The Main Character's Little One Is So Hard to Raise

When Xuan Ran was sixteen, he fought wits and waged war with his wealthy biological father and stepmother, who couldn’t stand him, and a little brat named Xia Muqiu got caught in the crossfire. Before long, his father and stepmother gave in, and Xia Muqiu latched onto Xuan Ran.

Xuan Ran was interested in nothing but chemistry, and had even less patience for raising a kid.

Xia Muqiu, who barely came up to the kitchen counter, held a spatula in his right hand and a bar of soap in his left. “I can cook for you and wash your underwear, too.”

After eating takeout for who knew how many meals in a row, Xuan Ran said, “...You can skip the underwear washing. Go cook something first.”

After becoming his caretaker, Xia Muqiu grew more and more obedient. Apart from getting clingy and possessive when he hit puberty, and secretly drawing some very suggestive pictures based on Xuan Ran, he never gave Xuan Ran any trouble.

As for those suggestive drawings?

Since the kid was such a good cook, Xuan Ran decided to wait until he turned eighteen before doing anything about them.

But the night before he planned to confront him, Xuan Ran’s wealthy biological mother, who was supposedly long dead, showed up with two bombshells:

1. The world was a book. The protagonist was a noble, righteous heir to a wealthy family, while the villain was a dark, world-destroying genius chemist.

2. His mother had transmigrated into the book. She’d tried to follow the plot back then, but got the timeline wrong and accidentally brought the villain home, thinking he was the protagonist.

So Xuan Ran, who should have suffered through a life of hardship, had all kinds of resources at his disposal, while Xia Muqiu, who was meant to be the protagonist, ended up in an orphanage and suffered twice as much... Now it was time to set everything right.

After learning the truth, Xuan Ran was silent for a moment. “...What? That’s an option?”

He quickly took out his phone and booked a plane ticket. The little brat Xia Muqiu finally had somewhere to go. He’d pack him up and send him off to be the male lead! And at last, Xuan Ran could go far away and throw himself into the arms of chemistry. Isn’t that great?

After using every possible tactic to flirt and tease Xuan Ran for ages, Xia Muqiu had been happily planning to confess on the day he turned eighteen and devour him whole. “...?”

#Which matters more, chemistry or me?#

#Why did my cold-blooded, cunning, impossibly charming childhood friend and wife abandon me and run away?!#

#The villain stole my plot, and now I have to chase my wife across thousands of miles. Why is the real male lead’s life so hard?#

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After retiring, Ji Ye, a big shot at the transmigration bureau, was assigned to a melodramatic novel.

As a minor character with no connection to the plot, all he had to do was wait for his marriage partner to die of illness, inherit the estate, and lie flat.

Ji Ye: Rich and widowed? Nothing could be better for retirement.

Ji Ye: And as for the inheritance, the more the merrier.

So...

His husband’s nephew got lovestruck and asked his uncle to fund a company for his scumbag boyfriend.

Ji Ye stepped in front of his husband and, expressionless, signed the nephew up for a competitive reality show. “If you love him, win the startup capital for him yourself.”

His husband’s parents entered the film industry and ran into a crooked producer, so they asked their son to invest more money.

Ji Ye stepped in front of his husband and, expressionless, tore up the contract with the original producer. “You can’t finish the movie not because you don’t have enough money, but because you’re incompetent.”

Every other expense, of course, should be optimized as much as possible.

Custom-made daily necessities are ridiculously overpriced? Find a factory and invest in making them himself.

A hot spring villa is ridiculously overpriced? Buy land in the mountains and build one himself.

He even invested his leftover living expenses in a business venture, hoping to use foreign currency to hedge against inflation...

The great general Gu Qicheng suddenly discovered that he’d arrived in the modern world and had a beautiful wife.

He’d led troops into battle since childhood and had long since become cold-blooded and hardhearted. He didn’t want a wife, but there was no resisting how warm and wonderful his wife was...

He cured his nephew’s lovesickness, fulfilled his parents’ dream of making movies, invested in a daily necessities factory that created a great many jobs, bought land and built houses to help children in the mountains get an education, and even invested his carefully saved money in a project to enter foreign markets and promote Chinese culture.

Gu Qicheng: Spending the rest of my life with a wife like this doesn’t sound bad.

Gu Qicheng: But why does my wife always look at me with three parts regret, three parts indifference, and four parts unspoken words?

Later...

Gu Qicheng found the answer in a yellowed calendar.

One month until he inherits the estate... one week... one day... Huh? Why isn’t Gu Qicheng dead yet? Never mind. If I get to enjoy myself, then inheriting later is fine.

Gu Qicheng: ...

Gu Qicheng: To make my wife give up on inheriting the estate for good, I’ll have to work harder at night from now on.

Theme: Even in difficult circumstances, keep striving and persevere to realize your value in life.