Shen Hua parked his car under the shade of a tree on Taowu Road.

  He knew he was a complete stranger, and being too concerned and affectionate towards Xiao Li and Chen Dan would only backfire, causing unnecessary resentment and rejection.

  At this time, however, he couldn't put down his concern for his sister: it was really hard to imagine how Xiaolei could withstand the blow of his "sudden death".

  The bus returning to Mei Xi Town will pass through Tao Wan Road, which he used to take when going to the municipal steel factory. He is familiar with this road, and at this time, even if he can see Xiao Li for a moment, he will feel more at ease.

  It is also unknown whether Ge Yongqiu has informed Chen Mingde about this matter.

  Shen Hua knew that if this matter really reached Chen Mingde, even if Chen Mingde protected him, he would at least be publicly scolded to show that he wouldn't tolerate such behavior; it was possible that he would also receive disciplinary action and have to go to the municipal steel factory to apologize to Zhou Dàmǔ and eliminate the impact.

  Shen Huai thought to himself that it was better to wait for Chen Mingde's phone call to scold him than to rush to the city and passively wait for a reprimand.

  After all, Shen Hua was still not psychologically prepared to enter someone else's life and world.

  The Shen Hua from before, his consciousness disappeared at the moment of the fall accident, but most of the memory fragments were preserved.

  These memory fragments, like stored video footage, can be retrieved and replayed in my mind at any time, but after all, they are the memories of that previous Shen Hua.

  Shen Huai felt as if he was watching a movie, even though the images on the screen were crystal clear, in his heart, he knew that it was recording someone else's life, someone else's world.

  Although it is possible to enter someone else's life and world with a new identity, this sense of alienation and estrangement cannot be eliminated in just three or four days.

  It has been half a year since Shen Hua arrived at Donghua, and he hasn't had much contact with Ge Yongqiu, so he won't show too much awkwardness in front of him.

  Even so, his performance today still made Ge Yongqiu both surprised and suspicious, and he eventually thought crookedly about it, but how would he face Chen Mingde who understood him better and was more familiar with him?

  Others only know that Shen Hua was at Donghua University before, and worked at the Provincial Economic College for more than a year. The rumors about him at the Provincial Economic College were not very good either. Later, he followed Chen Mingde to come to Donghua to work as an administrative secretary in the municipal government.

  However, after occupying this body, the complicated life and past experiences of the previous Shen Hui shocked him.

  It is absolutely impossible for outsiders to associate Shen Hua with the Song family, one of the few political giants in China.

  Although the old man of the Song family, Song Hua, is no longer in office as a national leader, he is still alive and has influence. The old man had two wives, who gave birth to four sons and three daughters, all of whom hold important positions in central ministries or state-owned super-large enterprises.

  The Song family's personal door students and former officials are also spread across the central government and local areas.

  There are fewer than twenty families like the Song family in the whole country.

  Shen Huai is the only son of Song Bing-sheng, the third son of Old Master Song, and his mother's surname is Shen.

  When he was young, his parents were separated due to emotional estrangement. Since he had always lived with his mother, there is little connection with the Song family in his file records.

  Although the second generation of Song's family is still relatively well-behaved, by the third generation, under the influence of the reform and opening-up atmosphere, many have become somewhat restless and decadent, with Shen Huai being the most notable.

  In Shen Hua's view, the previous Shen Hua was completely a parasite on the political aristocracy; the extent of his licentiousness and wickedness is unimaginable to him who had strict family education since childhood.

  Although the previous Shen Hua's behavior of playing with female students at the Provincial Economic College was very shameful to hear, compared to what he did in Yenching and after studying abroad, his behavior at the Provincial Economic College can be considered as having a good moral character...

  Shen Hua once had an improper intention towards his stepmother's daughter after getting drunk while studying abroad.

  It was this matter that made his father, Song Bing, extremely angry and completely disappointed in him. After summoning him back to the country, he banished him to Huaihai Province to fend for himself.

  It was still his birth aunt, fearing that he would cause more trouble outside, secretly entrusting Chen Mingde, an old classmate working in Huaihai Province, to take care of him...

  Chen Mingde was the secretary when Song Family's old master was in charge of the State Planning Commission. Although Song Family's old master retired early, he always took good care of Chen Mingde, and Chen Mingde's official career went very smoothly because of this.

  Chen Mingde, from an ordinary cadre of the National Planning Commission to the deputy director of the Huaihai Provincial Planning Commission, and then to the deputy mayor of Donghua City, has come step by step, with a direct relationship with the influence of the Song family behind him.

  Shen Huai said he was a discarded son of the Song family, but no matter how much they abandoned him, he was still a member of the Song family.

  Although Shen Hua's behavior was very annoying, Chen Mingde still took care of him with all his heart. Even if he went to Donghua City for work, he would bring Shen Hua along with him like a street rat, not giving him the opportunity to make big mistakes.

  As it happens, Shen Hua and Donghua City are not entirely unrelated either.

  At the age of twelve, his mother Shen Guixiu passed away. She was the granddaughter of Shen Yaoting, a national capitalist in Donghua City before liberation.

  On the eve of liberation, Sun Yaoting fled abroad with his family to settle down, leaving only his second daughter and son-in-law with their daughter Shen Guixiu behind.

  Shen Guixiu, who stayed in the country with her parents, was inevitably affected by the impact of the 1960s and 1970s. She met Song Bingzhen, who had been sent down to the countryside at that time, on occasional opportunities, and they gave birth to Shen Hua together.

