Suddenly, the unmarried twenty-year-old Ye Zhizhou had many more relatives, yet it was too late for him to clearly understand the circumstances as he nearly died in a car accident. After that, he somehow managed to survive and was even forcibly bound to a Salvation System.
How is it salvation?
Harems destroy worlds! Preventing a harem will save them!
. . . .
Ok, prevent harems. After seeing the entire system introduction, the corners of Ye Zhizhou’s mouth twitched. In order to return home safely, he decisively began his risky journey, he’d just treat it as if he was playing a large-scale strategy game.
Since then, the people the protagonist would rescue, he rescued first. The businesses the protagonist would make, he made first. The little brother the protagonist would take in, he took in first. The cliff the protagonist would jump off of, he jumped off of first. The gay s*x the protagonist would have, he’d have. . . . Wait wait, can’t do this one, change it, let me change it.
???: No, you can do this one.
Ye Zhizhou (alarmed): Who’s speaking?
???: Your husband.
Ye Zhizhou: . . . .
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Ye Zhizhou was on the brink of death, and then he came back to life, but he came back as someone else.
There was a strange face imprinted on the car window, very fair and very plump, so plump that you couldn't make out the features clearly. He lowered his gaze, carefully examining the "antique" cellphone in his hand, his eyes filled with a numbness after the initial shock.
Just this morning, before leaving home, he had checked the calendar on his communicator. Today was Saturday, the second Saturday of November in the year 3226 of the Star Calendar. However, the calendar on this phone now told him that it was just some day in November 2020 of the Earth calendar.
The driver was driving steadily, and the cool autumn breeze wafted in through the window, carrying a hint of early winter chill. He closed his eyes, leaned back in the seat, and slowly tried to sort out his jumbled thoughts.
He remembered being in a car accident. Two hovercars had collided head-on, and the one he was in had been crushed into a concave shape. The driver had died on the spot, while he had been pinned down by the deformed car body in the back seat. His upper body was covered in wounds from the shattered glass, he had multiple fractures, and his internal organs were likely in bad shape. It was a miracle he hadn't died immediately.
In his hazy consciousness, he vaguely recalled a strange voice saying a few words to him, asking if he wanted to live. He had answered yes, and then passed out. When he woke up, the year had gone from 3226 in the Star Calendar to some day in November 2020 in the Earth calendar. And he had gone from being a handsome and talented psychic with double S powers to a chubby man with a completely different appearance.
If he had known this would happen, he wouldn't have left the house this morning! Days off were meant for sleeping, and he didn't care if unexpected relatives showed up!
"Young Master, Young Master, wake up, we're home."
The driver's voice came from the front seat, and then he felt a gentle pat on his shoulder. Ye Zhizhou opened his eyes, his face showing a perfectly staged look of just waking up, and he slowly sat up—annoying, his fat body was so inconvenient to use.
"Young Master, Mr. is going to be a bit late today. He asked me to let you know that you don't have to wait for him to have dinner together." The driver, with a simple appearance, smiled at him and handed him a backpack from the front passenger seat.
He took the backpack with a nod and awkwardly maneuvered his chubby body out of the "antique" car. He took a few unsteady steps and barely managed to regain his balance. After stumbling a few steps, he sat down on the edge of a flowerbed by the roadside, then reached into the backpack and pulled out a pink compact makeup mirror—his intuition told him that this thing could explain everything he had experienced.
As if in response to him, the pink makeup mirror suddenly lit up and automatically opened, revealing a screen in front of him with a black text that appeared: [Hello, host, I am System 01, you can call me Sky.]
Ye Zhizhou was almost choked by his own saliva at the close encounter, so he quickly cleared his throat and moved the makeup mirror a bit farther away, frowning as he asked, "System 01? Sky? You've been talking to me in my head since the car accident? What do you want? What happened to my own body? Am I dead? Where is this place? What's with my current appearance?"
He had a lot of questions, and the system, which had used most of its energy to transfer the host's soul, was slightly glitchy. The screen remained still, and after a while, it started displaying text again: [Yes, it was me talking; the system is now bound; your body is currently being preserved by the system, it's safe; you're not dead; this is World 01 of the mission; for the convenience of the mission, you are using the body of a character related to the mission.]
Quickly digesting and organizing the information he had just received, he pinpointed the key point, "So you mean, once I complete the world-saving mission you've given me, I can safely return to my own world? With all my limbs intact, completely back?"
[Yes.]
He relaxed the tension he had been holding. At this point, all he wanted was to survive and return home. As for the world-saving mission, he would deal with it as it came. Being the mischievous trickster that he was, Ye Zhizhou quickly accepted the reality... there was no other choice when he had already transformed into this.
Having learned what he wanted to know the most, he turned his attention to other matters. He flipped the pink round makeup mirror in his hand and said with some bewilderment, "Aren't you supposed to be a system? How come you've turned into a mirror now? And why are you displaying the screen so openly like this? Aren't you afraid someone will see?"
[I was originally a mirror. The system is now bound, and only the host can see the screen. Additionally, the host and the system can communicate directly through thoughts.]
This aspect was quite considerate.
He looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings and his own chubby hands, then knocked on the surface of the makeup case and said, "Alright, give me the information. Let's finish the mission early and get back home safely."
