【Reading Guide: Dual male leads. If you dislike this, do not enter. The gong is a madman, the shou is delicate and weak. In every world the gong is the same person. There is a system, but it is a huge piece of junk.
Heart-disease Fake Young Master × Mad Real Young Master
Autistic boy × Vicious prison boss
Dumb little zombie × World-weary zombie king
Gluttonous starving ghost × Indifferent Taoist priest
Sickly kitten × Love-starved boy ………… (Order not fixed, more worlds to be unlocked)
Key point: A crazy gong who likes to watch the shou cry + a delicate, pure, physically weak shou】
A sliver of light leaked through the half-closed door. After a moment, a small head cautiously peeked out. Only after his eyes confirmed that everything outside was pitch-black did he extend his bare little feet and step out.
【Cha Cha, you must be starving. Tong Tong feels bad for you.】
System 101 watched Gu Cha rub his flat stomach and spoke with heartache.
“I’m not. Cha Cha isn’t very hungry.”
Gu Cha had been locked in the room all day without eating much, so he was naturally starving, yet he still comforted Tong Tong.
Tong Tong looked at Gu Cha’s physical data and knew he was hungry, yet he still said that to comfort it. It could not help but whimper softly.
Gu Cha tiptoed downstairs. It was very dark below, and he felt a little scared. He hurried into the Gu Family’s kitchen and switched on the light.
“Grrr~”
His stomach growled again. He quickly opened the refrigerator. When he saw the matcha mini cake inside, his eyes immediately lit up.
He took out the small cake and began eating in big bites, not even bothering to wipe the cream smeared on his face. After only a few mouthfuls, he smiled, his face full of bliss. “So little cakes are this delicious.”
“Gu Cha” was the Young Master of the Gu Family in City A, yet this was the first time Gu Cha had ever eaten a small cake—because this Gu Cha was not that “Gu Cha.”
Gu Cha had not originally belonged to this world. In his previous life, he had been abandoned by his parents on the streets of a slum at the age of eight. No one wanted him, and no one helped him.
He became a little beggar known by everyone in the slum, surviving on discarded food from nearby shops and a small dilapidated temple. He stayed within that tiny area almost every day, rarely interacting with outsiders, never experiencing the cruelty of society, and his nature remained very simple and pure.
After finally growing to eighteen, he had been frozen to death in that dilapidated temple during a sudden heavy snowstorm.
Just as his soul was about to dissipate, System 101—Tong Tong—appeared.
Tong Tong was a rookie in the system world, freshly graduated from system school. It had been searching for a suitable host for a long time but had found none. By chance, it discovered Gu Cha’s pitiful soul, so Tong Tong signed a host contract with him.
The system granted the host a new life, and the host’s task was to absorb the fortune from the male leads across different planes. In doing so, the system would obtain “fortune points” as energy, since a system’s energy depended on those points.
With enough fortune points, the host could exchange them for an ultimate reward.
This was Gu Cha’s first world. The original Young Master “Gu Cha” had died yesterday from heart disease.
Tong Tong looked at the information in its hand and sighed for the nth time.
【Our luck is terrible. The “Gu Cha” of this world was discovered a few days ago not to be the Gu Family’s real Young Master. Now everyone in the Gu Family knows, and no one takes him seriously anymore.】
【Otherwise, he wouldn’t have died from a sudden heart attack with no one by his side to care for him.】
Gu Cha ate his cake and comforted Tong Tong when he heard this. “It’s okay. Even if Cha Cha isn’t the Real Young Master, I’m still happy.”
Gu Cha truly did not care whether he was the Real Young Master or not. To him, having enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear was already an immense blessing.
The matcha cake portion was too small. After finishing it, his stomach was still empty. He wiped his mouth and was about to get another one.
But just as he stood up, the kitchen light suddenly went out without warning.
Gu Cha froze in place. There was not a single glimmer of light before his eyes. It reminded him exactly of when the firewood he burned in the dilapidated temple had been blown out by the wind. He was too frightened to move.
Tap… tap… tap…
In the darkness, footsteps seemed to sound.
A chill spread through his entire body. Summoning his courage, he spoke, “Who… who are you… Mmm—”
Before he could finish, something pressed against his lips. His pupils shrank in terror, and the words he had been about to say were swallowed back down.
“Caught a little mouse stealing food.”
A strange voice sounded by his ear. At the same time, a beam of light shone directly onto his face. Blinded by the glare, Gu Cha shut his eyes instantly.
Lu Chenyu narrowed his eyes as he looked at Gu Cha’s face scrunched into a tight frown. One finger pressed against Gu Cha’s lips, touching the soft pink flesh, while his other hand held a phone whose flashlight shone straight into Gu Cha’s eyes.
【Cha Cha! Step back! Hurry, step back!】
Tong Tong snapped to attention and shouted anxiously.
Gu Cha retreated a big step. The light was no longer so blinding, and he cautiously opened a slit of one eye.
Lu Chenyu’s narrowed gaze and appearance immediately came into view, and Gu Cha was instantly terrified.
He had entered “Gu Cha’s” body only yesterday and had stayed in the room all day, too afraid to come out. In short, Lu Chenyu was the first person he had met in this world.
Tong Tong also saw Lu Chenyu clearly. The bracelet on its hand detected Wei Chenyu’s appearance and immediately flashed a bright red light. 【This is the male lead! Cha Cha, he’s the male lead—Lu Chenyu!】
Gu Cha grew even more nervous. “Lu… Lu Chenyu.”
Lu Chenyu’s smile disappeared, as if he had grown bored. He switched on the kitchen light.
Arms crossed over his chest, he said, “Didn’t Young Master Gu say during the day that he would rather starve to death than give in? Why are you sneaking out in the middle of the night to ‘forage’ after everyone has gone to sleep? It seems Young Master Gu’s resolve is nothing more than this.”
After learning that he was not the biological son of Gu Songqing and Zong Lan, the original “Gu Cha” had been severely shaken. He had locked himself in his room for two days, declaring that if Wei Chenyu stayed in this house, then he would not. He demanded that Gu Songqing and Zong Lan drive Wei Chenyu out, or he would starve himself to death inside the room.
But that had been the original “Gu Cha’s” idea, not Gu Cha’s. He still wanted to live well, so of course he could not refuse to eat.
“But I… I’m really hungry… I want to eat…” Gu Cha looked down at his protesting stomach, then gazed at Lu Chenyu pitifully.
Lu Chenyu’s eyes darkened.
…………
Gu Cha held a spoon, scooped up a large piece of cake, opened his mouth wide, and stuffed it in. His happiness was obvious on his face, completely ignoring the fact that Lu Chenyu had been standing beside him watching for quite some time.
【Cha Cha, you can’t just eat by yourself. The male lead has been staring at you for ages!】
Gu Cha thought about it and realized that seemed rude. How could he eat alone?
“D-do you want some?” Gu Cha generously pushed over the half-eaten cake. “There isn’t any left in the fridge. If you want some, you can eat mine.”
Lu Chenyu looked at Gu Cha’s cream-smeared face, which had none of his usual noble composure, and at the cake that had been dug into beyond recognition. With disdain, he said, “Young Master Gu should keep it for himself.”
Gu Cha responded with an “Oh.” Hearing that he did not want any actually made him a bit happy. He turned back and continued eating the rest of the cake.
Only after Gu Cha had eaten almost all of it did Tong Tong remind him.