Your Daddy's Here!

There’s a hugely popular kind of story about a poor guy turning his life around. Before his rise, the protagonist is no better off than someone living in a sewer. Afterward, he reaches the pinnacle of success.

In these stories, the protagonist always gets a golden finger in the form of a wise old man who accompanies him everywhere.

The old man is a living encyclopedia. Whenever the protagonist doesn’t understand something, he can explain it right away.

Whenever the protagonist doesn’t know how to do something, he can teach him on the spot.

Whenever the protagonist is lost and confused, the old man points him in the right direction and sets him back on the righteous path.

But...

The old man in the book ran off by himself.

To complete the story and let the world evolve from a novel into reality, someone had to take the old man’s place. System 1688 was thrown into the job at a moment’s notice.

It bound its Host, Zhou Xu, and started right away.

Zhou Xu had slept for three thousand years, so he certainly fit the role of a wise old man. But he’d never read the novel.

System babbled on and on: [All you have to do is be the protagonist’s golden finger, the wise old man. When the protagonist asks for something, help him out. Give him whatever he needs, protect his safety...]

Zhou Xu only got one thing: protect the protagonist, cherish him, guide him...

Wasn’t that basically being his dad?

Got it.

Zhou Xu thought it sounded doable and took the job.

But when he discovered that there were multiple protagonists, all clamoring for help like hungry little seedlings, he could hardly believe his eyes.

Oh well. Let’s get started.

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After the plot had passed through several major milestones,

System came back to find that whenever the protagonist didn’t know how to do something, Zhou Xu generously signed him up for several extracurricular classes, determined to make him good at everything. But along the way, he got on great with the students’ parents and made connections everywhere.

When the protagonist was lost, Zhou Xu bought him a pile of philosophy books. While browsing the bookstore, he hit it off with the local philosophy association’s chairman.

When the protagonist spotted a girl he wanted to hit on, Zhou Xu earnestly told him to leave her alone. The girl’s older brother was so grateful that he gave Zhou Xu a black card and told him to spend as he pleased.

The protagonist was supposed to rise from humble beginnings and reach the pinnacle of success, but... Zhou Xu got there first.

He became an acting coach, and one clip went viral across the internet.

He became a life coach, famous far and wide, with parents asking him to raise his rates to 10,000 an hour.

He became a pet translator, and a bunch of cats bowed down to him and offered up their cans of food.

He helped people from the past adjust to modern life, and one fight earned him the title of chairman of the martial arts association.

Meanwhile, the protagonists were perfectly happy to live carefree lives under Zhou Xu’s spotlight.

System was dumbfounded.

And the protagonists: “Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu!” (Screaming at the top of their lungs.)

They had already started obsessing over their wise old man, going crazy for him, and banging their heads against the wall for him.

There are four protagonists: one from the entertainment industry, one student, one from a pet story, and one from a story about people from the past traveling to the present.

One dad and a bunch of little losers (affectionately).

No CP. The protagonist has no romantic relationships, just a great dad and his beloved kids.

Theme: Growing up isn’t something you do alone, but you have to walk your own road, step by step, steadily.