After being reborn, I gained a childhood sweetheart who appeared out of nowhere.

The military training's cultural performance was coming to a close, and the host was giving his final remarks, thanking the students and teachers...

Lin Chuan and Chen Xiyu returned to the playground at this time. They could have fun, but they couldn't skip the whole party.

His original plan was to find his class's team and sneak in from the back.

"Lin Chuan, Chen Xiyu!" Someone spoke behind them in a low voice.

The two turned around and saw that Instructor Liu was already waiting for them. He had his arms crossed, and his square face made it difficult to see his expression.

"Hello, Instructor Liu." Lin Chuan could only greet him with a smile.

"Where did you two go?" Instructor Liu asked directly.

"The restroom," Lin Chuan said.

"Going to the restroom together?" Instructor Liu said.

Lin Chuan didn't try to "argue" at this point, since it wouldn't make any sense anyway.

"You, as the class monitor, are leading the way in disrupting discipline," Instructor Liu frowned.

Lin Chuan really wanted to say that he wasn't the one who started it, but he apologized directly and sincerely, "I'm sorry, Instructor Liu, I had something to do just now. After the party, I'll see how to punish you and make sure you get it done."

Some things can be negotiated, but for others, admitting fault directly is the best solution.

Instructor Liu was silent for a moment, then sighed, waved his hand, and said, "It's the last day, why are we still running laps? Are we just making ourselves a laughingstock for the other classes?"

"That?"

"I'll let you off this time, since you behaved well during military training."

"Thank you, Instructor Liu," Lin Chuan said. "There are rules there, so I can't offer you a drink or anything."

Instructor Liu smiled and said, "Alright, why are you drinking water? The party is almost over, hurry back to your lines."

"Okay." Lin Chuan and Chen Xiyu returned to their class line together.

The host on the stage finished his final remarks, and several people bowed slightly to the students below the stage, thus officially announcing the end of this cultural performance.

Under the guidance of their respective instructors, the students left the playground in an orderly manner. Of course, some classes did not leave; they took photos with their instructors on the playground.

After all, although the instructors were quite serious and dedicated during training, they had developed some feelings for each other after spending so much time together. For example, many students from Class 5 went to take photos with Instructor Liu, and for a moment, the entire playground was filled with the flashes of countless mobile phone lights.

Seeing this, Lin Chuan simply called for everyone to gather together and take a group photo to save time, and this suggestion was quickly agreed upon by everyone.

Zhao Jiajia said, "I'll find someone to take a picture of our class." Then, she used her terrifying social skills to randomly pull a girl with a camera next to her and ask her to take two pictures of their class.

The girl readily agreed to this simple request.

The students of Class 5 gathered together, with Instructor Liu pushed to the front to squat down. Team leaders Lin Chuan and Cheng Xue squatted down on either side of the instructor, while the rest of the students formed two circles behind them.

A girl from another class held up her camera and pointed it at the students in Class 5, calling out, "Um... students, look this way."

"Come on, 3, 2, 1... Cheese!"

As soon as the slogan was shouted, Chen Xiyu, who was standing behind Lin Chuan, suddenly reached out and grabbed his hair, messing it up.

The next moment, the flash went off, and Lin Chuan turned around in surprise. His somewhat silly expression was frozen in time, with a girl standing behind him smiling smugly.

This overexposed photo was thus frozen in time, seemingly along with youth itself.

After taking the group photo, everyone gradually dispersed. Lin Chuan, Wang Xu, and a few others accompanied Instructor Liu all the way to the school gate, where the car that was there to pick him up was waiting.

Instructor Liu smiled and looked at the students, "You won't have to train so hard anymore, but you still need to study hard when school starts."

"Yes, instructor," the group replied in unison.

Instructor Liu looked at Lin Chuan one last time, "You too."

Lin Chuan smiled and said, "Thank you for taking care of me during this time."

Instructor Liu smiled, reached out and gently patted Lin Chuan's shoulder, "Let's go."

Goodbye, Instructor Liu.

The vehicle drove away, and everyone dispersed to go home.

Lin Chuan and Chen Xiyu boarded the bus back together, and soon after, they got off.

As Lin Chuan walked back, he slowly turned to the girl next to him who was looking at her phone and said, "Don't just look at your phone, watch where you're going, or you might fall into a ditch."

"I'm following you. If we fall into a ditch, it's because you've gone the wrong way," Chen Xiyu said.

"Oh……"

"Their photos are pretty good," Chen Xiyu said, her iPhone screen displaying a series of open photos. Besides class photos, there were other pictures of boys and girls taking pictures in small groups. "I'm also thinking about learning photography."

"Photography can bankrupt three generations, and a DSLR can ruin a lifetime," Lin Chuan blurted out.

"Then I'll go and work to earn money," Chen Xiyu said.

