Rebirth to Save Myself

Because of her good grades, Su Xia's teachers often signed her up for competitions or submitted her essays to contests on her behalf, just as Su Xia was unaware that her teacher had announced she had won an award.

The Chinese teacher happily announced in class that Su Xia's essay had won third place in the first group of the National Primary and Secondary School Students' Essay Competition, and she would receive a prize of 500 yuan.

"Everyone should learn from Su Xia, bringing honor to the school while also gaining recognition through their own efforts." The Chinese teacher was very happy; even the principal praised his student today.

In the next physics class, the teacher came into the classroom and said, "I have a physics competition here. Su Xia, I've registered you. If anyone else wants to participate, they can come and register with me."

"Teacher, I just signed up for the math competition yesterday," Su Xia said, raising her hand.

"It's okay, math and physics can be combined. Besides, their time slots are different, you can do it." The physics teacher waved his hand, silencing Su Xia. He couldn't possibly let her miss the class.

Su Xia said she just wanted to study hard, get into a good high school and a good university, so that she could find a good job with a good degree. She wanted to earn money to buy a house and a car! Her thinking was that mundane, but who could resist having more and more savings?

The last to sign up were Zhou Xiaojie, Chen Wenwei, and a girl from Chen Yuan's class named Huang Ling. The four of them had to stay after school every day for extra lessons. Seeing that Chen Wenwei and Su Xia were also kept behind, Chen Yuan realized she wouldn't have anyone to go home with, so she simply waited for them at school until they finished.

The physics teacher didn't mind and sometimes even had Chen Yuan do problems with him. This really killed a lot of Chen Yuan's brain cells, as she didn't like physics to begin with and was relatively bad at it compared to other subjects. So the physics teacher thought that Chen Yuan was boring sitting on the sidelines, and it would be better for her to listen in and improve her physics skills.

"Ugh, I've decided I'm going to walk home from school by myself. If Lao Gao keeps making me do physics problems, I'll go bald!" Chen Yuan shouted after being driven to despair by her physics teacher Lao Gao's problems once again.

"Yuanyuan, physics problems aren't actually that hard," Su Xia comforted her.

"It's difficult, as difficult as climbing to the heavens! I will absolutely not choose science in high school, absolutely!" Chen Yuan made a vow on the spot. She was okay with elementary school math, but she felt overwhelmed when physics was introduced in middle school.

"If you read fewer novels, physics won't be so hard," Chen Wenwei mocked Chen Yuan from the side.

"Shut up! Are you as good as Xiaxia? You still couldn't solve the problem Lao Gao gave you." Chen Yuan wasn't going to tolerate Chen Wenwei and immediately shut him up.

“I may not be as good as Su Xia, but I am better than you.” Chen Wenwei’s words silenced Chen Yuan.

Seeing that these two were really hurting themselves as much as they were hurting each other, Su Xia then said to Chen Yuan, "Yuanyuan, have you been reading novels until late at night lately?"

Hearing Su Xia's words, Chen Yuan guiltily turned her head away. Didn't this just mean she'd been engrossed in reading the novel lately? But the novel was really good!

"Needless to say, I haven't been able to get up in the mornings these past few days, and I'm constantly on the verge of being late," Chen Wenwei added.

“Sigh, those Cinderella stories don’t happen in reality. First of all, an outstanding person is surrounded by equally outstanding people, so he can’t possibly be attracted to someone so much worse than him; secondly, those who only know how to date and are obsessed with a man clearly don’t have time to study, and their grades will be poor and they won’t get into university; finally, you can like someone, but you can’t abandon yourself for him, you know?” Su Xia patiently explained to Chen Yuan.

“But it’s so romantic!” Chen Yuan whispered in response to Su Xia’s words.

“Romance can’t put food on the table. Look at the male lead in Meteor Shower. If his family weren’t rich, would he be so arrogant? And look at the female lead. If she had good grades, would she have been able to go to a prestigious school?” Su Xia continued to give examples.

"Okay, I got it. I'll read fewer novels and won't stay up late to read them anymore."

Su Xia understood that Chen Yuan's words about reading fewer novels didn't mean she would change her ways so easily. She recalled her past life, when Mary Sue novels were initially very popular, but everyone eventually got tired of them because they all followed the same formula and script, just with different names for the male and female leads. This led to the emergence of novels featuring strong female leads, career-focused protagonists, and other similar "feel-good" stories. A well-written novel could indeed influence people, and Su Xia decided to write one herself to help Chen Yuan break free from the Mary Sue mold.

Without hesitation, Su Xia used her spare time to write a few chapters. She had always loved literature and had even tried writing novels. However, she had given up on them for various reasons. Now that she had the opportunity to write again, it was a kind of fulfillment in itself.

When Chen Yuan discovered that Su Xia was writing novels, her admiration for her was beyond words. She asked Su Xia, "Where do you find the time?"

"I used my spare time after school to write part of it," Su Xia said casually.

"No, Xiaxia. You attend classes every day and never slack off. After school, you even go to physics training. With such a full schedule, how do you still have time to write novels?" Chen Yuan didn't understand, she really didn't understand.

"Do you want to watch or not?" Su Xia didn't answer her question, but instead asked her a question in return.

"Yes, of course I'll read it. This is a novel written by the third-ranked person in the country, I have to read it." Chen Yuan took the notebook from Su Xia, put it in her bag, and decided to read it as soon as she got home and finished dinner.

The next day, as soon as Chen Yuan arrived in the classroom, she grabbed Su Xia's arm and shouted, "Quick, I want to see what happens next!"

"I didn't write anything." Su Xia shrugged, then said, "The notebooks are all in your hands, how am I supposed to write anything?"

"No, you've got us stuck at the most exciting part! I really want to know what Ruonan will do next!" Chen Yuan exclaimed.

Ruonan is the name of the female protagonist in Su Xia's novel. She used a popular theme to write a quick transmigration story. She cleverly stopped at a crucial moment to pique Chen Yuan's interest and lay the foundation for submitting the application later.

"Midterm exams are coming up soon, and after that I have to participate in math and physics competitions." Su Xia indicated that she was too busy to continue writing.

"No, Xiaxia, you can't do this to me!" Chen Yuan wailed, clinging to Su Xia and trying to coax her into agreeing.

"How about you improve by ten points in your midterm exam, and I'll give you a follow-up lesson when you get back from the competition?" Su Xia pretended to think for a while before saying this.

"Sure, you said it!" Chen Yuan would never disagree. Su Xia's novels were worlds apart from the ones she had read. Ever since reading Su Xia's novels, all those romance novels seemed vulgar to her now. People would fight to the death over a little misunderstanding. Ruonan's stories were much more exciting.