Chapter 24 Part 1

Eh?

Eh????

Lu Ningshuang: Unsure, listen some more.

There was no one else beside Huo Yunyi.

【The System won’t be wrong.】

She only saw Huo Yunyi’s mouth unmoving, yet a voice emerged: 【Give me a break.】

【You say you won’t be wrong, but that day I followed the plot you gave me to pick up the corpse on the street—how come I didn’t even find a single hair?】

【Qin Yushu wasn’t even there at all. You made me run there for nothing!】

Running there for nothing wasn’t the key issue. He was now a wealthy young master from a prominent family; calling a driver to go there wouldn’t take much effort.

But!

He had clearly prepared himself to hook up with this world’s female protagonist… On the way over, he had planned to use all his lifetime knowledge, every position in the book, only for her to leave him high and dry?

W!T!F!

He had been on the verge of exploding everywhere at the time!!

【This world’s operation has developed some glitches.】

The System’s voice remained flat and mechanical, stating facts. 【You need to cooperate with me to fix these glitches and bring everything back on track.】

Huo Yunyi: 【Aren’t I fucking doing that right now?! Annoying as hell!!!】

The System ignored this “male lead’s” furious outburst and continued coldly: 【Regarding the above issues, the System has already undergone an upgrade—】

【You still have the nerve to say that to me?!】

Huo Yunyi roared in anger.

Mentioning this made him even more furious.

The current “Huo Yunyi” under this skin was merely a transmigrator. Before transmigrating, he had been nothing more than an ordinary street-side loser.

In his idle moments, he had read a few male-oriented power fantasy novels.

Without exception, they featured losers rising up, male leads collecting harems, ending with beauties on both sides, clouds of women, and sitting on the throne.

He had finally transmigrated himself and bound a standard transmigrator’s golden finger System. He thought his own legendary saga as Chen Ping was about to unfold.

But—

This System wasn’t one of those recent “sign-in,” “check-in,” or “godly tycoon” no-effort systems. Not only was it useless, but it also demanded he conquer a woman.

Capture a woman?

Wasn’t that just being a simp?!

Before transmigrating, he hadn’t been able to simp for the goddess he liked. Damn it, all those girls were too vain—not even mentioning marriage, just dating cost so much.

Now that he had transmigrated and had a System, this was protagonist standard gear. Shouldn’t the beauties come throwing themselves at him with their family fortunes, and then he simps?

No.

Absolutely not!

Then, the System showed this brand-new “Huo Yunyi” a photo of the target, Qin Yushu.

And told him that the female lead was currently suffering through her Heat Period.

Huo Yunyi’s original world had no ABO gender distinctions, so he didn’t understand what a Heat Period was, but after the System explained, he got it immediately.

Got it.

She had been hit with an aphrodisiac and wanted to do it.

The transmigrator “Huo Yunyi” bolted off at top speed, his handsome original face twisted into a sleazy grin, babbling nonsense from his mouth.

“This isn’t me being lustful; I’m just kindly helping solve problems for the masses.”

Along the way, the System showed him plenty of background lore on this world, plot summaries… Huo Yunyi ignored it all, only fixating on Qin Yushu’s face and the family background behind her.

“A woman inheriting a company?”

He sneered disdainfully. “What can a woman do? Women should stay home, obey their husbands, and raise children. Women in ancient times were great—three obediences and four virtues, women’s precepts and teachings. If a woman’s ambitions grow too big, she gets wild and flies away.”

He licked his lips. “Wait and see. Once I fuck her into submission, heh heh, I’ll gladly accept this massive family fortune!”

But when he arrived, it was all for naught.

The places that should have been cold were cold, and the places that shouldn’t have been hot were still burning.

His expectations dashed, Huo Yunyi grumbled and cursed—at the System assisting him, at the female lead Qin Yushu he needed to capture…

By then, the plot had already deviated, leading to the second blind date attempt to forcibly pull the plot back.

“Huo Yunyi” had read plenty of novels and knew he had to put on an act upon actually meeting. He played the refined, elegant rich second-gen role most popular in those novels, but still failed.

At that point, neither Huo Yunyi nor the System could hold back anymore.

Huo Yunyi’s heart, which had been thrilled ever since becoming a wealthy young master, finally sank a bit. The System chose to investigate the bugs and then—

Upgraded itself.

The upgraded System gained a status query function.

Targeted at capturing the female lead, Qin Yushu.

He didn’t know until he checked, but upon checking, Huo Yunyi exploded again: “What the hell does this ‘already marked’ in brackets mean?!”

Though he didn’t like arrogant, proud women and preferred gentle, homey types.

Of course, they had to be beautiful first, with great figures, and bonus points for temperament and an excellent family-in-law.

But ever since the System tasked him with conquering the female lead, in his mind, Huo Yunyi had long considered Qin Yushu his woman.

She was just sitting there, waiting for him to claim her whenever.

Now, his woman had been “marked” by someone else—what did that mean? Had any transmigrator ever had a green hat on their head?

Huo Yunyi was immediately displeased. He felt Qin Yushu was unclean now and demanded the System swap her out for another capture target.

【Your first capture target can only be Qin Yushu.】 The System replied coldly.

Huo Yunyi: “So that means I can still have other women?”

This transmigrator was usually as dumb as a pig, but unusually sharp on matters like this.

System: 【Yes.】

“How do I do it?”

