It was a little past 5:00 AM.

The night color was gradually fading, and the streetlamps had quietly extinguished. The city was finally waking from its stillness. The breath he exhaled blew away the stagnant lead-gray clouds, foreshadowing a good day.

Noisy sounds emerged from countless corners of the streets.

The living room lights were on. Shi Linchuan sat on the sofa in thin clothing, cleaning up the mess from last night, while the system persistently made noise in his head: “Ahhh—”

“Host, those ‘abusive’ glasses cost me a hundred points! Are you really planning to just throw them away?? I thought you were just trying to look cool in front of the protagonist last night!”

The system gasped for breath and urged: “That’s not how you squander wealth. Points are really super hard to earn, and you might need them later! It’s not too late to pick them up from the trash can, Host!”

Shi Linchuan was calm and composed, retorting: “Why would I pick garbage out of a trash can? Besides…”

The key plot point from last night had been successfully completed. In the upcoming tasks, he no longer needed to play the “gentle” persona, so he no longer needed those heavy black-framed glasses.

As for the points, what did they have to do with him?

He never proactively asked the system for them.

According to the system, it was “worried about what the Host was worried about and anxious about what the Host was anxious about,” so it had paid out of its own pocket to exchange for auxiliary tools for him.

It was truly too kind; it couldn’t bear to see the Host suffer.

Shi Linchuan was not a student who had just left campus; naturally, he didn’t believe a single word of it.

From the moment he could understand human speech, he had been instilled with one concept: There is no one in this world who will unconditionally offer you kindness. If there is, it is definitely not without seeking return, but rather, they are plotting something huge.

In his view, the system was the type that “plots something huge.”

If a certain blue light orb could hear Shi Linchuan’s inner thoughts, it would probably excitedly echo:

“It so definitely is! Host is brilliant!”

Unfortunately, there were no “ifs” in this world.

Shi Linchuan’s brain was quiet for only two seconds before that annoying electronic voice sounded again, complaining as if casually:

“Host, one hundred points is not cheap. It’s enough to exchange for permanent residency in this world!”

It paused and then “inadvertently” mentioned:

“Ah… speaking of which, the previous Host gave up on returning to their original world and used the resurrection reward they obtained from completing the tasks to exchange for permanent residency in that world. They’re probably having their second child with the protagonist now~”

Shi Linchuan stood up, grabbed the garbage bag, and walked out efficiently, saying indifferently: “I don’t want to have a second child with Xie Jinghe, so what does that have to do with me? Mute.”

System: “…”

No, who said anything about letting the protagonist have a second child?

Inside the virtual space.

The light screen was broadcasting the Host’s scene from a third-party perspective.

The white light orb stared at the man’s tall, broad back, stretched out a “jiu-jiu” to touch its head, estimated the total duration the light screen had been automatically censored over the past three years, and couldn’t help but sigh:

“Wow, super scary! It’s just that the protagonist of this world has no reproductive function. If they really could have children, I would want to break into a cold sweat for the protagonist…”

The sky was just beginning to brighten.

Shi Linchuan took fifty meters in his outdoor slippers, sorted the well-packaged garbage, and threw it into the designated location with familiar and fluid movements, then strolled back.

He had walked this short path too many times.

In other words—

He had already wasted too much time on these pointless, insignificant daily chores.

The education Shi Linchuan had received since childhood told him that his time was more precious than most people’s and must be used to do things with more value, or things that could create more value.

But in order to complete the acting mission, he had to live with Xie Jinghe.

Due to the nature of Xie Jinghe’s work, their opportunities for dating were restricted. They couldn’t go to many crowded public places, so they often stayed at home killing time.

And Xie Jinghe was truly a person beyond comprehension.

Shi Linchuan couldn’t understand how a person could be bored to such an extent—he would even see a video, then shake his shoulders, wanting to compete with him on who could deseed strawberries the fastest with toothpicks to see who was better.

Shi Linchuan lost.

Because Xie Jinghe noticed he was about to lose, he started interfering with him relentlessly, and seeing the situation was beyond saving, he took advantage of Shi Linchuan not paying attention to snatch the strawberry away and eat it.

It was the first time Shi Linchuan had ever lost.

He couldn’t help but let his face fall.

The result was that while Xie Jinghe was picking seeds with the toothpick, he was stealing glances at him, and then shoved the deseeded strawberry into his mouth, asking him if there was any change in the taste.

He seemed to have said at the time: No change.

Xie Jinghe didn’t believe it, saying he wanted to taste it himself, and then kissed him without further ado.

Until strawberry juice overflowed from the corners of their lips did he smack his lips and say, pretending to be innocent:

“It really is sweeter.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he curved his eyes and smiled:

“Are you still angry?”

Shi Linchuan didn’t know how he had endured these three years.

In any case,

Fortunately, the original plot was already halfway through. The remaining key plot points that needed Shi Linchuan to complete were only—going on a divorce reality show with Xie Jinghe, successfully divorcing on the show, and then simply wrapping things up.

Oh.

Before that, he still had to maintain his marriage status to lay the groundwork for the subsequent divorce show.

In the original work, it was because the tattoo on his thigh was accidentally photographed by the paparazzi, causing him to fall into an unprecedented scandal regarding his “sugar daddy.” Plus, the scumbag ex-husband caused trouble again…

Forced by circumstance, Xie Jinghe directly posted this explosive news on social media.

However, because of Shi Linchuan’s operation last night, he didn’t know how “accidental” Xie Jinghe had to be to get photographed.

Maybe he’d have to be completely naked.

It wasn’t a big problem.

As long as he created another scandal involving a “sugar daddy,” it would be fine.