Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 158 Persuade Bai Xue

Chapter 158: Chapter 158 Persuade Bai Xue

Then, Zhen Yu suddenly turned her head to look at Bai Xue, who was holding her arm, and said, "You too!"

"What?" Bai Xue was so frightened that she let go of her hand. How did she suddenly get dragged into this?

"I shouldn’t go." Bai Xue weakly said: "I’m almost in the ninth grade, it’s too late."

"It’s not too late!" Zhen Yu looked at her and said: "You have two years! If Zhen Yan can do it in one year, why can’t you in two?"

Bai Xue argued: "Zhen Yan’s grades are better than mine..."

"Not much better, he’s just the pot calling the kettle black!" Zhen Yu encouraged Bai Xue, "You can do it!"

Bai Xue still felt she couldn’t, "I..."

"How do you know if you don’t try?" Han Mingyue suddenly interrupted, then suddenly changed the subject, asking Bai Xue, "With your current grades, you can’t get into any high school, so after you graduate from junior high, what do you plan to do?"

Bai Xue looked blank, "I don’t know..."

"I know! You could go sell goods for others like Sister Li from the sincere shoe store, learn a skill to cut and perm hair like Sister Ma from the front street, or, get married early like Sister Liu, and move to the countryside to farm!" Han Mingyue’s tone became heavier as she spoke, "Do you like to live their kind of life?"

Bai Xue thought it was okay! Just as she was about to nod, Zhen Yu gave her a fierce glare, and Bai Xue felt chilled by her gaze, shivering in the heat of the summer.

"Sister Li has to get up early every day to open the store, and when our store closes in the evening, other stores close too. She can’t rest on holidays, and she has to fend for herself during lunch. I heard that her family is introducing her to potential suitors, and after she meets them, she becomes so busy she no longer has time to see them! You like to go shopping, but with this job, I’m afraid you won’t have any time to shop in this lifetime!"

"I don’t want to!" Bai Xue shook her head vigorously, rejecting such a life. Without shopping, half the pleasure of her life would be gone.

Han Mingyue exchanged a glance with Zhen Yu, then continued to speak. "My dad says that hair dyes and perming chemicals contain a lot of toxic substances. So my mom never dyes or perms her hair! If you learn this skill, you’ll have to deal with these things every day, have you seen Sister Ma recently? The pimples on her face are getting more and more..."

"I don’t want to!" Bai Xue shook her head frantically. She didn’t want to end up with a face full of pimples! Although she wasn’t as pretty as Zhen Yu! But she considered herself the second prettiest girl around! She didn’t want to become ugly!

If Zhen Yu knew her thoughts, she’d probably lift her up and pour out the water in her head.

And ask if that idiot Zhen Yan had brainwashed her? How could she think she’s the second prettiest? Bai Xue is clearly the prettiest girl she’s ever seen!

But the prettier the girl, the thinner her fate often is. In her previous life, Bai Xue married early but to a non-human!

Zhen Yu’s eyes darkened, in this life, she would never let her good friend repeat the same mistakes. "Then you can only get married early! Marry into the countryside, serve your husband and in-laws every day, and work in the fields. Remember the collective labor on Teacher’s Day! In no time, you’ll have to have kids. The men in our north are hands-off bosses, and then you’ll have to do everything by yourself, like being both mom and dad, taking care of the kids and their whole family! Waking up earlier than chickens, eating worse than pigs, and with no money to spend!"

"Why wouldn’t I have money to spend?" Bai Xue asked naively.

Han Mingyue had not heard Zhen Yu talk this much at once for a long time. Seeing her look helplessly at Bai Xue without a word, she thought Zhen Yu’s throat was dry, so she explained it for her.

"As a housewife, where would you get an income from? If you don’t earn money, where would you get the money to spend? If you are willing to lower your pride, you can stretch out your hand and ask others. But I think, they may not give it to you."

Bai Xue stood still, her view of life greatly shaken.

Her mom would nag her every day.

"You don’t study well day by day, you don’t listen when I tell you! If you don’t get into high school, don’t blame me, it’s not that your mom doesn’t want to support you!"

"After you graduate from junior high, you should just come home! First take care of your brother, and in a couple of years I’ll find someone for you to marry. Better to marry off early!"

At the time, she still thought ’to marry is to marry, sooner or later one has to,’ but now she suddenly felt, what’s the difference between this kind of ’marriage’ and being sold off to someone’s household?

At least being sold means getting paid! Working earns you a wage! But this kind of ’marriage’, why does it feel even lower than working for someone or selling goods?

Every day there’s so much to do, and in the end, there’s no money to spend! How could she go shopping without money? How could she go shopping without any money!

Bai Xue suddenly roared, "I don’t want to get married! I don’t want to marry into a rural family!"

Zhen Yu couldn’t help but burst into laughter, Bai Xue’s little face was so adorably flushed with anger.

She only laughed once before quickly pretending to be serious again, "So what do you want? You have no education, no job, and no family background. Other than marrying into a village, where else could you possibly marry to?"

"I, I don’t want to get married," Bai Xue mumbled.

"You don’t want to marry, so you expect your mom to support you for life? Don’t forget, you also have a younger brother!" Zhen Yu poked at exactly where it hurt Bai Xue the most.

"I, I,"

Zhen Yu couldn’t bear to see Bai Xue struggling, "Just study hard! Take the high school entrance exam, go to university, find a good job, earn your own money and spend it! How wonderful that would be!"

Bai Xue still wanted to struggle feebly, "I could learn some other skill..."

"Do you think learning a skill is easier than studying? You can hardly bear to memorize stuff from books, let alone learn a skill. Not only do you need to memorize a lot of things, but you also have to practice hands-on! As I recall, aren’t your hands quite ungifted?"

"..." Bai Xue felt utterly defeated, her self-confidence at an all-time low, close to questioning her very existence.

For the first time since her rebirth, Zhen Yu took the initiative to grab Bai Xue’s hands and held them tightly.

Bai Xue looked up at her in surprise, and Zhen Yu smiled and said, "You’ll understand later! In one’s life, only the days spent in school can barely be considered worry-free. Learning the knowledge from books is the easiest thing, with teachers to guide you and my help with extra tutoring, what are you afraid of?"

Bai Xue felt very uneasy; she had been a poor student for many years. Contrary to Zhen Yu, she always thought that studying was the hardest thing in the world.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally spoke up, "How about I give it a try?"

"Yes! Give it a try!" Zhen Yu smiled like a cat that had stolen a piece of fish.

But Bai Xue had no idea that with just one sentence, she had fallen right into the hole Zhen Yu had dug for her.

Once you start trying something like this, the follow-up is no longer up to Bai Xue!

Zhen Yu had already planned it out. Once school started, she would go beg Teacher Jiang.

She wanted to sit with Bai Xue, to be by her side all day, determined to improve Bai Xue’s grades within two years.

At the very least, to reach the level of a regular high school, and then use a Lucky Pill to seal the deal!

Otherwise, with Bai Xue’s terrible student tendencies, how many ability points’ worth of pills would it take to get her into a prestigious school?