He's Scheming, but He's a Househusband

[The next story is "Reviving an Abandoned Haunted Mall Made Me Rich Beyond Belief [Business Management]", a supernatural comedy + business management + everyone misreads the protagonist as a mastermind + invincible protagonist. The blurb is below!]

The author is a compulsive reviser and has heavily revised several chapters of this novel. I take no responsibility for versions posted on other platforms.

Gentle, devious daddy-type top X a fiery, fake-villain bottom with overwhelming combat strength. Readers with a full subscription can unlock multiple bonus stories.

"Hello, Host. I'm a System dispatcher from the Transmigration Bureau. You've transmigrated into a danmei novel. Your older brother is a disposable villain in this book, and he'll die in a few years. If you want to save him and return to the modern world, kill the male lead and change the plot."

"..."

Nie Xiaotang listened with a cold expression. "Do you know how long ago I transmigrated?"

"No."

"More than twenty years ago! I've lived here so long I'm practically a native! Everyone else's transmigration system shows up at the beginning, but mine took more than twenty years to appear. Do you have some kind of problem with me?"

"I'm sorry. The System's delay was an accidental bug, not discrimination against you. If you don't want to return to the modern world, don't you at least want to save your own brother? If you don't take out the male lead, he'll take out your brother."

Nie Xiaotang: "Where's the male lead? I'll go find him."

"Oh, so you've finally decided to kill him?"

"No." Nie Xiaotang sneered. "I'm going to find the male lead and help him take out my good-for-nothing brother even faster!"

"..."

"If you don't want to kill the male lead, you can change the plot in another way."

"How?"

"You can make an important male supporting character turn evil."

Nie Xiaotang went to observe the supporting character, unsure whether to believe the System.

When she came back, she immediately refused.

"No. I can't do that."

"Why not?"

"Couldn't you check the character of this supporting character before assigning me the task?" Nie Xiaotang roared. "He's the kindest, gentlest, most devoted daddy-type ever! There's no way he could turn evil!"

"...Huh? Are you sure?"

Author @Feise-Momoda, Liang Wan x Nie Xiaotang, gentle, devious daddy-type top X proud, fiery bottom with overwhelming combat strength

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A beautiful, unscrupulous merchant bottom who doesn't seem like a good guy X a principled civil servant top whose moral limits become very flexible around the bottom

I had just quit the unscrupulous QuickRecruit company, and then I sued the shameless, dishonest company that had cheated countless franchisees, ruined countless lives, and left people drowning in debt.

During my lonely period of unemployment, I somehow inherited a magical business management System.

Good news: The System gave me an entire five-story mall from the start.

Bad news: It's full of ghosts.

What a kind System. In this era of spiritual qi revival, ghosts are everywhere around large buildings, but developers aren't going to be so honest as to tell you that.

I discovered that the stores currently unlocked by the mall System were: 1. [Workhorses Get Off Work Bubble Tea Shop] 2. [We Guarantee Your Life Clothing Store] 3. [Nobody Bumps Into You Ice Rink] 4. [Substitute Meal Stationery Shop] 5. [No Fighting Record Store]

What a kind System. The names may sound absurd, but all these are real, once-famous shops that operated in the mall. They gradually went out of business ten years ago because it was haunted. The shops have good fixtures and foundations. Clean them up and they can reopen.

The System also listed some [Don't Do It If You Don't Want to Die] mall rules for me:

1. If yesterday's staff member is still working today, act as if everything is normal. Ideally, pretend you're still in yesterday.

2. If you accidentally enter the clothing store, buy an outfit with Bitemoney. If you don't have any, you can temporarily use your lifespan as payment.

3. If you fall at the ice rink, immediately declare that you aren't faking an accident to get compensation. This will help you avoid being assisted and watched by nonhuman creatures.

4. If the stationery in the stationery shop starts writing by itself, avoid reading the words. If you find you can understand them, report it at once.

5. Buy a record player and take it home. Your relationship with the neighbors will improve noticeably.

6. But there will also be fewer neighbors.

What a kind System. These are ghosts from a rules-horror story, and even the ghosts arranged by the System have better manners than some people.

My task is simple. I just have to hire professional security personnel as mall employees, clean up some stores that have been haunted for ten years, attract tenants and customers, and align all the details.

Then get rich and revive the mall!

Wow, luck really hasn't let me off the hook.

The kind System didn't forget to remind me:

During business hours, deal properly with the official inspectors who periodically break in. They're only there to check the mall's safety, so be polite.

The urban management officers of the spiritual qi revival era, huh? I get it. I just asked the System what the head of this area's safety inspectors was called. Would we have to see each other often?

The kind System only said one thing.

Don't worry. Host, you've met this guy before.

After ten years of silence, the abandoned mall suddenly erupted with intense spiritual energy late at night, and the ghosts throughout the entire city grew restless all at once.

Wang Zhan, an elite spirit officer and captain of the Special Affairs Bureau, slowly raised his head and looked toward the mall that had been abandoned for a full decade.

"Something..."

"Has awakened inside that mall."

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