The divorce comeback system arrived right after I was born.

The teacher had barely stepped out of the classroom for the last lesson when the class erupted in chaos. A restless atmosphere filled the air.

Chen Zhi slowly packed his schoolbag, neatly stacking the few notebooks he needed to take home into a hidden compartment.

"Hey Zhi, wanna go to the internet cafe?" Li Zihan, carrying an empty backpack, came over expectantly. "That 'Extreme Speed' place is having a promotion: top up 50 and get 30 free."

Damn, you're already tempted by a 50-yuan top-up and 30-yuan free offer? What about a 100-yuan top-up and 200-yuan free offer later?

"I'm not going." Chen Zhi didn't even look up, zipped up his pencil case, and said, "I still need to try on the military training uniform when I get back. If it's too big, I'll have to find someone to exchange it for me."

"Tch, boring." Li Zihan curled her lip, her gaze passing over Chen Zhi and landing on Lin Wanwan, who was packing her things beside her. Her face immediately changed to a sly smile. "Oh—I get it, you value your girlfriend over your friend, escorting your childhood sweetheart home, huh?"

"Get lost." Chen Zhi said succinctly.

Li Zihan chuckled and slipped away as fast as he could.

Chen Zhigang slung his backpack over his shoulder, and a fair, delicate hand reached out from the side, holding the camouflage military training uniform.

The fabric looked rough and stiff.

"What?" Chen Zhi paused, turning his head to look at Lin Wanwan.

The girl was struggling to stuff the clothes into Chen Zhi's arms, blinking her big eyes with a righteous air.

"Help me pack this, my backpack is full."

Chen Zhi glanced down at her backpack. The backpack was indeed bulging, the zipper was about to burst, and you could vaguely see the corners of a few bags of Lay's potato chips.

"This is what you mean by 'full'?" Chen Zhi raised an eyebrow, mercilessly exposing the lie. "It's all snacks. Did you come here to study or for a picnic?"

"Hey, mind your own business!" Lin Wanwan blushed and forcefully squeezed the camouflage uniform into the gap of Chen Zhi's already zipped-up backpack. "Anyway, your bag is big, so why don't you carry it for me?"

"I also have books in my bag." Chen Zhi leaned back, trying to avoid this forced assignment.

"Just squeeze and you'll get it!"

Lin Wanwan didn't give him a chance to refuse. She used both hands to rip open the zipper of Chen Zhi's backpack, then violently stuffed the clothes inside, even punching it twice to try to make it solid.

"..."

Chen Zhi looked at his once-sturdy backpack, which had instantly turned into a bloated bun, and sighed helplessly.

He picked up the schoolbag with one hand, its heavy weight making his wrist feel sluggish.

"It's so heavy." Chen Zhi slung the backpack over his shoulder, his shoulders slumping instantly. "Lin Wanwan, I'm still growing. If all this junk of yours stunts my growth, you'll be responsible."

"I'll take responsibility then." Lin Wanwan clapped her hands, casually slung her snack bag over her shoulder, and smiled with her eyes crinkling. "At worst, I'll just give you all the milk that other people give me in the future."

Chen Zhi adjusted the length of the shoulder straps to distribute the weight more evenly.

"make a deal."

The two walked out of the classroom one after the other.

People came and went in the corridor, and many eyes drifted over unnoticed. After all, one was the top student in the grade, and the other was a sweet school beauty who caused a sensation upon entering the school. They were an extremely eye-catching combination in the restless campus.

Chen Zhi ignored this, and Lin Wanwan had been used to this kind of attention since she was a child. The two walked towards the bicycle shed as if no one else was around.

The setting sun cast long shadows of the two people, overlapping them on the concrete road.

After picking up the car and leaving the school gate, the noise gradually faded behind.

The early autumn breeze carried a hint of coolness, dispelling the daytime heat. Chen Zhi held the handlebars with one hand, while occasionally tugging at the backpack strap that was digging painfully into his shoulder with the other.

