Lin Yanshu died. He died unawares.
One second he was happily thinking about what to eat for evening meals, and the next second he was struck dead by a speeding car running a red light.
His soul floated out, looking at the bloody mess on the ground. Well, not a single bit of human shape left.
Just as Lin Yanshu tried to look closer to see where his nose and eyes had scattered, a weird voice appeared in his mind:
You are dead.
What the heck. Why are you stating the obvious? Did I not know I was dead?
Immediately after, a small ball of light flew out, also without a human shape.
“What are you?”
The ball of light spoke: Host, hello. I am System 336, coming from a high-dimensional parallel fiction world. I am a twenty-second-century newly developed high-tech system…
As it spoke, it inexplicably carried a bit of unclear superiority.
Lin Yanshu looked expressionless: “Oh, pretty fucking awesome. And then?”
336: ……
Seeing that the person in front of him had an impatient tone, 336 decided to cut straight to the point:
Recently, the escape of cannon-fodder spirits has occurred frequently in the sub-world planes. Manpower is very tight, and we need people to play cannon-fodder roles.
“So that’s how it is.” Lin Yanshu calmly said, “However, what does that have to do with me?”
336: According to the data I reviewed, you have a new film just released, and it is faintly showing a tendency to become popular. It is a pity to die now, right?
It tempted him: Don’t you want to live again? Don’t you want to reach the peak of your life?
Seeing the soul in front of him lowered its head to think, the 336 light ball flashed excitedly.
A signed contract, along with paper and pen, floated in front of Lin Yanshu.
“The tasks are simple and easy to get started with. You just need to do tasks according to the plotline I transmit to you. There are also welfare guarantees. Joining us is definitely not a loss.”
Lin Yanshu lightly lifted his eyelids.
In such a hurry? You can tell manpower is really tight.
“Is it just a resurrection benefit?” Lin Yanshu’s voice sounded a bit lazy.
“Of course not. As long as you complete your tasks well, besides the resurrection reward, there is also a cash reward… one billion!”
The system deliberately paused for two seconds before saying one billion.
Lin Yanshu’s eyes lit up.
“Really?”
“Guaranteed authentic!”
Lin Yanshu coughed lightly, “Actually, money doesn’t matter. You know, I’m just someone who loves role-playing.”
336: ……
Lin Yanshu smoothly signed his name.
“Don’t waste time, let’s start!”
Lin Yanshu’s mind was full of one billion! How many films would he have to shoot to earn that back? He struck it rich!!!
System: ……
Character settings for the first sub-world have been modified! (2024.12.30)
Main Text:
T2 Parking Lot.
Lin Yanshu sat in the Land Rover, leisurely discussing the plot with the system.
“System, don’t you think the plot of this world is too melodramatic?” Even more melodramatic than the eight o’clock melodramatic soap operas he had watched!
“And then?”
Lin Yanshu: ……
“No and then.”
“Oh!”
After saying “oh,” the system went invisible again.
Lin Yanshu: ……
How annoying!
The plot of this world can be summarized by Lin Yanshu in four words: “Affection grows over time.”
The male protagonist, Ji Yanzhi, is a handsome and peerless tyrannical CEO, while the female protagonist, Meng Jie, is his college alumnus. The two occasionally met at a friend’s gathering, and later established a deep revolutionary friendship because of shared interests.
Later, the tyrannical CEO opened a company in China to establish a new market, and his contact with Meng Jie increased.
Meng Jie was excellent and beautiful. In the process of daily getting along, the two gradually developed feelings that surpassed friendship. Later, Ji Yanzhi confessed to Meng Jie, and the two naturally got together.
Lin Yanshu’s identity in this sub-world is Meng Jie’s step-younger brother, named Meng Yanshu.
Meng Yanshu’s father and Meng Jie’s father were very good friends. As a result, when Meng Yanshu was four years old, the couple died in a car crash. Meng’s father then took Meng Yanshu to his own home. Although it was called adoption, Meng Yanshu’s household registration was not in the Meng family, but on a separate household registration book, which could be considered as being fostered and raised in the Meng family.
Meng Jie was three years older than him, and because Meng Yanshu’s parents were gone, she doted heavily on this step-younger brother.
Meng Jie regarded Meng Yanshu as a younger brother, but Meng Yanshu did not regard Meng Jie as an elder sister. He had always liked Meng Jie. Of course, it was that kind of love for a lover; otherwise, how could it be called a melodramatic novel?
Before Meng Jie and Ji Yanzhi got together, Meng Yanshu, the cannon fodder who sabotaged the relationship between the male and female protagonists, began various fancy ways of making trouble in order to keep the two apart, creating various misunderstandings for them.
