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

The place where the first-year high school students received their school uniforms was a large classroom. Teachers were standing at the door distributing the uniforms. Students from several classes had gathered there, and it looked chaotic, like a vegetable market.

Lin Chuan stopped and turned to the class, saying, "Classmates, please wait here for a moment and line up as I instructed. I'll go check the sizes for the boys and girls first, and then I'll arrange for you to pick them up together."

After saying that, he walked alone to the teacher who was distributing school uniforms. After finding out the height of the boys and girls and the suitable sizes, he called the students in the class to line up and get their clothes.

Because they arrived in a line and their heights were pre-assigned, it was easy to distribute the school uniforms. Lin Chuan even stood in front of the desks to help distribute the uniforms.

When the school uniforms were being distributed, he also discovered that the girl he met during morning registration was actually from his class. Her name was Zhou Yun, a very low-key girl. Lin Chuan himself didn't even notice her when she introduced herself.

As Zhou Yun picked up the clothes, she didn't forget to thank Lin Chuan.

"Your Class 5 is really good," the teacher handing out school uniforms said to Lin Chuan.

In the end, Class 5 finished distributing clothes to everyone in less than ten minutes. After receiving their clothes, everyone left, some going home and others going back to their dormitories.

Lin Chuan saw that everything was finished here, so he wanted to find Wang Xu to go back together. But Wang Xu grabbed his clothes and ran off faster than anyone else, and no one knew what he was doing.

He could only stuff the clothes into his empty backpack and leave.

Outside the school gate, parents and students were still coming and going to pick up their children. Generally, after registering, parents would take their children to buy daily necessities. Where there is demand, there is supply and demand. There were also several stalls selling various daily necessities at the gate of the No. 1 Middle School.

However, none of this mattered to Lin Chuan, a day student. He nimbly weaved through the crowd and headed towards the bus.

"Lin Chuan." Someone called out from behind him; the voice was familiar.

Lin Chuan turned around, and there stood a girl in a white dress behind him. She had her hands behind her back, tilted her head slightly, and looked at him with her long hair falling gently down.

After looking at each other for a moment, Lin Chuan took the initiative to greet her, saying the same thing the girl had said to him when they first met: "Long time no see."

"Do you remember who I am?" Chen Xiyu asked.

Lin Chuan hummed in agreement.

He should indeed know the girl in front of him, because they were neighbors many years ago, living right across from his house.

In his memory, Chen Xiyu moved to the house across from theirs when she was in elementary school. It seemed that her mother was transferred here for work and became a leader in some junior high school.

However, due to her busy work schedule, Chen Xiyu was often alone at home. Lin Chuan, as her neighbor, had only seen her mother a few times, and her father, who had never appeared before, was also rarely seen.

My mother is a kind and hospitable person. When she saw that there was only one girl living alone across the hall, she initially just asked Lin Chuan to bring Chen Xiyu some food. As they gradually became more familiar with each other, she started inviting her over to eat together.

So, by that logic, their relationship could be considered that of childhood sweethearts.

However, when Chen Xiyu entered junior high school, her mother was transferred to another job and moved away again. Although the two of them kept in touch afterward, it was all routine communication, such as sending a congratulatory text message during holidays, or politely inquiring about each other's recent situations, where they were going to university, where they were working, and so on.

Unlike the third-tier university she attended in her previous life, she went to an Ivy League university abroad after graduating from high school and studied there until she earned a doctorate.

Lin Chuan knew that if he didn't attend this No. 1 High School in the city, their paths would diverge completely, just like in their previous life, until they disappeared from each other's lives. So, he was quite surprised to meet Chen Xiyu here.

If this kind of encounter were in Japanese anime, it would be considered a childhood sweetheart falling from the sky.

"My bus is here, let's talk again later," Lin Chuan suggested, watching the bus slowly appear in the distance.

"Wait, before you leave, can you treat me to an ice cream?" Chen Xiyu said.

"Why?" Lin Chuan asked.

"I voted for you when you were electing class monitor. You definitely wouldn't have won if it weren't for me," Chen Xiyu said.

