[Transmigration Successful!]
[You have entered World No. 1: The Rich CEO Saved Me from My Life of Debt!]
Feeling dizzy after entering the world, Wei Xinqian lies down on the ground and tries not to throw up from the weird sensations that were currently happening inside his stomach.
Staring at the notifications, Wei Xinqian reaches up to click the X button to close them. Looking at the happily floating Riri weirdly,"...Hey, what kind of world is this? What's with the weird title?"
"The story we have entered is called 'The Rich CEO Saved Me from My Life of Debt!'. It is a romance story about the main character Qian Maizou, who is a poor boy in debt. He had an encounter with a rich CEO Zheng Ren who took a liking to him. The CEO pays off his debt in exchange for the boy to stay with him, and after a bit of time, obstacles and patience they fall in love." Riri summarises the story quickly to Wei Xinqian.
Huh, this floor is quite comfortable. Wei Xinqian rolls around absentmindedly on the carpet while listening to his system talk. "So what do I have to do?"
Riri starts to explain. "Your overall mission is to give more 'screen time' to the rich CEO's white moonlight, Bai Ling. The white moonlight was the reason that he decided to take pity on the Qian Maizou and save him, as the boy reminded him of them. They both are kind, sweet and hard workers. Their appearance is also similar. As he couldn't have his white moonlight, he decided to take on a substitute."
Unfortunely, he had to say that was relatable. When Wei Xinqian failed at pulling one of his favourite characters in a game a few times, he gave up on them and went for their brother instead. Happily, he managed to get their brother and started to main them, leaving his original favourite behind. Sometimes, he considers trying to pull for them again, but then turns around and decides to pull for new characters instead.
"The White Moonlight and Zheng Ren were childhood friends, and they even wanted to get married and start a company together when they grew up. However Bai Ling was forced to leave the country and go to a boarding school when younger by his parents without any notice, who didn't approve of their relationship. Zheng Ren was extremely poor at that time while Bai Ling was extremely rich and working to inherit his father's company. Zheng Ren worked hard and started his own company to prove that he was worthy of Bai Ling, however in the end he threw his love for Bai Ling away to have Qian Maizou."
Wow, that really sounds like his experience in the game. Maybe the author found out about his experience and based it off him.
"When Bai Ling came back after a few years, he could have been a good antagonist to keep around, however the author of the book decided to use them as cannon fodder for a one time scene where Zheng Ren tells them to leave to prove his love for Qian Maizou. Readers expected him to come back for a second confrontation, begging in the comments for Bai Ling to come back -- but he never did."
Riri flies closer to Wei Xinqian. "Your first task will be given to you in a day to allow you some time to get used to the world. This world was chosen for you as it was closest to the world that you lived in."
Wei Xinqian: ...?? Wait, isn't this a BL romance? What's the similarity here? Am I secretly the protagonist of a BL novel? Where's my rich husband to do all my work for me then?
Riri: Heh, like you're not the rich husband who does all the work.
"What's the body that I've entered?" Wei Xinqian asks curiously. Since it's attributed to his skills, could he just be a rich streamer that gets viewers by spending lots of money on gacha? That was close enough to him in the first world, right?
Riri happily tells him,"You're playing the role of a rich young second-generation! Because this is your first world, your body's name is the same as your original name so it's easier for you to adapt. The body found for you is not mentioned in the books at all. It is only until you get to more than 10 worlds finished where you will start getting roles that might actually be mentioned in the book. In that case, the different names you get increase the difficulty by a bit, as you might not be used to someone calling you a different name then what you usually respond to. However, when you start getting different names, I, Riri, will also remind you if someone says your name, like a second brain!"
A rich young second-generation? That doesn't sound bad at all. Wei Xinqian stands up and dusts himself off, ready to go off and live a salted fish life, apart from doing the system tasks.
Then Riri adds an extremely horrifying bit of information.
"You'll be happy to hear that you have the same job in your original life." Riri smiles charmingly at Wei Xinqian. "Except in this world, you are the CEO of not just one company, but two. Work hard, host! 'Get that bag sis!' as other humans say."
