The spring breeze in May flows south along the port of Southampton, along the channel where the Titanic set sail, and blows towards the wide and deep English Sea.
People come and go on the quaint and neat Lingang Street. Although it is not summer time yet, the streets are already full of young and beautiful miniskirts.
Gu Ran stood outside the Costa coffee shop on the corner of Lingang Street, his eyes as wide as light bulbs, staring blankly at the reflective glass of the coffee shop——
He was really not looking at the miniskirt fluttering in the wind, nor was he looking at the blond man and woman exchanging ventriloquism in the cafe.
He was just looking at himself in the reflective glass.
Young, handsome, and confused at the same time.
I took out my iPhone 4 and looked at the time. It was 11:38 a.m. on May 20, 2010...
Could it be that I was reborn?
Moreover, are you reincarnated back to your high school days when you studied in the UK in 2010?
Just a few minutes ago, Gu Ran's last memory was that on November 17, 2022, he witnessed the hometown county team joined by two golf buddies who usually played together and upset the Guoan team.
Later, he and other teammates drank all night long until they broke into pieces.
When I woke up, I was actually standing outside the door of this cafe called Costa in Southampton?!
Everything happened so suddenly...
I haven’t even had time to watch the World Cup in Qatar yet!
Feeling the familiar sea breeze of Southampton, looking at the face in the reflective glass,
Gu Ran tried hard to control his emotions.
But in the end I couldn't hold it any longer...
He grinned wildly.
I made a profit... I made a profit!
After reading so many online novels, it was finally my turn to be reborn!
In the first half of my life, I was filled with regrets and frustrations, and made so many wrong choices...
Finally you can...
Wait, hold on! Don’t set the flag yet!
In any case, at least 12 years of youth have been earned!
"Didi didi——"
At this moment, the ringtone of the iPhone 4 suddenly rang.
Caller: Sophie Turner.
Gu Ran's brows moved slightly, and a memory from the past came to his mind.
Sophie Turner, Gu Ran's classmate when he was studying in the UK, and the daughter of his landlord.
Sophie is the school belle of Southampton Private High School. She is not only excellent in character and academics, but also shows good acting talent at a young age. She is the popular heroine of the school drama club.
And no one knows that in half a year, Sophie Turner will win the role of "Sansa" in the classic American drama "Game of Thrones". She will become famous and become a world-class star with her superb acting skills.
Hot star.
Before his rebirth, Gu Ran naturally had no idea that Sophie would become a world star in the future.
At that time, he was a typical nerd. He only wanted to study hard and work hard to get into the University of Southampton.
He didn't pay much attention to what happened to his landlord's beautiful daughter after she went to film. It wasn't until he saw "A Song of Ice and Fire" on the screen a few years later that he realized that he had just passed by a future big star...
Ahem...
After complaining to himself, Gu Ran quickly adjusted his mood and answered the phone.
"good afternoon……"
Before Gu Ran could finish saying hello, Sophie's angrily voice came from the other side: "Shit! You stood outside the cafe and giggled for five minutes, and then said good afternoon to me? I said Gu, you can't be
Do you want the whole school to laugh at me, Sophie, for finding an idiot as your boyfriend???"
"Well……"
Only then did Gu Ran remember that he had indeed had a month-long "dating" with Sophie.
Of course, they are pretending to be dating.
In order to get rid of the persistent stalking of her senior classmates, Sophie asked her tenant Gu Ran to pretend to be her boyfriend and go out on dates from time to time, in order to distract the endless stream of suitors.
In Sophie's opinion, these boys with no hair at all are just brats who don't understand anything and are not worth the time of a goddess like her.
In return, Sophie promised Gu Ran that she could help him tutor "British Poetry Recitation" and correct his accent when she was free.
And today, this cafe is the place where they had their first "public date".
Of course, in the previous life, this fake date only lasted four weeks before Sophie got the opportunity to audition for "Game of Thrones". Then she never returned to school until Gu Ran graduated from high school.
As a result, the two people went to two different worlds and never crossed paths again.
"..."
