Reborn in My School Days

Reborn in My School Days is a youth campus novel by the web author Archangel, serialized on Qidian.com. The book runs to about 540,000 characters and holds an A-level contract. The story begins with an ordinary office worker who has achieved little in life and accumulated only a few years of social experience. One weekend he falls asleep in the staff dormitory and wakes to find himself back in a high school classroom—the familiar homeroom teacher, the familiar classroom, the familiar classmates, everything as it was back then. The protagonist is forced to restart his life from high school, carrying several more years of social experience than his peers, yet he must first face the most practical hurdles: classes, homework, exams, and advancing to higher education. He readjusts to the rhythm of exam-oriented education while using his vague memory of how the times will unfold to seek opportunities to change his fate both inside and outside school—from academic performance and class elections to writing songs, submitting manuscripts, and encountering the newly emerging Internet. Through the protagonist's experience, the author lays out the middle school campus life and social changes from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first century. The book takes everyday campus vignettes as its main thread; morning exercises, evening study sessions, sports meets, home visits, and correspondence with pen pals form the main plot lines. The style is plain and gentle, and the author states, "There will be beauties, there will be wealth, there will be honor—this is not a tragedy." It is a light, realistic rebirth campus novel.