Same but different

"Don't you think you were a bit too harsh on her?" Gary asked as he sat in the driver's seat.

"Are you lecturing me how to behave, Mr. Chen?"

Gary gulped. He knew that when Lena called him that, she was angry.

"I only spoke the truth. She will have to stop living in her perfect little fantasy."Lena looked down and solemnly spoke. "No one woke me up from my dream… I learned it the hard way. So I was just doing something I wished someone did for me."

Gary felt like he has not done anything good today for her. He was about to caress her face but she suddenly looked up at him.

"Ah right.. We didn't get you some clothes. Maybe next time."

He smiled. 'She said next time...'

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Gary drove back to his apartment and Leah head back home for dinner. She was expecting her first report for the night.

She pulled her car up front in the driveway. She hopped off the car and was greeted.

"Welcome back home Miss. Shen."

"I have bags in my car. Bring those up to my room." Lena threw the key to the young boy who would drove the car back into the garage.

"Oh, and are my parents home yet?"

"Your parents will be arriving a bit late today for dinner. Mr. Han will also be joining."

"Mhm…" Leah headed up to her room. She changed into something for comfortable and sat on her desk looking up a few things while she waited.

So far from today's experience, Lena knew that her real self was mostly dominant, but there are some strong personalities from the old Lena.

'Hmm.. so it's just like two souls merging together. I would need to think before I speak more often.'

She also learned from today that her real self doesn't exist. Shen Qian is non-existent. In fact, nothing in "her world" exist here.

The year is still 2020, but the people are different. There are still some same aspects such as technologies, but they have different names. Some historical events happened and some did not.

'Hmm… so this is like the k-drama "W" where everything is almost the same but has different names.'

She had concluded that this "world" was not hers and different. Lena doesn't know if she wanted to think about what happened to her real self. It would put more thought to her mind. She knew that if she is here now, she should focus on herself. Getting back home was never the way to resolve her current situation.

Lena did not know if this was fated or a punishment sent from above. Whatever it was, she wasn't brought here to be the kind female lead. Her character herself was not too overpowered. But for one thing that they both shared was that their ego was over their heads. They were both stubborn too.

Just then, she heard some noises of doors closing and voices of chattering.

'That must be my parents!'

Lena rushed down to greet them. She quickly rushed and hugged her dad.

"Lena… is something wrong? Did something happened?" Shen Mao asked in a panic.

"No…I just missed you." Although he was not her real dad and she was not sure if she can even return, it feels nice to be held and love. A father's embrace is very powerful.

"Ehem…" Shen Milli cleared her throat. 'My daughter didn't hug me… and I raised her with me own two hands!'

"Ahhh… mommy I missed you too!" Lena went to hug her mom next.

"I think you forgot about someone." Shen Milli spoke.

Lena stuck her head out from her mom's hug and stared at the man behind her father.

"Really? I only have one dad and one mom and I am pretty sure I am the only child of this house."

"Lena!" Shen Milli scolded her.

"Ah?? Fine, I can hug Secretary Han too!" Lena walked over to hug him also.