After Raising a Kid, the Handsome Male Lead in the Book Wants to Give Me 200 Million?

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Jiang Huai was a workaholic in a notoriously demanding top-two university major, working himself to the bone every day. His social anxiety made people think he was aloof. When interacting with students, he usually just listened and handled everything with "Mm," "Right," or "No."

One day, after staying up all night working on a PowerPoint presentation until he worked himself to death, he transmigrated into a book, becoming the wealthy family's stepfather.

Hug Your Crybaby Wife Tight was a danmei novel. The protagonist was a pretty crybaby with a tear-duct buff and a beauty buff, a father richer than nations, and a husband who spoiled him rotten. As for why Jiang Huai had read this sort of book, it was purely because he was so poor that he bought a secondhand tablet. It had a green JJ app full of similar novels saved on it, and curiosity made him read a few pages.

Then he transmigrated into the book, but not as the crybaby who got to lie around and enjoy the good life. Instead... he became one of the crybaby's stepfathers.

Looking at the fifth-grade kid who came in last on every monthly exam, a genuine academic slacker, and the private tutor hired for hundreds of millions who still hadn't managed to teach the pretty fool anything, the workaholic gave one casual glance at the little one sneaking answers from a workbook under the desk. "Fire the tutor. Teach the kid yourself, and give me the hundreds of millions."

That very day, the crybaby discovered all the answers in his workbook had vanished. Then at school, his teacher kept calling on him to recite things. He burst into tears on the spot.

Jiang Huai tapped out a rhythm with his long, cool-white fingers, nonchalant. The wounds in his heart were slowly healing:

Since I got rained on, I have to tear up everyone else's umbrellas. Haha.jpg

Three months later, the crybaby shot straight to first place in his grade on the monthly exam, transforming from a slacker into a dazzling b-king. At the school assembly, he held the microphone and repeatedly thanked his stepfather. "The person I'm most grateful to is my dad. Without him, I wouldn't be who I am today..."

And the answers to my winter homework, my phone, my tablet, and my Switch wouldn't have mysteriously vanished either. I'm crying so hard, sob sob.

Later, the father-son dynamic completely flipped. Jiang Huai said lazily, "I'm sleepy."

His kid immediately made the bed and tucked in the blankets, eyes shining with sycophantic devotion. "Dad, get some rest."

Jiang Huai yawned. "I'm hungry..."

His kid dashed to the fridge, sent the servants away, and served him toast and yogurt fruit salad. He insisted on sending the servants away, looking smug. "My dad only likes the food I make."

Jiang Huai: "..."

When did he ever say that?

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Overnight, Jiang Huai acquired a fortune worth billions, inherited from the kid's other father. He found it incredibly comfortable. Not only was one of life's major problems taken care of and matchmaking a thing of the past, but he could also spend money however he liked without worrying that the research funding from his university would run out. It couldn't get much better.

The best part, of course, was that the kid's dad never came home.

Jiang Huai was perfectly comfortable himself, too. Naturally, that was also because he believed he had none of those worldly desires. ()

He was absorbed in his reborn-to-the-top-of-life script, using his mysterious identity as a wealthy heir to pad his resume at every opportunity. Then one day, his kid called to complain. "Dad, are you coming home today? My stepdad says he won't give me dinner if you don't come home~"

Jiang Huai's heart gave a jolt, though his voice stayed calm and casual. "I'm home."

He'd expected to open the door and find himself face-to-face with a scruffy-looking middle-aged man.

But when he saw the other's breathtaking face, like a figure painted in ink, he was stunned for quite a while!

When he got home, the golden-haired, curly-haired kid was sitting at the dining table with his spouse. A row of servants and nannies sat in terrified silence, while countless question marks floated above Jiang Huai's head.

The kid's eyes lit up. "Dad!"

The kid's other father looked gloomy, his expression an unreadable, almost-smile.

Jiang Huai: ?

Under the kid's watchful gaze, Jiang Huai was hauled into the bedroom by his 189-centimeter-tall spouse. The door locked behind them. Shang Qi'an undid his tie with long, cool-white fingers and tossed it aside, then leaned against the bed. A black band wound around his cool-white wrist. "Come here."

"..."

N-no! I can't!

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Shang Qi'an was an untouchable figure in their social circle, always aloof and self-possessed, rumored to be asexual. Like the cold snow of midwinter, he inspired people to admire him from afar, never to approach.

Until one day, someone watched him pull up in a silver-blue supercar.

The car door opened. A cool-skinned man leaned against the driver's seat, dressed in a plain silver-white shirt like the accumulated snow of winter. When he raised his eyes, he was bright and languid, like a celestial beauty who could turn the world upside down.

