The cannon fodder in the stand-in novel tries to rewrite his life - Part 1. Please add to your favorites...

Chen Xia closed the system shop and prepared to start a new mission. As her mental strength increased, the discomfort she felt after entering the small world gradually lessened.

This time I only felt slightly dizzy, and I didn't even need to take any calming pills. I just needed to rest for a bit and I was fine.

The original owner of this body, Chen Xia, grew up in an orphanage and didn't even know who her parents were. When she was two years old, she was abandoned at the gate of the orphanage.

According to Aunt Wang, who works in the kitchen, she went to buy groceries that morning and found a child wrapped in a tattered blanket at the door, his face red and he had already fainted from the cold.

She remembered that it was a very cold day, with snow falling outside. She wondered who was so heartless as to leave a two-year-old child, who had a high fever, wrapped in a tattered blanket and abandoned at the entrance of the orphanage.

Later, the staff at the welfare home found a small note on her, with crooked handwriting on it.

“The child’s father has passed away, and I am too tired to raise the child alone. I hope that the welfare home can take the child in.”

The child has pneumonia, and the medication isn't helping. The doctor said she needs to be hospitalized, but I'm unemployed and can't afford it. I have no choice but to ask the welfare home for help to save her life.

Whenever Aunt Wang talks about this, she grits her teeth in hatred. How cruel! If you want to send your child to an orphanage, you can't do it during the day.

On a snowy night, you left your child at the gate of an orphanage. Couldn't you at least knock on the door? The child was frozen in the snow for a long time. The doctor said that if it had been just a little later, the child might not have survived.

The original owner was young and couldn't say where she lived, or even know her parents' names. When asked her name, she couldn't say whether it was Xiaxia or Xiaxia.

After the staff of the welfare home took her to the hospital, they called the police. Back in 1998, CCTV cameras were not yet widespread.

Later, a security camera at a nearby intersection captured the woman who had abandoned her.

Unfortunately, the resolution was too poor, and since it was the middle of the night and the person was wrapped up very tightly, it was impossible to see their face clearly. The police had no way to investigate, so the matter was dropped.

The director of the orphanage named her "Xiaxia," and all the children in her group took the director's surname, Chen. So her household registration showed her as Chen Xia, but in the orphanage, everyone called her Xiaxia.

Life at the welfare home wasn't as miserable as people imagined. Their welfare home was the largest orphanage in Liaoning Province, offering primary, middle, and vocational education.

Food, drink, education, and accommodation are all funded by the government, and each student also receives a few yuan of pocket money each month.

The school is under military-style, closed management. Each class has a life teacher to take care of the children, and daily necessities are distributed quarterly.

On June 1st, leaders from the Civil Affairs Bureau and caring people from the community come to visit, giving out food and drinks, and sometimes even a plush toy.

Except for not having parents, they are similar to children attending boarding school.

The school will support the children until they graduate from junior high school. Those with poor grades can attend the school's vocational school, while those with good grades can go to public high schools if they are admitted.

The original owner always ranked first in her class in every exam from the first grade of elementary school. In the high school entrance exam, she was admitted to a public high school in the city with the highest score in the city.

During her high school years, her tuition was waived, and the city high school and the orphanage also provided her with living expenses.

After she was admitted to a prestigious 985 university, the "Orphan Education Assistance Project" provided her with a subsidy of 10,000 yuan per year. The university not only waived her tuition fees, but also provided her with the highest level of financial aid for impoverished students.

With the addition of national student grants and scholarships, her living expenses during her university years were actually higher than those of some of her classmates.

But she knew she was different from her classmates. While her classmates couldn't find jobs after graduating from university and could still go home and live off their parents, she had no home, and she would have to walk her own path after graduation.

During her university years, she devoted all her energy to her studies, not only mastering software engineering but also taking courses in finance.

Her interest in finance stemmed from a lecture given by a renowned economics professor during her freshman year of college. The professor mentioned a case involving an investor surnamed Zhang who invested in Tencent and JD.com.

She particularly admired this person and later saw Zhang Moufeng's "Seven Minutes to Understand 34 985 Universities" on her roommate's computer.

She strongly agreed with a statement he once made: if children from poor families want to transcend social classes, they need to choose the right major in the college entrance examination.

Although she was already quite good at software engineering, she thought that it would be good to have more skills and that learning more about finance would not hurt.

She may never reach that level of capitalism, but at least she tried.

Her children will have a better starting point than her in the future, and will receive a better education than her.

She doesn't need to pretend to be obedient or fight for what she wants. She doesn't have to endure the strange or pitying looks when others mention her background.

But all of these efforts were ultimately destroyed.

After graduating from university, the original owner stayed in Shanghai and became a "Shanghai drifter".

She works as a software development engineer at a large company, earning a monthly salary of over ten thousand yuan. Being frugal by nature, she rents a small, ten-square-meter room very close to her company.