  This nameless marriage did not last long, and by the mid-1970s, Mr. Song had been rehabilitated and returned to work in the capital. Song Bingzhang left Shenyang with his mother and son for Beijing for the sake of his future.

  Shen Hua stayed with his mother on the farm where they were sent down to live. When he was twelve years old, his mother contracted a serious illness and died soon after.

  Shen Huai believed that his mother's early death was not unrelated to his father's abandonment of his wife and children. Although he was taken back by the Song family after his mother's death, from then on he became unusually rebellious and refused to write a single word related to the Song family in the name of his guardian...

  Perhaps Shen Hua had a self-destructive factor in his personality from an early age - since he was twelve years old, it seemed that the only purpose of his life was to make his father and later his stepmother's life uncomfortable after she married into the Song family.

  Of course, Shen Huai was also very unwelcome in the entire Song family. No family would like a child who is uneducated, has poor conduct, and is rebellious and eccentric.

  His father, Song Bing Sheng, was relatively mediocre himself and had a son who was uneducated and rebellious to the point of being able to bring trouble to the Song family at any time, which also led to his marginalization in the Song family.

  Song Bing was born and lived until middle age, but only managed to become the deputy director of the personnel bureau in the agricultural machinery department, far from achieving his life's ambitions, not even comparable to Shen Hua's three aunts.

  Shen Huai's experience of losing his mother as a teenager made his grandparents, who had moved abroad in the early 1980s after their daughter passed away, especially heartbroken. Even though they knew their grandson was stubborn and unruly, once policies allowed it, they brought him overseas.

  After Shen Hua went abroad, his arrogant and violent temperament was fully exposed. He indulged in all sorts of evil deeds that a spoiled rich kid would have, such as gambling and fighting, and there was almost nothing he didn't do.

  Although the Shen family has a deep background overseas for over 30 years and hasn't left any criminal record, his abominable behavior has also deeply hurt his elderly grandparents.

  After the incident of drunken rape, Shen Hua's grandparents, who had been trying to save their grandson, finally gave up hope and sent him back to China, even going so far as to rewrite their wills and deprive him of his inheritance rights.

  Shen Huai's forehead was weakly pressed against the steering wheel, and he silently cursed: Damn it, this kid is from a wealthy family, but at such a young age, he can ruin himself like this, and even make everyone turn against him. It's really damn impressive!

  This unexpected event made Shen Huai unable to adapt for a while, and at first he was secretly delighted that from now on he could be a rich young master.

  After sorting through the memories of this body's original owner, he couldn't help but regret it. It was as if heaven was playing a trick on him, and he ended up with such an unpopular master who had been abandoned by everyone.

  The key is that he still can't cut himself off from his previous life with Shen Hua:

  From that moment on, he became Shen Huan. The secret he couldn't share with outsiders was the price he had to pay for taking over Shen Huan's life, which was already rotten and decaying...

  "Get out of here, damn it! Get lost, damn it! Screw you..."

  Shen Huai slammed his fist on the steering wheel twice, venting the depression in his heart.

  Fine, since Shen Hua's life was already rotten to the core and left a big mess behind, but he could still live on with his body, there's no reason to complain about anything...

  Even if we take a step back and say that there is an ordinary young man who can mix and mingle for three years, how can he be mixed with the regular eighth-grade regulars?

  Even if it's a discarded child of the Song family, they would still be better off than ordinary people by a hundredfold.

  At that moment, Shen Hua also saw through it: no matter what, from now on, he had to live with the identity of Shen Hua, as a member of the Song family, and as Chen Mingde's secretary.

  Even if a person's life has been rotten and fallen, it's not that there is no chance to get back on the right track: at least Chen Mingde still holds onto the affection of Song's family cultivation and hasn't given up hope for him yet...

  Through all this, Shen Huai roused his spirits and silently warned himself: it's time to bid farewell to the past life, from this moment on, be a good Shen Huai!

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  Just as Shen Huai was sorting through those memories that belonged to others, a bus turned onto Taowu Road.

  "Hey, Chen Dan, look over there!"

  Chen Dan was still distracted by what had happened at the steel plant earlier today, and she heard Xiao Li's voice reminding her, so she looked up.

  It was almost noon, and there were not many people on the bus back to Meixi Town. Chen Dan and Xiao Li sat in the seats at the back of the bus, one in front of the other, with Xiao Li resting her forehead against the window glass, looking outside.

  Chen Dan followed his gaze and suddenly found that the small car Shen Hui had sent them to the station was parked by the side of the road. Through the window, Shen Hui rested his forehead on the steering wheel, not knowing what he was looking at or waiting for.

  Just as the bus passed by, Shen Huan turned his head and their eyes met.

  Her eyes met unexpectedly, and Chen Dan was inexpressibly flustered. Thinking of returning a smile, but the inexplicably panicked emotions made her subconsciously avoid Shen Hua's gaze - just as Chen Dan turned her head, she saw a beauty salon on the side of the road where Shen Hua had parked.

  Behind a transparent glass door, there were three or five charming women with revealing clothes inside the small shop, flirting and posing in front of the door.

  Chen Dan suddenly thought of why Shen Hua had stopped the car here, her face slightly red, and she cursed softly: Men are really not a good thing!

  Chen Dan smoothed out her wind-blown hair and didn't look back at Shen Hua again.

  "Ah?" Little Li's thoughts were simple and didn't know what those beauty salons did, seeing Chen Dan suddenly say this sentence, she looked back at her in surprise...