Ch. 2 – What a Good Man

After setting Chi Zhao in bed, Li Yihan stood up and went to the door.

He was wearing a raven black work shirt, and his dark blue jewel cuffs were shining in the evening sunset. He was dressed neatly and seemed ready to go out.

Walking to the door, an old man dressed as a housekeeper appeared. Li Yihan whispered a few words to the old man and then turned back.

“I asked Zhang Bo to call a doctor,” Li Yihan stood by the bed, his calm eyes fell on Chi Zhao. “Where do you feel uncomfortable?”

[Qi Yuan played all night at a party yesterday and then went home and fell asleep. So if you told him that you just drank too much last night he probably wouldn’t be suspicious.]

After listening to the system, Chi Zhao immediately pulled up the blanket a little bit. “I drank a lot yesterday, and now I feel dizzy.”

Li Yihan doesn’t pay much attention to Qi Yuan’s life, but he knows what he should know. Since Qi Yuan moved into his house and got some pocket money, he often went to various drinking places. Every day he mingled with the so-called “elder sisters” in the university. If they weren’t drinking, then they were messing around.

Li Yihan looked at him with a raised eyebrow. All the gentleness he had just shown disappeared in a second. His tone was somewhat harsh. “Qi Yuan, I told you a week ago that you needed to attend the Zhengde Group’s charity party tonight. Did you forget it or is it that you just aren’t taking this seriously?”

Chi Zhao opened his eyes wide and looked at him innocently. Li Yihan’s forehead throbbed. That innocent look made it seemed as if Li Yihan was unjustly slandering him.

In his heart, Li Yihan warned himself not to be deceived by Qi Yuan’s innocent appearance. After a pause, he said continued, “I didn’t care about what you did before, because you’re an adult, but now your uncontrolled lifestyle will affect me. I’m going to set down some rules for you.”

“No more drinks with your college friends. You can go to a normal class reunion, but if I find out that you’re going out to party with your friends, I’ll cut your living expenses for a month.”

Li Yihan has been single since he was made head of the family. He hasn’t been around any children before, so don’t even mention raising a child of his own. Today is his first time to discipline as a parent, so he doesn’t know whether he has done it right or not and whether he was too strict.

Li Yihan is calm on the surface, but in fact he is closely observing Qi Yuan’s expression.

Chi Zhao blinked and nodded, “I understand. Thank you, Mr. Li.”

In name, Qi Yuan is Li Yihan’s adopted son, but in reality, they have no personal relationship. Qi Yuan has been moved in for only a month and has seen Li Yihan less than ten times in total. Li Yihan calls Qi Yuan by his full name, and Qi Yuan respects him as his benefactor. That is the full extent of their relationship.

Li Yihan raised his eyebrows slightly; he had never seen such a good-natured Qi Yuan before. It was if it the person himself was different.

Li Yihan no longer stood estranged on the side, but instead sat down on the bed. He asked, “Are you still dizzy?”

Chi Zhao still felt a little out of sorts, but he was not as dizzy as he was when he first came. He smiled a little and said, “Much better, thank you.”

Li Yihan did not understand. He had just thanked him once before, why was he thanking him again, “What are you thanking me for?”

“Thank you for bringing me out and not leaving me in the bathroom.” Chi Zhao answered honestly.

Li Yihan did not “bring” him out. He carried him out in his arms [1] . Qi Yuan 175 centimeters (5 ft 7 in), so he he’s not light. However, Li Yihan can still easily hold him. Since this is the student who he has been sponsoring and not some stranger, he still has a degree of anxiety for his health. Li Yihan softened his expression. “You’re too thin. Eat more later.”

Chi Zhao nodded, meaning that he had written down Li Yihan’s instructions in his heart. Suddenly, the voice of the system sounded in his mind.

[Host, what are you doing? What’s the use of nodding? Look at how good the atmosphere is now. Please hurry up and seduce him!]

Chi Zhao muttered. “How can I seduce him?”

The original owner could seduce Li Yihan by using extremely clever ploys and concealed schemes, but this is not feasible for Chi Zhao. Chi Zhao is a bookworm, and every day he thinks about how to get more scholarships and how to pass his tests. He’s too simple to know such methods. Don’t say he can’t do it. Even if he does do it, the scene would be horrible.

“…”

It doesn’t matter. The system has another way to deal with Chi Zhao.

[I’ll teach you. You just need to remember three rules to ensure that you can take Li Yihan to bed in less than a year. Remember, the first rule, always appear in front of Li Yihan. The second rule, always let him feel your good intentions. Finally, the third rule, you must let him know that you like him!]

… Can this seduce people? Why is he so disbelieving?

Chi Zhao wanted to ask another question, but Li Yihan looked at him doubtfully. “Qi Yuan?”

