"Is Can Can awake? How did he end up falling into the water right after coming back from abroad in the dead of winter? He's bound to suffer now." Shen Can woke up to the sound of a woman's voice thick with worry. "Can Can is awake? Are you hungry? Mom is going to get you something to eat right now. You need to eat so you can take your medicine." Mother Shen finally smiled upon seeing that Shen Can was awake, and after speaking, she hurried off to get some food. Before Shen Can even had a chance to speak, he only caught sight of her hurried back as she went downstairs. Remembering what he had seen after falling into the water, Shen Can pressed a hand against his still-aching head. He never expected that he had actually transmigrated into a book. Yes, that's right, Shen Can was not from this world. He was originally a game planner, and after finishing yet another game design project, he headed to a snowy mountain to ski and relax. Who would have thought that this relaxation would turn out to be a permanent one? An avalanche struck and he was buried; once a person died, wouldn't that be the ultimate relaxation? He never thought he would be able to open his eyes again, but upon opening them, it wasn't his old world anymore. He had become a completely different person. Although his name and appearance were exactly the same, it truly wasn't the world from before. His transmigration had taken place in a foreign hospital. Having received all the memories, he knew that the original body had previously suffered an accident during a camping trip and fallen off a cliff. He recuperated his body and returned step-by-step to continue his studies. He transmigrated right at the start of his sophomore year, and then until his graduation and return to the country, he had already spent three years here. In fact, ever since receiving the memories, he had felt an indescribable sense of familiarity with this family. Yet he had never been able to piece anything together, until he attended the welcome-home party the Shen Household had thrown for him, where he accidentally fell into the water, and the shock caused him to remember everything. Sigh, why on earth did he transmigrate into a book! Transmigrate if you must, but why did it have to be into a villain family? This was a novel he had read back in college. He remembered it was for a group assignment at the time, where they were asked to design and make a mini-game, and a female classmate had recommended this novel. She said they could make a game where players played as a certain character in the book and changed some of the events inside, equivalent to a plot-driven game. However, that plan was not carried out back then; after all, it was just a group assignment, and the concept was far too grand. They didn't have that much time and energy to do it, nor did they have that kind of funding. Even so, as the game planner at the time, he had finished reading the entire novel. After all, he was the one designing the game missions, so he naturally had to know all the plot points. Yet since it wasn't made later on, it was cast to the back of his mind. He had transmigrated into the fifth child of the Shen Household, but in reality, he should more properly address Father Shen and Mother Shen as uncle and aunt. Because he was actually the child of Father Shen's younger sister, only his parents had passed away in an accident when he was very young, and Father Shen had taken him in and registered him under his own household registry to raise him. Now it seemed that Fifth Young Master Shen must have died during his sophomore year, which was why at the start of the plot, the Shen Household only had four young masters. There were far too many game character names in his mind. At that time, he was still abroad and hadn't met his several older brothers; those somewhat familiar names simply hadn't sparked much curiosity in him. Besides, it was a novel he had read a very long time ago, anyway. Before falling into the water, he had been standing by the lake feeding the fish with fish feed, and there were other people around as well. Who knew that suddenly two people would start arguing? That taller man wanted to coax the shorter man, reaching out his hand to pull him into his embrace. The shorter man began to struggle, and having already been annoyed by the commotion, he had intended to leave right then. The moment he lifted his foot, that shorter man over there happened to give the taller man a shove. Then, wiping away tears, the shorter man ran in his direction. Whether it was because he was wiping his tears and not watching where he was going or not, he slammed into Shen Can and knocked him sideways, causing Shen Can's foot to step onto a mossy stone. His foot slipped, and he tumbled backward. Just as he was falling, he heard a male voice: "Shen Keke, are you sure you won't stop? You clearly know that I love you, and meeting that woman today was forced on me by my mother. Shen Keke, why can't you just try to understand me?" "If it weren't for the fact that your family background is so utterly ordinary, how could my mother—?" Afterward, this speech was interrupted as Shen Keke cried out and shouted, "Zhou Jingxuan, wuwu, how can you be like this? I don't want my family background to be like this either; I also wish my background could be worthy of yours." At the time, his mind had only one thought: What the hell are you on about, you damn Keke? Don't you know you just crashed into someone? Can the two of you go home and argue if you want to? Right after that came his fall into the water, which acted as a shock and made him remember everything completely. He had actually transmigrated into a wealthy-family, dog-blood, sweet-pampering novel packed with every possible trope—a danmei novel where he runs, he chases, he flies and cannot escape. The protagonist gong and shou were the two people arguing just moments before. At this point, the two had already been together for some time, but they had encountered fierce opposition from the protagonist gong's mother. She looked down on the ordinary-family protagonist shou. The protagonist gong was forced by his mother to attend a banquet with another woman, and this scene happened to be witnessed by the protagonist shou. The two had a huge fight, though in the end, they made up anyway. If you asked him, reconciliation was inevitable, because every time the protagonist shou in this book ran away, he never managed to escape A City. The furthest he ever got was an urban village in A City, only to be found by the protagonist gong within two days, hauled back home, and thoroughly tossed about and disciplined. At the same time, this incident also let the protagonist gong discover the connection between the protagonist shou and their family. Yes, that's right, the protagonist shou shared some blood ties with them; the protagonist shou was the son of the son of their grandfather's younger brother. Why was their Shen Household a wealthy conglomerate, while the protagonist shou's family was just an ordinary household? Because their great-grandfather had divided the family estate very early on, and everything after that was earned by their grandfather through decades of his own effort. If their relationship had been good, they certainly could have ridden the coattails of that success. But their grandfather's younger brother had insisted back then that their great-grandfather's division of the estate was unfair. He felt that since the grandfather had gone off to be a soldier early on, and he was the one who had stayed by the great-grandfather's side to take care of him, he deserved a much larger share. And since his older brother was naturally more capable than him, he ought to take less of the family property; capable people should naturally look out for less capable people, since they were all family after all. Yet why should the grandfather suffer a loss? Most of the allowances he received while serving as a soldier had been sent back home. Thus, the two had a major falling out, and after the great-grandfather died, the two branches completely cut ties and never saw each other again. Right up until the grandfather died and the grandfather's younger brother died, the two families never reconciled, so naturally the younger generation had zero contact whatsoever. After everyone in the Shen Household either died, became vegetative, or vanished without a trace, the Shen Corporation was swallowed up by the protagonist gong's family. As for Shen Keke, he married into the protagonist gong's family bringing another major core project of the Shen Corporation that hadn't yet been launched, along with two plots of land worth hundreds of millions, as his dowry. He had seen tragic, but he had never seen anything this tragic. Who wipes out an entire family like that, not even leaving a single living person behind? Although he hadn't spent a substantial amount of time getting along with the Shen family members, during those three years abroad, he had frequently chatted with them on the phone, and every holiday he received gifts from the entire family. Standing idly by and letting them die was simply out of the question. Moreover, now that his older brother had finally landed a good life where he had money to spend without having to be a corporate slave, anyone who dared ruin it would have to answer to his absolute refusal.
After the Villain Family Read My Mind, They Shredded the Trashy Script
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