That military training uniform was not only heavy, but the fabric was also stiff; you could feel the roughness even through the backpack.

This reminded him of the rubber shoes he was about to wear for seven days.

Those Liberation Shoes with soles as thin as paper and uppers as hard as iron were simply an anti-human design.

Wearing it is more uncomfortable than not wearing it at all, let alone having to wear it for seven days.

Chen Zhi shuddered. No, he had to take action.

"Hey, Chen Zhi."

Lin Wanwan's clear voice came from behind him, interrupting his thoughts.

"Come to my house for dinner tonight? My mom bought some pork ribs."

"No, my mom's making beef stew with potatoes today," Chen Zhi casually declined, but his mind was racing, calculating the crucial piece of equipment.

The two lived not far from the school; it only took a few minutes to ride their bikes there.

When they arrived at the apartment building, Chen Zhi applied the brakes, extended his long legs, and brought the car to a steady stop.

Lin Wanwan also stopped and was about to push the car into the building when she noticed that Chen Zhi hadn't moved. Instead, he waved to her mysteriously.

"What?" Lin Wanwan asked, leaning closer in puzzlement.

It was rush hour, and the elderly people in the neighborhood were enjoying the cool shade under the trees while fanning themselves with palm-leaf fans.

Chen Zhi looked around to make sure no one was paying attention before leaning close to Lin Wanwan's ear and whispering.

"Um... can you do me a favor?"

The warm breath sprayed on her earlobe, and Lin Wanwan felt a little itchy, so she subconsciously shrank her neck.

"What's the big deal? Why are you being so secretive?"

Chen Zhiqing cleared his throat and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Do you... have that there?"

"Which one?" Lin Wanwan looked blank.

"It's that..." Chen Zhi gestured with a rectangular hand, "The one that girls use every month."

Lin Wanwan was stunned for two seconds.

Immediately afterwards, her fair and pretty face flushed red at a visible speed, all the way down to the base of her neck.

She stared wide-eyed at Chen Zhi as if he were an alien, her lips trembling.

"Chen Zhi!"

A delicate shout rang out.

Before Chen Zhi could react, Lin Wanwan had already swung her schoolbag around and smashed it down.

"Bang!"

The schoolbag landed heavily on Chen Zhi's back with a dull thud.

"You're a pervert!"

Lin Wanwan was both ashamed and angry, and she was about to explode. She tightly protected her chest and took two steps back warily.

"What do you need sanitary napkins for?! Are you sick?! I'm going to tell Auntie!"

Several middle-aged women nearby heard the commotion and turned to look at it with curiosity.

Chen Zhi reacted quickly, covering Lin Wanwan's mouth and dragging her into the shadows of the stairwell.

"Shh! What are you yelling about!" Chen Zhi explained in a low voice while defending against the girl's flurry of punches, "Who's a pervert? I have a legitimate purpose!"

"What good could you possibly be!" Lin Wanwan yanked his hand away, her face flushed crimson. "You're a grown man, wanting that kind of thing... Do you have that kind of fetish?"

The more she thought about it, the more horrified she became, and her eyes were filled with fear and regret as she looked at Chen Zhi.

Oh no, my childhood sweetheart has grown up into a monster, I can't live like this anymore.

"Clear all that nonsense from your head." Chen Zhi rolled his eyes helplessly, pointing to the military training uniform in his backpack. "I'm using it as an insole!"

"Shoes...insoles?" Lin Wanwan was stunned, and her fist, which was raised in mid-air, stopped.

"You've touched those rubber boots issued during military training before; the soles are as hard as bricks." Seeing that she had calmed down, Chen Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and began to share his useful knowledge.

"Those shoes have thin, hard soles and aren't breathable at all. Military training involves standing at attention and marching in formation; by the end of the day, your soles will definitely be blistered. And sanitary napkins... well, those things are soft and absorbent; having them in your shoes is like walking on clouds, you know?"