"...Wait, but I can't manage two companies, right? There's lots of legal implications, and there would be conflict of interests and stuff especially if they're in the same field." Wei Xinqian questions Riri, hoping that they would say something like 'Oops! My bad! I meant to say just one company! Haha!'
"Host, you have to remember that this is the world of a mediocre fictional book, and things that apply in your original universe may not apply here. Actually, Zheng Ren is the CEO of five different companies. Hehe~ Be happy that you're not him." Riri diminishes his hopes.
Wei Xinqian immediately proceeds to fall back down onto the carpet, face forward this time. ...Why? Was he really that good at just doing work? Why, why, why! Aaaahhhhhhh! So much paperwork and documents and emails and contacting people and aahhhhhhhhhh! Two different companies would give him so much trouble, and so many documents and paperwork and things have to be filed. The Robot Worker he won is only able to do ten a day. Fuck.
".....I have an assistant, right?" Wei Xinqian lifts his face off the ground and stares at Riri with a slight bit of hope in his eyes. Perhaps they would be like his old assistant, diligent and hard working. And willing to do at least half of all his work for him.
".....Unfortunately, no. The original body was very determined to keep his identity as the owner hidden, as he helped create most of the highly advanced robots in his company that were being sold for a high price. He was afraid that people would be 'out to get him' if they found out that he was the creator. He hid all information about himself including name, age, and gender. When talking to employees, he only contacts them through email and text. When in meetings, he talks using a voice changer and never shows his face. His identity when going out is an arrogant rich young master who had never faced the hardships of life. He doesn't have any servants, maids and butlers either. The only people who know that he is the owner are his parents who were the former owners. They each managed one of the two companies. He was very ambitious, he took over their jobs at 18 years old and let them go into early retirement. However as it was never formally announced, lots of people still think his parents are the owners which is why no one suspects him to be the true boss."
"Wait, what?" Wei Xinqian cuts Riri off. "What about investors and shareholders of the companies?"
"Important figures to the company knew that management had been transferred, however they do not know who it is to. All they know is that they are very competent and better than the former owners, which is why they didn't complain or expose the fact that ownership was transferred." Riri replies.
Wei Xinqian smacks his face back onto the ground. Not even a maid just to help him clean? He had to do that as well as work? How ambitious was this guy? Also, why didn't his parents force him to get at least one assistant to prevent him from overworking? QAQ.
After rolling on the ground for a while, he had some thoughts. There's no way the original owner could have done everything himself. Seriously? The old owner cleaned this whole place himself along with doing all his work? Even from just rolling around on the ground, Wei Xinqian could tell that this place was quite large. He had been rolling in one direction for quite a while and still hadn't crashed into any walls.
Wei Xinqian finally decides to stand up... so he could find the bedroom and go to sleep before he has to endure the hardships of doing the systems tasks, the paperwork and all the household chores that were needed. Standing up, he comes face to face with a robot staring at him. Wei Xinqian yelps and jumps backwards.
"...Master, it's me, Tobias. You've been rolling on the ground for quite a while. And also talking to yourself. Are you feeling alright? Should I call a doctor over?" The robot tilts its head, a question mark appearing on the screen that was its face.
"Um. Yep! Totally fine. Just give me a second, I need to go do something important." Wei Xinqian quickly locates a door. He enters the next room, shutting it behind him. Oh. This isn't a room, it's just a huge walk-in closet. Damn, alright. It was even bigger than his own one back in his world. As expected of a person who has twice the amount of companies as him, he must also have twice the size of walk-in closets.
Wei Xinqian turns around and stares at the floating Riri. "....Riri, why didn't you tell me I had a robot servant. Damn, you made me think I had to do everything myself. Also, it reminded me of a question: can I only talk to you when I talk out loud?"
"....Ehm, my bad." Riri coughs. "I thought it would be better for you to find out yourself. To give you a happy surprise, you know? Most of your management is kept in place by robots whose technology your original body had developed."
