Lin Yu was in a terrible mood after his nemesis confessed to him in front of everyone. He went for a walk to clear his head, but a poplar tree snapped and knocked him unconscious.
When he woke up, he found himself in a small village in the 1980s.
With nothing but bare walls at home and barely enough food to get by, Lin Yu had no choice but to marry the village chief's simpleminded son, through a matchmaker's introduction.
But just as he was enjoying his wedding feast, a tall man pushed open the door and rushed at him, drooling.
"Dad! Dad!"
Lin Yu tensed, ready for anything. Then he got a good look: wasn't this his nemesis?
At that moment, the man was clinging to Lin Yu's waist and yelling "Dad" like an idiot.
After asking around, Lin Yu learned that in this world, his nemesis had suffered a high fever as a child that damaged his brain, leaving him with the intelligence of a three-year-old.
Looking at his nemesis, who thought he was his father, Lin Yu felt a rush of satisfaction.
"Hmph! So much for picking a fight with me. Now you have to call me Dad, don't you? Come on, say it again!"
His nemesis: "Dad!"
Lin Yu grinned from ear to ear. "That's right! Good boy!"
But being a father wasn't so easy. Once they started living together, Lin Yu discovered that the simpleminded fool couldn't do anything for himself.
His nemesis: "Dad, feed me! Food!"
Lin Yu put up with it. After all, the fool came from a rich family. Then one day, while Lin Yu was eating, the other man rushed in, frantic.
"Dad! I need to...!"
Need what, your sister? Lin Yu's eyes flicked over, then froze. His foolish son looked desperate, his pants tied in a tight knot. He was probably about to take care of business right there in the house.
Lin Yu: "Zhou Songlan, I'll kill you!"
But sometimes the fool would loosen the soil in his vegetable patch for him, or sit under the eaves picking vegetables, smiling stupidly at him without a word.
And Lin Yu found himself wishing the man could become normal.
He didn't want to be his dad anymore.
One day, Lin Yu went up the mountain to pick mushrooms and got caught in a downpour. Lost in unfamiliar territory, he thought he was done for.
Just when he was about to give up, his nemesis came rushing over in a panic and carried him home on his back.
That very day, his nemesis came down with a high fever. Feeling guilty, Lin Yu stayed up all night taking care of him.
But the next morning, as soon as Lin Yu opened his eyes, he saw his nemesis glaring at him with a dark, furious expression.
His nemesis: "Lin Yu, you made me call you Dad?"
Lin Yu's inner thoughts: Now that's more like it.
Both leads are each other's only partners | Some original worldbuilding | Character names are tentative | He won't stay a fool for long
Theme: Live well.
