Gold Medal Mediator [Quick Transmigration] 1

Chapter 1: Cousin-in-Law, Don’t Be Like This (1)

In the room, bathed in the glow of a warm yellow lamp, the most striking feature was the large, red bed at its center. A small, soft depression marked where a woman lay, her body half-curled.

The hem of her simple white dress, patterned with sky-blue ink washes, revealed a shapely calf. The warm light caressed her skin, giving it a jade-like luster that traveled from the bend of her knee down to her ankle, casting it in a faint, alluring shadow.

Beneath the warm, red canopy, two crimson flushes bloomed on her cheeks. Her eyes were shut tight, her naturally upturned, pure black lashes forming the arc of a crescent moon. Her delicate brows were slightly furrowed, as if she were wrestling with the alcohol in her system.

After tossing and turning uncomfortably several times, her eyes remained stubbornly closed, but her mind was wide awake as she called out:

“System.”

The next moment, a mechanical voice echoed in her head: “What is it?”

“Are the tutorial worlds for your novice training program always this difficult? I spent another entire evening having a sweet heart-to-heart with Chen Wenxian, so why hasn’t Luo Sheng’s affection progress moved at all? You said they’ve already set a wedding date, and I’ve completely isolated the homewrecker from their world. Do I seriously have to drink the wine at their wedding banquet before this progress bar shoots up to one hundred percent?”

The person communicating with the System was named Hua Baihe.

In her original world, she was a highly experienced relationship counselor. With her invincible silver tongue, any couple who came to her for mediation—no matter how much they repelled each other like the same poles of a magnet—would walk out of her office hand-in-hand, drawn together once more.

This was the fundamental reason the Relationship Mediation System had sought her out.

This was her first transmigrated world, the first instance quest arranged for her by the Prime Deity. It was supposed to be so simple that she wouldn’t even need to think; she just had to follow the tasks arranged by the System step-by-step to achieve one hundred percent progress.

…And yet, that was precisely where the problem lay.

**

In this world, she was tasked with resolving Luo Sheng’s emotional problems—or more specifically, the problems in Luo Sheng’s relationship with Chen Wenxian.

Luo Sheng was the protagonist of this world, a “Child of Destiny” of sorts. She had lost her parents at a young age. During high school, the aunt and uncle who had been raising her also died in a car accident, turning her into a jinx in the eyes of her relatives and friends.

Because she was quiet and not good with words, she had few friends at school.

It was then that the good-tempered and gentle Chen Wenxian was assigned by the teacher to be her deskmate. His smile became the light of her life.

The two gradually developed feelings for each other and later enrolled in the same university, where they naturally became a couple.

But the good times didn’t last. The duo, who had been a legendary couple from high school through college, found their relationship struggling after entering the workforce.

Chen Wenxian’s outstanding work ethic earned him a quick promotion at his public service job. He was young, promising, and lacked nothing in looks or character, naturally catching the eye of some women with ulterior motives at his workplace.

A drunken mistake…

He had been completely unguarded. Waking up in a large hotel bed, he sat in silence for a long time. When he finally rushed to meet Luo Sheng, he was late for the first time, by a full half-hour.

It happened to be raining that day. On their way to the cinema, Chen Wenxian, as always, took off his suit jacket and draped it over her shoulders. And as was her custom, Luo Sheng took his jacket home to wash it, planning to return it at their next meeting.

However, before putting it in the washing machine, she habitually checked the pockets for tissues or other items. Instead, her fingers brushed against a slip of paper.

The contents were cliché: a simple string of numbers for a phone number, stamped with a lipstick print.

Luo Sheng threw the note in the trash.

Yet this was only the first point of conflict to erupt between them. Their relationship finally ended on an anniversary.

Luo Sheng sat for a long time at the candlelit dinner table, looking at the man across from her who had been silent for ages. Savoring the quiet atmosphere, she finally spoke.

“Let’s break up.”

But after splitting up with Chen Wenxian, her life only got worse. Longing for the warmth he had once given her, she subsequently dated other men with similar personalities, but none of the relationships ever lasted.

The last one even ended with her being swindled out of all her money.

Walking down the street, Luo Sheng numbly reflected on her life. She didn’t notice a car suddenly swerve onto the road, driving against traffic, until it was too late. She was struck and killed.

**

Because the Child of Destiny met such a tragic end, the world absorbed an excess of negative energy, throwing the balance of positive and negative forces into disarray. The world teetered on the brink of collapse.

The Prime Deity managing the dimensional space sensed that the world’s mechanics were about to break down. To maintain its balance, It had Luo Sheng reincarnated and dispatched numerous systems—the Career Success System, the Relationship Mediation System, and others—to help her lead a happy and fulfilling new life.

The role the System assigned to Hua Baihe in this world was that of Chen Wenxian’s distant younger cousin, a girl named Chen Keyin. The moment she entered this world, memories of her would automatically appear in the minds of everyone connected to her identity.

Since Chen Wenxian was the source of Luo Sheng’s emotional misfortune, the System decided she should start with him, nurturing the small sapling of their love from its very roots.

Initially, everything went very smoothly—

Because Chen Keyin’s parents were entrepreneurs, they had little time to care for her at home. Unwilling to entrust her to a hired nanny, they recalled how excited she was every time she visited her cousins. So, they simply left her in the care of Chen Wenxian’s parents.

The two were as close as real siblings, growing up together from elementary school through high school.

Under her watchful protection, Chen Wenxian and Luo Sheng’s relationship gradually got on the right track. After graduating high school, on his eighteenth birthday during the summer break, she egged him on to confess his feelings to Luo Sheng at his KTV birthday party.

