"What are you doing here?" the male voice asked and I looked up to seen Chen Hao. I quickly hid the DNA reports just in time."What's that? What are you hiding? What are the both of you doing alone together?" he asked without letting me answer any of them."Daddy,let him go,he isn't doing anything." Yifan protested and that's how I was saved. "Thanks," I said as soon as her dad left. "I have tried talking to her, but she'd never believe me. I'm supposed to be twelve years old and her nephew Yifan. How could I possibly convince her that I'm also her dead husband's consciousness in his biological son's body? She'd think I was either insane or cruel or both." I continued calmly as if my life wasn't spiralling out of control."But you could try. You could tell her things only he would know. You know memories that you couldn't have unless you were really him."Funny how I had thought about this countless times over the past twelve years. Every time I'd seen her at family gatherings, every

The call that changed my life came on a Wednesday afternoon while I was in mathematics class. The teacher had challenged us to solve a maths problem that most of my peers couldn't solve.While I was engrossed in what I was doing, my phone buzzed against my thigh. I kept it on silent during school hours but I couldn't quite bring myself to turn it off completely because some part of me was patiently waiting for disaster. I glanced down at the screen under my desk, and as I saw Yifan's name,my stomach twisted.Mom collapsed. Ambulance coming. Meet me at City General Hospital.My hand shot up before my conscious mind had processed the decision. "I need to leave. Family emergency."The teacher started to protest, but I didn't care. I ran out of the classroom as fast as I could. The taxi ride to the hospital took seventeen minutes that felt like seventeen hours. I sat in the backseat with my fists clenched so tightly my nails drew blood from my palms as I tried to organize my thoughts.