As a result, he actually succeeded, and the misunderstanding between the two ran rather deep.
During an accidental car crash involving Meng Jie, Meng Yanshu could no longer suppress his feelings for Meng Jie, and passionately confessed to her.
Meng Jie had always regarded Meng Yanshu as a younger brother; how could she possibly accept Meng Yanshu? She even alienated him directly because of Meng Yanshu’s confession.
Meng Jie’s resolute attitude deeply pierced Meng Yanshu’s heart, making him gloomy and maniacal.
In order to obtain Meng Jie, he finally frantically kidnapped Meng Jie, preparing to take her abroad to start a new life together, but in the end Meng Jie was rescued by Ji Yanzhi.
Because of this incident, Meng Jie was completely disappointed in Meng Yanshu, and the Meng family also severed ties with Meng Yanshu.
Meng Yanshu’s ultimate ending was that after being driven out of the Meng family, while driving away at a crossroads, he collided head-on with an out-of-control big truck and died on the spot.
After all, it’s a melodramatic novel. After Meng Yanshu died, the male protagonist began a hundred-chapter cremation ground pursuit of his wife.
And at the end of the sub-world, the male protagonist and female protagonist finally lived happily together.
On the other side, Meng Jie was dragging her suitcase while asking Ji Yanzhi beside her, “A-Yan, how long can you stay this time after returning to China?”
“Not clear yet. After all, the branch office has just started operating, and there are a lot of matters. If it goes smoothly, I might return to country M after the New Year, but in the future, it’s most likely that I’ll be running back and forth.”
Meng Jie chuckled, “Well, after all, starting a business from scratch in China, how can you not be busy! If you need any help, just tell me.”
“Rest assured, if there really is a need, I won’t be polite with you.”
Ji Yanzhi’s family had immigrated to country M when he was three years old. He grew up in country M, and the family business was also in country M.
This time, opening the branch office back in China was mainly because domestic market demand was gradually growing, and who wouldn’t want to make money? He certainly wouldn’t miss out on this slice of the pie.
“Does anyone pick you up? If not, want to catch a ride in my car? My younger brother is already waiting at T2.”
“Haven’t found a driver yet, preparing to take a taxi back.”
Ji Yanzhi actually had many properties in China since relatives were still here, and occasionally he would come back to stay for a few days during the New Year.
“Then don’t bother. I’ll have Yanshu send you back later.”
Ji Yanzhi smiled amiably. His well-defined and slender fingers leisurely supported the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. He didn’t stand on ceremony with Meng Jie either, his voice warm and deep:
“Alright, then I’ll trouble you.”
“Aren’t we friends? You’re being quite polite…”
When Meng Jie and Ji Yanzhi walked to the place where Lin Yanshu parked his car, Lin Yanshu had already stopped chatting with that quite boring system.
He was leaning against the car door smoking.
Ji Yanzhi saw Lin Yanshu at a glance. No way around it, Lin Yanshu was just a bit too dazzling in his eyes.
A slender figure leaned against the car door, dressed entirely in black as if trying to merge with the car. His head was slightly lowered, and his long, thick eyelashes cast a shadow on his eyelids. His skin was very white, setting off exceptionally red lips.
A few sparks flickered at his fingertips, and the slowly rising smoke blurred his expression, giving people a strange aesthetic feeling of desolation and melancholy.
“Yanshu.”
As soon as Meng Jie spoke, Lin Yanshu looked up and saw Meng Jie and Ji Yanzhi standing about three steps away.
He had been thinking about something just now and hadn’t noticed that the two were walking close to him.
The system’s voice came into his mind: 【Ding… The bitchy cannon-fodder plot task has officially begun!】
A handsome man and a beautiful woman; looking at them was really pleasing to the eyes.
Meng Jie’s appearance looked like that of a glamorous beauty, the kind of beauty that stunned people at first glance. Her seaweed-like long hair was draped casually over her shoulders, standard melon-seed face, a pair of large eyes as clear as water, and she looked somewhat full of charm when she smiled.
Lin Yanshu let out a “wow” in his heart: So pretty!
Then he imperceptibly let his gaze fall on Ji Yanzhi. His facial contours were sharp and distinct, wearing thin-rimmed glasses, his eyes sealed with a shallow smile. Standing nearly 1.9 meters tall, with broad shoulders and long legs, wearing a well-fitted suit, wherever he stood really gave off the sensory feel of a tyrannical CEO written in novels.
Lin Yanshu withdrew his gaze nonchalantly and gave Meng Jie a sweet smile.