Hua Baihe had poured her heart and soul into this couple. Knowing her cousin was a man of few words, she had even taken him to the same KTV room the night before for a full rehearsal. She had pre-ordered flowers for him—Luo Sheng’s favorite champagne roses.

She even analyzed Luo Sheng’s personality and came up with a Plan B.

She taught Chen Wenxian how to make an “explosion box.” When the lid was lifted, several cards would unfold like petals, ready for photos or written messages. In the center lay a smaller box, waiting to be opened, and so on, layer after layer.

She instructed Chen Wenxian to use all the decent photos they had from their trips, as well as some of Luo Sheng by herself.

They ran into a small problem while selecting the photos. Hua Baihe realized that most of their travel pictures were of the three of them. Including herself gave off a strange “threesome” vibe…

Thankfully, her hard work paid off. On his eighteenth birthday, just as in the original timeline, Chen Wenxian successfully achieved the milestone of ‘getting a girlfriend.’

At that moment, Luo Sheng’s gaze swept over him and then to Hua Baihe standing beside him, her eyes holding a meaningful glint. At the time, Hua Baihe assumed she knew that this surprise had been orchestrated with her help, so she could only lower her head in embarrassment.

**

After they started university.

Luo Sheng unexpectedly chose to major in finance. Hua Baihe didn’t know if one of the other systems sent by the Prime Deity to assist with her career was at play, so she focused solely on her part, watching their relationship slowly simmer like a frog in warm water.

But perhaps due to the influence of her major, Luo Sheng’s personality gradually shifted from its original state. She became more assertive and opinionated, and Chen Wenxian often felt he couldn’t figure her out.

It was Chen Wenxian who began to lose confidence in their relationship.

Hua Baihe had to push her cousin to sit in on Luo Sheng’s major courses. Because Chen Wenxian was too thin-skinned, she had to sacrifice her own studies to tag along—all just so the two of them could have more in common.

To avoid any misunderstandings, she always chose a seat where she could see them but wasn’t so close as to be a third wheel.

After finally graduating and entering the workforce, she had to prevent the clueless Chen Wenxian from being lured away by other women. Whenever Luo Sheng was too busy with work, she had to personally step in and brazenly accompany her cousin to social functions.

Her goal was to keep the flies from landing on this particular egg.

Reflecting on her role in the entire progression of their relationship, Hua Baihe could only write one slogan for herself:

“I’ve rolled up my sleeves and done everything short of consummating the marriage for Chen Wenxian!”

**

Having reviewed the past, she wiped away a mental tear of bitterness and awaited the System’s response.

Tonight, Chen Wenxian had been complaining to her that Luo Sheng was working more and more, leaving them almost no time to see each other. After comforting him, Hua Baihe, frustrated with the lack of progress on her mission, had a few too many drinks herself.

She vaguely remembered helping call Luo Sheng to come take her cousin home, while she herself had called for a designated driver.

When she got home, she collapsed onto the bed and was dead to the world for a long while, only to be awakened by the resentment simmering in her heart, which led to her questioning the System.

The System was polite as ever. “Host, please wait a moment. I am currently retrieving the world’s information for you.”

After saying that, it went silent.

Leaving Hua Baihe to continue wrestling with her few remaining brain cells, trying to figure out just where things had gone wrong—

The doorknob turned softly.

A person dressed in a black suit walked in slowly, holding a towel. The high heels she usually wore were gone; she was now stepping on the soft carpet in just a pair of black pantyhose. She raised a hand to undo the hair coiled at the nape of her neck. Looking at the person curled up on the bed, a hint of gentleness gradually appeared in her eyes.

As Hua Baihe awaited the System’s answer, a cool towel was suddenly placed on her forehead, the chill jolting her.

She instinctively opened her eyes, thinking, Do designated drivers offer sobering-up services these days?

Just as she got a clear look at the person before her, the System’s voice sounded at the exact same time:

“The world’s timeline is proceeding normally. Host, please rest assured.”

Her enchanting eyes were veiled with a hazy confusion, as if she couldn’t distinguish dream from reality. Yet this very look, paired with her stunning features, struck the person above her as an irresistibly contrasting allure.

“Keyin?” that person called out to her, deliberately lowering her voice.

Her cool tone carried a trace of huskiness.

Hua Baihe was still lost in the mystery of her missing designated driver and didn’t react to the call immediately.

To the person watching her, this just looked like she was too drunk to even respond—

And so, that person could no longer restrain the long-hidden thoughts in her heart. She slowly leaned down, her face growing larger and larger in Hua Baihe’s vision, until finally, a soft warmth landed on her lips.

Hua Baihe: “!!!”

“System, are you malfunctioning?! Is this normal?! Where is this normal?! This is my cousin-in-law! Why did she suddenly kiss me???”

According to any version of the script, Luo Sheng should be at Chen Wenxian’s place right now. And the person whose lips should be on hers was definitely not Chen Keyin.

Hua Baihe urged the System to open its titanium-alloy eyes and scan the current situation.

Perhaps the System was too inexperienced, stunned into silence by this sudden lesbian twist. It remained unresponsive for a long time.

Feeling as if her long-cherished OTP had just been torpedoed, Hua Baihe, still teetering on the edge of a shattered dream, looked at the ninety-percent progress bar above Luo Sheng’s head and made a last-ditch effort.

“Where’s my cousin?”

Where is the person who’s supposed to be receiving your passionate kiss?

At the mention of him, the emotion in Luo Sheng’s eyes instantly darkened. The air around them seemed to freeze in an instant. She spoke slowly, her voice measured.

“What do you think?”