Lin Chuan was taken aback. "That works?"

"Why not?" Chen Xiyu pursed her lips, her eyes slightly resentful. "Besides, it's only been a few years since we last met, and you don't even recognize me..."

"You've changed a lot, so you can't entirely blame me," Lin Chuan shrugged.

"What has changed?" Chen Xiyu seemed determined not to let him off the hook.

"It will definitely look better." Lin Chuan said seriously, trying to fool the question.

"It's no use saying nice things," Chen Xiyu snorted, a slight, barely suppressed smile playing on her lips. "We can't skimp on ice cream either."

"Okay, okay, vanilla flavor again?" Lin Chuan asked. If he remembered correctly, Chen Xiyu's favorite flavors were only two: vanilla and strawberry. And while the school area lacked many things, it certainly didn't lack various snack shops.

Actually, Lin Chuan felt that he couldn't entirely blame himself for not recognizing "Qingmei".

According to the normal timeline, they had only been separated for two or three years, but for Lin Chuan, the two of them had actually been separated for almost ten years.

The girl standing in front of him now must be about 1.7 meters tall, tall and shapely, quite different from the girl in his memory who was a whole head shorter than him.

Moreover, back then, Chen Xiyu was a tagalong who liked to follow him around, and she was timid. She would blush even when talking to strangers, which is different from how she is now.

At this moment, Chen Xiyu, who was walking in front of him, had an ice cream in her hand. She ate the ice cream with light steps, her ponytail bobbing up and down, and fallen leaves fluttering at her feet, like a deer wading through water, bright and beautiful.

Chen Xiyu suddenly turned around, smiled at him, and said, "The ice cream is delicious."

"Of course it's delicious. You bought it with my breakfast money for tomorrow." Lin Chuan sighed.

"Hehe." Chen Xiyu smiled at him, "It's because you don't remember me."

Lin Chuan grinned.

The two parted ways at the bus stop. Lin Chuan boarded the bus back home. When he got home, his parents were still working outside. He washed all the clothes he had brought back and hung them up.

That way he won't have to wear unwashed clothes to military training tomorrow, although he'll still get them dirty during training.

After finishing all that, Lin Chuan lay down on the small sofa in the living room and yawned. The afternoon breeze blew through the white gauze curtains, and the air was slightly cool, making him feel inexplicably relaxed.

As night fell on this small southern town, evening descended.

Dad and Mom had just finished working and came back. After a quick wash, they started preparing dinner. Mom was in the kitchen while Lin Chuan stood outside. "Is there anything I can help you with?"

Mom was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "No need."

Before Lin Chuan could say anything, she took the initiative to ask about the start of school today, "Nothing much happened at school today, right?"

"It's nothing, just a normal registration and getting a uniform," Lin Chuan said. "But I did choose a temporary class monitor."

"Wow, the class monitor is that amazing?" Mom asked.

"Just a temporary class monitor in high school, mainly to help the teacher manage the students during military training," Lin Chuan said.

"That's still pretty impressive," Mom said with a smile. She didn't know much about these things, and didn't even know what military training was, but she was very happy to hear that her son had become a class monitor.

Just then, another noise came from outside the house. The sound came from the door across the hall closing. People had been coming and going since the afternoon.

"It's been like this all afternoon," Lin Chuan complained, because it had also disturbed his lunch break.

"Is someone moving in?" Mom said.

"It seems so," Lin Chuan said.

"Go and see who it is. If it's a new neighbor, go and say hello," Mom said, handing over two oranges she had just bought. "Take these with you."

"Is it necessary?" Lin Chuan asked.

He knew his mother was a kind and hospitable person, and she was familiar with many neighbors and people in the community, unlike Lin Chuan, who later lived in a high-rise community in the CBD and had no concept of "neighbors".

He didn't even know the name of the neighbor across the hall. Everyone just went home, closed their front door, and didn't know who was who when they met.

"We're all neighbors," Mom said.

"Okay." Lin Chuan carried the two oranges in his hands and went out.