In the spacious room, a person who looked like a high school student was silently observing himself in the mirror.

　　The person in the mirror was wearing a school uniform, had a tall stature, sharp eyebrows and eyes, and looked a little gloomy when he didn’t speak, which gave people the feeling that he was not easy to get along with.

　　Chi Yi casually pushed aside the loose hair on his forehead. His slender fingers had distinct joints, and his fingertips and palms were covered with thin calluses. He looked at himself in the mirror and was quite speechless.

　　The reason is very simple. He traveled through time and became Chi Yi, a cannon fodder in a novel about true and false young masters, and had the same name as the fake young master.

　　In the original book, the fake young master Chi Yi was accidentally taken away instead of the real young master Shen Ge in the delivery room next door due to the negligence of the nurse at birth, and the identities of the two were exchanged by accident. The Chi family and the Shen family never thought that their children would be swapped due to a mistake, until Chi Yi got into a fight with a classmate at school some time ago and was hit on the head and sent to the hospital, and the Chi family’s parents vaguely realized that something was wrong.

　　But Chi Yi is in his third year of high school this year. In order not to affect his son’s grades, Chi’s parents concealed the matter without any prior agreement. It was not until recently that they found Shen Ge and told Chi Yi about it.

　　After that, it included but was not limited to looking down on Shen Ge in school, secretly making trouble for Shen Ge, getting Shen Ge to transfer to another school in his senior year of high school, etc., and the fight did not end until the two of them entered college.

　　Even the readers are scolding. I am tired of reading even though you guys are not tired of fighting. Can you finish it quickly?

　　The author might have been fed up with being scolded, so he got angry and had Chi Yi accidentally fall while racing late at night. In the finale, Chi Yi was still lying in the ward in vegetative state, with only his nostrils able to move. He died at the speed of light within one chapter, using his life to represent the saying “There are thousands of roads, but safety is the first.”

　　Hmm…how is this not a way of mediating a fight? It would be better if he wasn’t this “Chi Yi” whose only nostrils could move.

　　The face of “Chi Yi” in the mirror was 70% similar to his original appearance, but the gloomy temperament was far from his own temperament. Chi Yi raised his chin slightly, gently shook away the long hair in front of his eyes, and smiled gently at the mirror, turning from a dark male ghost to a refreshing male high schooler.

　　That’s right.

　　Chi Yi recalled the original plot. Today should be the day when Shen Ge’s father lost his job not long ago. In order to help the family, Shen Ge agreed to let his father and mother come back to live. It was also the first time Chi Yi and Shen Ge met.

　　Before everything started, Chi Yi should be happy, cling to the protagonist’s thighs, and reach the peak of his life. Or he should just hide a little, save more money while his father and mother are not disappointed in him, and stay as far away from the protagonist as possible.

　　But Chi Yi couldn’t be happy because he was a prospective college student.

　　He is the kind of prospective college student who has slept later than a dog and woke up earlier than a chicken^[1]The phrase “slept later than a dog and woke up earlier than a chicken” means someone is extremely lazy and gets up very early. It suggests they’re not a morning person, but once … Continue reading in the past three years, worked a two-month summer job and still has one week left before school starts. In the original book, “Chi Yi” wanted to transfer Shen Ge to another school in his senior year, which happened one week after Shen Ge returned to the Chi family.

　　In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, at the time when he traveled through time, “Chi Yi”, who is the same age as Shen Ge, is also in his third year of high school, and it was not long after the start of the last semester.

　　Chi Yi: My eyes went dark.

　　In the previous life, I burned mountains^[2]refers to the intense effort or dedication required to master a difficult subject or achieve a challenging goal. . In this life, I traveled through a book and reread my senior year of high school. Chi Yi was no longer bothered to guess whether he had died suddenly while working as an intern during the summer job and ended up traveling through this novel. Instead, he regretted why he clicked on this novel. If you are tired, why don’t you go to sleep? Why stay up late to read novels?

　　But as the saying goes, now that he’s here, he can’t just reopen it. What if it’s really gone?

　　Chi Yi picked up a set of home clothes from the closet, changed out of his school uniform, and prepared to go downstairs to meet Shen Ge.

　　At this moment in the living room of the Chi family, Shen Ge was feeling a little nervous.

　　In the previous seventeen years, Shen Ge had never thought that he was not his parents’ biological son. Even when Chi’s father and mother came to his house and took the initiative to do a paternity test, Shen Ge still refused to believe it in his heart.

　　The reason why Shen Ge agreed to let Chi’s father and mother come back to live in the Chi family was because the company where Shen’s father was currently working was not doing well. In order to save costs, the boss asked the HR department to find a lot of people to persuade them to leave voluntarily, and Shen’s father became one of the “forced volunteers”.

　　Shen Ge and his sister Shen Yao are both of school age. The burden of Shen’s father was suddenly transferred to Shen’s mother. Recently, he had to help out at Shen’s mother’s snack stall. He set it up near the school during the day and pushed it to the night market at night. He was exhausted after two months.

　　Shen Yao didn’t know that Shen’s father was laid off, but Shen Ge overheard his parents’ conversation. When he was about to find a part-time job to help out at home, the Chi family came to his door.

　　Shen Ge instinctively didn’t want to disrupt his current life, but he agreed when he thought about the situation at home. Before coming, he quietly asked about the situation at the Chi family. He heard that the boy at the Chi family was the same age as him and was studying at Yinghua Private High School in the city. He didn’t know if he would be easy to get along with.

　　Shen Ge sat on the sofa in Chi’s house, which looked very expensive. He clasped his index fingers together nervously and responded to Chi’s mother’s words with some uneasiness: “My grades should be pretty good. My parents are both very good to me.”

　　Chi’s mother’s name is Deng Qiulan. When she heard Shen Ge blurt out the words “parents”, she couldn’t help but feel a pain in her heart. She stretched out her hand and put it on the back of Shen Ge’s hand: “Good child, I’m sorry for wronging you. It’s all our fault.”

　　Shen Ge felt a little uncomfortable when he heard Deng Qiulan talking to him like that. He forced a smile at her and gently pulled his hand back without leaving any trace.

　　Shen’s father and mother were very good and treated him very well. The Shen family was not as rich as the Chi family, but he never felt wronged.

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