Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

After swallowing the rice in her mouth, Xu Su said, "Dad, our school has a two-hour lunch break. If I ride a bicycle, it will take an hour to go back and forth. The time between school and evening self-study is even shorter, so I won't have time to come back for dinner. I want to eat at school."

Chen Shulan suddenly asked, "How much of the 50 yuan I gave you is left?"

"..." Xu Su paused for a moment, then took out five yuan from her pocket. "The school meals cost an average of one or two yuan per meal. I ate three meals a day for ten days, and this is all I have left."

Chen Shulan looked at the five yuan, her mind wandering.

Xu Weiping thought about it for a moment and said, "If you want to eat at school, then eat at school. From now on, your mom will give you twenty yuan every week. Don't think it's too little. This is the family's means. Be careful with your money."

Don't compare yourself to other classmates. Let them eat well; we'll keep our meals simple at school. If you want anything to eat on the weekend, ask your mom to cook it for you.

These were similar words in her past life. Xu Su nodded obediently, without uttering a single word of dissent: "I understand."

The No. 1 Middle School in the city also has classes on Saturdays, and only has half a day off on the afternoon of the weekend, which means that the 20 yuan will last for six days.

If she didn't start over, she would forget that in her previous life, before she met Zhou Mochen, she could barely afford to eat. She saved her twenty yuan a week, and sometimes she would skip breakfast so that she could have a full lunch. She was a real wretched person.

It was after the New Year that she moved to her new home and met Zhou Mochen next door. Perhaps Xu Weiping and his wife saw through her intentions, or perhaps Zhou Mochen did something, but after that, her living expenses were increased to fifty yuan a week.

Looking back now, if it weren't for what happened later, Zhou Mochen could be considered her benefactor.

He rescued her from her patriarchal family, but then wove another cage to imprison her, leaving her with no freedom, no respect, only his nauseating love.

As Xu Su washed the dishes, she thought to herself that since Zhou Mochen had appeared earlier than expected in this life, she must stay far away from him. Even if she didn't have enough to eat and went hungry for three years of high school, she would never let this obsessive madman control her.

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the next day.

Without an alarm clock, Xu Su still woke up on the sofa on time, glanced at the wall clock, and saw it was 5:40.

After quickly washing up, Xu Su glanced at the wall clock again as she left the house; the hour hand hadn't even pointed to six yet.

On a summer morning, the six o'clock sun was already scorching hot. I pedaled along the familiar road until I reached the gate of the No. 1 Middle School. I saw many day students carrying breakfast and walking slowly inside, so it shouldn't be too late.

There were several breakfast stalls near the school gate. Xu Su hesitated for a moment, then bought a meat bun for 50 cents.

I parked my bicycle in the bike shed and locked it, then ate the last bite of the meat bun in my hand before entering the classroom.

The classroom was packed. Xu Su hadn't been sitting in her seat long when the morning reading bell rang, officially starting the new semester.

On the first day of school, the process was similar for each teacher: they spent half a class getting to know the students and introducing themselves.

Looking at these familiar yet unfamiliar teachers, Xu Su was filled with mixed emotions. Many of them continued to teach her for three years after she left the advanced class, and were her mentors during her high school years.

The physics teacher's surname is Zhao. He is the homeroom teacher of Class 12. He has a typical Mediterranean hairstyle, and coupled with his unique tone of voice, many students find him particularly funny and approachable.

The English teacher's surname is Li. She was heavily pregnant, looking about five or six months along. When she was young, she was busy with work, and after getting married, she didn't want to have children so early, so she kept putting it off and became an older mother.

Xu Su then remembered that two months later, when Teacher Li took maternity leave and successfully gave birth to a baby boy, her husband happily brought several bags of sugar cakes to the school to distribute.

Ms. Li's husband is also a teacher at the No. 1 Middle School, teaching politics and serving as the homeroom teacher of Class 4 in the second year of high school. Although he doesn't teach the top-performing class in the first year of high school, when he distributes candy cakes to his own students, he also makes a point of distributing them to the students in the classes his wife teaches.

Why does she remember the sugar cakes so clearly? Because Xu Su received two packets of sugar cakes, and she even took them back to coax Xu Yang, which earned her praise from Chen Shulan.

At that time, she was obsessed with gaining her parents' approval, and she pushed herself to the extreme in self-pity, living a life of bitterness both psychologically and physically.

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Xu Su ate lunch with Huang Feng. Xu Su ordered a plate of fried noodles, which cost 1.5 yuan, and Huang Feng ordered the same thing.

Xu Su, who entered the class fifth, was always surrounded by classmates asking questions during breaks. Huang Feng endured it all morning and finally had some time alone with Xu Su. She whispered to Xu Su, "This morning, I've finally seen what a 'rocket class' really means..."

He said with a hint of astonishment, "The learning atmosphere is incredibly strong, and the teachers are all top-notch. Let me put it this way: none of the teachers who can teach our class are unknown figures in the Changshi education system."

Indeed, none of them were unknown. To exaggerate a bit, those who could get into the advanced class were all top students in their schools during junior high. The teaching pace of ordinary teachers probably couldn't keep up with the learning speed of these children.

Therefore, the main subject teachers in the rocket class are either provincial-level distinguished teachers or veteran teachers from the No. 1 High School, and many of them have the experience of directly setting exam questions for major exams.

Excellent students naturally have their own teaching methods. Without the teacher's prompting, the whole class quickly got into a learning state. When they finished eating and slowly returned to the classroom to take a nap at their desks, they saw that quite a few students were already doing practice problems.

Huang Feng sighed, "How come the atmosphere in my class is just like when I took the high school entrance exam... And this is only the first day of high school!"

Xu Su: "......"

Her memories of the high school entrance exam are somewhat hazy; she only remembers the feeling of being determined to get into Changshi and return to her parents' side.

The students were all working on the test, and Xu Su, with her past achievements from being moved out of the top class, naturally dared not be careless.

But after glancing at the other students' desks, she realized that some students seemed to have already self-studied the first-year high school curriculum during the summer vacation. For example, Xu Su's deskmate had somehow gotten hold of several sets of first-year high school test papers and started working on them.

Noticing Xu Su's gaze, Huang Feng leaned over across the aisle: "Remember the milk tea shop last time? There's a bookstore a dozen meters ahead. They have lots of study materials there. My dad got me a set, with math, physics, Chinese, and chemistry. Which subject do you want? We can use them together."

Xu Su did not refuse. She asked for a math test paper, but instead of writing the answers on it, she looked at the test questions and wrote the answers in her notebook.