On Campus, You Make Your Own Identity!

When the leaders came to inspect the cafeteria, Zheng Yang was eating free plain rice. “What about your hardship allowance?” “I applied. Maybe the money's in worse straits than I am. It hasn't made its way to me yet.” Just as the leader reached out to help him, Zheng Yang opened the Book of Endings in his mind and inserted an episode about “saving someone on a rainy night” into the leader's past. The very next second, the leader's expression changed. Later, Zheng Yang went on selling instant noodles, taking substitute teaching jobs, and delivering food by car, yet people kept insisting they owed him a huge favor. When the manager tried to fire him, the chairman got upset first. When a rich young heir turned to his mother for support, she told him to step aside. Zheng Yang: “Don't get the wrong idea. I really don't have any powerful connections.” Everyone else: “Then how can all these important people tell stories about their past with you?!”