The unfamiliar father-son pair chatted for a while.
“…I got sick… will the family… owe a lot of money…?”
“Mm… no.”
Because your dad sold himself to pay it back.
“When can I leave the hospital?”
“That’s up to the doctor.”
They exchanged a few unsubstantial sentences, but the atmosphere between them gradually improved. At least, they no longer seemed so distant.
Gong Ze said, “When you’re discharged, I’ll take you to buy new clothes and eat good food. Then we’ll move to a new place.”
But Gu Panpan looked scared and said he didn’t want new clothes or good food.
He was still afraid of being abandoned.
He thought that if he saved money and was low-maintenance, he could stay by the adult’s side.
Gong Ze didn’t explain too much. He simply said, “We’ll move to a bigger place with two bedrooms and one living room. From then on, you’ll have your own little room.” In this family, you won’t be invisible. You’ll be someone with your own little territory and place.
Gu Panpan’s tiny fingers carefully touched Gong Ze’s big hand, and he let out a soft, “Mm.”
After a while, he secretly whispered to Gong Ze, “Actually, I can… in the room… sleep on the floor.”
That way, he could ease the burden on his adoptive father.
That’s how prematurely wise children usually are. They think the family is poor, so they desperately try to prove they don’t need money.
Even breathing feels like a sin. They don’t dare express their needs.
Even though he was still small, barely able to speak more than a few words at a time.
Gong Ze’s steely, cold heart softened once again, more than half of it gone.
“It’s okay. We’re moving anyway.”
He added, “I have money.”
This time, Gu Panpan finally relaxed and smiled.
The father and son started talking about what they would decorate the new house with, what they would buy, what they would do in the future…
In a child’s world, there are no lies.
So the little munchkin devoured Gong Ze’s grand promises, his fever-reddened, clear pupils brightening again and again.
By the time the nurse came to shoo people away, the little child’s spirits had improved tremendously.
He waved goodbye to Gong Ze.
Gong Ze waved back, then stood outside the hospital room, looking in through the glass window for a while. When the child blushed in embarrassment, Gong Ze smiled, waved again, and turned to leave.
His cheap, precious son still hadn’t called him “Dad.”
But Gong Ze knew that aside from the distance between them, it was mostly just that the child was shy and embarrassed to say it.
As he was thinking this, the phone in his pocket buzzed with vibration. Gong Ze took it out and answered.
“Didn’t I tell you to come to the address I sent you by two o’clock? What time is it now? Where are you?!”
Feng Yuan’s voice on the other end was very aggressive.
In the background, Jiang Lin’an could be heard telling him to calm down.
“I…”
“Enough, less talking! I’m giving you one more hour. If you’re not here by then, we’ll see how I deal with you.”
Gong Ze had just started to say “I,” but Feng Yuan couldn’t be bothered to listen and directly said, “Hurry up!”
The call ended.
Gong Ze: “…”
The system was angry: [Does Feng Yuan have a dog’s temper or what?!]
Couldn’t he speak nicely? Why so aggressive?
Gong Ze found it amusing and put his phone away. His temper had really changed; he wasn’t even angry. He teased the system, “What can I do? My family is full of the old, the weak, the sick, and the young, and we’re living off his money.”
[But he can’t just…]
The system grumbled.
[No wonder he’s this old and no Alpha wants him.]
“Hey, hey, hey. You can’t say that. That’s insulting to Omegas.”
Gong Ze chuckled, grabbed the system’s little wings, and took it with him to hail a taxi outside the hospital, heading straight for the address Feng Yuan had sent.
It was a private fishing area.
Yesterday, these rich second-generation heirs were living it up in a club, and the next day they were off on a health-preserving fishing trip. They really knew how to balance work and rest.
Inside the taxi, Gong Ze said to the system, “Why don’t you give me the rest of the quest and the remaining plot now.”
[OK~]
·
Previously, we covered the original owner’s personal information. This time, it was about the protagonists of this world.
The shou (receiving partner) was naturally Feng Yuan, a macho, domineering, fierce Omega. From his face to his temper to the scent of his pheromones, he was an Alpha in all but designation.
The gong (pursuing partner) was a transmigrator from Earth. His name was Gu Xiangyu.
Did that surname sound familiar?
That’s right. The body he transmigrated into was none other than Gu Panpan’s biological father.
The original Gu Xiangyu had been an excellent student, but his parents were too strict with him. This caused his rebellious teenage psychology to bottom out and rebound. Once a top student and an outstanding Alpha, he ended up running away from home, dropping out of school, and hanging around nightclubs.
Later, the original Gu Xiangyu met Gu Panpan’s mother. The two young people instantly fell in love, then broke up a few months later.
They never contacted each other again.
Years later, the original Gu Xiangyu got into a fight, was beaten, and unfortunately died. That was when the protagonist from Earth transmigrated into his body.
Later, the protagonist gong Gu Xiangyu would meet the protagonist shou Feng Yuan by chance.
As for how ‘Gong Ze’ got tangled up with them?
The reason started with Gu Panpan’s biological mother — the Omega woman who had divorced Gong Ze.
She accidentally ran into the reformed Gu Xiangyu. She wanted to get back together with him, but Gu Xiangyu wasn’t interested. So the woman deliberately tried to disgust him by telling him they had a child together and blackmailing him for child support.
When the protagonist Gu Xiangyu heard that the original body had a child, he immediately became invested.
He was also a kind person. Seeing what kind of person the woman was, he felt sorry for the child and wanted to take the child in and raise him.
But Gu Panpan wasn’t with the woman. She had abandoned him with her ex-husband, Gong Ze.
