The Thirty-Five Years of Life I Stole as a Substitute

Chen Ming is an ordinary architect with a happy life, loving parents, and perfect childhood memories. Then one day, while sorting through his late adoptive father's belongings, he discovers an old diary.

The truth comes to light: The diary contains a detailed account of a kidnapping that took place thirty years ago. To his horror, the protagonist discovers that he is not the child of this couple, nor even the child who was kidnapped and later recovered. Their real child tragically died during the rescue, and the kidnapper, looking to vent his rage, snatched a similar-looking baby named Lin Xiaobao from an orphanage and tossed him to the devastated couple. His loving "parents," knowing the truth, joined forces to weave a tremendous lie out of pure selfishness and possessiveness. They stripped him of his true identity and made him spend his life in the shadow of the dead.