Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 49 Marking It Down

Chapter 49: Chapter 49 Marking It Down

Zhen Yu tried to console her, "The scent will fade after your period."

Liu Ting rolled her eyes, clearly not comforted.

"Such bad luck! To be seated right next to her!"

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After returning to the classroom, Zhen Yu first took out her bag, then reached into her desk’s compartment to search.

On the first day of school, Han Mingyue had given her a medical mask, which she brought only one because she wore it at school, so the rest were left in the desk’s compartment.

Now, aside from a bottle of black ink in the corner, the compartment was spick and span.

Zhen Yu sighed helplessly, guessing someone must have cleaned the classroom during the weekend and taken the masks.

She had no choice but to call Liu Ting and tell her the masks were gone.

Liu Ting turned back, looking dejected.

Zhen Yu tied her hair into a ponytail using a pencil.

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The second class was History, taught by a female teacher named Shen. Zhen Yu didn’t like her in her previous life, yet she was the History class representative.

Teacher Shen was a lean woman, probably around the same age as Mrs. Zhen, with deep nasolabial folds and a rigid, stern demeanor.

The first class with Teacher Shen didn’t concern Zhen Yu; she just listened obediently, as Teacher Shen taught straight from the book, leaving the students drowsy.

When the class ended, Teacher Shen assigned homework and left the room.

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On Monday, the second break was for the routine flag-raising ceremony, without the morning exercises.

After returning from the restroom to the classroom, Zhen Yu was faced with Teacher Cao’s robust blackboard writing --- the duty roster.

The class of sixty students was divided over five days for duty, with exactly twelve each day.

The first row had eight people, plus columns one and two of the second row, just so happened to include Zhen Yu’s desk.

Poor Zhen Yu sat in the second row and the second column, a "two" in every way!

She, the unlucky one, would start her duty from this Monday.

The third class was Mathematics, otherwise Teacher Cao wouldn’t have bothered to come in to write this thing himself.

Teacher Cao lectured on algebra last class, and this class he taught geometry.

His lively teaching style engaged most of the students, and halfway through, he asked everyone to take out their rulers to draw.

Zhen Yu opened her pencil case and froze; her ruler was gone, not just the straight ruler, but the compass was missing too.

During class, she couldn’t do much, so she took out an unopened triangular ruler from her backpack and used the longer side.

After class, Teacher Cao loudly announced, "This Sunday is Teacher’s Day, and the school encourages all junior high students to help harvest wheat in the teachers’ private plots."

"This wheat, well, I’m sure I’ll get a share too~ So, students, enjoy a good meal at home on the Mid-Autumn Festival this Saturday! Be well-fed and full of energy for work on Sunday~ Remember to bring gloves and sickles! Meet at 8 AM on the 10th on the sports field~"

Teacher Cao left the classroom amidst the students’ laughter.

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The fourth period was P.E., and most students followed Teacher Cao out of the class.

Mou Jingjing didn’t leave and was packing her bag at her desk.

Zhen Yu, while putting her books into her bag, pondered.

During the class, Zhen Yu noticed that Mou Jingjing was using a worn, old straight ruler with smoothed corners.

Zhen Yu had an intuition that her missing items might have been taken by Mou Jingjing.

Because the mechanical pencil and ballpoint pen she lent had not been returned, and with the habit of taking small advantages without returning... the possibility of stealing was high.

However, Mou Jingjing hadn’t taken them out to use, and Zhen Yu’s items were still in their original new condition.

Even if Zhen Yu finds something from her backpack now, she could claim that she bought it herself.

Although they are not valuable items, this incident is quite disgusting.

In her past life, she never shared a desk with this girl in middle school, but it was not uncommon for things like pencils or erasers to go missing in the classroom.

However, those were mostly unintentional losses. It was the first time Zhen Yu had experienced such blatant theft in the classroom in this life.

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This made Zhen Yu think of someone. Her gaze swept around the classroom and finally rested on the desk mate of Qian Duoduo in the front row.

The English class representative, Wu Qiong, whose family was in the military unit, so she boarded at school.

In her previous life, Zhen Yu boarded at middle school and shared a dormitory with her.

She was the odd one out in the dormitory; stealing laundry detergent and skin lotion was just the tip of the iceberg. She even stole the underwear of other girls from the dormitory, which they hung on clotheslines in the hallway, and wore them.

Later on, she escalated to stealing from her own dorm mates—be it clothes, food, shelter, or everyday items; she spared nothing.

Eventually, she was reported to the dorm supervisor and was criticized before being kicked out of the dormitory.

Zhen Yu wasn’t sure if the school had made a note of this in her record, but the kind dorm supervisor requested the girls not to spread the story. The school also did not hold a meeting to publicly disclose Wu Qiong’s actions.

Maybe it was because her grades were good enough! In the end, amidst the whispers and pointed fingers of the girls who knew her, she completed her middle school education and was admitted to high school.

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Her thoughts drifted away, but in front of Zhen Yu now, she still needed to figure out what to do about the missing items.

She could only------make a mark.

This way, if something went missing again, she could at least confirm whether it was hers and, at the very least, deter the thief from brazenly using it right beside her...

Zhen Yu planned to roll up her sleeves and get to work tonight as soon as she returned home.

After packing her backpack, Zhen Yu went to the sports field with Liu Ting, who was waiting for her.

The small town school lagged behind and did not have much sports equipment. During this first physical education class of the school year, the gym teacher simply had them run.

In the end, they identified the fastest boy.

And so, Fu Yu was appointed as the sports committee member.

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During the break, the students had free time.

Fu Yu showed off in front of Zhen Yu with a series of jumps and dashes.

"Zhen Yu! Now I’m also a class leader, just like you!"

"I’m the fastest runner in our class! You were the slowest runner in primary school, and you’re still probably the slowest!"

At this moment, Fu Yu was finally no longer nervous and said with annoying cheer: "Haha~ Are you still angry? Come hit me~~~ Too bad! You can’t catch me!"

Zhen Yu was so annoyed by him that she stood up and walked away.

But Fu Yu stuck to her like a shadow, pestering her non-stop.

Zhen Yu held back her irritation until she couldn’t anymore.

When Fu Yu was just a step away, she suddenly grabbed his right wrist, twisted it, and pressed down hard on his upper arm with her other hand. Fu Yu was forced to bend down involuntarily.

With his one arm pressed behind him by Zhen Yu, he couldn’t stand up straight.

He said urgently in a low voice, "Let me go!"

Zhen Yu wanted to teach him a lesson, but upon hearing his plea, she let go and said coldly, "Don’t bother me."

Then she turned and sat down by the concrete platform.

"Stinky Zhen Yu! Think you’re so great just because you know Martial Arts!" Fu Yu felt a combination of envy, jealousy, hatred, and a bit of fear, and in the end, he did not follow her anymore.

This scene, like a drop of water on the sports field, did not stir up much disturbance among the scattered crowd but was noticed by a few observant individuals.

Mr. Li, who taught physical education, was one of them.

Although it was only a fleeting glimpse, he could sense that the girl had probably been trained in specific fighting and capturing techniques of Martial Arts.