After a long silence, Sophie on the other end of the phone said angrily: "I have said so much, and you only reply to me with one modal word? Although we are just acting, you have to respect the contract we signed, right? Humph, you guys
Chinese people spend all day studying and doing questions, but in real life they can’t even pretend to be on a date? I beg you, can you come in quickly? Don’t wait outside!”
After saying that, he hung up the phone directly.
Haha, this little girl has quite a bad temper.
Gu Ran smiled helplessly, picked up his mobile phone, opened the door and entered the cafe.
The lights in the cafe are dim and the aroma of coffee beans is fragrant.
The melodious "Titanic" theme song plays a romantic melody on a loop.
When Gu Ran looked around for his "girlfriend", he didn't notice a waitress carrying a tray walking towards him.
Coincidentally, the waiter was only paying attention to the stability of the coffee cup on the tray, and did not pay attention to Gu Ran who was parked in the aisle.
Bang!
The two of them bumped into each other.
Gu Ran, with quick eyesight and quick hands, helped the waitress hold the tray.
Fortunately, the tray held me up.
However, the cup in the tray fell to the floor and the coffee spilled all over the floor.
"I'm sorry, sir!" the waiter apologized quickly.
"fine."
Gu Ran replied subconsciously, and a system prompt suddenly sounded in Gu Ran's mind.
"Light~"
"Feeling 38 points of negative emotions from Tina Simpson, bubbles are being generated..."
Tina Simpson is the waitress in front of me?
Negative emotions 38 points?
I can’t tell that this guy who apologized politely has quite a lot of resentment in his heart...
Yes, after all, if the coffee is spilled, not only do you have to clean the floor, but you also have to make a new cup.
If it doesn't work well, you will have to be urged by customers and scolded by the boss.
etc!
bubble?
???
Could it be that not only am I reborn, but I also have extra gold...
Gu Ran's heart beat violently at that moment, and then he noticed that there was an air bubble glowing with gray light coming from the other party's feet!
Bubbles about twenty centimeters in diameter... Gu Ran looked around and found that neither the waiter himself, who was squatting down to clean up the debris on the floor, nor the other customers who were looking over, had any surprised expressions on their faces.
.
Is it really only you who can see it?
Gu Ran calmly walked up to the bubble, moved his foot and touched it.
As soon as he touched the gray bubble, it immediately shattered and turned into a ray of light, which merged into Gu Ran's body.
"The host picked up the skill from the ruined bubble: Hand Rush +1, and the pick-up progress today is 1/10."
…
Hand surgery?
Gu Ran felt a strange information pouring into his mind, and he immediately understood the status of this skill: he could make mixed drinks such as coffee, milk tea, etc. for an hour without feeling sore.
Gu Ran: "..."
Do I need the skill of "making coffee and milk tea by hand for an hour continuously" to knit?
I won’t work in a coffee shop!
And what’s the big deal whether my hands are sore or not?
Is this considered a skill?
What a cheat!
Gu Ran couldn't help but complain in his heart.
"Gu, over here! Why are you still standing there stupidly?"
In the corner of the cafe, a tall and beautiful girl with outstanding figure stuck her head out and shouted to him.
It was 16-year-old Sophie Turner.
Although Sophie is only 16 years old, she is already 1.75cm tall, has blond hair and blue eyes, standard facial features, long legs and a slim waist. The only shortcomings in her body are probably the pair of A's on her chest.
Because she was playing the role of a date, Sophie Turner specially put on beautiful makeup. When she stood up, the fan A-line skirt she was wearing and her two long legs like ivory chopsticks stood out against the coffee table.
Eye-catching.
At this moment, Sophie was holding her pair of slender arms elegantly in front of her partner A, her pretty face with a little baby fat clearly showing her displeasure.
"Light~"
"Feeling 17 negative emotions from Sophie Turner, the system bubble is being generated..."
“That’s okay too???”
Gu Ran, who felt like he had done nothing, was stunned for a moment, then reacted instantly, with a strange expression on his face, and headed straight towards Sophie Turner, who was five meters away...