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"Hello, who is this?"
Ye Chen answered the phone.
"Is it Ye Chen?
The familiar voice had a hint of hoarseness.
Ye Chen's heartbeat suddenly soared.
"You are... You are Teacher Gao?
Ye Chen's throat was dry and he began to breathe rapidly.
If it were in his previous life, with just a few words and the long time between them, he would definitely not be able to tell whose voice it was.
But being able to live his life again made his memory extremely sharp and clear.
In an instant, I recognized the voice as that of my high school class teacher, Mr. Gao.
Then, memories of his past life came flooding back like a raging tide. In his past life, his personality changed drastically after his business failed.
I only met Teacher Gao once in my life.
That side, we met in the ward.
That day, Mr. Gao, who had taken great care of this orphan student and given him special treatment during high school, asked him to swear in front of the light while lying on the hospital bed, swearing that he would be a good person and turn over a new leaf in the future.
That day, he, a tall and strong man, burst into tears in front of his head teacher who had no blood relationship with him.
Just right away.
Teacher Gao's words interrupted his recollections.
"I didn't expect you could still recognize the teacher's voice. I'm so glad, so glad!"
"Teacher Gao, that's not true. I, Ye Chen, can forget anyone but I will never forget you!" Ye Chen said hurriedly.
At the same time, he stood up from the sofa and walked to the balcony.
"Really? Although you can't forget me, you have forgotten your former ambitions, my teachings, and the high hopes I had for you!" Teacher Gao on the other end of the phone suddenly lowered his voice.
"Teacher Gao, what do you mean by this?" Ye Chen was confused.
Teacher Gao on the other end no longer hid anything.
"Ye Chen, Ye Chen, do you know that you are the one I have placed the highest hopes on in all these years of teaching? The teacher knows your background, so the teacher hopes that you can rewrite your own destiny and turn your life around. You did not disappoint me back then and were admitted to a very good university. This is a smooth road to a comeback in life, but why... why did you play this good hand so badly!"
The voice is a bit sad.
But more of it is the feeling of being disappointed in someone.
At first, he didn't believe that Ye Chen would become as bad as some of his classmates said.
But as more and more students come out to provide evidence.
He had to believe it.
"Teacher Gao, what are you talking about?" Ye Chen understood a little, but still asked this.
"I ask you, have you gone astray? Have you given up and become addicted to alcohol and gambling and have you gotten into trouble with loan sharks? Are you often chased by loan sharks and can't even pay the rent? And you keep borrowing money from people? Ye Chen, how can you live like this? How can you?"
The sound of Teacher Gao stamping his feet and beating his chest reached Ye Chen's ears.
This also made Ye Chen's tears swirl wildly in his eyes.
"Yes, teacher, you are right!"
Ye Chen looked at Jiang Jing, blinked, and took a deep breath.
The words fell.
Before Teacher Gao on the other end had time to speak.
Then he said, "But this is all in the past!"
"The past? You mean you've changed and turned over a new leaf?"
"Well, to be honest with you, teacher, I was indeed a bastard to the point where I almost lost my wife and children. Fortunately, I came back to life. I can't say I'm rich now, let alone successful, but at least I have a wife and children and a warm bed! Teacher Gao, I didn't let you down!" Ye Chen said.
"Are you telling the truth?" Teacher Gao exclaimed in astonishment.
"Really, I can't lie to anyone but you!"
At this point, Ye Chen said, "Well, Mr. Gao, where are you teaching now? I'll go find you and catch up with you..."
"I'm attending a teaching conference in another city these days, and I won't be back until next Saturday! Also, your classmates will hold a reunion next Saturday, and they've invited me and other teachers who taught in that class. Do you want to come too? Almost all of my classmates from that year, except those who are overseas, will be there. Lin Mengxi also told me that although you're not in the class group, she'll contact you privately about this, and I hope you can come too!"
Under Ye Chen's firm words, Teacher Gao followed up with his words.
The reason why he brought this up was that he wanted to see if what Ye Chen said was true.
If Ye Chen is willing to participate, then what he said should not be a lie.
But if Ye Chen was unwilling to participate, he would inevitably think that Ye Chen was guilty.
However.
Ye Chen was stunned.
What are the faces of the so-called classmates?
He had experienced this before he made his fortune in his previous life.
It was a classmate's wedding banquet. He received the invitation and went.
Little did he know that in return everyone would treat him as a clown and make fun of him to divert the atmosphere.
Even the groom's classmate was no exception.
That day, to everyone's disbelief, he overturned the table and left angrily.
That night, he was drunk in the rental house, and he raised his finger and swore at the thunder that was raging that night.
Having experienced everything in the previous life.
Now that there is such a class reunion, he definitely won't have the slightest interest in it.
Because of the grudges and hatreds from the previous life, they were also brought back to this life.
In his previous life, after he became rich, all those people who had viewed him as a clown and a joke at the wedding banquet begged him for help.
But without exception, he coldly refused. He could build hundreds of schools in obscurity in a dozen years, he could sponsor more than 10,000 children from poor families to pursue their studies in a dozen years, he could invest nearly 100 billion in charity and poverty alleviation without seeking any fame or fortune in a dozen years, and he even made a will early on, donating all his assets and wealth to the National Charity Foundation after his death.
But he never lent a helping hand to those classmates, not even once.
He has an open mind, as broad as the sea and can accommodate all rivers.
But while he was open-minded, he was also narrow-minded, so narrow-minded that he could never forget the humiliation he had suffered.
Today, although his life has been restarted, the scars of grudges deep in his heart are still bloody and he has no way to let go.
The feeling of being unable to let go made him decide after his rebirth that he would never have anything to do with the people from his previous life again.
However, facing what Mr. Gao, the head teacher, said, Ye Chen was in a dilemma.
"So does Teacher Gao want me to go or not?" Ye Chen asked.
"If you have really reformed, then I hope you go. I want your classmates to know that I didn't misjudge him. Even if the person I like has gone astray, he is now back on the right track! On the contrary, if you haven't yet walked out of that decadent circle, I don't want you to go, but we can have a good chat in private..." Teacher Gao spoke in a sonorous and straightforward voice.
Apparently, the weird atmosphere in the class group made him, the former class teacher, become obsessed.
Just because Ye Chen was a student he had high hopes for, a very special student...