Children from orphanages may appear cheerful on the outside, but their hearts are encased in a hard shell.

They are sensitive, lack a sense of security, and find it difficult to trust others. No matter how good the director and teachers of the orphanage are to them, they know in their hearts that they are ultimately wandering souls without parents or home.

Now she can support herself with her own hands. Although her living conditions are a bit poor, she feels at peace. She finally has a home of her own, even if it's temporary.

Two years after starting work, her salary had risen to around 20,000 yuan due to her outstanding work performance.

She donates two thousand yuan to the orphanage every month without fail.

Without the orphanage, she wouldn't be who she is today; she will always remember this kindness.

She also hopes to do her part to help younger brothers and sisters who, like her, have lost their parents or been abandoned.

The monthly rent is around 1,000 yuan. The company has a canteen that provides three meals a day. There are also late-night snacks, transportation allowances, and meal allowances for those who work overtime in the evening.

In order to get free late-night snacks and subsidies, she voluntarily worked overtime until after nine o'clock every day.

She only cares about her clothes and shoes being appropriate and tasteful. For skincare, she uses a reasonably priced, well-established domestic brand. She only wears lipstick to make herself look healthy.

Based on this calculation, she can save about 15,000 yuan a month. Of that, 10,000 yuan is deposited in the bank, and the other 5,000 yuan is used for financial management.

Her goal is to save enough for a down payment, then use her housing provident fund to buy an old, dilapidated apartment and renovate it herself.

One day, her good friend from the orphanage, Shen Shuyue, suddenly called her and asked her to have dinner together.

It was then that she learned that Shen Shuyue had also come to Shanghai after graduating from vocational school. The company she worked for was in the same district as hers, not far away.

The original owner was introverted and didn't have many friends at the orphanage. Shen Shuyue was one of her best friends.

Later, she was admitted to high school, while Shen Shuyue studied at the vocational school for orphans, and the two gradually lost contact with each other.

But she hasn't changed her phone number since she started college, so it's not surprising that Shen Shuyue has her contact information.

The original owner was overjoyed to reunite with her childhood playmate in a foreign land. Afterwards, she kept in touch with Shen Shuyue and occasionally went out for hot pot together.

From Shen Shuyue, the original owner learned that she was dating Gu Yan, the president of their company.

The original owner was puzzled: how could the president of a listed company date a receptionist who came from an orphanage?

But she wasn't one to meddle in other people's business. She simply congratulated Shen Shuyue and then started talking about other things.

Every time they chatted, Shen Shuyue would mention that domineering CEO surnamed Gu in almost every sentence. But whenever the original owner mentioned the orphanage where they grew up together, she would become impatient.

The original owner knew that her childhood friend had really changed, so she gradually stopped contacting Shen Shuyue.

But Shen Shuyue, wanting to show off how good Gu Yan was to her, frequently called the original owner of the body. Her clothes became increasingly fashionable, and the bags she carried became increasingly expensive; she often flaunted her affection for Gu Yan in front of the original owner.

Just when the original owner thought that Shen Shuyue would soon get married to that domineering CEO Gu Yan, one day Shen Shuyue suddenly came to her crying.

"Xiaxia, I was deceived by Gu Yan. It turns out that he pursued me and was with me only because I look like his ex-girlfriend Ye Lan, his white moonlight."

I hate Gu Yan so much now. It turns out I was just a substitute in his heart. Xiaxia, what should I do? I thought I'd found true love, I gave him my everything…”

The original owner didn't know how to answer this question. She never expected that the rich and domineering CEO would play such a wild game. The substitute literature actually came to life. She finally understood why people always say that art comes from life.

Unable to bear the humiliation, Shen Shuyue angrily broke up with him and resigned from her job as his assistant. She also proudly refused the exorbitant breakup fee offered by Gu Yan.

After leaving Gu Yan, Shen Shuyue came crying to seek refuge with the original owner of the body. The original owner thought that they were childhood friends who had grown up together, and seeing her crying so sadly, she was afraid that she would do something irrational, so she temporarily took her in.

The original owner rented a small cubicle of about ten square meters. She kindly gave her bed to Chen Shuyue and slept on a second-hand folding sofa that she had found online.

It's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Although Shen Shuyue speaks of being noble, she is not with Gu Yan for his money.

But she happily accepted everything Gu Yan bought for her, including the apartment, clothes, bags, and even the supplementary credit card.

Unbeknownst to her, Gu Yan had already raised her to be a caged canary. Now, to make her live in such a dilapidated little cubicle and sleep on an old mattress that the original owner had picked up from a flea market, she felt extremely aggrieved.

Ku Xin started complaining that the original owner had no sisterly affection. She was so heartbroken, yet the original owner didn't even offer a word of comfort before rushing off to work.