“…He is dead, can’t you fulfill his last wish and do the funeral at home?”
“They just signed a certificate, moreover, the Lu family didn’t really want to recognize this ‘daughter-in-law’, why should you rush to send him back there?!”
Gu Xiyu woke up feeling dizzy. His soul state was still stabilizing, and he felt nauseous.
[[The system automatic program W-XH3771 is already online. The data of this world is being loaded…]]
When Gu Xiyu left the previous world, his soul was brought back to the central site. There he saw the main system again, which was a huge white light surrounded by many servers and data lines floating in the air.
It might be that he hadn’t seen it for a long time, but he felt it looked a little brighter than when he first saw it.
The communication between him and the main system was less than with the intelligent system. After confirming that there was no major problem with the data or the state of his soul, he said to it, “Let’s go to the next world.”
Then he came to this place.
There was a pungent smell of disinfectant around.
It took Gu Xiyu a long time to open his eyes, and he was caught off guard when the little nurse who was packing things by the bed suddenly locked eyes with him and let out an exclamation.
The noise in the room stopped abruptly.
The little nurse was stunned for several seconds, then she suddenly ran out screaming: “Doctor, the patient in room 301 who was just declared dead is alive again——!”
Gu Xiyu turned his head and saw the two that were arguing in the room were a middle-aged man and a woman.
The woman was wearing a dirty floral short-sleeve shirt and trousers. Her curly, mid-length hair was randomly tied with a rubber band, making her look a little unkempt.
Seeing him wake up, the woman was overjoyed, and she rushed to the bed, saying, “Ah, Yu, you are not dead?!”
“It’s great, you scared your mother to death…” Gu Xiyu smelled the oily smoke mixed with sweat from the woman who hugged him. It smelled unpleasant, but he didn’t push the person away.
He opened his mouth to speak but found that his mouth was so dry that his voice was hoarse.
This woman, who was apparently his mother in this world, immediately poured him a glass of water, with concern in her eyes: “Don’t worry, moisten your throat first.”
“Good boy. Next time, you should discuss things with your mother first. Don’t do such stupid things, okay?”
Gu Xiyu touched his neck while drinking water. It hurt a bit, and there should be bruises on it.
On the other hand, the fat man with big ears and a small beard not only walked to the bed and snatched his half-drunk water but also pulled him out of the bed: “It’s just right that you haven’t died. I have packed everything for you. Alright, now get the hell out and go to the Lu family!”
“Fortunately, I hadn’t told them about this matter. Otherwise, they would have asked me to return that money.”
The woman’s emotions finally broke out. She pushed him with red eyes and said angrily: “You sold our son to an old man for one hundred thousand yuan. Do you still have a conscience?!”
“What’s wrong with one hundred thousand yuan? With just your little stall, you would never make that much money for decades!” The man felt that his authority was being challenged, so he rolled up his sleeve and raised his hand to slap the woman.
But just as he was about to slap her, his hand was grasped by a hand whose skin was so white that he could see the blue veins, and he couldn’t move an inch, even with all of his effort.
The man looked at his thin, malnourished son incredulously.
Gu Xiyu’s eyes were very indifferent: “Just speak, don’t use violence.”
From the argument between the two, it seemed that he was forced to marry someone again and that the other person was also a man.
The intelligent system wasn’t online yet, and he had no one to complain to about the plot, so he could only say quietly to his father in this world: “It’s just marriage. There is no need for you to be so noisy.”
It was not the first time anyway.
Just when Gu Xiyu thought that the old man they were talking about was the target of this mission, he suddenly got a prompt from the automatic system.
[[The data is loaded. ]]
[[Mission World 2, the original owner is a cannon fodder that does not appear much in the subsequent plot. He is 21 years old this year and is studying environmental studies at Jingjiang University. His father, Gu Sichang, loves gambling, drinking, and being lazy. The family’s livelihood is maintained by his mother’s food stall. Due to financial difficulties, the original owner used his free time to work as a game anchor after entering university in order to maintain his daily expenses and tuition.]]
[[Not long ago, the original owner’s father sold him to 43-year-old Lu Mingren for 100,000 yuan. Lu Mingren, who was born into the Lu family, has a wealthy family background. He is also serving as the CEO of the branch company run by the Lu family. Lu Mingren’s elderly father, Lu Nan, suddenly fell into a coma a while ago, and after an examination, the doctor said that he was not in a serious condition, but the specific reason for his falling into a coma was unknown. Some of the Lu family members claimed that Lu Nan might have offended some evil spirits, so they proposed creating a positive environment by having someone in the family get married.]]
[[Among the close relatives of the Lu family, only the divorced Lu Mingren was single and of marriageable age. The religious expert made some calculations and found that the original body was the only person who could complete this ceremony, so they approached Gu Sichang. Gu Sichang had no culture and only had money in his eyes. Knowing that his son could be exchanged for 100,000 yuan for gambling, he happily agreed.]]
