Leaving the Spotlight: Eight Kids from the Start, and the Queen of Pop Begs Me to Reconcile

Five years ago, he was a prodigiously talented, arrogant film director. To protect her, he bore the infamy and vanished without a trace.

Five years later, he's a full-time dad getting hounded for rent by his landlady, with eight “little money pits” clamoring for food behind him.

Just as the formula tin runs empty and the utility bills come due, the [All-Around Entertainment Dad System] comes online!

Can't afford tuition? He casually writes a song called “Fireflies.” The moment his eldest daughter starts singing, even the reigning queen of the music scene has to give way!

Can't afford a house? He pulls out the script for Interstellar. Investors beg to work with him, and he takes the chance to humiliate those pretty-boy celebrities who coast on their looks!

He only wanted to be a wealthy layabout, but who could have guessed his wildly famous ex-wife, Xia Yubing, would come charging to his door and pin him in a corner, her beautiful eyes brimming with tears? “Jiang Chen, you stole my genes and still thought you could run? How are you going to pay me back for raising them over the past five years?”

Looking at the eight adorable little copies of himself, Jiang Chen said weakly, “How about... I pay you back in person?”

Xia Yubing sneered and tossed out a paternity test. “Tonight, you're taking these eight little terrors home with you. And while we're at it... I'm packing up the big one too!”