"Sister Ling." Lin Xi blurted out almost subconsciously.

She was stunned after she called out to everyone.

What happened?

It's so catchy it's unbelievable.

Jiang Ling then noticed the short girl next to Lin Ma, and smiled with her eyes crinkling, "Oh, what a sweet little mouth, and she's so cute."

"This is my daughter, Lin Xi," Lin's mother introduced with a smile, feeling incredibly proud when others praised her daughter.

"Sister Ling! Hurry up!" someone urged from the other end.

Lin Xi looked in the direction of the sound.

Two women and three men, two of the younger men holding their phones horizontally.

"Wow, Brother Long, didn't you say you didn't play games? You're kidding, right?"

"Maybe you're just too bad at the game."

"Alright, Xiao Chao, let's eat!"

"Wait, wait, wait! We only have the high ground left!"

Jiang Ling sat down, casually placed her bag on the empty chair next to her, and teased, "Never mind him. He's been spoiled with this habit. He's still playing games when it's time to eat. Let him be the last one to drink the soup."

"Little one?"

Lin Xi snapped out of her daze and noticed her mother looking at her strangely. Her mother asked, "What's wrong? Why are you staring at her like that?"

She didn't know either; she had an indescribable feeling in her heart, a bit like there were small stones pressing down on her, heavy and unsettling.

"I don't know, they look so familiar."

“We’re neighbors, of course we recognize each other.” Lin’s mother laughed heartily at her words. “Alright, let’s go there.”

Lin Xi held her mother's hand, a strange feeling lingering in her heart.

"By the way, Brother Long, let's go to your place again next time, I want to eat seafood!"

Lin Xi's attention was drawn back, and she turned to look at the group of people.

They seemed to notice the gaze directed at them and turned around in unison.

Brother Long waved to her, and He Chao, holding chopsticks, grinned at her with a bright white smile.

There are other people too.

Lin Xi felt as if she were surrounded by these gazes, and for a moment, she was at a loss.

The faces of those people flashed before my eyes one by one...

here we go again……

My head feels like it's being pricked with needles...

Suddenly, someone shook her shoulder, and a gentle, familiar voice softly sounded in her ear, bringing a sense of comfort and reassurance.

"Let's go, don't you want hot pot anymore?"

Lin Xi suddenly snapped back to reality.

I think I was just... trapped in a nightmare...

That's so strange.

She shook her head and immediately replied, "Eat, eat, eat! I have so many things I want to eat."

"Lamb, pork, tripe, and meatballs! I feel like I haven't eaten like this in ages!"

Lin's mother was scrolling through her phone, seemingly chatting with a colleague about work.

Lin Xi took a small sip of plum juice and frowned. "Mom, why do all these things taste so bland? Even the plum juice is like water."

"No, right?" Lin's mother quickly took a small sip. "You're fine, baby. Have you not had much of an appetite these past few days?"

Lin Xi's doubts deepened.

Lin's mother finally put down her phone. "Sweetie, you must be under too much pressure from your studies. Haven't you been resting lately? Don't think too much. As I've said before, the most important thing is that you're happy, no matter what you do."

Lin Xi felt a warmth in her heart. "Yes, Mom is the best, so I need to study even harder to give Mom a better life!"

"You little devil!"

...

on Monday.

Lin Xi put on her school uniform, carrying a meat bun in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other.

Standing at the school gate and looking inside, countless students pass by on this main road, leaving only a fleeting silhouette.

Lin Xi glanced at the time and immediately sped up her run.

"Oh no, what was I doing spacing out? Now I'm going to be late!"

...

Medical room.

The school nurse, with her large eyes beneath her bangs, stared intently at her. "It hurts again? When?"

Lin Xi sat on the stool, swinging her legs. "It hurt for a little while last Friday night, but it seems to be fine these past two days."

"Young man, this is your own health issue, please take it more seriously, okay?" The loli voice carried a hint of barely perceptible anger.

Lin Xi shrank her neck. What's going on?

Why is the school doctor, who looks so gentle and kind, more stern than her homeroom teacher when she gets angry?

After saying that, she seemed to realize that her tone was unfriendly, and turned her head away without saying anything more offensive.

She pulled open the drawer on the right side of the table, took out a box, rummaged around for a while, poured out a pack of pills, and then took out a small pair of scissors from a storage box on the table and cut off two pills.

"What is this? Ibuprofen?" Lin Xi reached out her right hand and took it.

But she remembered that ibuprofen didn't look like this.

The school doctor still looks extremely serious.

Lin Xi stopped talking midway through her speech.

With that aura of millennia-old ice emanating from her, how could she dare to speak again?

As she spoke, she quickly shoved the medicine into her pocket and ran off.

The school doctor only had time to feel a gust of wind, and when he turned around, the person was nowhere to be seen.

She sighed, feeling both helpless and amused.

She hadn't had time to put away the medicine box on the table.

The patterns and words on the white medicine box were blurry, making it impossible to tell what kind of medicine it was.

A boastful remark echoed in the wind: "Next time I'm in pain, I'll definitely come find you right away!"

The intense high school life made her feel incredibly fulfilled.

She didn't know what was going on, but despite being extremely annoyed before, she now felt incredibly relaxed, as if a lot of things that had been weighing on her mind had vanished in an instant.

When she has a headache again, Lin Xi still goes to the infirmary.

The new school doctor is quite pretty, and I always feel like she knows me very well.

But they had clearly never met before.

Perhaps this is what they call a sense of destiny.

Before countless reincarnations, their relationship must have been incredibly close.

"School nurse, have you noticed that the school food has become increasingly bland lately?"

The school doctor paused, then nodded casually, "It seems so."

Lin Xi's eyes lit up. "I knew it! I've finally found a kindred spirit. My classmates and I, they all said it was just my imagination. It's really strange."

The school doctor simply smiled faintly, not intending to dwell on such a trivial matter, and changed the subject, "Is there anything else strange about your body?"

Lin Xi thought about it carefully, "There really is! Believe it or not, wasn't today a physical education test? I finished the 800 meters in one and a half minutes! That's outrageous, before, I was always one of the worst performers!"

"Isn't this a good thing? What? You don't like it?"

"But this is really strange, why aren't they reacting at all?" Lin Xi muttered.

The school doctor still didn't react much, and even said with a serious expression, "One and a half minutes? I feel you can be even faster."