[[The original owner, who was forced to get a marriage certificate with a man who was more than 20 years older than himself, was found hanging himself not long after receiving the certificate. He was sent to the hospital as soon as he was found, but he didn’t make it.]]
Which was why Gu Xiyu could transmigrate into this body.
While Gu Xiyu was still in a daze, the mission page was loaded again.
The information given this time seems to be more complete.
[[The mission target in this world is called Lu Ziqing, an 18-year-old sophomore in high school. In the original plot, his targeting and resentment towards the protagonist came from the protagonist’s mother.]]
[[The protagonist is called Xu Chengxuan. Zhou Tianyi, who is Lu Ziqing’s biological mother, is Lu Mingren’s ex-wife. Although Lu Mingren liked Zhou Tianyi because she was so sensible, Zhou Tianyi actually had a long-time lover and was forced to marry Lu Mingren due to family pressure. After marriage, she couldn’t accept living with someone she didn’t love and didn’t like the pressure from the Lu family. So she decided to divorce Lu Mingren and left to be with her first love. And that first love was Xu Chengxuan’s father.]]
[[Zhou Tianyi didn’t have a good impression of the Lu family, so she resisted coming back to meet Lu Ziqing through the years. Lu Ziqing, who had lost his mother since childhood, hated Xu Chengxuan and felt that he had robbed his mother. Without him and his father, he would have had a happy and complete family. So when Xu Chengxuan accidentally transferred to his school and was always used as a comparison to Lu Ziqing (Xu Chengxuan was a good student while My Ziqing was a bad student), Lu Ziqing started mobilizing his friends to target Xu Chengxuan and make trouble for him.]]
[[Because the character Lu Ziqing was affected by the Great Demon’s soul fragment, Xu Chengxuan, who was supposed to be able to crush him in all aspects, was not able to complete the plot because the target’s ability far exceeded his. At the same time, the system calculated that the target was very likely to ruin Xu Chengxuan and his family after experiencing the later blackening plot. At the last moment, he killed Xu Chengxuan, the protagonist, leading to the collapse of the world.]]
[[Therefore, the host’s mission in this world is to prevent Lu Ziqing from growing into a heinous villain and killing the male and female protagonists. ]]
[[The target’s current risk value is 60. Work hard, host! ]]
Gu Xiyu stared at the system panel in silence for a long time. He even raised his hand to his mouth and fell into a long period of contemplation.
He thought he was going to be the Great Demon’s little wife again, but he was actually his… stepfather this time?
Gu Xiyu suddenly looked forward to it.
That guy poisoned him without warning in the last world. In this world, that devil deserves to call him dad.
“Xiyu, if you don’t want to, you can tell mom. What matters most to mom is that you are happy and satisfied!” Xie Chunhua might have been worried that he just promised in order to save her from Gu Sichang’s violence, only to go and do something stupid again.
Gu Xiyu patted her shoulder sensibly, his tone sounding gentle and patient: “Mom, don’t worry, you can finally rest assured. I will never do anything that will worry you again.”
The doctor hurried into the room, followed by the panicked little nurse, and saw him standing in the ward and talking to his parents safe and sound, and his eyes almost fell out.
He examined Gu Xiyu and, after confirming that there was nothing wrong with his body, exclaimed: “Impossible! I just confirmed that you had stopped breathing and the heartbeat monitor had stopped displaying your heartbeat. You actually came back to life, amazing! ”
Gu Xiyu: “…”
Gu Sichang told him that he had made an appointment with the Lu family to pick him up tomorrow afternoon, and asked him to make preparations in advance. Then he went to who knows where with all that money.
After Xie Chunhua sent him home, she took out a few crumpled banknotes: “Take these and go buy something to eat when you’re hungry.”
Gu Xiyu refused: “It’s okay. I have enough. You can keep it for yourself.”
Xie Chunhua kept walking while looking back to confirm that he could take care of himself before heading back to work.
They lived in a small two-bedroom rental house with a small tea table and sofa, there was almost no space to move around in the living room. It was spring and the weather was good, so the house was not as hot as in the summer.
Gu Xiyu lay on the sofa and closed his eyes for a while, only opening them after the dizziness and nausea had disappeared.
The intelligent system was still offline, and the sky outside was darkening. He felt a little hungry, and after checking the balance in the mobile payment app, he went out to buy dinner.
The house was in a relatively quiet and remote old community. Gu Xiyu rode a bicycle for a long time before finding some noodle shops selling hot food. He didn’t rush to buy dinner, after all, it was the first time he came to this world, and he should first familiarize himself with the environment.
Gu Xiyu hadn’t decided what to eat when he passed by a deserted basketball court and accidentally saw a few high school students beating up a student.
