Why don't you believe I'm a reincarnated person?

Chapter 2 Shen Mingsun: Something really big has happened!

Xinghua City, Yayuan Residential Area, Building 5, 8th floor, west-facing unit.

The design, consisting of four bedrooms, two living rooms, a study, a maid's room, and a storage room, occupies a full 260 square meters of space. It could be considered a luxury home anywhere. The Chinese-style decoration perfectly reflects the owner's scholarly atmosphere.

It is worth emphasizing that Yayuan Community is a school district property near Xinghua No. 1 Middle School, which greatly increases its value.

Xinghua City is a county-level city. The mayor is at the level of a full-fledged department head, and the deputy mayor is naturally at the level of a deputy department head.

"Dad, look at this."

After much hesitation, Shen Jiayi finally slipped a sticky note into her father Shen Mingsun's hand.

"Has someone sent our girl another love letter?"

Deputy Mayor Shen Mingsun, who had just returned home and washed up, was relaxing on the sofa watching the evening news when he smiled as he accepted the sticky note handed to him by his daughter, and then joked.

Sticky notes with pink heart-shaped patterns are a common way for students to exchange subtle hints of affection. Shen Mingsun has seen many of these from his daughter; if he were to collect them all, they probably wouldn't fit in a single schoolbag.

"This is... a prophecy, isn't it?"

Shen Jiayi bit her lower lip, unsure how to explain to her father. Saying that Ye Kai was reborn was too far-fetched; she preferred to attribute Ye Kai's eccentric behavior to being a charlatan.

"I've seen plenty of love letters."

"A prophecy? That's quite novel..."

"Are high school students these days really that good at having fun? Haha."

Shen Mingsun looked at his daughter with some doting affection, then casually unfolded the folded sticky note. Based on his more than forty years of life experience, he figured this was probably another new trick played by some young punk, disguised as a prophecy but actually a love letter.

Heh, this kid does have some tricks up his sleeve, but trying to show off in front of an old man like me is a bit too overconfident.

"Tsk—"

However, when Shen Mingsun saw what was written on the sticky note, his confident expression vanished, replaced by a slight look of surprise.

"Isn't that outrageous?"

Having already peeked, Shen Jiayi rested her chin on her father's shoulder and asked in a low voice.

"That's really outrageous."

"He's not even my boss, yet he's assigning me work?"

Shen Mingsun nodded, feeling a growing curiosity about this blond-haired young man.

The note was very simple, just a prediction that Shen Mingsun would encounter two things tomorrow, advising him to choose to do one thing and resolutely avoid the other, and repeatedly emphasizing the seriousness of making the wrong choice.

"However, I do know the first thing: the team that the city sent was of average skill. Although they qualified to go to Beijing to compete, they were far from winning an award."

"As a deputy mayor, I'm afraid I won't get any attention and will only end up getting a humiliating defeat."

"As for the other matter, how could he predict a chance event that hasn't even happened yet? Even if it does happen, there's no guarantee that things won't go wrong if I handle it, right?"

Shen Mingsun touched his clean-shaved chin, his heart filled with doubt.

However, Ye Kai was right about one thing: they were indeed going to hold a mayor's office meeting tomorrow morning to discuss arrangements for some work at this stage.

Let's wait and see...

"dad."

"If things are really as he says, I hope you will choose the first option."

After much deliberation, Shen Jiayi finally made her request to her father.

When it comes to prophecies, once there's a hint that they might come true, it's better to believe they're true than not. It's not wise to stubbornly rush headlong into something bad.

"Okay, I promise you."

"Jiajia, you should get some rest. Don't you have a mock exam this week?"

Although Shen Mingsun didn't pay much attention, he still accepted his daughter's kindness with a smile.

……

Are you stupid?

"How come you can't even do such a simple problem?"

"I'm starting to doubt if you really were reborn from over a decade in the future... Seriously, do you reborn people not need to use your brains when you're reborn?"

While drawing crosses on her deskmate's test paper with a red pen, Shen Jiayi criticized him harshly.

"I told you long ago that I was reborn, but you didn't believe me. Now you believe me?"

Ye Kai was also grading Shen Jiayi's paper, but wherever the red pen went, it was basically all marked with checkmarks. It was impossible to find a fault with her. She was indeed a female academic genius with the potential of a 985 university.

"But speaking of which, your English and Chinese have improved dramatically, even more than mine."

Shen Jiayi, who had already graded two papers, suddenly added with a hint of envy and jealousy.

"Languages ​​are, after all, subjects based on experience. The more you learn and use them, the better your application skills will become. As someone who has more than a decade of social experience than you, it's reasonable for you to have better grades."

"Mathematics is different; if you don't know math, you really don't know it."

Ye Kai felt he had embarrassed himself as a reborn person. His math, physics, and chemistry scores were all terrible. Although his Chinese and English scores improved significantly, his overall scores dropped noticeably.

However, there are still nearly 150 days until the college entrance examination. If he re-plans his review strategy, he may be able to improve his grades to a level that he could never have achieved in his previous life within this time limit. Aiming for a 985 university may be a pipe dream, but getting into a mid-tier 211 university should not be a big problem.

After all, what he lacked at this moment was not the problem-solving approach, but rather that he had forgotten most of the complex formulas and theorems. However, these difficulties could be resolved in a short time; it would just take some time and effort.

Having surpassed his past life, Ye Kai was full of confidence.

"What do you think about me switching to humanities for my college entrance exam?"

Ye Kai suddenly had a whimsical idea.

It's very difficult to significantly improve in math, physics, and chemistry in a short period of time, but things like politics, history, and geography are different. With his more than ten years of life experience, changing course and studying humanities would obviously give him a much higher success rate.

"I think it's great."

