My head hurts, feels heavy, and I'm a little dizzy.

This was Xing Baohua's first thought upon waking up, and she also muttered to herself, "I'll never drink so much again!"

He had said this countless times. Suddenly, the sound of an athletes' march brought Xing Baohua to his senses.

He covered his forehead with his hand, gently rubbing it, wondering in astonishment what kind of strange dream he had last night. Usually, when he drank too much, he would black out and wake up with a blank mind. But last night's dream made Xing Baohua experience what reality was like; he truly felt as if he had traveled back in time to the 1970s or 80s to the body of a young man with the same name as him. The events happening around him were vivid and deeply etched in his memory.

The athletes' march, so unsettling tones, started playing again. Xing Baohua thought to himself, "Who brought me to this hotel last night? The soundproofing is terrible, and it's right next to the school..."

Just as she thought of this, Xing Baohua suddenly woke up, turned her heavy head, slowly lowered her hand from her forehead, and then leaned against the headboard to carefully examine her surroundings.

To his astonishment, the environment he saw was exactly the same as in his dream. There was a wooden washbasin by the door, and three beds around it. In the middle of the room was a table with a thermos, several porcelain jars, and some books on it.

Xing Baohua covered his forehead again, unable to believe he wasn't awake yet. The athletes' march sounded so jarring in his ears. If this was real, was Xing Baohua the one in his dream?

"How could this be?" Xing Baohua muttered to himself. He couldn't understand how he had switched places with the character in his dream. Last night, the company was celebrating the successful launch of the mobile phone he had spearheaded the design for. He had drunk a little too much, and his last memory was of his female companion helping him to the restroom. After that, he completely blacked out and couldn't remember anything.

Now completely sober, Xing Baohua scratched his head like a bird's nest, his mind crystal clear about everything, past and present. He couldn't recall having even a few girlfriends before, but now he remembered their names and details. How could this be? As a master's student in microelectronics science and engineering, he truly didn't believe such a thing that defied scientific theory.

What he found even more absurd was that he had possessed the body of an electronics repair vocational school student. Although both were electronics majors, how could an appliance repairman compare to an engineer who designs hardware and software?

The door opened, and a young man walked in, carrying an aluminum lunchbox.

Looking at Xing Baohua, who still had his head buried between his knees, he said, "Hua Zi, you're sober now. If you can't drink, don't force yourself. He's a high school graduate, so it's no big deal if he looks down on us vocational school students! Cheer up! We're workers who earn our living with our own hands, while he's a future office-bound cadre. He's going to be in a leadership position someday. Hey, you'd never guess what I heard today."

Xing Baohua looked up at the guy and immediately knew who he was. Xu Shuai, nicknamed Shuai Shuai. They were childhood friends who grew up together, practically like brothers.

Xing Baohua's eyes were somewhat blank; his mind was replaying every moment he and Xu Shuai had shared since childhood. Xu Shuai, on the other hand, thought Xing Baohua seemed stunned by his words.

"What's the date today?" Xing Baohua asked Xu Shuai before responding to his question, wanting to know which era she was in.

"What number? Hua Zi, you didn't drink so much last night that you forgot your own name, did you? You knew you couldn't drink, but you insisted on doing it. Don't you know Hou Liwei and Su Ya are dating? You even went up to Su Ya and told her you liked her. If it weren't for the fact that you're both from the same factory, the factory security department wouldn't have been wrong to arrest you for what you said. They both work in the factory office, one in the secretariat and the other in the data department, they see each other all the time. You know who Hou Liwei's father is, don't you?" Xu Shuai's words reminded Xing Baohua of the time he confessed to a girl named Su Ya at the city machinery factory's workers' activity center last night, though the process was quite embarrassing.

Hou Liwei, from the General Affairs Department of the Municipal Machinery Factory, was standing next to Su Ya at the time. He was furious after hearing Xing Baohua's bold confession to Su Ya. He and Su Ya worked in the same department and had long harbored feelings for her, always treating her as his girlfriend. To others, they were a perfect match at the machinery factory. Xing Baohua's confession at this moment was undoubtedly a slap in the face to Hou Liwei, making him look foolish in public.

They pointed at Xing Baohua's nose and cursed him for being a hooligan, threatening to have the factory security arrest him. They even brought up Xing Baohua's educational background, leaving Xing Baohua with nowhere to hide, and he left in a sorry state.

If Xu Shuai hadn't stopped him, Xing Baohua might have gotten into a fight with Hou Liwei while drunk.

"I was about to tell you something, but I got distracted and forgot. Guess what I just heard? Su Ya is in trouble," Xu Shuai said to Xing Baohua, who was still looking rather somber.

"Hey! Hey! I'm talking to you, what are you thinking about? Wake up." Xu Shuai saw that Xing Baohua's attention was not on him, and patted Xing Baohua's face as he stared blankly.

Xing Baohua blocked Xu Shuai's slap with her hand and asked, "What did you just say?"

"I told you, Suya's in trouble. Are you happy now?"

"What happened?" Xing Baohua asked.

"This is no small matter; it could get messy! Su Ya could be fired!" Xu Shuai said with an excited tone, his eyebrows raised.

"Pregnant?" Xing Baohua asked in surprise.

"Pregnant? Sigh! What are you thinking? In just one night, Su Ya has become a promiscuous woman in your mind? Hey, let me tell you, isn't Su Ya an office clerk?"

"Oh, I know! Isn't it in the data section? What's up?"

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