The screen flickered and then began to display text in large blocks. He focused his attention and started reading carefully.
An hour later, after finishing reading the information provided by the system, Ye Zhizhou curled his lips. A world-saving system with such a grand name, and yet the way to save the world was... to prevent the main character from having romantic relationships?
[Preventing the main character from falling in love is equivalent to saving the world.]
The screen displayed a summary sentence at the end and then flashed before disappearing.
The makeup mirror was still the same makeup mirror, but Ye Zhizhou's worldview had changed forever.
The level of development in this world was similar to Earth in the 21st century. There weren't many wars, the environment was neither good nor bad, and technology was rapidly advancing. People lived in comfort, and everything seemed perfect.
However, there was always a protagonist unknowingly destroying the world.
The protagonist in this world was named Bai Li, the youngest daughter of the Bai family, a literary family. She had been pampered and spoiled by her parents, living abroad for many years. She had a gentle personality and a beautiful appearance, a goddess adored by everyone. She had an engagement with her childhood friend Yang Wei, and the two of them had agreed to get married and start their own family when they turned 24.
However, fate took an unexpected turn when Bai Li, at the age of 23, suffered amnesia during a trip back to her homeland. The one who saved her was Yun Ke, the newly appointed head of the Yun family, which was rising in power.
After her recovery, Bai Li couldn't remember anything and didn't know what to do. Yun Ke felt sorry for her and, seeing her knowledge of flowers and plants, brought her to his home to work as a gardener. The classic story of spending time together eventually led to an attraction between them. Yun Ke was gradually drawn to Bai Li's gentle and pure personality, and Bai Li was touched by Yun Ke's maturity and consideration. Their feelings grew stronger, and they were on the verge of confessing their love to each other.
However, things took a twist when the orphan from the family with connections to the Yun family, fearing that Bai Li would replace him after becoming the mistress of the Yun family, planned to secretly kill Bai Li to prevent her from being with Yun Ke. He engineered a car accident but nearly accidentally harmed Yun Ke, who had come to pick up Bai Li. In a critical moment, Bai Li pushed Yun Ke out of harm's way but suffered severe injuries herself.
Yun Ke was furious and, after uncovering the truth, expelled the orphan from the Yun family and began to openly and covertly suppress him to seek justice for Bai Li.
A month later, Bai Li recovered from her injuries and, by a stroke of luck, regained her memories. She remembered her fiancé who lived abroad, under the vast green grasslands. Her fiancé rushed to her side after receiving her message and the two of them tearfully reunited in the hospital.
Yun Ke was in great pain, and pain needed an outlet. The orphan from the influential family once again fell into misfortune, this time meeting his end through Yun Ke's hands. When the female protagonist learned of this, she felt guilty but also moved by Yun Ke's feelings for her. This marked the beginning of a complicated love triangle.
In their competition for the female protagonist, the two men engaged in various open and secret battles. In the end, both were defeated, leaving the female protagonist heartbroken. She felt like a calamity and attempted suicide. Of course, she didn't succeed. The two men, however, were terrified. At the hospital, by the female protagonist's bedside, they promised to stop fighting and pledged to take care of her together. The female protagonist was deeply moved, and the three of them ended up living happily ever after.
At this point, the story had just been somewhat unsettling, but thirty years later, everything changed.
Thirty years later, the female lead passed away. During these thirty years, she gave birth to four children, two for each of the male leads, showing no favoritism. After burying the female lead, the two men who had lived together peacefully for thirty years quickly turned against each other, engaging in a life-and-death struggle. This conflict continued directly into the next generation. Then the next generation had its own next generation, and each generation was more skilled, better at maneuvering, and fiercer in fighting than the last. Finally, a hundred years after the female lead's death, her descendants had finally played the world into chaos.
... This method of destroying the world is truly beyond words.
Even more beyond words is the fact that he is currently using this bulky body named Du Yang, with an identity... as an orphan from an influential family adopted by Yun Ke.
As the biggest cannon fodder in this bizarre love triangle, Ye Zhizhou really wanted to sigh at this moment. He opened the makeup mirror disguised as the system, activated the dressing mirror function, and carefully examined his current body.
Very fair, that was the first impression. Then, he was fat, very fat, chubby everywhere, from head to toe, and only the eyes could still show a rough outline. Ye Zhizhou couldn't bear to look directly into the mirror. In his twenty years of life, he had never been so "plump."
"Why are you sitting here?"
A deep, pleasing, and clear male voice brought Ye Zhizhou, who had been lost in thought, back to reality. He raised his head and looked in the direction of the voice, only to see a tall man standing backlit about two meters away from him, with a petite figure standing behind him.
In an expensive tailored suit, with an indifferent tone, meticulously styled hair, and an unconsciously emanating dominant aura... He blinked and realized that the newcomer was probably the owner of this villa—the current head of the Yun family and one of the female lead's suitors, Yun Ke.
Based on the timeline, the male lead had brought the female lead back home from the hospital several days ago. If this man was Yun Ke, then the woman behind him... Ye Zhizhou shifted his gaze to the petite figure standing behind Yun Ke and looked at the top of her head—two shiny black flags with red patterns and golden borders were spinning around, exactly matching the unique emblem mentioned in the information.
It seemed that this was indeed the female lead, Bai Li.