The fourth class of the morning started at 11:25.

There was one minute left before class, the boys surrounding her all returned to their seats, and "Xiaoquan Aonai" opened the window next to her desk.

The breeze blowing in was mixed with the scent of cherry blossoms.

The sky was clear and blue, inducing drowsiness.

'It should be fine to sleep during my own class, right?' "Xiaoquan Aonai" was particularly lenient with herself.

Looking back on sixteen years of life, if there were a nomination for self-indulgence, she was confident she'd be a contender.

But the next moment, she remembered: falling asleep here (in the future) meant waking up in the middle of the night there (in the past).

"This is truly a nightmare," she said listlessly, resting her head on the desk.

"What's wrong?" Ichiki Aoi, sitting on her right, had just finished organizing the English textbook needed for the next class and looked over curiously.

"I was studying all night, so tired, Kui," "Xiaoquan Aonai" said, keeping her face down on the desk, but turning to meet Ichiki Aoi's gaze.

"Kui, Kui?" Ichiki Aoi's face began to slowly turn red, which was quite amusing.

From the corner of her eye, she suddenly felt Kiyono Lin's chilling stare from behind and to the right, and "Xiaoquan Aonai" instantly snapped awake.

"Sorry, sorry, I'm sleep-deprived and muddled," she apologized.

"It's okay, it's okay," Ichiki Aoi said hurriedly waving her hands, "You can just call me Kui, like Mr. Dubian does."

"Uh—" "Xiaoquan Aonai" looked at Kiyono Lin as if asking for permission.

The answer she got was of course a no, but how could she reject Ichiki Aoi?

Just as "Xiaoquan Aonai" was struggling with this, Xiaoquan Aonai walked in, relieving the awkwardness.

As expected, she had to rely on herself, "Xiaoquan Aonai" sighed with relief.

"Before class, let's have a vocabulary quiz, please put away your textbooks," Xiaoquan Aonai instructed, distributing the quiz papers to the first student in each row.

"..." "Xiaoquan Aonai" glared resentfully at Xiaoquan Aonai.

'What's wrong with you, Aonai! Why did you become the very thing you hate!' she accused internally, clueless and shifting her gaze to Kiyono Lin.

"I don't know it," she mouthed the words.

Her grades were only slightly higher than the average of a rural public school; normally, she would cram the words the day before a vocabulary quiz and just barely pass.

Kiyono Lin glanced at her, then... what, that's it?

The student in front turned around, placing two quiz papers on "Xiaoquan Aonai's" desk; she picked one up and placed it on Jiutiao Meiji's desk.

Meanwhile, she whispered to Kiyono Lin:

"I—don't—know!"

Kiyono Lin took the quiz paper from Ichiki Aoi's hands and wrote down a name and student number.

'Big Sister is ignoring me!'

"Xiaoquan Aonai" picked up the pen and slowing filled in Dubian Che's name and student number.

Question one: Awkward ( )

No idea.

Question two: Be careful ( )

She knew this one, cation.

Was it spelled like this? It looked odd. Maybe it was cantion?

Never mind, on to the next!

Question three: Achieve ( ) ( )

Two blanks? English, please be more precise!

No idea!

"Xiaoquan Aonai" glanced at "herself," walking back and forth in the classroom, found an angle, propped her chin with her hand, pretended to ponder, but actually closed her eyes, ready to switch places.

But she couldn't fall asleep, not at all!

What to do, what to do?

Dubian Che, come out already!

It's your own test, why cheat? Why let someone else take it for you?

Come out! If you don't come out soon, I'm going to get angry, Teacher!

"Dubian." A gentle voice came from above.

"Xiaoquan Aonai" opened her eyes and looked up to see her ten-years-later self.

A beautiful oval face, from the chin to the neck the curve was exceptionally graceful, fair without a hint of excess flesh.

Her figure was shapely, and the teacher's dress suit looked very good on her.

"Are you feeling unwell?" Xiaoquan Aonai's eyes were on Dubian Che, but her gaze landed on the quiz paper.

Aside from the class and student number, only one answer was filled in, and it was wrong.

The one dwelling in the body of Dubian Che in front of her, was it really the soul of her sixteen-year-old self?

Xiaoquan Aonai's gaze flickered.

"A little," "Xiaoquan Aonai" hastily pretended to be unwell, "Teacher, may I go to the nurse's office?"

"Kiyono," Xiaoquan Aonai turned around, "can you please take Dubian to the nurse's office? It's okay if you don't take the quiz."

"Xiaoquan Aonai," behind Xiaoquan Aonai, desperately gestured to Big Sister.

Kiyono Lin sighed, put down her pen, "Okay, Teacher."

"I appreciate it," Xiaoquan Aonai said with a smile.

As she watched the two exit the classroom through the back door, she looked around the classroom once more to ensure all the students were focused on their tests, then reached into Dubian Che's desk drawer.

Feeling around as she remembered from her dreams, her hand emerged with a notebook.

She flipped through the pages and saw familiar handwriting.

Words she had never seen in the real world, only in dreams:

'The Most Beautiful Legs in Female Voice Actors Vote'

'Toyosaki Aki: 2 votes'

'Ogura Yui: 1 vote'

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During the lunch break, Xiaoquan Aonai called Dubian Che over to give guidance on filling out a career planning survey form.

It was a small meeting room, a quarter the size of a regular classroom.

There were sofas, a water dispenser, a meeting table, and a green plant in the corner.

"Have you thought about what you want to do in the future?" Xiaoquan Aonai asked.

"A Tokyo hottie," "Xiaoquan Aonai" tossed out the premeditated answer.

According to her logic, telling her future self about her own affairs wasn't a problem, but earlier in the nurse's office, Kiyono Lin reminded her that the fewer people who knew, the safer it was to avoid exposing risks.

Moreover, keeping the secret from her future self was a way of protecting her.

"A year has passed, and you haven't changed at all," she said.

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