On her first day of retirement, his daughter is put up for auction on the dark web, with bids starting at $100 million.
Lin Ye, a 55-year-old retiree from a state-owned enterprise, thought he could spend his golden years bird-watching and playing chess.
Then he clicked an unfamiliar link. On the livestream, his 15-year-old daughter was locked inside a bulletproof glass chamber as billionaires around the world bid for her.
“Prehistoric goddess bloodline, 99.7% genetic purity. Starting bid: $100 million.”
Lin Ye silently tore up his freshly issued retirement certificate.
[Civilization Dad System activated]
[Ability acquired: Parental Authority Lv. 1]
He charged into the livestream and smashed the bulletproof glass with one punch.
But the daughter he rescued said, “Dad, I’m a clone. My real sister is in the Arctic, and Mom is there too. She’s a prehistoric goddess, and she’s still alive.”
From then on, Lin Ye’s retirement took a wildly unexpected turn:
He rescued his amnesiac wife from the Arctic, only to find she didn’t even know how to use a microwave.
His eldest daughter was a clone who used mathematical formulas to derive “Seventeen Optimal Chopstick Techniques.”
His younger daughter was afraid of thunder, and her DNA report said “nonhuman.”
His sister-in-law was a world-ending villain, but a bowl of dumplings from him changed her heart.
When the United Nations pressured him to become president of the “Superpowered Family Association,” his first question was, “What’s the salary? Do I get health insurance and a housing fund?”
Then the observers from the universe arrived to test whether human civilization deserved to be preserved.
Lin Ye took his whole family to the “Galactic Family-Parent Meeting” and used three household rules to crash the AI:
My daughter is afraid of the dark, so there must be a night-light in the exam room.
When you’re angry, count to ten first.
The whole family must eat together at least three times a week.
Other retirees spend their days looking after grandchildren. Lin Ye spent his retirement teaching AI how to fall in love, setting household rules for people living beneath the Earth’s surface, and helping the entire universe mend broken family relationships.
And his greatest wish was simply to sleep in tomorrow morning.