Even if the student who was being beaten was surrounded by four or five people, he didn’t shrink back. He clenched his fist and punched everyone back. Gu Xiyu saw that the bullies were not very strong, but being beaten by four or five people at the same time isn’t something anyone can endure.
One boy, who was previously just watching the scene as he leaned on the dilapidated basketball hoop with one hand in his trouser pocket, suddenly pulled his companion away. Then he kicked the boy on the ground mercilessly.
His strength must have been great, as the boy who was kicked immediately collapsed to the ground, giving the people around him a chance to beat him.
When Gu Xiyu walked over, he saw the face of the kicker. His profile was very beautiful. He was tall and handsome. The bangs on his forehead might not have been trimmed for a while, as a few strands slightly fell over his eyes, making him look more sinister.
His clothes were unexpectedly neat. The white school uniform was neatly ironed, and his pants were not dusty or wrinkled. When he stood there quietly, he did not look like a student who was the boss of a high school gang. Instead, he looked more like a member of a disciplinary committee.
This boy seemed very perceptive as he spotted Gu Xiyu the moment he stepped into the range of the basketball court, and his cold eyes fell directly on him.
When their eyes met, Gu Xiyu’s heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat.
That gaze subconsciously reminded him of Ji Chen when he was in a bad mood. The dark, deep feeling it gave was particularly similar.
Gu Xiyu was dazed for a moment, only to realize that the boy was holding an unlit cigarette in his mouth, and he wondered if this guy was too lazy to light it or just wanted to look cool.
The corner of the other party’s lips suddenly rose slightly. After taking away the lonely cigarette from his mouth, he asked him: “This big brother, do you want to meddle in our business?”
Although he seemed to be just a high school student, his voice was very mature and deep, with a cold quality that gave people the feeling of a cold spring flowing through a mountain stream.
Gu Xiyu glanced at the boy who had beaten off the bullies while their boss was distracted and got up from the ground. He looked handsome and young. Then Gu Xiyu calmly replied, “What if I say yes?”
The beautiful tall boy shrugged his shoulders and said in an emotionless voice: “Then we can only deal with the trouble first and then continue.”
Gu Xiyu sighed softly when he saw the other boys walking towards him with smirks and clenched fists.
‘Well, it is time to give these children, who have never experienced severe beatings, a taste of the dangers of society.’
——
“Even if you get up a hundred times, it will still end in the same way.”
Only a very shallow orange light remained on the horizon, and the old basketball court without lighting became increasingly dim. A few high school students with disheveled clothes and a lot of bruises silently retreated to the bottom of the basketball hoop, standing upright like children on punishment.
The boy they were bullying earlier picked up his schoolbag, wiped the blood from his mouth, and did not leave immediately, but stood alone on the other side, watching the two people in the center of the court.
Gu Xiyu looked at the boy, who stood up again with stubborn and cold eyes even after being knocked down. He stepped back and said, “I don’t want to fight anymore, I’m hungry.”
He did not miss the name embroidered on the boy’s left chest.
Lu Ziqing
The target in this world was this high-spirited 18-year-old boy.
Lu Ziqing didn’t expect this thin-looking boy to defeat him several times. He was so angry that he kept telling him ‘come again’. Lu Ziqing’s plan to teach the thin boy a lesson abruptly turned into a fighting competition.
Gu Xiyu sighed. The target was still young, he wasn’t his opponent.
Lu Ziqing was wearing a school uniform, and it seemed that there were no injuries on his body, but only he and Gu Xiyu knew that those injuries were out of sight. Seeing that he didn’t want to continue, Lu Ziqing didn’t force him, but the look in his eyes seemed to have him firmly engraved in his heart. Sooner or later, he would recover the losses he suffered today.
Gu Xiyu didn’t care either. He calmly said to him: “Study hard, don’t gang up to bully your classmates.”
Lu Ziqing frowned lightly and asked in a cold voice, “Do you think you are my father?”
Gu Xiyu: “Well……”
Gu Xiyu didn’t answer him, but smiled at him with his eyes bent.
Lu Ziqing felt that he was being ridiculed, but he couldn’t beat the other party and could only watch him take away the boy he and his friends had besieged. He ignored the few people shrinking under the basketball hoop, drank the water in the water bottle he took out of his schoolbag, and squeezed the bottle so hard that it became deformed. He threw it into the trash can more than ten meters away, then he left alone.
“Thank you.” Compared with Lu Ziqing, the boy Gu Xiyu rescued was much more polite and calm.
He accidentally saw the words ‘Xu Chengxuan’ on the other party’s clothes, then stopped and said to him, “It’s okay.”
Gu Xiyu didn’t say much to Xu Chengxuan and separated from him after instructing him to take care of himself. Finally, he bought two packs of beef noodles and went home.
