Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

“She doesn’t sell it; she only makes enough for herself each month.” Zhou Min was telling the truth. Each month, besides what Zhou Min, her mother, Sister Zhang, and her own relatives and friends pre-ordered, the rest was barely enough for the shop’s monthly needs.

Even though Sister Zhang has increased the number of people making these skincare products, the finished products are still not plentiful because of the high standards. The business is so good that many wealthy women from the provincial capital come here just for a single treatment.

As for the store, it was provided free of charge by a wealthy woman who frequented the store. She only had one request: that she be given priority to try the products and services offered in the store.

Sister Zhang also remarked that women are willing to spend money on themselves, and because Zhou's mother spends so much time with Sister Zhang, she is now a master at spending money. With her attention to skincare and dressing up, Zhou's mother is no longer the same as she was in her previous life.

Even Zhou's father started using men's skincare products. Despite the Zhou family's business becoming increasingly successful, and despite opening several more branches, they didn't have much savings.

Of course, this is also because Zhou's mother likes to hoard houses. Originally, Zhou's mother did not value real estate too much, but Zhou Min's family had previously rented a store in a relatively remote location. Because the area was relatively large, they also invested a lot in renovation costs.

After officially opening, the store did very well, even boosting the business of nearby shops. Unfortunately, before they could break even, the landlord notified them of the lease termination and took back the store.

Although the landlord later paid compensation according to the contract, Zhou Min's family not only suffered no loss but also made a small profit. However, all the hard work they had put in over the previous year was wasted.

Most importantly, after the original owner took back the shop, he didn't even change the renovation and opened a hotel. Many unsuspecting regular customers continued to patronize the shop.

This caused Zhou Min's family hotel to lose a lot of customers, which is why Zhou's mother felt it was better to keep the property in her own hands.

This way, there won't be a situation where the landlord terminates the lease at any time, and all of your initial investment will be lost. Therefore, every branch of Zhou Min's family now owns property. And Zhou Min's family's stores have also expanded to various districts of the provincial capital, following Sister Zhang's beauty salon.

Although Zhou Min did not agree with her mother's ideas, she knew that housing prices would become increasingly expensive in the future, so she strongly supported her parents' investment.

"There can't be even a tiny bit more, can there?" Feng Pinling didn't believe Zhou Min's words at all; in her opinion, it was just an excuse Zhou Min was making up.

"No, there isn't. My friend's family owns a beauty salon. These are their products, and only VIP members are eligible to buy them. They're also limited in quantity. If you don't believe me, you can go to my hometown and see for yourself."

"How about you give me a little bit every month? I'll give you the money." Feng Pinling was very reluctant to give up such a good product.

"I don't even have enough for myself. If you really want some, you can go home next time and get a membership. Once you become a super member, you can buy them all at once." Zhou Min wouldn't agree to that.

You should know that in her previous life, Zhou Min lived in the countryside. There was no train station in her county. When she first went to university, because the internet was not developed, Zhou Min had to take a seven or eight-hour round trip to buy train tickets in the city, which was the urban area where Feng Pinling's family lived.

During the winter break after the first semester of her freshman year, because the break started early, she couldn't buy return tickets in advance. So, Zhou Min called Feng Pinling during the winter break and asked her to bring two tickets for her when she bought her train ticket.

Feng Pinling, who was at the train station at the time, refused to help Zhou Min buy a ticket, saying that she had just bought hers and that she would have to queue up again if she helped Zhou Min. This made Zhou Min extremely sad.

Finally, Zhou Min and Chen Sheng took a two-hour bus ride to the provincial capital, where they bought high-speed train tickets, which cost seven or eight times more than the price of a regular train ticket in the city.

Although Zhou Min and Feng Pinling are from the same city, their city is geographically elongated, with Zhou Min's county and city located at opposite ends of the elongation. It takes just over an hour to get from Zhou Min's home to the provincial capital, but four or five hours to get to the city.

Zhou Min felt extremely ashamed because of this incident.

"If you don't want to, then forget it. Don't make excuses." Feng Pinling got angry as soon as she saw that Zhou Min wouldn't agree.

After finishing her skincare routine, Zhou Min immediately locked the products in a drawer. Feng Pinling, seeing this, became even more annoyed.

"It's just a few bottles of counterfeit products, who are you trying to protect yourself from?" Feng Pinling felt that Zhou Min's actions were an insult to her.

"Don't overthink it. I just thought it was in the way to leave it outside." Zhou Min would never admit that someone had stolen her things. Although she could be a bit reckless at times, she understood these things; making unfounded accusations would only make people more resentful.

Feng Pinling was very angry because Zhou Min rejected her. And the consequences of Feng Pinling's anger were also serious; she once again demonstrated her high emotional intelligence.

I don't know what she said to Mao Yating, but she immediately won Mao Yating over, and then the two of them ostracized Zhou Min. Because Jiang Fei was not there, Zhou Min was forced to watch the two of them showing affection in front of her every day.

At this moment, Zhou Min just wanted to be alone for a while. When Jiang Fei returned, Zhou Min was furious because she had also won Jiang Fei over.

Although Jiang Fei didn't ostracize him, one can imagine how awkward it must have been for the person left out in the cold while the three of them chatted intimately.

Zhou Min could only pretend that she was very busy. Coincidentally, everyone in her classmates' group chat was talking about playing the game "Tian Long Ba Bu," so Zhou Min simply downloaded it too.

Because Zhou Min's previous cheat program had been modified by her into a universal cheat that could automatically read game data by only needing to modify some parameters.

Therefore, Zhou Min was not worried about it interfering with her studies, since she only played games occasionally and didn't spend much energy on them.

When Zhou Min saw the anti-addiction system pop up in the game, she calculated that she wasn't yet eighteen. Helpless, Zhou Min could only find a photocopy of her father's ID card in her digital photo album and fill in his information.

In her previous life, Zhou Min didn't have this problem because she started school early, so her school registration was done according to the legal school age. It was only when she filled out her high school entrance exam information in her previous life that she discovered that her birth date on her school registration was different from her birth date on her household registration.

Back then, the registration information wasn't rigorous, and there were many errors. So, many people found discrepancies between their school registration and household registration information. Most of them chose to change their household registration directly at the town's police station, which was convenient and easy for everyone to find.

In her previous life, Zhou Min changed her school registration in the same way. In this life, Zhou Min chose to go to the county education bureau to change her school registration. After all, having already entered society, Zhou Min still cares about her age.

This is also one of the reasons why Feng Pinling did not suspect that Zhou Min was her roommate in her previous life. After all, the two were of different ages, making it difficult for anyone to make the connection.

This can only be attributed to the different upbringing of the two individuals. Feng Pinling was born in a city where staff are generally quite meticulous, making it highly unlikely that information errors would occur.

Zhou Min was born in a rural area in the 90s. Much of her information was directly registered by village officials or teachers based on oral accounts from parents or students. If they wanted to change it, the town could do so at any time.

Zhou Min had a primary school classmate who changed his age to be 10 years younger in order to get into the gifted youth program, but of course he didn't get in in the end.