(Foreword: This is a double-male-lead, main-gong quick-transmigration story. The pairing is host gong × system shou. The two of them raise a child together. There may or may not be a CP for Little Treasure; each story is different, and Little Treasure changes. The main characters stay fixed: Qi Du × Lu Yiqi (0617). Thanks for reading, and best wishes.)
The weather was cold and gloomy. The chill of late autumn and early winter, carried by a biting wind, ruthlessly seeped into people’s clothes.
Outside the Xu family’s back garden, an adult man stood quietly holding a black umbrella. He was tall and perfectly built, his back broad and solid. Dressed entirely in black, his whole bearing was cold and crisp. No one knew how long he had been standing there.
After a long while, he finally asked, “Is this the Male Lead of an Angst Novel you mentioned?”
『Yes, host. Our mission objective this time is to change his life and let him truly obtain happiness.』
The system had a very warm, clear male voice. It sounded gentle, like that of a very modest and polite middle school teacher.
Qi Du did not move. Standing far away, he stared at the tiny figure in the garden, his tone tinged with irritation. “He’s still so young. Does no one in his family care about him?”
The system answered, 『His parents were in a car accident not long ago. The enormous Xu family now has only him left. According to the plot, he will be isolated and helpless on his own. The family fortune will be swallowed up by collateral relatives, and he will be taken in by the main gong’s family, becoming their nominal fiancé.』
『Living under someone else’s roof is not easy. He can only be cautious and careful, spending more than ten years as the other person’s doormat. Summoned at a moment’s notice and dismissed just as quickly by one of the male leads… the main gong… he has always loved that person humbly and hopelessly.』
Qi Du was left speechless. He immediately fished a pack of cigarettes from his pants pocket, bit one between his lips, and lit it. The flame flickered on and off. After taking a couple of drags, Qi Du exhaled a ring of smoke.
He could not understand it. “Being despised for more than ten years, treated like a dog, and then still being able to fall in love with them in the end?”
The system coughed twice. 『Don’t ask. If you do, the answer is just the Small World’s plot arrangement.』
Qi Du snorted in disdain. “What kind of garbage plot is that? No wonder his resentment is so strong.”
The system sighed softly. 『Yes. What a fine little young master he was. He was originally a noble scion from a prestigious family. He could have had his own career and his own bright future, and maybe he would not have needed to swallow his pride and do nothing at all. Yet they treated him like this…』
『Host, how should we carry out this mission?』
Qi Du stubbed out his cigarette. “Like we discussed before, I’ll be the dad, and you’ll be the mom.”
“This rotten plot is just bullying the male lead because no one is backing him up. What trash of a main gong, dragging him home just to bully him. It’s not like we can’t afford to raise Little Treasure ourselves.”
“You go make the arrangements. You can handle this little adoption matter, right?”
The system paused. 『You really want me to be the mom? I can’t do that, and I’m male.』
Qi Du cut him off directly. “You’re a system. Why are you talking about men and women? Don’t you only have a number? 0617? That’s the arrangement.”
System: ???
“No, wait. Doesn’t anyone care about my feelings?”
He could not help protesting. 『I was human before I died. I’m different from ordinary program systems. Show me some respect!』
Qi Du gave a teasing laugh. “You were human? Then do you have a name?”
0617 fell silent. After becoming a system and being kept behind by the main god to work, his name had been hidden away. On ordinary days, he only had a code number.
Seeing that he could not answer, Qi Du let out another light laugh. He lifted the black umbrella a little higher. The cold autumn rain fell in fine, dense threads. In the garden, the tiny figure was still miserably hiding under the mimosa tree, like a poor little thing forgotten by the whole world.
Qi Du tapped the system in his mind. “We can’t drag this out any longer. He looks really bad right now.”
The system also knew the mission was important, so in the end he did not keep arguing. Following the plan they had agreed on, after settling down in this Small World, he quickly used outside help to obtain legal guardianship of the male lead.
A week later, when he appeared again at the Xu residence, the plot had just reached the point where those messy Xu family relatives came to divide up the property left behind by Xu Yangxia’s parents.
Qi Du wore a black suit and strode in with long, decisive steps, not caring at all about the shocked looks from the people around him.
With a few long strides, he reached the small protagonist standing in the hall.
Xu Yangxia was still only a five-year-old little treasure. He was staring up with a pair of innocent, watery eyes, clutching a small toy airplane and looking timidly at Qi Du.
Qi Du frowned slightly. “Let me introduce myself. My name is Qi Du. I will be your guardian in the future, so you can start calling me Dad now.”
Everyone around him was stunned, clearly not expecting this sudden move from Qi Du, a stranger who had burst in out of nowhere.
The Xu family relatives immediately began shouting, “Who do you think you are? Why should a child of the Xu family go with you? Xiaxia, tell Auntie, have you ever seen this man before?”
Qi Du looked coldly at the Xu family, completely ignoring their clamorous voices, and said in his own calm way, “Why should he go with me? Because I don’t want a single cent of the Xu family’s property. Because if this little brat follows me, he won’t have to live under someone else’s roof. If he chooses me, in the future he will be the legal heir of both the Qi and Xu families. The Xu family property will be left untouched for him, and everything I, Qi Du, own will be his in the future too!”
“We’ve just met for the first time, so you may not know me very well. You can look it up online right now and see who Qi Du is.”
His voice was not loud, but it was deep and magnetic. At first, everyone was shocked by his aggressive looks and gaze. It took them a while to react, and then they hurriedly pulled out their phones to search in disbelief.
There had never been anyone like Qi Du in B City. The Xu family muttered and grumbled, refusing at first to believe a word he said, until they found the news about the new head of the Qi family in X City.
The face of the new family head in the photo gradually overlapped with that domineering man before them. The noisy chatter in the room quieted down quite a bit.
Everyone kept comparing the two in disbelief, as though they wanted to bore a hole through Qi Du’s face with their gaze.
The system was still a little uneasy. 『We did not have enough time, so I just found you a random identity. It should be enough to scare them off, right?』
Qi Du laughed. “Being the head of the Qi family is enough. The Xu family in B City is only a nouveau riche household. Their foundation is weak. They are nowhere near a match.”
0617 let out a long sigh of relief. 『That’s good. I almost thought we wouldn’t be able to take Little Treasure away.』
Qi Du comforted him. “That won’t happen. I’m here.”
He stood upright and straight. Standing there with a height of nearly 1.9 meters, he was extremely imposing. His hair was neatly groomed without the slightest flaw, and beneath his strong brow ridge were a pair of deep, unreadable eyes.
His features were bold and his face sharply defined. He was handsome in a very aggressive way, the kind that embodied the strength-based beauty of Eastern masculinity.
The aura around him was equally cold and murderous, making him look like someone not easy to get along with.
Qi Du’s arrival had been sudden. Not only was the Xu family unprepared, but even the family that had come to take the little male lead away was caught off guard.
Cheng Huan looked at the somewhat dazed Xu Yangxia and reached out to yank him hard. “Hey! Didn’t we agree that you’d come live at my house?”
“You’re going back on your word?”
“I knew you were a little liar. Someone like you doesn’t deserve to be my friend!”