Then he turned slightly, revealing a tattoo on his wrist bone, a wild stream of water flowing down from it.

The reporter recognized the legendary business magnate and hurried over to ask, "What does the tattoo mean?"

Shang Qi'an answered casually, his voice clear and unhurried as ice jade. "Jiang Huai."

Not far away, Jiang Huai walked out of school with a backpack over his left shoulder and glanced toward the roadside. "Hm...?"

Then he turned around and tried to leave.

...He'd never even been in a relationship!

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One day, he was invited to bring the kid onto the popular family variety show Daddy's Adventure 2, a large-scale reality show about wealthy fathers and sons raising kids under difficult conditions, with activities like feeding chickens in the countryside and traveling through the desert.

The kid's destined love interest came over to play with him. The kid looked wary. "Stay away from my dad. He's mine."

"..."

"What? Dating? No. Dad says kids should study hard. Besides, your grades aren't as good as mine. I don't date anyone who's worse at math than I am."

The destined love interest was speechless. He silently glanced at the several red Xs in his little notebook. "..."

Was this really the same little crybaby who'd been sobbing just a few months ago?!

When had Shang Rong evolved in secret?

After driving away the potential "rival," the kid let out a long breath and suddenly hugged his stepdad. Wah, he had finally... gotten Dad all to himself. So satisfying~

The viewers: So much for the useless rich kid! Who is this devoted, beautiful, fair-skinned son who treats his dad like a king?

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Later on.

Halfway through the family variety show, Jiang Huai realized something was very wrong. The fans shipping him and Shang Qi'an, a pair of awkward fake spouses who couldn't manage a few minutes without falling silent, had somehow outnumbered the fans shipping the main couple.

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*Aloof, seemingly asexual campus heartthrob bottom x aloof, naturally devious, flirtatious beauty top

*Marriage first, love later

*Each other's first love

*The main couple are friends before adulthood

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Ren Qing was a grade-grubber: the kind who pretended to mess around during the day, studied harder than anyone at night, and showed off all the time. His first half of life was spent in endless competition and face-slapping others, which brought him immeasurable satisfaction. Maybe he'd earned too much bad karma by showing off. One late night while scrambling to meet a deadline, he died.

Then he transmigrated into a book.

Married to a Wealthy CEO, Pregnant and on the Run was a danmei pregnancy novel about a gentle, domestic bottom and a cold CEO top. They had a genius baby, but the CEO was never home, so the protagonist eventually ran away while pregnant. It was a melodramatic tale of the CEO chasing his wife after the fact.

Maybe because he was nothing like a gentle, domestic spouse, and becoming the CEO would probably make him show off even more, he transmigrated as the...

Genius baby.

Ren Qing: Thanks. Thanks.

Maybe it was because he had the genius baby's brain, but he realized he no longer needed to quietly outwork everyone else. He didn't need to compete at all! It was as if he had a brain on par with Newton's and Einstein's! He got a perfect score in advanced math at five, worked part-time as a hacker at six, and wiped out every other genius contestant on The Ultimate Genius at nine.

The host asked little Ren Qing, "Do you usually prepare really hard for competitions?"

The little boy had fair, clean skin, soft hair, and dark eyes like a small animal's. But when he stood onstage and took the microphone, his childish voice was icy. "Nope. Qingqing watches cartoons at home. Pleasant Goat is sooo good!"

The other kids whose parents had worked them to the bone: Stunned.jpg

The audience: Aaaaaah! So cool! What an adorable genius kid!

Ren Qing, having successfully shown off: ↖(^ω^)↗ Hahahah

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After advancing, he gained a teammate to compete with in an international contest:

Jiang Mi, ten years old, with a head of fluffy, pale curls and misty, dewy eyes like colored glass, a beautiful boy who seemed to have stepped out of a watercolor painting.

Because he was so extraordinarily beautiful and had nearly been kidnapped by traffickers as a child, he had had no contact with anyone but his parents before he turned ten.

As his teammate, Ren Qing became the first person he practiced making friends with, stumbling through the process.

"What's your name?" Jiang Mi asked, sitting beside him.

"Ren Qing."

"Are you hungry?" Jiang Mi held out a small hand with a piece of bread. "Here, have some."

"Th-thanks." Ren Qing accepted the offering.

Later, he discovered that he'd acquired an extremely clingy childhood friend, the kind who brought his fifth-grade winter homework over to do together at Ren Qing's house.

Ren Qing: ()

*Aloof bottom x beautiful top

*They dote on each other, but the top's beauty is maxed out

Theme: Stay positive and keep striving, even through hardship.