The woman got the money and ran, leaving only an address for Gu Xiangyu and telling him to go find the child.
By the time Gu Xiangyu — and Feng Yuan, who had come to back Gu Xiangyu up — arrived at Gong Ze’s apartment following the address, they discovered that the child had already become brain-damaged from a high fever.
System: That’s right. It was the same high fever from when we transmigrated here.
Gong Ze: Thank goodness he was taken to the hospital in time…
Otherwise, his precious son would have been ruined.
The original Gong Ze was unwilling to just hand the child over. He wanted money too. While the two parties were arguing, the original owner, afraid they would take the child by force, hid him in an abandoned, unfinished building.
The original owner was cowardly but greedy for the child support money. Perhaps, apart from wanting the money, he hadn’t intended to kill anyone.
But as the saying goes, a bad person racking their brains is no match for a fool having a sudden bright idea.
Because the original owner was afraid the child, now brain-damaged, would wander off, this cowardly and stupid man tied the child up. The five-year-old child couldn’t take care of himself due to his illness, and he couldn’t fight back because his hands and feet were bound.
By the time the original owner finished arguing with the furious Gu Xiangyu, and Gu Xiangyu and the others went to the unfinished building to find the child, they discovered the child was gone. After a long search, they found the child’s body in a drainage ditch several hundred meters from the unfinished building…
In the end, the original owner and several homeless people were arrested.
…The story didn’t elaborate on what the child experienced, but that didn’t stop readers from imagining the truth and cursing the original owner as a scumbag who deserved to die a horrible death.
The system sighed. [Originally, with Feng Yuan there, they probably could have taken the child quickly. But at the time, Gu Xiangyu and Feng Yuan were arguing and giving each other the cold shoulder, and Feng Yuan was also very put off by this child who had suddenly appeared in Gu Xiangyu’s life. For the first half, he stood by and watched indifferently. It wasn’t until Gu Xiangyu and the original owner had been arguing for a long time without resolving anything that he stepped in.]
Thus, the child was delayed.
This became the biggest rift in the relationship between Gu Xiangyu and Feng Yuan.
Gong Ze thought of the well-behaved child in the hospital room and clicked his tongue.
“So the original owner, as a villain, wasn’t evil or cunning. That’s right. Not all bad people are smart. Most are bad because they’re stupid.”
The kind of badness in small-time characters is often even more absurd.
[Exactly.]
With the system’s affirmation, the quest prompt sounded.
[Beep—]
[Quest issued.]
[Main Quest: Please reform yourself, live a new life, secure at least one job of your own, complete the stepfather’s duty of raising the child, and redeem the villain’s image.]
[Side Quest: Gain Gu Panpan’s recognition.]
[Side Quest: Achieve 100% affection from the protagonist shou (Feng Yuan).]
[Side Quest: Achieve 80% affection from the protagonist gong (Gu Xiangyu).]
[Please change the original ending of the book and achieve a HE (Happy Ending)~]
Right now, Feng Yuan’s affection for him was 40 — purely lusting after his body. Let us condemn him.
Gu Panpan’s was 30. The original owner’s relationship with his cheap, precious son was colder than that of strangers. That little bit of affection was earned by Gong Ze from just chatting with the child, and a large part of it was the child’s dependence on an adult.
Gong Ze wasn’t disappointed.
“Has the protagonist gong transmigrated yet?”
[Just did. Right now, he’s still confused, learning about ABO biology. When he followed a man into the male Omega restroom, he got beaten up and thrown out.]
“Heh…”
A teasing look crossed Gong Ze’s eyes. “Our ABO world is like that. Six genders, six bathrooms.”
Plus a few more for the non-binary and others.
The taxi stopped at the foot of a mountain. It was a lush green hill, with no visible signs of human interference, but the path up the mountain was blocked by a gate. Taxis and private cars couldn’t go up. This mountain was probably privately owned. There was also a small gazebo-like guard post.
A middle-aged Beta wearing a sun hat and sun-protective sleeves sat on a folding stool outside the guard post. Two village dogs lay by his feet.
The middle-aged Beta man was momentarily stunned by the striking appearance of the Alpha who got out of the taxi. Then he stood up, gently kicked the barking big yellow dog by his feet, and asked Gong Ze, “What are you here for?”
“My boss is fishing up there.”
Gong Ze concealed the light in his eyes, looked around, and put on a look of not wanting to talk to people. He said dully, “His name is Feng Yuan. Do you need to call him?”
“Oh, Boss Feng. Go on in. Boss Feng said someone was coming to find him.”
The middle-aged Beta waved his hand to indicate he didn’t need to take out his phone. He found an electronic key from the keyring attached to his belt, pressed it to open the gate, and let Gong Ze through.
After Gong Ze entered, he lowered the gate again, sat back down on his stool, rubbed the neck of the big yellow dog, and shouted to Gong Ze, “Go up! The road goes straight through!”
“Got it.”
The Alpha raised his voice slightly in response.
He trudged upward.
‘Gong Ze’s’ physical strength was not good.
Because he was a wimp. A wimp and also useless. Since childhood, because he was an Alpha boy and good-looking, his parents couldn’t bear to let him do any work. They raised him to be a lazybones who just lay around on the sofa.
His personality was lazy and afraid of trouble.
Exercise was troublesome. Climbing the mountain was tiring. Sweating was annoying…
It’s all Feng Yuan’s fault. The Alpha, who was quiet but had a lot of little grievances, complained about his sugar daddy in his heart as he trudged up step by step with his head lowered. Soon, his outwardly strong but inwardly weak body started to pant. Beads of sweat slid from his temples down to his chin.
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