Two cute dimples were revealed, looking quite well-behaved. Of course, it would look even more like it if he didn’t have a cigarette in his hand: “Zhi-zhi, you’re finally back, I missed you to death.”
After turning eighteen, Meng Yanshu never called Meng Jie elder sister anymore, but called her by her childhood nickname, Zhi-zhi. Meng Jie scolded him a few times to no avail, so she just let him be; after all, it was just a title.
Finishing his words, Lin Yanshu remembered that he still had an unfinished cigarette in his hand: “Wait for me a moment.”
Lin Yanshu walked quickly to the trash can nearby, pressed out the cigarette butt in his hand, and threw it into the trash can specially designated for cigarette butts.
Turning around and walking back, he effortlessly separated the two people who were not very close, stood right between them, and intimately hugged Meng Jie’s arm, acting spoiled: “Zhi-zhi, did you miss me?”
Meng Jie’s expression was a bit helpless, but the look in her eyes looking at Lin Yanshu carried pampering: “Missed, how could I not miss you? But didn’t we just video chat yesterday?”
“I don’t care, video chatting and meeting in person are definitely different. You’ve been gone for half a year, I missed you so much.”
Lin Yanshu let out a soft snort, his expression carrying a trace of spoiled arrogance that not only didn’t make people feel unreasonable, but instead made him look cute.
“Yes, yes, yes, I missed you too, I brought you a gift.” Meng Jie smiled helplessly, her expression looking at Lin Yanshu exceptionally gentle.
Only then did Lin Yanshu smile: “Thank you, Zhi-zhi, whatever Zhi-zhi gives me, I like it.”
Meng Jie was amused and delighted by Lin Yanshu’s sweet mouth, suddenly remembering that Ji Yanzhi was still standing next to them.
“Right, Yanshu, this is my good friend Ji Yanzhi, you can just call him Brother Yan.”
Hearing this, Lin Yanshu then turned his head and cast his gaze on Ji Yanzhi.
Ji Yanzhi reached out his hand toward Lin Yanshu and greeted him with a smile.
Lin Yanshu glanced at Ji Yanzhi, then lowered his gaze to fall on Ji Yanzhi’s well-defined and slender outstretched hand.
His hand is quite nice-looking!
He gave Ji Yanshi a brilliant smile, looking as well-behaved as could be: “Brother Yan.”
Then he stretched out his hand to briefly shake hands with Ji Yanzhi, and parted right away.
That single “Brother Yan” made Ji Yanzhi’s heart tremble, and he only felt that his ears inexplicably felt a little hot.
How… how could he call it so nicely???
“Yanshu, nice to meet you for the first time, very glad to know you.”
As soon as the tyrannical CEO spoke, it was a set of polite, formal social talk. After finishing, he looked at Lin Yanshu with a full smile in his eyes.
Lin Yanshu raised an eyebrow at Ji Yanzhi, his peach-blossom eyes slightly hooking upward, a trace of mischief flashing in his eyes, and he tilted his head slightly: “How glad?”
After Lin Yanshu finished speaking, his red lips curved into a half-smile arc, his expression looking a bit quirky, as if this were just a joking remark of his.
Ji Yanzhi’s polite remarks were directly choked back by Lin Yanshu’s sentence, and he secretly sighed in his heart: Why doesn’t this kid play according to common sense???
Shouldn’t it be “nice to meet you too”?
Meng Jie, standing aside, naturally thought her well-behaved younger brother was joking, and chuckled: “Don’t be mischievous.”
As Meng Jie’s voice fell, Lin Yanshu softened up entirely, looking at Meng Jie with a well-behaved expression, his cheeks even carrying a trace of shy blush: “Got it, Zhi-zhi.”
Lin Yanshu looked at Meng Jie with eyes full of smiles, so gentle and naive that it stunned Ji Yanshi for a moment.
Too soft and harmless.
Inwardly, he couldn’t help sighing: Isn’t this kid’s face-changing speed a bit too fast? Did he study Sichuan opera face-changing?
The next second, Lin Yanshu flashed another smile at Ji Yanzhi: “Brother Yan, I was just joking, don’t be angry, okay! I’m also very glad to meet you.”
Their eyes directly collided, and Ji Yanzhi was momentarily dazed.
Lin Yanshu hooked the corners of his lips, a trace of cunning flashing in the depths of his eyes, making Ji Yanzhi inexplicably think of a little fox.
“No, I won’t be angry.”
“That’s good. If Brother Yan were angry, I would be sad. After all, you’re Zhi-zhi’s friend.”
Ji Yanzhi: ……
Suddenly feeling a little like he wanted to chuckle bitterly, what was going on???