The Comeback of the Cannon-Fodder Supporting Actress

During the summer vacation, Anning had more time at her disposal.

She also spent more time writing every day, and Anning seized the moment to finish the ongoing story she was working on, then started accumulating drafts for her new work.

This time, the work she began writing had a fresh theme for this world.

The previous work was about mortals cultivating, but this time Anning planned to write an urban narrative.

Of course, she endowed the protagonist with a Golden Finger. Anning was writing an urban rebirth story.

The title of this book was quite cliché: ”Return to That Year.”

This book was also a feel-good novel, following the urban rebirth narrative’s formula—how the protagonist lived in disappointment before rebirth with many regrets, and how they made amends and climbed step by step to the pinnacle of life after rebirth.

Anning finished the outline and started writing tirelessly.

Her old work was still being updated, so she had plenty of time to write the new manuscript.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yuan began to step by step contact people in the entertainment industry, from small entertainment groups in the city to higher-level individuals.

Anning wasn’t in a hurry, nor was Xiao Yuan—they took things slowly.

He understood that Anning would stay in First Middle School for another year, and that after the children finished their exams next year, Anning would resign and start a new career.

Xiao Yuan had a year to gradually build a network of connections for Anning.

Once the summer vacation ended, and the new school term began, Anning’s old work finished updating. She started uploading her new work.

By this time, Anning already had a large group of loyal fans. When her new book was uploaded, fans began enthusiastically promoting it.

On the first day Anning uploaded her new book, it amassed over ten thousand favorites and exceeded a million clicks.

Her editor told her that it was foreseeable that Anning’s book would outperform some legendary web literature figures. Anning might become a supreme deity in the web literature community based on this work.

The fact was, on the first day, Anning uploaded ten Chapters, and these ten Chapters captivated the editor, who often urged her for updates.

A few days later, Anning’s new work reached contract status, and some wealthy authors began showering it with rewards.

In the new semester, Anning continued working hard, wishing that next year’s exams would see her students admitted to their ideal schools, which was a responsibility to her students and a commitment to the final year’s teaching work.

Now in their third year, students faced a heavier learning load.

Besides teaching, Anning had to communicate with students, work on their mindset, and privately coordinate with parents to ensure they were attentive to students’ conditions at home, ensuring students ate well with comprehensive nutrition, and encouraged a balanced mix of rest and exercise, so they wouldn’t focus solely on studies while neglecting physical health.

Every day, Anning would inform parents about any issues students faced at school and inquire if there were any matters concerning students at home.

Moreover, Anning held physical exercises with the students after school, usually extending the school day thirty minutes longer than other classes.

Anning had discussed this with parents, and it was implemented with their consent.

This was primarily because the physical education examination affected the middle school entrance exam, and students with poor physical fitness would lose a significant number of points in their PE scores.

Anning returned home late, and naturally, the three ”small ones” also came home late.

After school, they followed class six students for exercises.

Due to Anning’s responsibility, she had a good reputation among parents. When parents mentioned her, they would say, Teacher Qin was wonderful, her teachings were excellent, and she treated the students well—she was indeed very responsible.

In this way, Anning balanced academics and physical education, from the warm weather into winter without relaxing her grip.

After such a long time, the class she taught, class six, met all standards in school physical tests.

It was also at this time that a student in class seven quarrelled with his parents at home, and in a momentary lapse, jumped off the building.

This incident stirred up significant controversy both in the school and society.

Many accusations and criticisms were directed at the student’s parents and school teachers.

Since Anning taught language to class seven, she couldn’t avoid being criticized.

Many uninformed netizens berated the teachers, claiming that the child must have been wronged at school, asserting teachers nowadays were irresponsible, didn’t teach well in class, only thinking of earning money through tutoring, topics not taught in class would be covered in tutoring, and if one didn’t pay for tutoring, their academic performance wouldn’t improve, etc.

While it might not matter for others to criticize other teachers, so many people criticizing Anning greatly angered class six’s parents.

Anning had taught class six’s children for such a long time; parents certainly knew what kind of person she was.

Wasn’t the improvement in their children’s mental state, physical quality, or academics evident?

Thus, many parents started going online to confront those trolls.

Many parents uploaded photos to the internet as evidence of Anning being a good teacher.

”I can be responsible for what I say; my child is in class six, Teacher Qin is class six’s homeroom teacher, and we parents know best what Teacher Qin is like.”

One parent spoke up online and uploaded photos she took.

The photos included captions; there were pictures of them picking up materials outside school during summer vacation, captioned to inform netizens this was Teacher Qin’s rejection of all parent tutoring requests, buying study materials for children at her own expense, with parents collecting materials outside school.

Photos showed Anning bringing small snacks to the school every day, fearing children came to school hungry. Any hungry child could eat some.

Captions explained these were small snacks bought by Teacher Qin herself, afraid the children would go hungry.

There were also photos of Anning leading the children in running after school.

Almost all of class six parents uploaded photos showing how Anning cared for their children online, with many parents speaking up for Anning, and then the school issued a statement saying First Middle School always valued quality education, the students didn’t have a heavy study load, nor did they receive too much homework, and the teachers at First Middle School were very dedicated, stating there were many good teachers like Teacher Qin.

Of course, First Middle School’s official site also featured many photos of teachers taking care of students, including student representatives speaking.

In this way, the incident soon calmed down, not only failing to affect First Middle School but actually bringing it much praise. It could be said this was a successful public relations move.

That day, Anning returned home and found Xiao Lu not doing homework but sitting in the yard, staring blankly.

Anning walked over: ”LuLu, what are you doing? It’s cold outside, you’ll get chilled.”

Xiao Lu snapped out of it: ”I know, I’ll sit here a bit longer before going inside.”

Anning entered and asked Xiao Yuan, ”What’s wrong with LuLu?”

Xiao Yuan shook his head: ”I don’t know, anyway, she’s been out of sorts these past few days.”

Xiao Lu was actually thinking about something.

After her rebirth, many things were unclear in her memory, but following the class seven student’s jumping incident, Xiao Lu recalled something.

She remembered that in her past life, Anning was criticized by many people due to this incident, with some sinister-minded individuals later targeting Anning. There was a driver whose son seemed to have committed suicide from campus violence since then, he harbored hatred towards all teachers. After the class seven student’s incident, this driver wanted to retaliate severely.

He had seen Anning’s photo online, and when he happened to pass by her while driving, he turned his car towards her deliberately.

Xiao Lu remembers hearing news of Anning’s death in her past life’s memories.

She was now struggling to recall details about this matter.

She didn’t want any harm to befall such a kind stepmother to her, nor did she want her father to be upset.

After a while sitting outside, Xiao Lu returned indoors.

She sat beside Anning and gently said to her: ”Mom, be careful when going out over the next few days; I’m afraid some ill-intentioned person might try to harm you.”