The Father Who Was Struck Off

"This is to notify you: your sperm has passed the evaluation, but your 'father' certification has been revoked."

Corporate elite Zhou Qiming received a call from his girlfriend Lin Wei late one night. There was no argument, no tears, only a calm, brutally worded "Co-Parenting Partnership Agreement." She told him she'd decided to "keep the child, not the father": his genes were a high-value asset she had selected, but he himself was a liability she refused to accept.

This wasn't a breakup. It was a unilateral layoff from the position of "father."

Zhou Qiming suddenly realized he wasn't the only one. His programmer friend had become "open-source code" in a female investor's life project, free to use with no obligation of ownership. His womanizing friend had been precisely categorized as "gene express delivery," blocked as soon as the job was done.

Behind them lurked a mysterious organization called "New Ecology." With capital and ideology, it systematically broke down and assessed men's value: "Gene provider: qualified. Partner and father: below standard." Traditional "paternal authority" was being completely overturned by a silent social revolution.

With nowhere left to retreat, Zhou Qiming and a group of "bankrupt dads" formed an alliance to fight back. They stopped begging for affection and began fighting for every paternal right stripped from them in the "Agreement." They infiltrated the enemy's salons and exposed its cold, data-driven lies. They used scientific parenting and emotional companionship to prove a kind of value no algorithm could replace.