Reborn: I'll Never Fail My Childhood Sweetheart Again

Between Qin Shiqing and Huang Panpan, things are quite calm, but Xiaoyanzi and the junior seem to be naturally incompatible. Luckily, there’s someone between them, or if they had to sit together, with emotions running high, they’d probably end up pulling each other’s hair and having a catfight.

The moment these two have a disagreement, they seize the opportunity to mock each other with all sorts of veiled comments.

Xiaoyanzi’s mouth is like a machine gun, and Huang Panpan is no slouch either. The car was filled with a thick atmosphere of tension the whole way, sometimes making Qin Shiqing, the mediator, step in to smooth things over.

Su Zelin didn’t say much, he simply put on a DJ track, turned up the volume, and started swaying to the deafening screams.

At this point, no matter how much the two of them yelled, the other couldn’t hear a thing.

After a few songs, Xiaoyanzi was a bit shaken.

"Hey, Su Zelin, can you turn the music down a bit?"

"What did you say?"

"Turn the music down!"

"What?"

Xiaoyanzi directly pointed at the car’s CD player, and only then did the feigning Su Zelin lower the volume.

"Why do you guys like listening to such loud music? It sounds like ghosts wailing. Can’t you listen to something more lyrical and beautiful?"

Xiaoyanzi complained.

"It’s not that I like it. It’s the DJ that’s more exciting for all of you."

Su Zelin chuckled.

Xiaoyanzi remained silent, as this guy was not happy that she got in the car and started arguing with Huang Panpan, so he protested in this way.

Lu Haoran took the chance to change the subject: "Zelin is really amazing. In just his second year of university he’s already driving a car. Out of all of us who were in class two, you’re the most successful!"

When everyone heard New Era had given Su Zelin a company car, even the honest ones were shocked.

In this era, cars are quite out of reach for ordinary people.

Lu Haoran thought his good friend would eventually get a car, given his good family background, but he didn’t expect it wasn’t from his own purchase.

"I knew from the beginning that our senior was just bidding his time in high school, he was bound to be extraordinary sooner or later!"

Huang Panpan straightened her chest a bit, feeling proud of Su Zelin.

No surprise I had my eye on him, but I still underestimated our senior.

Xiaoyanzi thought to herself sarcastically, what’s there to be proud of, as if the extraordinary person was herself.

This time though, she just mentally complained and didn’t go into her machine gun mode.

When it comes down to it, during high school she thought Su Zelin was just average, and it was only because they were classmates from middle to high school, plus her good friend Qin Shiqing’s connection, that she got close to him. At the time, she even thought he wasn’t good enough for Qin Shiqing. Who could’ve guessed Su Zelin would be unstoppable by the time he was in university, that even Qin Shiqing had to compete with others over him.

Su Zelin’s good looks, eloquence, boldness, and talent, now being a manager for a major enterprise with a company car, probably means the girls who like him aren’t just limited to Huang Panpan in the department. Shiqing’s got her work cut out for her.

So, sometimes a guy being too outstanding isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Thinking of this, Tang Yan couldn’t help but glance over at the honest guy in the passenger seat.

Lu Haoran seemed much more ordinary, but precisely because of that, he’d be very devoted to the girl he liked, no mixed feelings. If one were to marry him, he’d probably listen to everything his wife says, handing over his paycheck willingly.

Thinking this, Xiaoyanzi found little cutie more and more agreeable.

Her interest in Lu Haoran throughout her life, in a certain sense, was influenced by Su Zelin serving as a reverse example of sorts.

"From store manager to manager, it’s just a matter of a year. Zelin, you’re climbing the ladder pretty quickly, maybe you’ll eventually move up to being the boss."

Qin Shiqing said intentionally or unintentionally.

Su Zelin was perplexed, feeling Qin Shiqing might have figured something out.

But Yan Qiuwen promised she wouldn’t tell, so maybe it was just speculation.

"Qin Shiqing, I’ll take those kind words to heart, haha."

Su Zelin pressed a button on the CD player, the disc popped out, and he replaced it with a soothing, lyrical campus song.

Will you think of tomorrow

The diary you wrote yesterday

Will you still miss tomorrow

The one who loved to cry most

The teachers will have forgotten

You who couldn’t guess the answer

...

As the song played through the speakers, the car became quiet.

It’s a tune every student is familiar with, "My Deskmate."

Old Wolf’s soft, sorrowful voice seemed to have a magical quality, like an old bottle of wine, getting better with time, even evoking moments of nostalgia for older listeners.

In this era, singers proved themselves through skill, and as the lead vocalist for the first university band "Bronzeware," Old Wolf might not look extraordinary, even a bit ordinary, but the songs he sang are a generation’s youthful memories.

Besides "My Deskmate," classics like "The Brother Who Sleeps Above My Bunk," "Youth Without Regret," among others, are equally renowned. He enjoyed singing songs themed around endings of youthful eras, yet they made people cherish those unforgettable campus days and youthful recollections even more.

Later generations would consider the distance from Lin’an to Jianglan on the highway only about three hundred kilometers, but currently, the roads weren’t as straight, often requiring detours through other towns, making the journey nearly four hundred kilometers.

Regular roads didn’t allow fast driving, and encountering a section under construction, which was rough and bumpy, further slowed down the speed to thirty, extending the journey longer than imagined.

Qin Shiqing, however, didn’t feel car sick.

Some people only feel queasy on buses.

Buses have a high center of gravity, prone to bumpiness, combined with the interior smells, causing those who’ve ridden once to have lasting effects when boarding again, feeling inexplicably uncomfortable, leading to nausea, severely even vomiting profusely. This thing affects both physiology and psychology.