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Bella Shaw was reborn. Staring at her own young, smooth face in the mirror and the slender, pale fingers at her side, she froze for a moment before snatching up her phone to check the date. June 26, 2024. It was right after the college entrance exam, the time when she was supposed to submit her college applications. It was also the period when her two childhood friends, Sebastian Gale and Ronald Lowe, had begun chasing after her relentlessly in her previous life. A flicker of excitement lit up her eyes. Without another thought, she grabbed her phone and dashed straight to the office. "Ms. Scott, I want to change my application from Eastbridge College to Northfield College." Hearing that, Ophelia Scott's face lit up. "So you finally figured it out? You're the top scorer in the entire city. Eastbridge College is great, but Northfield College is the top school. It'd be a shame not to go there." Bella gave a bitter smile. "I was being stubborn before. I'm sorry, Ms. Scott. I'd like to switch back now." Switching her application didn't take much time. By the time she got home, she found a few unexpected visitors waiting for her. Her two childhood friends, Sebastian and Ronald, were there—along with her best friend, Tessa Moore. "What are you guys doing here?" When she walked in, the usually aloof Sebastian greeted her with an unusually warm smile. "Did you forget? We said we'd have dinner at your place tonight to celebrate all four of us getting into the same college." Ronald, carefree as always, walked up to her and tapped her lightly on the head. "Little scatterbrain. We knew you've been swamped these past few days preparing your honor graduate speech, so we've been setting everything up here for a while. All you have to do is show up and eat." Just as Bella was about to speak, her phone rang. It was Ophelia. "Bella, you left in a hurry just now, and I forgot to tell you something. You were originally scheduled to give the speech as our top-performing s