Wei Junjie, who was sitting in front of Ye Kai, suddenly turned around and affirmed Ye Kai's gesture.

"What's it to you?"

Shen Jiayi brandished her compass, forcing Wei Junjie back.

"I think something's off between you two!"

Wei Junjie turned back, still grumbling and grumbling.

As Ye Kai's close male classmate, Wei Junjie clearly felt that Ye Kai and Shen Jiayi's interactions had been quite frequent these past two days, seemingly indicating a move to break through the barrier between them.

"Xixi, you're overthinking it. Go do your math problems!"

"Shen Jiayi, what do you think of my thoughts just now?"

Ye Kai nudged Wei Junjie's stool with his foot, then continued to ask Shen Jiayi for her opinion.

"Are you dreaming?"

"College entrance exam registration ended last month, and now you're thinking of switching to humanities?"

Shen Jiayi looked at Ye Kai with the kind of eyes that seemed to pity someone with intellectual disabilities, and unleashed her full sarcasm.

"Damn it!"

"It seems that only Mount Hua remains as a path!"

Ye Kai slammed his elbow heavily on the table, making a firm decision.

"I'll borrow your hairband for now, you don't need it anyway."

Ye Kai's gaze swept around before settling on the white hairband hanging on Shen Jiayi's schoolbag.

"What?"

Shen Jiayi was stunned for a moment, only to see that Ye Kai had already taken action.

He spread Shen Jiayi's hairband out on the table, then wrote the bloody words "Fight to the death" in red pen, and tied it directly to his forehead, like a warrior from a suicide squad.

"That's an authentic product from the official store, it cost me two hundred and eighty..."

Shen Jiayi looked at Ye Kai, who was acting somewhat childish and delusional, and felt a pang of heartache.

"By the way, why are you called Wei Junjie Xixi? Is that his nickname?"

The pain was fleeting, but Shen Jiayi suddenly thought of this question and whispered to Ye Kai.

"It's Wei Junjie, the one who wrote 'Xi Xi Wu'."

His QQ nickname is "Xixi Wuzhe".

Ye Kai was engrossed in working through the practice problems spread out on the table when he casually replied.

"...So that's how it is."

Shen Jiayi was stunned for a moment before realizing that it was a pun.

The second period was a Chinese language class.

As soon as Wang Fusheng, the homeroom teacher and Chinese language teacher, entered the classroom, he saw Ye Kai with his hair tied up and buried in his books. He couldn't help but nod to himself, thinking that this child had suddenly had an epiphany and had actually scored 139 points on the Chinese exam. It was truly an eye-opener. If he could keep it up until the college entrance exam, he might just give everyone a big surprise.

During the break between classes, Shen Jiayi received a phone call from her father, Shen Mingsun.

"Jiajia."

"Well, how should I put it? The meeting just now actually discussed whether to strengthen guidance for the Xinghua City Emerging Economy Exhibition and Professional Skills Competition, and to send a vice mayor to Beijing to guide the competition..."

Shen Mingsun's feelings on the other side were clearly somewhat complicated.

Although he had known about this matter for a long time, he had never considered that the city would attach so much importance to it and hold a special meeting to discuss the issue. As a result, he had to seriously consider the prediction or suggestion that Ye Kai had given him.

"So, Dad, have you agreed to lead the team?"

Hearing her father say this, Shen Jiayi immediately felt a little nervous.

Although she didn't believe Ye Kai's words about being reborn, if Ye Kai really had accurately predicted her father's itinerary, then this matter was somewhat unbelievable. She wondered if her father would respond accordingly.

"Since I agreed to your request yesterday, I will naturally not go back on my word."

"I've volunteered to lead the team to Beijing this afternoon to oversee the competition. However, this means I won't be able to take care of you during your mock exams this week. Your mother is currently in a closed training program in the province, so you'll have to rely on yourself for everything..."

Shen Mingsun responded in this way over the phone.

"Don't worry, Dad, I can take care of myself."

Hearing Shen Mingsun's answer, Shen Jiayi felt inexplicably relieved, as if some gloom had suddenly vanished, and the whole world seemed different to her.

Shen Mingsun felt a great sense of relief after hanging up the phone.

Although he pretended not to care, with Ye Kai's prediction yesterday and today's meeting being as if it were divine calculation, how could it not have an impact on him?

Even if he didn't agree to his daughter's request, Shen Mingsun would still choose this seemingly uneventful trip to the capital rather than gamble on whether the sudden event predicted by Ye Kai would actually occur.

For those in the workplace who want to maintain a stable and long-term position, avoiding risks and protecting themselves should be their motto.

He had already led his team and boarded a plane bound for Beijing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our plane is ready for takeoff. Please fasten your seatbelts, straighten your seatbacks, recline your seats, stow your tray tables, open your window shades, and ensure your mobile phones are switched off..."

Following the flight attendant's instructions, Shen Mingsun turned off her phone, adjusted her neck pillow, and closed her eyes to rest.

The flight from Xinghua City to the capital takes about two and a half hours, and only during this time can he be completely separated from his work.

The airspace was in good condition, and the flight was very smooth throughout the journey.

Shen Mingsun asked the flight attendant for a blanket and covered himself with it, finally getting a good night's sleep.

When he woke up, the flight attendants were already reminding the passengers that the plane was about to land and asking them to double-check that their seatbelts were fastened.

After a period of turbulence, the plane landed safely.

With everyone relaxed, they all turned on their phones to check for missed calls or text messages.

"Um?"

Sure enough, when the phone was turned on, Shen Mingsun received more than a dozen missed calls, seven or eight of which were from his liaison, Liu Weiwei, one of the deputy directors of the government office.

"Boss, something terrible has happened!"

After the call connected, Liu Weiwei on the other end of the line hurriedly reported to Shen Mingsun.