Rebirth
"Boss, the goods have been sent to you. Please pay the balance."
Xu Xi sent a file to her client, then sent a message on her phone. After she finished, she tilted her head back, closed her eyes, and exhaled softly. She leaned back in her chair and rested, mumbling, "I'm so tired, so tired."
She hadn't slept properly in two weeks. This month, she seemed to have been approached by a lot of people for outsourced blueprint work. Xu Xi had originally wanted to refuse, but the offers were too high. So, for someone as greedy as Xu Xi, who wouldn't want to be bothered by money? This part-time job was more lucrative than her regular job; anyone who didn't take it was a fool.
So, for the past two weeks, Xu Xi worked daytime hours drawing blueprints for the company. After work, she took a part-time job drawing blueprints for outsourced projects. It was a non-stop process, sometimes working overtime until after 3 a.m., but as soon as the alarm went off at 8 a.m., it was back to work. She slept no more than four hours a day, feeling like a fighter among oxen and horses.
Xu Xi was so tired from work that after finishing the task at hand, she fell asleep directly on her work chair for the whole night.
When the alarm rang in the morning, Xu Xi, with panda eyes, stood up unsteadily from her chair. She casually picked up her phone from the table and glanced at the screen. On it was the final payment of 20,000 yuan from the outsourced drawing boss.
The final payment seemed to be paid quickly because they had other mechanical drawings that needed her help to draw.
Xu Xi looked at the income she earned from working overtime for a week and instantly felt much more energetic. Her monthly salary from her main job was more than 9,000 yuan, and she could earn more than 30,000 yuan from outsourced drawings. She was simply too capable.
If she keeps doing this, she will be able to buy a house of her own in no time and won't have to rent one anymore.
Although Xu Xi felt very tired, the money put her in a good mood. She hummed a song softly and went to the bathroom to wash up. Then she picked up two packets of instant noodles from her utility room and stuffed them into her work bag, preparing to go out to work.
However, unexpectedly, Xu Xi's hand had just touched the door handle, and before she even stepped out of the door, she suddenly felt dizzy, her eyes went black, and she fell to the ground.
Low blood sugar? That shouldn't be the case. I just drank a bottle of drink.
Xu Xi fell on her work bag and heard the sound of instant noodles being crushed. It was like the sound of her life being shattered.
She struggled to pull out her phone and tried to call for help. A tear slipped from her eye, her heart silently crying out that she didn't want to die, she wanted to live. She had over a million yuan in savings and hadn't spent it yet. Was I going to be gone just like that? No, I couldn't be gone just like that.
However, things did not go as planned. Xu Xi died while trying to retrieve her phone. She didn't even get her phone.
I regret it so much! If I had known this would happen, who would have stayed up until 3:30 in the morning drawing blueprints? Working so hard to make money, but not having the life to spend it, then it's all for nothing.
If, if I could do it again...
She must love herself well and treat herself well.
A loud thunder split the sky, and the wind and rain slammed against the windows.
Xu Xi woke up in a panic, shouting for her life, "I must, I must love myself well, I don't want to die, I don't want to die."
After fully waking up, Xu Xi took a deep breath, thinking it was just a dream. She subconsciously took out her phone to check the time, but the moment she got it, she found that her phone was actually the same old one from a few years ago.
Xu Xi frowned and thought for a moment. Although she had bought a new phone, she had the habit of keeping her old phone. Now she couldn't remember what she had taken out this old phone for.
Xu Xi stood up depressedly and went to look for her new mobile phone, but she searched the entire rental house and couldn't find the new phone she was looking for.
She remembered that she wanted to check the surveillance footage to see where she had put her phone.
Only then did she realize that something was wrong.
This rental house is the old one she rented before, and there is no surveillance here.
Old cell phone, old rental house...
Xu Xi suddenly realized something.
She picked up the old phone and checked the time. It was 2020, the year she had just quit her last job and was working overtime preparing her resume, hoping to find a "high-paying job."
"I'm reborn?!"
Surprise and astonishment kept jumping around in my body.
Xu Xi ran to the half-length mirror in the bathroom and took a look. Sure enough, she still had the same long hair as before, and her face was still full of collagen. Moreover, at this time, she had not yet developed panda eyes. Her big, watery and bright eyes were still beautiful and charming.