Gu Sichang, who had taken the money, did not come back all night. Xie Chunhua ate the beef noodles he bought for her and couldn’t keep the tears from flowing down as she apologized: “It’s all mom’s fault, I was blind when I was young and married a man like him…”
Gu Xiyu had to comfort her in turn.
The next afternoon, Lu Mingren personally drove over to pick him up. Gu Xiyu took the original owner’s clothes and daily necessities, as well as the things that would be used in the live broadcast, and left with Lu Mingren.
Lu Mingren was a mature-looking middle-aged man with neatly combed hair, a pair of silver-framed glasses on his face, and a few conspicuous wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. Although he was getting older, it could still be seen that he was a handsome man during his youth.
He may belong to the more serious and unsmiling type, as Gu Xiyu didn’t see him laugh or talk much along the way. His attitude toward him could only be described as neither warm nor cold. His sexual orientation was straight, but because of the pressure from his elders, he was forced to obtain a certificate with him, so he might not be able to accept him in his heart.
On the contrary, Gu Xiyu felt that this was good. At least he didn’t need to fulfill any strange obligations with Lu Mingren. He could just treat him as a family member.
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but get lost in his thoughts.
In the last world, he had felt relief and had no objections to being intimate with the mission target, yet now…..he couldn’t even imagine himself with this man, let alone being intimate…
“This is the guest room I asked them to tidy up yesterday, you can live here.” Lu Mingren had picked him up during the company’s lunch break, so he explained things in a hurry. “There is nothing to pay attention to at home. There is an auntie who cooks. If you are hungry, you can let her get you something to eat.”
Lu Mingren looked at the room opposite him and said, after a pause, “That is my son’s room, he will be back later. He doesn’t have a very good temper or personality, so don’t take it to heart if he says something nasty. Of course, it’s okay if you are angry and want to teach him a lesson.”
Gu Xiyu: “…okay.”
Lu Mingren left after saying a few more words. It took Gu Xiyu some time to sort out the things he brought. He looked at the live broadcast tool he had just set up, and thought of himself, who wasn’t so talkative, so he logged into the original owner’s live broadcast platform to check the previous videos to get a general idea.
Fortunately, the original body didn’t seem to be a talkative person either. He was a game anchor for competitive mobile games, with hundreds of thousands of followers. He spent most of his live streaming time playing games seriously, explaining his operations and awareness from time to time. He didn’t interact much with the viewers in the live broadcast room.
It was within Gu Xiyu’s acceptable range.
He had just watched a few replays when he heard a notification in his mind.
[[Your cute smart system is online! ]]
Gu Xiyu greeted it smoothly: “Long time no see.”
After a few minutes, the system answered him coldly.
[Who are you??]
Gu Xiyu: “…?”
For a moment, he thought the system was making a joke. After confirming that it really didn’t have the memory of the previous world, he reluctantly introduced himself again following the procedure.
No one told him that the latest intelligent system would reset every time it traveled through a small world.
Was there a bug? Should he find time to contact the branch office?
Although the data of the intelligent system had been reset, the only thing that had not changed was its cold and arrogant personality. It was still very indifferent and reluctant to speak. After a little grasp of the situation from him, it stopped talking.
In the evening, Gu Xiyu and Lu Mingren were already sitting at the table and had started eating dinner when Lu Ziqing came back.
Lu Ziqing probably never expected their next reunion to be in his own home. After closing the door, Lu Ziqing looked in the direction of the dining table for a long time before asking Lu Mingren, “Why is he here?”
Lu Mingren didn’t know that they had met before and had grievances. He pushed the frame of the glasses on his nose and said, “His name is Gu Xiyu, he is….” He stopped after a few words, apparently entangled. How should he introduce Gu Xiyu’s identity?
Lu Ziqing’s attention seemed to be on the name. He glanced at Gu Xiyu with suspicious eyes and asked in a deep voice, “Your name is Gu Xiyu?”
Gu Xiyu nodded slightly: “Hello.”
It was unknown what Lu Ziqing was thinking, he only whispered something inaudible in an unfathomable tone.
Lu Mingren finally got his thoughts together and continued the introduction with a serious expression: “He… can be regarded as your other father in name. You can call him…little dad.”
At these words, Gu Xiyu’s fingers couldn’t help but curl up slightly.
He wished to be the Great Demon’s father on the premise that he was about three years old. Although it sounded cool now, it was a bit uncomfortable.
Lu Ziqing came to him with a black school bag on his back. He looked down at him in the chair for a moment and suddenly smiled.
His thin lips parted slightly, and his voice was deep, and charming: “Oh, little…Mom.”
[[The target’s risk value is +5. The current risk value is 65. ]]
On Gu Xiyu’s first day with the Lu family, Gu Xiyu wanted to strangle his mission target to death on the spot, once and for all.
