Help! What Should I Do When the Kid I'm Raising Keeps Acting Weird? [GB]

A cold, decisive heroine who seems all sunshine and clarity but is actually full of malicious fun x a seemingly open-minded hero who can read her emotions and only wants to lie flat, but is secretly a little crazy

A hundred years ago, the savior who led the people in revolt gave his life for humanity. In the end, he won humankind its hard-earned victory and freed people from their suffering.

A century later, a crisis from the stars sweeps over the world once again, and people cannot help but long for the savior's return.

Yet the savior herself, Xi Mu, wakes up to find that she has transmigrated into a game.

Want to know how she got there? Xi Mu sneers.

Three years ago, Xi Mu tried a virtual-reality game and raised a few kids in it. Who could have known those kids would be so rebellious? So Xi Mu simply deleted her account and ran away.

Then the kids started causing trouble and used an altar to summon her into the game. She became a young duchess whose position was far from secure. She got dragged into the game and was locked up from the start... How embarrassing. Xi Mu declares that if she doesn't knock those three on the head, she won't be a Xi!

Unfortunately, there are too many messes outside for those three to be her priority just yet.

[Duchess Xi Mu not only brazenly ran away from her wedding, leaving her intended waiting by the roadside all day, but also made such outrageous remarks that the head of the family she was to marry into ended up in the hospital!]

By the time Xi Mu escaped, such rumors had already spread across the stars. The internet tore her to shreds, ruining her reputation and nearly getting her impeached from her ducal position.

But when it rains, it pours. Just as Xi Mu was fretting over the rumors, she woke up one day to find sticky, slippery tentacles growing from her back, writhing in the darkness. Meanwhile, monsters known as “the Aberrants” were rampaging across the stars, and tentacles were one of their defining traits.

Worse still, her identity as an outsider who had transmigrated from another world was exposed. Faced with the ruler of the empire, Xi Mu seemed to have no choice but to give in to their demands, become the real Xi Mu, marry her intended, and complete the mission.

But Xi Mu has two mental spaces, and she says: “Threats? What threats? If I want to, I can just switch my mental power, change my identity, and run away~”

Still, she finds every strange thing fascinating: her abnormal body, her strange transmigration, and those strange chanting voices that keep babbling in her ears. So Xi Mu doesn't mind staying to see how things play out.

As for the political marriage, her intended is the fourth kid she failed to collect back when she played a collecting game. Since Xi Mu never looks for fault in herself, she decides that raising one more kid might be fine.

Investigating the anomalies while raising a kid: everything seems quite pleasant.

Then the Aberrant army suddenly descends. Humans are infected, technological weapons prove useless, the Aberrant army cannot die, and her pigheaded allies cause trouble and turn on one another. The balance of victory slowly shifts away from them.

Unable to stand watching any longer, Xi Mu says: “Watch closely. This is how you do it! All I have to do is repeat the way we saved the world back then~” Then she beats up the Aberrants with one hand, her useless allies with the other, and even finds time to kick those few rebellious brats.

On the day of final victory, the whole world cheers and all people look up to her. But a torrent of slander follows close behind.

[Xi Mu is the biggest Aberrant of all!] [It was all a conspiracy. Everyone was fooled!]

Xi Mu finds it terribly boring.

In Star Calendar Year 125, Xi Mu's identity as the savior is “accidentally” revealed during a public trial. The whole world learns that the hero who loved this land deeply, brought dawn to everyone, and saved them all over again was treated this way by the very world she had saved... No one dares look into her eyes. Guilt and anguish twist inside everyone, sparing no one.

Yet Xi Mu stands before the tribunal as if she were standing atop the highest throne. No one dares lift their head wherever her gaze falls.

To Chu Suining, “emotions” are things he can see and control, so he can read people with perfect clarity. When Xi Mu appears before him, he knows she isn't the “Xi Mu” from before.

But it doesn't matter. His emotions tell him she's pure and trustworthy, so Chu Suining doesn't mind when he learns the political marriage will go ahead. When Xi Mu tells him she only wants to “raise” him, he is puzzled, but has no objections.

“Raise”? After looking through all kinds of reference material, Chu Suining understands and strictly follows the rules for a younger family member. Even when strange feelings occasionally arise, he quickly pulls himself away from them.

But later, Chu Suining is troubled by the endless emotion called “love” welling up inside him. Why can't he get rid of it all...? So he can only take all this love to Xi Mu and ask for help. “How can I stop these feelings from growing? I don't have any containers left to hold them...”

When Xi Mu decided to raise a kid, she learned a few lessons from past mistakes. She not only drew up an agreement and laid down three rules, no inappropriate thoughts! No lusting after her body! Their relationship must be strictly that of mother and child, but also gave Chu Suining an emotion monitor, just to make sure he didn't develop any strange feelings!

Once she actually started raising him, Xi Mu discovered this kid was different! He was obedient and sensible, had no improper thoughts, and was very “filial” toward her. Xi Mu was so proud.

That is, until Chu Suining, his belly slightly swollen, stood before her with his love overflowing and poured his heart out.

Xi Mu: “This isn't right!!! Where did my child-rearing plan go wrong this time?!”

Content warnings: 1. The heroine's body is anatomically normal, but she has tentacles. The author has established that, in this story, men can become pregnant and give birth;

2. The romance develops slowly and may feel rather subdued.

Theme: Strive for your own future