My Golden Finger Was Forced to Settle for Less [Interstellar]

[Due to personal reasons, updates to this story will be sporadic.]

The extraordinary System that has worked with Chi Yan'an on over a hundred missions retires. Chi Yan'an is its Host, and only receives the notification while carrying out his most dangerous transmigration mission.

The interstellar world? A battle royale? Alien monsters? In an arena full of deadly dangers, Chi Yan'an silently looks at the rookie System, who is flustered and at a complete loss.

Chi Yan'an: Hello? Can't you see that giant blood wolf chasing me?!

Rookie System: I know you're in a hurry, but don't panic yet. Let me get familiar with the control panel first.

Chi Yan'an: Hurry up and give me a life-saving golden finger!

Rookie System: All the life-saving golden fingers have been taken. How about using this "Tomorrow's Brightest Star Singer" golden finger for now?

Chi Yan'an: ???

As the future heir to the imperial throne, Chi Yan'an is expected by everyone to slaughter his way through The Deadly Arena. His family's exceptional raptor-type spirit form, passed down through the generations, is supposed to be his winning weapon.

In reality, he's just the family's discarded child. Without an inherited spirit form, he's nothing but an ordinary person. The Deadly Arena, a contest to select elites, is merely a move by his family to erase this disgrace.

Once the livestream of the game begins, things don't seem to be going quite the way they imagined.

Escaping the jaws of a giant python? Leaping across a demonic toxic swamp? Watching Chi Yan'an escape danger time and again, the family members grind their teeth in frustration!

Until the moment Lu Yizhou, son of the Imperial Marshal, holds his sword to Chi Yan'an's throat...

Family members: Do it! Hurry up! Show no mercy to this useless opponent!

Looking at the man before him, Chi Yan'an asks the System for help again.

[Request for the "S-Rank Close-Combat Counterattack" golden finger failed. The System has automatically assigned you the "Domineering CEO's Darling Wife" golden finger.]

Chi Yan'an: I've loved you for so long. I don't mind dying by your hand. Sob!

Looking at Chi Yan'an collapsed in front of him, eyes brimming with tears and voice choked with sobs, Lu Yizhou's heart gives a sudden lurch.

Lu Yizhou: ??? Are you crazy?!

To make it out of The Deadly Arena alive, Chi Yan'an plans to stay by Lu Yizhou's side and "endure humiliation" until the time is right, then kill him in one strike.

After all, a man who can tear a blood wolf in half with his bare hands and has a wild plant-type spirit form is a lot more reliable than a System that has to assign him golden fingers, even when he asks for them!

Until, at last, only the two of them remain in the arena...

After sacrificing himself to spend the whole night doing this and that with Lu Yizhou, Chi Yan'an finally finds an opportunity to strike.

Chi Yan'an: Give me a weapon. A fruit knife will do. That's not too much to ask, is it?

[Request for the "Weapon" golden finger failed. The System has automatically assigned you the "XX Products" golden finger.]

Waking from his dream, Lu Yizhou turns over and sees the thing in Chi Yan'an's hand. He gives him a wicked smile. "Darling, hungry again? Hmm?"

Chi Yan'an: !@#$

Afterward...

Chi Yan'an: Didn't you say my ultimate wish was guaranteed to come true? I want to be the strongest man in the empire!

System: Lu Yizhou is the strongest in the empire, and you're his man. If you round things off, your wish came true.

Chi Yan'an: You son of a!

#I asked the System for a hunting golden finger, but my lover fed me dinner mouth-to-mouth that night? #

#I wished for a day off, but ended up injured by a monster and carried over a hundred kilometers by my lover #

#Others have many roads leading to Rome, but every golden finger I get turns me into a workhorse #

Reader's Guide:

1. Livestream-focused, with lots of chat comments.

2. Chi Yan'an x Lu Yizhou: a supposedly calculating but actually silly and adorable bottom x a supposedly straight-laced but actually doting-on-his-lover top.

3. The competition is modeled after The Hunger Games.

Theme: Relying on yourself is better than relying on others.