"That's ambitious." Lin Chuan gave her a thumbs up, then, having reached his doorstep, turned and opened it. "I'm off."

"Bye-Bye."

After returning to his room, Lin Chuan quickly washed up and tidied up his room. He also rummaged through his wardrobe for a while before finally finding the hundred-odd yuan that "he" had been keeping.

Although it wasn't much, it was money he had saved from his New Year's red envelopes, and combined with the money he made from selling shoe insoles last time, it totaled more than 800 yuan.

In the past, if you had over 800 yuan, you could easily spend all night at an internet cafe and be completely broke.

However, now he needs to figure out how to use the money, or what he needs right now.

After thinking for a while, Lin Chuan made up his mind: he would go to bed and talk about it tomorrow.

Lin Chuan lay down on the bed, stretched, and slowly closed his eyes.

The next day, the midday sun shone on the bedside.

Lin Chuan finally opened his eyes. It was the first day after military training ended, and he even managed to sleep in late, which was rare for him.

He turned his head and glanced out the window. The sun was shining brightly, and the green leaves were swaying gently. When the weather is nice, people's moods are inexplicably good.

After sitting for a while, Lin Chuan got up and left the room. There was no one in the living room. After washing up quickly, he was thinking about whether to call his parents to ask if they were coming back for lunch, but soon the door to the house was pushed open.

"Are you up?" Mom asked.

"Hmm, didn't you do any work today?" Lin Chuan asked.

"Only your dad has anything to do today," Mom said. "It'll be just the two of us for lunch."

Lin Chuan responded with an "oh".

The two had a simple lunch: two bowls of porridge with eggs fried by his mother. Lin Chuan quite liked this kind of simple meal.

There was another knock on the door. Lin Chuan got up and opened it, finding Chen Xiyu standing outside in her pajamas.

"Little Creek, what brings you here?" Mom turned and asked, "Have you had lunch?"

"I've eaten," Chen Xiyu said with a smile. "I came here to see Lin Chuan; there's something I need to discuss."

"Looking for me?" Lin Chuan asked, puzzled.

"Are you free this afternoon? I realized I'm missing some things at home and I'd like to go out and buy them. Would you like to come with me?" Chen Xiyu said.

Lin Chuan hesitated for a moment. He also had plans for the afternoon. Although he was going out, the places he was going to were probably different from those Chen Xiyu was going to.

"Can I refuse?" he asked decisively.

"No," Chen Xiyu replied even more decisively.

"Xiao Chuan, don't you have nothing to do this afternoon? Why don't you go with Xiao Xi? It's inconvenient for her to carry her things by herself," Mom said.

Lin Chuan felt a pang of emotion, thinking to himself, "That's your real daughter, isn't it?"

"What time?" he asked.

"It's too sunny at noon, let's do it around 3 pm."

"OK."

"Aunt Wang, I'm going back now." Chen Xiyu said goodbye to her mother before turning around and going back to her room.

Lin Chuan sat back down in his chair, and his mother pulled out a large sum of money from her pocket. It was a twenty-yuan note. "When you go out with Xiaoxi, you should take some money with you. You can buy some food or something."

"Mom, you really treat her like your own daughter," Lin Chuan said. Giving her twenty yuan when they go out is a treatment he has never received before.

He thought his mother would say something like, "I wish Xiaoxi were my daughter." But instead, his mother said, "Xiaoxi moved here when she was very young, and now she lives alone. It's quite tough for her."

If we're talking about family background, Chen Xiyu's family is way ahead of his family, so it's definitely not related to the idea that life is hard for them. But he also knows that what his mother was talking about wasn't about family background.

Lin Chuan refused to accept the twenty yuan, saying, "You can keep the money; I have other money of my own."

"Where did you get the money?"

"I bought some things for the class before and made a small profit," Lin Chuan said.

My mother was taken aback. "You can do business?"

"It's not really business, but I can handle small things like this for your son," Lin Chuan said with a smile.

"Good, Xiaochuan has grown up too." Mom smiled.

The time is exactly 3 PM.

Lin Chuan knocked on the door of the house across the street right on time. Then, a series of light footsteps came, and as the door opened wide, Chen Xiyu appeared in front of him.

She had changed out of her loungewear from noon, replacing it with a white T-shirt, a dark blue pleated skirt, light white socks, and white sneakers, revealing her straight and fair calves.

This is a very simple outfit, with only two shades of color, yet it looks clean and beautiful on her.

"Don't you think I look pretty good in this outfit?" Chen Xiyu said to him with a smile.

"I was thinking, you're so punctual," Lin Chuan said.

Chen Xiyu snorted, closed the door behind her, took a few steps forward, then stopped, stood at the end of the corridor in the sunlight, turned around, her long hair swaying gently, her skirt swaying softly.

She shouted, "Let's go!"

Lin Chuan then followed.