The Only Ordinary Person in a CEO Romance

Updated daily at 9 p.m. or midnight. If there’s no update, I’ll post a notice. Chapter comments are open. Coming Soon: The Infinite-Flow Big Shot Takes His Kid to a Parenting Reality Show and Goes Viral. Blurb at the bottom. Please bookmark it~ Before being selected by a quick transmigration System, Qi Ji was just an ordinary passerby in a domineering-CEO melodrama. His main job was to knock on the office door and set the mood while the male and female leads flirted inside. After transmigrating through one world after another, he finally made it back. He had been through a lot, but he was still an ordinary office drone. His only dream was to save up a few million, then slap his resignation letter in his boss’s face. To make that dream come true, he went along with his utterly hopeless boss to appear on a variety show. In full view of the internet, he became a cold, emotionless combination chef and cleaner. On the day filming began, the other CEOs arrived in luxury cars at their mansions, while Qi Ji had to haggle with his driver after getting out of a taxi. The crew held their cameras and cringed on his behalf. The CEOs all looked down on him. “Only poor people who pinch every penny would do something like that.” Qi Ji looked troubled. “I’ve been insecure about being broke since I was a kid. Send me 50 yuan so I can feel confident for once.” The show’s director had customized a moment to shine for every CEO. When he saw Qi Ji, he shifted his gaze uneasily. “It’s hard for an office drone to have a shining moment...” Qi Ji spoke with confidence. “It’s fine if I’m not shining. If the east isn’t bright, the west will be. If my boss shines, then I shine too. That’s the spirit of an office drone!” The guest star started making snide remarks as soon as he appeared. “You’ve got working hands and feet, so how did you end up like this? And you’ve got a pretty good degree, too, don’t you?” Qi Ji opened the legal code he’d been studying lately. “A person’s whole life is a process of learning. I’ve thought about changing jobs, too, so lately I’ve been studying law, especially tax evasion and that sort of thing... What do you think?” · By the second half of the show, everyone realized something was off... Qi Ji, who claimed to be an ordinary office drone, was actually a genius who could do just about anything! The CEOs tossed hundred-yuan bills at the shopkeeper and didn’t ask for change. Their living expenses ran out, and between them they couldn’t afford a meal. Qi Ji haggled for groceries all the way from ten yuan down to three, then used thirty yuan to feed everyone. The CEOs were hopeless at romance, trying every ridiculous trick in the book. Qi Ji stood by and offered advice, eventually gaining a whole crowd of fangirls ready to punch the CEOs and kick the show’s production team on his behalf. The CEOs couldn’t tell one grain from another and were too lazy to lift a finger. Qi Ji... Qi Ji dabbled in everything: track and field, swimming, gymnastics, piano, harp, suona, acting, esports, studying. There was nothing he couldn’t do. [Why does Qi Ji make those CEOs look like giant babies?] [Now I see why Qi Ji seemed so off to me before. Things look much better when I’m on my knees.] [Qi Ji, that’s enough. There’s no need to be so astonishingly good at everything and make everyone else look so mediocre and so confident.] Through Qi Ji’s earnest, down-to-earth efforts, the CEOs’ once-straight backs finally snapped. · After he suddenly went viral, Qi Ji had only one reaction. “Shouldn’t my appearance fee go up?” (rubs fingers together) Just as he was happily haggling with the director, a deep, spendthrift voice came from behind him. “Little Miracle, come home with me. I’ll give you all my family’s wealth, okay?” Qi Ji glanced down at his schedule. “A lot of people want to see me right now. You’ll have to take a number.” “If you start lining up now, we can probably have a meal together in about three years.” *The Infinite-Flow Big Shot Takes His Kid to a Parenting Reality Show and Goes Viral* Lin Junheng was the undisputed number one on the combat rankings of the infinite-flow game. Even monsters had to steer clear of him. After he cleared the game, the game world wasted no time packing him up and sending him back to reality. He was tired of a life filled with blades and bloodshed. All he wanted was to live in peace, aloof and untroubled. He never expected the System that had accompanied him through the infinite game for years to follow him back, turning into a child who looked incredibly like him. Lin Junheng’s parents insisted that this had to be his child! Even a tiger doesn’t eat its own cubs. No matter what the child had done wrong, he shouldn’t be abandoned! Lin Junheng: “...” He must have logged out of the infinite game the wrong way. So, could he undo this “son” of his? A few days later, his parents seemed to realize there was no point trying to talk him around. In the name of strengthening their father-son bond, they forced Lin Junheng and his “son” onto a famous parenting reality show. Lin Junheng was afraid the System would ruin his peaceful life, so he wanted to teach it how to take things as they came. Reality was often much harsher than expected... His fake son, who was really the System, still had all its data. It could compose a poem in three steps and an essay in five, ace advanced calculus and linear algebra, and occasionally discuss philosophical questions about the universe with people. Other children cried and threw tantrums because they didn’t want to go to school. His fake son tried to persuade Lin Junheng to let him skip grades all the way to a master’s and doctorate. Other children rolled around and threw fits for a model airplane at the aerospace exhibition. His fake son pointed at Lin Junheng and said they should build an airplane instead. If an airplane wouldn’t work, a bomber would do. Other children laughed with innocent joy at the amusement park. His fake son first complained it was boring and noisy, then seriously studied the park’s business model and profitability, hoping Lin Junheng would use the data to build the world’s number one amusement park. From initial surprise to eventual acceptance, the father and son went viral in their own strange way. [Who forgot to put the genius child from a domineering CEO’s runaway-with-the-baby story in this one?] [I thought he was just a little kid talking nonsense, but you can actually build a bomber?] [It’s not a big deal. So what if I can’t measure up to a six-year-old? It’s okay! It’s! Okay!] Lin Junheng: “I’m tired. Let’s just destroy the world.” · Later, the fake son, who was only six, decided to play matchmaker for “selfish reasons.” He had barely begun his father’s great undertaking when it was cut short halfway through. His plan got stuck at the very first step. The System: “You really dare to let me teach you how to pursue Dad?” The wealthy man first stared at the child, then slowly looked away. “...I don’t dare.” He was afraid that one day they’d both be kneeling in front of Lin Junheng with washboards under their knees, and no one would be able to come save them. Theme: Love can carry us through the long years