Bound to a Merit System Before the Cannon Fodder Dies Suddenly

After dying, Lin An found himself in the body of a cannon-fodder character with the same name in a novel. Before he could even celebrate getting a second chance at life, a mechanical voice sounded in his mind: Life countdown: 1 minute. Complete a task to extend your life by 72 hours. Accept the task? Lin An: ???? System: Please answer within one minute. 60, 59, 58... Lin An: Accept, accept, accept!!! [Beep... Merit System successfully bound. Issuing first task now.] [Task: Donate all liquid assets to support free lunches for children in poverty.] [Reward: 100 merit points. Note: Merit can be exchanged for rewards, including but not limited to lifespan.] People noticed that the little celebrity in the entertainment industry, who couldn't act or sing, had recently changed his ways. He no longer ran around to dinner parties every day in search of work. Instead, he started visiting kindergartens, nursing homes, orphanages, centers for people with disabilities, disaster reconstruction command posts... In his free time between filming, he traded drinking and clubbing for repairing bridges one day and paving roads the next. During a storm, he even put on a hard hat and helped local villagers reinforce their embankments. Some said he was just putting on a show. Since acting wasn't getting him anywhere, he was doing charity work to win public favor, and would give up after a few days. But later... Not only did the little celebrity diligently film his projects, outperforming a slew of popular stars and winning awards, A genius scientist, the first person in ten years from an impoverished village to get into university, who developed a new antibiotic and saved countless families, said, "I want to thank my big brother Lin An. If it weren't for him, I never would have had the chance to study, and I couldn't have developed the medicine." The village chief of a model village that had led the way in helping its residents become prosperous said in a media interview, "We have to thank Lin An! That year, the village had the worst rain in a century, and our crops were nearly drowned. Lin An was filming in the neighboring village, and he bought twenty excavators and a hundred water buffalo overnight and sent them over to help us harvest. Otherwise, where would we have gotten the spare money to start side businesses? Oh, you ask about the excavators and buffalo? He gave them all to us! They cost several million, and he didn't ask for a single cent!" An international friend, speaking Mandarin so fluent he could pass the highest-level Chinese exam, gesticulated excitedly. "I'm especially grateful to Lin An! When I first arrived here, I accidentally wandered into a cx organization. Luckily, Lin An happened to pass by their hideout. He called the police right away, rescued us, and even helped me enroll in a school to learn Chinese! Lin An, you're amazing! Chinese people are the best!" The whole world was looking for Lin An to interview him. After a long search, they finally spotted him on a remote mountainside, wearing a tattered undershirt, eating a cornmeal bun, and carrying a hoe while repairing a temple. "Huh? You want to know who I'm fixing the temple for? Um... my dad." After all, someone who gives him a longer life is as good as a second set of parents. The reporters who came running after hearing the news were stunned. "He... he actually found a living immortal!???" · That night, in a wooden house behind the ruined temple, in a soft-curtained immortal's retreat filled with springtime passion, Lin An trembled and tried to hide as he cried. "Waaah, you said if I built you a temple, you'd give me a hundred years of life. You didn't say you'd keep replenishing my lifespan like this... Waaaah, I really can't do it anymore. I don't want any more. I'd rather just die of old age, sob." "I'm afraid that's not an option." The older man, an immortal who had come down to the mortal realm with nothing better to do, filmed a movie, and even won Best Actor, smiled. "Didn't you say I was your dad? Could you bear to make me bury my own child?" "If I live for a thousand years, you'll be with me for a thousand years. Come on, call me Dad." Lin An hiccupped through his tears. "Sob, you dog... Dad, be gentle. Have a heart, will you? I have to haul bricks and repair the temple tomorrow." A lecherous, carefree immortal celebrity as the top x a miserable little sweetheart as the bottom Theme: Uphold traditional Chinese virtues, help others to the best of your ability, and build a harmonious society