【Once Qin Yushu’s Favorability toward you stays above eighty, you can then contact some secondary targets.】

【Note: During contact with secondary targets, Qin Yushu’s Favorability must remain stable at eighty or above; it cannot drop.】

The System warned sternly, 【All secondary targets combined aren’t worth one Qin Yushu.】

Confirming he could still build a harem, Huo Yunyi’s days suddenly had hope again, and he was instantly filled with vigor.

“For my gentle, cute little wives, it’s just one green hat—I’ll endure it!”

Huo Yunyi shouted again: “System, since you’ve upgraded once now, your functions should be updated too, right?”

【What do you need?】

“Is there an points mall?”

【Yes.】

“Exchange points. Help me trigger Qin Yushu’s… that thing, the Heat Period you mentioned. I want to personally ‘meet’ her.”

【Scan complete: Host’s current points insufficient.】

The System knew the art of carrot-and-stick manipulation well. 【But Host is permitted to exchange personal items for on-credit purchases.】

“What do I have?”

【Fortune. The original ‘Huo Yunyi’s’ Fortune on you.】

Even a fool transmigrator like “Huo Yunyi” knew Fortune was tied closely to himself and couldn’t be given away lightly.

Seeing him hesitate, the System continued to tempt: 【As long as you successfully capture Qin Yushu, you’ll gain the Fortune on her, more than enough to compensate what you lose on points, with plenty left over.】

【Moreover, triggering just one Heat Period requires very little Fortune—not even two percent of yours.】

Huo Yunyi was convinced.

2%—not much at all. The remaining 98% would suffice, and if he succeeded in one go…

He was a transmigrator versed in all sorts of knowledge; his skills would surely outclass that random yellow-haired passerby!

With the mindset of “no pain, no gain,” Huo Yunyi gritted his teeth. “System, confirm the exchange.”

This time, he would make that unchaste woman taste his prowess!

And then—

The Heat Period he artificially created for the female lead using his own Fortune was snatched away again.

Unable to know Qin Yushu’s location, he could only see through the System that the 【Already Marked】 in her status bar had deepened a bit.

He called, but a stranger picked up—a certain damn yellow-haired passerby!

Though somewhat surprised that the “yellow hair” opposite was a woman—if it were any other time, he might have fantasized about a yuri duo serving one husband.

Such plots were common in harem novels, which he loved; experiencing it personally wouldn’t be bad.

But at that moment, Huo Yunyi’s head was clouded with rage. He demanded the address, got a provocative reply, and the call hung up.

Huo Yunyi: “Damn it! I must kill her!!!”

How to kill?

If it’s a woman…

This plan failed again too. Huo Yunyi lost points and face, leading to today’s third attempt.

First, the System noticed Qin Yushu’s status bar change again.

After 【Already Marked】, it now showed 【Engaged(?).】

The trailing 【?】 indicated uncertainty, but the matter itself was already extremely urgent!

Thus, Huo Yunyi panicked once more.

After discovering the status change, he rushed straight to Tian Sheng Headquarters wanting to see Qin Yushu.

Transmigrator Huo Yunyi had inherited the identity but was just a loser at heart, utterly incapable. Everything now was delegated to subordinates; he wasn’t even as good as those template overbearing CEOs in CEO novels whose “CEO role was just a side gig.”

His own biggest “career” was conquering the female lead Qin Yushu.

But his meetings or communications with Qin Yushu were extremely rare; he could hardly encounter her. So aside from “work,” Huo Yunyi spent most of his time on various live-stream apps watching female streamers.

Lavishing money bought sweet “Brother” calls, inflating his ego.

Unable to see Qin Yushu, Huo Yunyi once again played the whiner and spent 2% of his Fortune to exchange for her upcoming location.

He had to rush there quickly to stop her!

Yet this was such a small company; Huo Yunyi had been waiting here for a while, his patience wearing thin.

He said to the System: “Who do you think the one engaged to Qin Yushu is? That one from the phone call last time? How can two women be together!”

【This is an ABO world. A/O are the primary genders.】

“I know, I know.” Huo Yunyi mouthed agreement, but dismissed it inwardly.

As a transmigrator from a world with only male/female genders,

He enjoyed the superiority of being an Alpha on one hand, while on the other, he never took this world’s A/B classifications seriously.

Female Alpha?

Still just a woman, even a natural breeding ground for yuri sister flowers—he liked that!

As for male Omega… Pure fags, dead gays, sissy pansies—disgusting trash, stay away!

“If it were buy one get one free…” Huo Yunyi thought, and voiced it aloud.

“Makes sense. Female Alphas in this world don’t have that thing. Qin Yushu hasn’t been defiled yet either. If she’s generous and sensible, willing to manage my harem for me, making her the main wife isn’t out of the question. But that female Alpha who marked her first…”

“I must punish her harshly!”

Lu Ningshuang, eavesdropping nearby, shuddered involuntarily.

System: 【Collect her too?】

“Why not?”

Huo Yunyi’s voice was wanton and wild, feigning magnanimous grandeur, but fundamentally sleazy. “Then have her and Qin Yushu serve this young master together…”

Lu Ningshuang: “……”

Thanks.

She hadn’t been here long, hadn’t heard much of Huo Yunyi and the System’s “brain dialogue,” but already she felt like vomiting.

Lu Ningshuang had dawdled here without leaving, and as Huo Yunyi relaxed a bit, he finally noticed her presence.

He said to the System: “What do you think that woman staring at me means…”

Does she fancy me? With this skin he’s in now… Women are so shallow!

“Huo Yunyi” basked in it while scorning inwardly.

【Don’t even think about it.】

The System shattered the self-important male’s fantasy. 【That’s an Alpha.】