lu Li also a literature lover?
Every time there was a class meeting, Chu Jingyi’s eyes always fell on Lu Li’s seat first. She always wondered if Lu Li would be obedient today.
The first conflict between the two broke out suddenly. Chu Jingyi grabbed him after school and said she would invite his parents. She swore to God that she just wanted to correct Lu Li’s behavior. She still remembers Lu Li’s expression, which was a mixture of disgust and confusion: “Class monitor, please stop trying to persuade me, okay? I know exactly what I want. Every time you talk to me, I will be called by the dean to be reprimanded. You have caused me a lot of trouble!”
Chu Jingyi hurriedly shouted: “I didn’t tell the dean!”
“You know whether you did or not.”
Misunderstanding gave rise to anger. She grabbed Lu Li’s schoolbag and said fiercely: “You must ask your parents to come to school tomorrow!” Her voice was loud, attracting the attention of many students who did not go home. Lu Li’s expression darkened: “I can’t do it! I’m leaving, please don’t hold me back, okay?”
“Don’t leave!”
“...” Lu Li sat back in his seat, “What do you want to do?”
“Ask your parents to come to school.”
“I said I can’t do it, what else do you want? Change it.”
“I want this one.”
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