A Power Fantasy for Men? I Won't Be the Protagonist's Stepping Stone

I woke up as Lin Jianguo: forty years old, worth hundreds of billions, widowed, and raising a child. I looked at the composed, handsome middle-aged man in the mirror, then at the troublemaking adopted son in front of me, a boy named “Lin Xiao,” and broke out in a cold sweat. Damn it, I’d transmigrated into the ultimate villainous father in a modern power fantasy novel: the guy who gives the Dragon King protagonist experience, family fortune, and fiancée, only to have his entire family executed in the end! In the original story, the protagonist Ye Tian finds treasures and shows off with the help of an old master living inside an ancient jade pendant. He treats secular law as meaningless and crushes everyone in his path. Just as I was preparing to break my delinquent son’s legs and flee with the money overnight, the National Treasure Protection System activated! 【Mission: Protect the nation’s cultural relics and crack down on smuggling! Hand over lost national treasures to the state to receive unparalleled rewards!】 Lin Jianguo had an epiphany. Why run? The protagonist’s jade pendant was a top-grade Shang dynasty relic! The bronze tripod he found was a national treasure! So, at an underground antique auction, the Dragon King protagonist smirked and held forth on the state of the world. While a crowd of powerful figures watched in shock, he was about to claim a mysterious broken sword when... Lin Jianguo straightened his Zhongshan suit and burst in with a fully armed SWAT team, tossing down a thick dossier of evidence. Ye Tian’s eyes blazed with fury as his inner energy erupted. “Lin Jianguo! That’s a chance my master left me. You dare lay a hand on it?!” Lin Jianguo flicked away his cigarette ash and put an arm around the cold, beautiful female CEO who should have been his. He said earnestly, “Young man, this pendant is made of top-grade Hetian yellow jade... It all belongs to the state! Put him in cuffs!”