Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 143: It’s Over, Game Over

Chapter 143: Chapter 143: It’s Over, Game Over

"Here, take it!" The girl was expressionless as ever, as if she wasn’t giving a gift, but throwing away trash.

Han Mingyue slowly smiled, "Thank you."

——

Monday, the court hearing.

Since Zhen Yan was the subject of the dispute, he had to be present.

Zhen Yu also took the morning off to go with her mother and brother.

The town’s courtroom wasn’t big and had only bare functionalities.

There weren’t any lawyers involved; upon accepting Mr. Zhen’s appeal, both parties appeared, presented their arguments, and the child’s opinion was sought.

After the procedure ended, without Zhen Yu presenting the recording, a ten-minute recess was taken, and the decision was promptly announced.

It might sound rushed, but that was the reality. The place was small and efficient.

Mr. Zhen’s appeal was rejected, and he was not convinced, "Judge, if those two are divorced, shouldn’t each parent have custody of one child? Why wouldn’t you grant me custody?"

Zhen Yu grinned secretly; she really overestimated her biological father, who, like Mrs. Zhen, was quite ignorant of the law.

"This isn’t about what should be; we act according to the law."

"I object! I want to appeal!" Mr. Zhen protested for a while, but seeing the judge packing up and ignoring him, he suddenly lowered his stance and asked, "Judge! What can I do to get back my son’s custody?"

"You currently have a not-yet-one-year-old daughter! Your son doesn’t agree to live with you! There’s basically no hope."

"Ah! What?" Mr. Zhen was utterly disoriented by the judge’s remark.

——

Mrs. Zhen, feeling relieved, returned home with her children. It was still early, so those who needed to go to school did, and those who needed to go to Shoe City did.

Knowing her son wouldn’t be taken away, Mrs. Zhen was instantly rejuvenated.

As the weather warmed up, the midterm exams were also approaching.

The pressures of Zhen Yu’s skipping grades and her brother’s high school entrance exams were gradually mounting; it was best for both not to miss too much school lately!

In a blink, almost half a month of intense studying passed.

After the mid-term exam rankings were posted, Zhen Yu was still first.

But Zhen Yan had just started using the props and didn’t improve much, ranking 43rd.

With his current performance, an average high school was within reach, but there was no hope for Qi City No.1 High School.

This is bad! This is really bad!

On Friday night, before sleep, Zhen Yu started browsing the System Mall again.

Over half a month, she had accumulated 12 more ability points, adding up to a total of 16 points available for use with the previously saved 4 points.

But Zhen Yu calculated that the high school entrance exam was in late June, more than 40 days away, and she should still have enough time to accumulate 50 ability points!

Thus, she could only look at the items with the lowest exchange points and needed fast-acting ones!

All the armor-type items were specifically for academic overachievers! The lowest-grade items included a privacy screen, an anti-distraction lock, a timed pen, etc., and her brother couldn’t use any of these! Not looking!

The tool-type items were too expensive! All these exam rush aids! Victory from a thousand miles! Each started from 100 ability points! Can’t afford them! Not looking!

The equipment category included just watches and alarms, all being slow-acting, long-term utility items. She had already exchanged for an alarm, so having more was useless! Not looking!

What remained was the medicine category.

Zhen Yu took a deep breath and clicked on it.

Wow! She had been attracted by the equipment previously and hadn’t properly noticed what followed.

Today, she realized that this was indeed a treasure-filled System!

Strengthening Body Pills, Ear and Eye Clearing Pills, Energizing Pill, Concentration Pill! Those are just the basics.

The ones that really caught Zhen Yu’s eye are the Extraordinary Performance Pills, Enlightenment Pill, Academic Underdog Revenge Pill, Scholarly Genius Possession Pill, Lucky Fish Spirit Pill! They clearly looked like high-end, fancy stuff!

After comparing the effects of various pills, Zhen Yu decided to choose the Lucky Fish Spirit Pill for her brother based on his academic level!

[Lucky Fish Spirit Pill, welcome to try! Lucky as a Fish, Leap Over the Dragon Gate. A pill brings fortune, as you wish it so. Exchange: 50 ability points, Valid for: three days.]

But before that, she needed to ask a teacher for help to provide her brother with hints for the exam!

Otherwise, his own lack of essence wouldn’t just cause the Lucky Fish to lower the difficulty of the questions just to accommodate her brother, right?

That way, he still wouldn’t outperform others anyway!

—

As Zhen Yu was preparing to endure hardships for her brother’s sake, suffering yet feeling joy. On Saturday, Han Mingyue shared some good news with her, but this news was somewhat of a bummer to her.

Han Mingyue said, Mr. Fang notified him that he received the third prize in the second ’Cross-Century’ National High School Essay Competition.

He also mentioned that the award ceremony was on July 6th and asked if he would attend? He declined.

"Why did you decline?" Zhen Yu asked.

Han Mingyue smiled and shook his head, "It’s too far, and it’s only the third prize."

"Oh."

"Don’t be disheartened, if not this time, just try harder next time!" Seeing Zhen Yu feeling a bit down, Han Mingyue comforted her.

"Yeah!" Zhen Yu nodded vigorously, "Maybe this type of high school student’s composition isn’t quite right for me, after all, I lack childish innocence!" she suddenly remembered the critique from the editor of Children’s Literature she had received previously.

Han Mingyue was confused, "No childish innocence? What do you mean?"

"It’s nothing." Zhen Yu didn’t want to elaborate.

"Okay." Han Mingyue said helplessly.

The two just talked about the essay competition briefly and then put it aside.

"Xiao Yu, are you still submitting your writings? I recently wrote a short piece and was thinking about submitting it to the journal you submitted to last time."

Zhen Yu’s eyes lit up, "Really? Do you want to show it to me first?"

Han Mingyue pursed his lips and shook his head, "How about from now on, we only show each other published works? Let’s not look at those that didn’t succeed."

Zhen Yu thought for a second, "Alright! I’ll wait for your published work then."

"Good."

—

While Zhen Yan was restricted by the alarm clock and was studying hard at his desk, he could hear his sister talking with Han Mingyue but couldn’t spare any attention to join in.

The other two obviously acted like he didn’t exist and after their chat, they went back to studying together at the same table.

During this time, Fu Yu and Han Jiaoyang came to see Zhen Yan once again.

Zhen Yan internally screamed wanting to go out and play, but his legs wouldn’t obey. Just the thought of ’play’ glued his butt to the chair.

That’s quite pitiful for a boy.

Thus, the three of them studied all day. After dinner, Zhen Yu, greatly agitated, started to research the System Mall again.

Even though the ability points before summer break had been all planned out, it didn’t stop her from having a look and thinking about it!

After satisfying her curiosity, Zhen Yu decided after her brother’s high school entrance exam, she would immediately start saving ability points to exchange for a [Double Learning Table]!

Only by studying more and earning more ability points could she progress faster!

This is her foundation and capital after her rebirth!

Since the system highly relies on studying, she would have to stretch "a penny into eight pieces," and live each minute as two!