Chen Zhi spoke eloquently, with a world-weary air about him, as if he had been there all along.

"These are hard-earned lessons from our predecessors, and I don't tell just anyone this."

Lin Wanwan looked at him with a mixture of belief and doubt, the blush on her face not yet completely gone.

"real?"

"I'd be a dog if I lied to you," Chen Zhi said confidently. "Just think about the material—soft cotton surface, super absorbent—isn't it better than any other insole?"

Lin Wanwan thought about it, following his train of thought.

It seems... that makes some sense?

But the thought of a grown man running around the playground with sanitary napkins stuffed in his shoes made her feel both amused and uneasy.

"Then go buy it yourself," Lin Wanwan muttered, her eyes darting around. "Why are you asking me?"

"Is it proper for a grown man like me to go into a supermarket to buy that?" Chen Zhi said righteously. "If I get arrested as a pervert, you'll have to go to the police station to bail me out."

Lin Wanwan burst out laughing.

She looked Chen Zhi up and down, and most of her earlier embarrassment and annoyance dissipated, replaced by a sense of novelty at seeing a rare animal.

"Fine, you're right."

Lin Wanwan snorted, slung her schoolbag over her shoulder, and then stretched out her fair little hand in front of Chen Zhi, palm facing up.

"Give me back my clothes."

Chen Zhi was taken aback: "What?"

"I'll get you that!" Lin Wanwan rolled her eyes at him, annoyed. "Do you expect me to pull it out for you right now in the street? You may not care about saving face, but I do."

Chen Zhi suddenly realized what was happening and quickly took off his schoolbag.

The zipper was pulled open, and the camouflage uniform that had been forcibly stuffed in popped out like a compressed biscuit.

Lin Wanwan grabbed the clothes and stuffed them back into her already overburdened schoolbag.

"Wait, I'll bring it to you tonight." She muttered to herself as she packed her bag, "What brand do you want? Day or night? Do you want wings?"

Chen Zhi's lips twitched slightly: "...Thick is fine, the thicker the better. Ideally, it should be the kind that's extra long for nighttime use, 420mm, enough to cover the entire sole."

Lin Wanwan was stunned.

"You seem to know your stuff quite well?"

"I know a little, I know a little."

Lin Wanwan zipped up her backpack and gave Chen Zhi a light punch on the arm.

"Get out of here! You still dare to talk back!"

The girl's coquettish voice echoed in the hallway, carrying a hint of lingering shyness.

"You're even more pampered than me. Are you a boy? You're actually worried about your shoes rubbing your feet."

Chen Zhi rubbed his arm, not annoyed at all, and just looked at her with a smile.

"That's called wisdom, understand? You'll see when you have military training tomorrow. Don't come crying to me for it then."

"Pshaw, who cares?"

Lin Wanwan pushed the cart toward the elevator, took two steps, then turned back and made a face at Chen Zhi.

"Chen Zhi the Pervert"

As soon as she finished speaking, the elevator doors opened with a "ding." She pushed the cart inside, and just as the elevator doors closed, she didn't forget to give the tall, thin figure outside the middle finger.

Chen Zhi stood there, looking at the constantly changing red numbers, and shook his head helplessly.

For the sake of these feet, I'll be a pervert, no matter what.

With a ding, the elevator arrived, and he pushed the cart toward it.

The elevator in the apartment building couldn't fit two bicycles, so the two had to go up separately.

Chen Zhi stepped out; the door to his house was ajar.

He pushed open the door, changed his shoes, and threw the heavy schoolbag onto the sofa.

"Mom, I'm home."

My mom's loud voice came from the kitchen: "Perfect timing! Peel the garlic!"

Chen Zhi rolled up his sleeves and headed to the kitchen.

Outside the window, the setting sun sank completely below the horizon, and the city lights began to illuminate the city one by one.