She held her face with her hands and rubbed it vigorously. She could feel the real pain and the real temperature. She couldn't help but repeat.
"I'm truly reborn!"
Great! She was actually reborn. Although she didn't know what caused her rebirth, at the end of her life, that desperate desire to survive still lingered in her mind.
The words "If there is a future, I must love myself well" seemed to be engraved in her heart.
Xu Xi recalled how she worked so hard before her rebirth. In order not to waste time, she cut her hair short, didn't wear makeup, didn't cook, and ate instant noodles when she was hungry. She almost worked herself into a machine.
It's not worth it at all. In the end, I couldn't eat well, didn't get to enjoy the good things, and had more than 1 million yuan in savings but didn't have the life to spend it.
Reborn. This time, Xu Xi decided to enjoy life, enjoy delicious food, and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
So, be damned to the "high-paying job." Ever since college, she'd been desperately working part-time jobs alongside her studies, and after graduation, she'd intensified her efforts, working like crazy to make money.
I always thought that as long as I saved enough money and bought a house, I could live a carefree life in the future.
I never expected that this would require such fate.
Starting today, she will find an easy job and no one will ask her to work overtime for even a minute.
After calming down, she remembered something, walked to the computer, turned it on, and checked the resumes she had prepared.
Xu Xi deleted all the resumes she had prepared bit by bit.
She had had enough of drawing mechanical blueprints and no longer wanted to do it.
Perhaps she could try a variety of jobs to experience the beauty of this world. One cannot be obsessed with making money and ignore the fireworks of life.
That would be so boring.
After figuring it out, Xu Xi stayed at home for a few days and had a good rest before she began to slowly plan her next job and what kind of job she should look for.
Xu Xi first looked up online what kind of jobs were easy and didn't require overtime. She was dazzled by the variety of answers.
While I was hesitating, my cell phone suddenly rang.
Xu Xi picked up her phone and saw that it was her mother calling. She had forgotten why her mother called at this time. Because before her rebirth, she was very eager to find a high-paying job and had no time to take care of her family. Although she didn't remember the purpose of her mother's call, she vaguely remembered that it didn't seem to be something to be happy about.
She frowned slightly and hesitated to answer the call.
"Hello, Mom."
The voice on the other end was quite friendly. "Yeah, are you still busy?"
Xu Xi briefly talked about how she had been busy changing jobs and looking for a job recently.
Then, I heard my mother tell me the purpose of her call.
"So you haven't found a job yet, so you're not busy yet, right? Why don't you come back tomorrow and have dinner with me and your dad? It's been so long since you've been home. You keep saying you're busy, but I don't know what you're busy with. You don't have a job anymore, and you don't even come home to visit."
Xu Xi lowered her eyes silently. In the past, hearing her mother's nagging would have made her feel like she was wasting her time. Even when she answered the phone for no serious matters, she would urge her mother to hang up quickly. Because she needed to find a part-time job to make money, because she had fallen into the money trap, she had been working hard part-time between quitting her previous job and looking for the next one, without stopping, and without even thinking about giving herself a chance to breathe.
She felt that she was still young and should work harder to make money while she was young.
So, she temporarily ignored the companionship her parents needed, and also ignored her own freedom and health.
Xu Xi turned her head to the window. The sky was so blue and the sunshine was so beautiful today.
It seems like I really should go home and take a look.
She replied softly to the person on the other end of the phone: "I'll go back tonight."
There seemed to be some surprise over there. I would have to confirm with her later: "Really? Are you coming back tonight?"
Xu Xi: "Yeah."
After answering, she remembered that she was entering the seafood market, so she added another sentence into the phone:
"I'll go buy groceries tonight, so you and Dad don't have to worry about it."
Mother Xu was even more surprised when she heard Xu Xi say this. Her unusual response gave them some idea of what they were going to discuss tonight, and at the same time, they felt relieved. Xu Xi didn't complain about their nagging, didn't hang up on them, and even agreed to come back for dinner. This meant that there was something to discuss.
Xu Xi hung up the phone, stood up, walked to the window and stretched. Although she couldn't remember what she would face when she returned home this time, and she felt a little uneasy, but since she had decided to live a good life and love herself well, she should face the people and things she encountered in life with a good heart.
She said lazily and calmly to the blue sky: "Go home..."
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