Cao Mengde Syndrome, Late Stage

Chen Ye did not linger and left the school directly.

The day of bonding with a hero was also the graduation day for all senior high school students.

He would not need to come to school anymore!

As for the future...

Under normal circumstances.

Those who failed to bond with a hero could still take the college entrance examination and attend university based on their previous scores.

Those who successfully bonded with heroes could all attend ability-based universities.

But someone like Chen Ye, who had successfully bonded with a C-class Hero... seemed to be in a rather difficult position?

After all.

In an era when C-class Heroes were universally recognized as useless heroes, probably no school would be willing to waste resources cultivating a student with no future.

Especially since Chen Ye had chosen a C-class Hero while being livestreamed nationwide, accomplishing such a "feat."

By now, Chen Ye was probably already the laughingstock of the entire country.

Under such circumstances, no Ability Academy would be willing to accept Chen Ye while bearing the pressure of public opinion.

As for his own situation.

Chen Ye understood it perfectly well.

He did not particularly care. He had not planned to remain on campus anyway. As for becoming the laughingstock of the nation... three years from now, who would still dare laugh at him?

For Chen Ye, the only problem right now was how to face his new life!

How should he put it?

The previous owner of this body had a somewhat perverted personality...

When he had bonded with the Bald Physique earlier, the memories of the previous owner had also awakened in Chen Ye's mind.

According to those memories, this body's parents were still alive, and he also had an older brother.

That was rather similar to Chen Ye's former family.

However, back on Earth, Chen Ye had come from a poor farming family.

Here, the Chen family could absolutely be considered an influential household!

His father, mother, and older brother were all members of the social elite.

Perhaps because the previous owner had been the youngest, every member of the family had doted dearly on him, their youngest son.

The previous owner had always performed well too. He had no bad habits, was sensible, filial, academically gifted, and quite handsome.

In everyone's eyes, he was Chairman Chen's fine son, outstanding and excellent.

However, that had all been a surface-level disguise.

How could a child raised in such an indulgent environment possibly be well-behaved?

It was merely that the previous owner had been clever and skilled at disguising himself, so no one had ever discovered the truth.

Chen Ye had inherited this body's memories.

Naturally, he also knew "his" secret.

In truth, the previous owner had been somewhat psychologically twisted. He had only just come of age, yet he was still maintaining ambiguous relationships with several women.

As a rich second-generation heir, playing around with a few women was naturally nothing unusual.

But if all those women were several years older than the previous owner, or even more than a decade older, then that was not normal.

Moreover.

Besides being older, those women shared another trait: they had all been married.

Some of their husbands were even still alive...

The most outrageous part was that one of them was his mother's best friend!!

When Chen Ye received those memories, he had been completely dumbfounded.

He was utterly impressed by the previous owner's skill with women.

It was just that the previous owner's tastes were truly... a perfect inheritance of Cao Mengde Syndrome, leaving him at a loss for words.

Now, the problem was.

Among those women were his mother's best friend and the wife of one of his father's subordinates... every one of those illicit relationships was playing with fire.

If any of them were exposed, Chairman Chen and his wife would probably uphold righteousness over family and purge him from the household.

So, how should he handle his relationships with those women from now on?

As an upstanding young man who loathed gambling and drugs, Chen Ye felt that his relationships with those women required thorough research before he could make a decision...

As his thoughts wandered.

Suddenly.

The phone in his pocket began to ring.

"Ring, ring, ring..."

Chen Ye took out his phone. Seeing that the caller ID read "Mom," he immediately felt a headache coming on.

Just as he hesitated over whether to answer it, the call ended.

Then, a message arrived.

Son, it's just choosing a C-class Hero. It's no big deal. Don't do anything foolish!

Chen Ye: "..."

He had been wondering what excuse he should use when he got home to deceive his parents.

A family full of elites had suddenly produced an embarrassing husky. It was simply unforgivable.

He had even prepared himself to run away from home.

He had not expected this body's mother to be the type of parent who spoiled her child.

Normally, in the eyes of such parents, their child could never be wrong.

The world was the one at fault!

Therefore, Chen Ye was relieved.

To deal with parents like this, all he had to do upon returning home was pretend to be sad!

Son, when are you coming home? Mom bought your favorite Icefield Fruit. It was just shipped from the Arctic and is very fresh.

Another message arrived.

Chen Ye thought for a moment and replied: I'll be home soon.

Although his soul was mature enough that he could take care of himself without his parents.

Still, no matter what, he already felt somewhat guilty for taking someone else's body. There was no need to refuse to acknowledge their parents as well.

A short while later.

A taxi arrived outside an upscale villa district.

Chen Ye got out of the taxi and swaggered into the neighborhood. Following the memories in his mind, he arrived outside a luxurious five-story villa.

The moment he appeared at the villa's entrance, an elegant woman came out to greet him.

When Chen Ye saw her, he was startled and instinctively called out:

"Mom?"

That cry came from the bottom of his heart.

Because.

The elegant woman before him looked exactly like his mother on Earth.

If their clothing and bearing had not been completely different, he would have suspected that his mother had transmigrated as well.

At the same time, Chen Ye finally remembered that both mothers even shared the same name: Yang Rongzhi.

Not only that, even his fathers and older brothers from both worlds had identical appearances and names.

Coupled with the fact that both he and this body were named Chen Ye...

So this was actually a parallel world? The body I had taken over was another version of myself from a different world?

Chen Ye secretly speculated.

"Son, you're finally back!"

Seeing Chen Ye's dazed expression, Yang Rongzhi assumed that her son had suffered some kind of blow. Her heart ached for him as she hurriedly said, "Those people online just love talking nonsense. Son, don't take it to heart."

People online?

Chen Ye truly had not paid attention to them.

Still, the comments about him online were surely not going to be favorable.

His mother had probably seen those comments and thought he could not withstand the online abuse, so she feared he might do something foolish.

After thinking about it, Chen Ye did not explain. He said, "Mom, I'm a little tired. I want to go back to my room and rest for a while."

"Alright, alright, you really should get some proper rest..."

Yang Rongzhi naturally nodded repeatedly, then added, "Son, do you want to eat something before you rest?"

"No need, Mom. I'm not hungry right now."