Chi Zhao kept his head down when he spoke to the system. It looked as if he was in a daze. When Li Yihan called out to him, Chi Zhao returned to his senses and raised his head in dismay. Obviously, he hadn’t reflected on why Li Yihan called him.

Li Yihan twisted his eyebrows again. “What’s wrong with you? Are you still uncomfortable?”

Chi Zhao shook his head in a daze. “No, I, I am…”

Thinking of what the system said, he was inspired, sincerely looking at Li Yihan, Chi Zhao said: “Mr. Li, I will not go to those parties in the future, I will study hard and won’t give you any trouble.”

Li Yihan listened to him and his expression remained unchanged. He gave a slightly obscure “Em”, signaling that he heard it. Chi Zhao bowed his head and said, “Then, after that, you… Can you come home more often?”

He lowered his head, so he did not see Li Yihan’s expression. The latter was stunned for a moment, and his expression loosened.

Li Yihan finally felt enlightened.

Li Yihan is very busy with his work, so he lives in more than one place. He has returned to this house less than 30 times this year. In the past month, Qi Yuan met him ten times because Li Yihan needed to deal with the affairs of the Li family, and he had to publicly show Qi Yuan in front of everyone, so the number of times he had returned here was actually higher than normal.

But in fact, the amount of actual time he spent here was not even enough time to equal three whole days. Qi Yuan lived alone in this house, and almost no one spoke to him. Li Yihan suddenly felt like he could understand why Qi Yuan often went out to party with those dirty people.

Qi Yuan used to live in a school dorm with roommates and plenty of friends. Now Qi Yuan is tied here by a contract with him. Wouldn’t any child inevitably feel lonely like this?

A little guilt lingered in his heart. Li Yihan wiped his lips and nodded, “I’ll try my best. Qi Yuan, if there is anything you need in the future, as it is now, come directly to me. Understand? I know that I get busy enough that I always neglect the people around me. I’m sorry. I hope you will understand.”

What a handsome man does is right in everything he does, and the words he says are all especially warm-hearted [2] .

Chi Zhao was immediately moved by him. Before long, the doctor came to examine Chi Zhao. He said Chi Zhao was hungover. He drank a bottle of hangover drugs, ate some light food, and went to sleep.

Li Yihan stood by and listened to the doctor. He ordered the servants to cook a light dinner for Qi Yuan. He also told Qi Yuan to go to bed earlier. After all this was done, he finally turned around and went out.

The door was closed quietly. Chi Zhao opened up the blanket and crept down. He put his ears on the door and listened to the other side.

Zhang Bo: “Sir, Assistant Zhao has been waiting downstairs.”

Even though it’s currently autumn, the weather is still a little hot. Li Yihan unfastened his collar and whispered, “I won’t go today. Tell him to go back.”

Zhang Bo’s voice was slightly surprised. “Sir, are you really not going?”

“Why, do you want me to go that badly?”

Zhang Bo awkwardly laughed, “Naturally not, Master Qi Yuan will be very happy.”

Afterwards, Chi Zhao could not hear what they said. He straightened himself up and sighed sadly. “Li Yihan truly is a good man.”

The system’s voice coldly spoke in his head.

[Good guys don’t get good rewards. Let’s get started already.]

Chi Zhao nodded with great approval. “Exactly! Just look at me, I’m a good man, and I died young.”

System: “…”

Really…

Good people don’t boast about being good!

While Chi Zhao was still lamenting how kind Li Yihan is, the system didn’t dare speak. If Li Yihan was really so good, then his way of getting revenge against Qi Yuan would not be to torture him by blinding him and breaking his legs. There are tens of millions of ways to revenge. He could have just killed him immediately, but Li Yihan did not choose to do that. He chose one of the cruelest forms of revenge.

This alone shows that it wasn’t just kindness that resides in his heart. He did not expose that side before because nobody provoked him. But once someone did provoke him, his cruelty was easily exposed.

Chi Zhao was a little timid, and the system did not want to frighten him, so he held back all his words and only reminded him to do his task.

[From now on, you have to be seducing him all the time. In the original plot, Qi Yuan snatched him up by the time he was 20 years old. Right now Qi Yuan is eighteen years old, you still have two years to go. After less than two months together, Qi Yuan lost interest in him and began to give Li Yihan a nice green hat. At the age of twenty-one, that is, the year of his senior year, he got mixed up with Li Yihan’s competitors. Two years later, at the age of twenty-three, Qi Yuan finally killed himself.]

[Simply put, this task can be completed in only five years. Let’s go already! I believe in you!]

Five years…

It sounds so short.

Chi Zhao clenched his fist. “Okay, I’ll try to seduce him!”

[1] The text uses 抱 [bào], which means, “to carry in one embrace”.

[2] It’s an idiom meaning that people are biased towards those with a good appearance.