Wei Xinqian stares at Riri silently, his piercing gaze sending shivers to their non-existent spine.
"Um. Anyways! Apart from talking to me out loud, there are two other ways to talk to me. The first one is through the app on your phone, where when we chat it looks like a regular chatting channel. The second one is an option where I am in your mind, and we talk through your thoughts." Riri pauses, giving their host a bit of time to think.
After waiting a few seconds, they continue speaking. "Most hosts choose the second option as it's better in situations where they do not have their phone. These options are also able to be changed, so I can leave your mind and enter the app instead, or the other way around. If I talk to you in your mind, it might be a bit hard for you to get used to it at first as my voice will be there along with your thoughts. When I'm in your phone, I can still know everything that's going on, and this option was implemented as some hosts like to keep their thoughts private from their system. We also won't interfere in situations when you do not have your phone." Riri explains. There's no way the host would lose his phone anyways, since he loves it so much.
Wei Xinqian considers these two options. On one hand, Riri being in his phone meant that they wouldn't have to constantly hear and then join his jumbled mess of thoughts. Them being in his phone would also be a good cover so he wouldn't end up standing still randomly and looking off into nothing in a public place when talking to his system. On the other hand, it might put him in danger as without his phone, Riri wouldn't be near him to help him either. He plays so many games that his phone can easily run out of battery. Since he's still very unfamiliar with the world, it's probably better for them to be close by.
"Okay, let's do the second option when there are others around. When we're in private, you can come back out like now. I'll let you know if I want you to switch to my phone." Riri nods, and Wei Xinqian opens the door to go back into the room. Riri immediately vanishes and Wei Xinqian hears a second voice in his head.
'Host, I'm in your head now!'
Wow, it feels weird having a voice in his head that he knows is not himself. 'Don't worry, I'm sure you'll get used to it after a bit!' Riri says happily. Right, Riri can read his thoughts. Hello Riri. How are you doing today? System system system transmigration world. Extra wheel spin please. Task task task mission. Yep.
Riri the super cute system: .....what?
'...Host, you don't have to talk so weirdly in your thoughts just because I'm here.'
...Okay then. Wow. This is strange. Wei Xinqian finally looks around at the room where he was first teleported to. Looking around, he widens his eyes in shock. "Oh damn..."
The whole place was filled with robots. Cleaning the walls, vacuuming the floors, folding his clothes... there was even one holding a plate of food and utensils waiting to feed him! There was so many. He gets why his parents didn't make him get a human assistant. Everything was done by his robots!
'Riri, when you said robots I assumed you meant like three robots. Not like a hundred!' Wei Xinqian aggressively directs this thought towards Riri. 'Hehe~ My bad. Another happy surprise for you.' Riri cheekily replies.
I can finally have a salted fish life. I won't have to do anything!
Wei Xinqian nearly starts to cry in joy after finding out he had so many robot servants. The original owner probably made one for work as well! 'Well... actually host, the robot that was in charge of documents, paperwork and emails malfunctioned from overload a few days before you joined the world. Which is what your robot worker is for! Don't worry, the more work it does the faster it'll level up and do more. You'll still have to do a lot of work but you won't have to do as much.' Riri informs him.
'...Riri, can you just tell me everything in one go next time? My poor heart can't handle this rollercoaster of emotions.' Wei Xinqian could practically feel a tear rolling down his cheek with how distraught he felt.
Riri the cute yet vengeful system: Heh. This is what you get for making me wait eight hours for you.
Wei Xinqian: …I thought you already forgave me for that. QAQ. …Wait, did you say the robot malfunctioned from overload? How much work is there?
The robot that talked to Wei Xinqian rolls over on its wheels. "Master, are you going to get started on your work for today? According to my calculations, you are already behind if you want to just reply to all your emails today, and this does not include documents, paperwork and meetings. I know you are not used to the loss of Douglas, however you must try your best to continue on without him. Unless you manage to fix him, you will have to start working."
'...Wait, who's Douglas?' Wei Xinqian asks Riri questionably.
"The paperwork robot." Riri promptly replies.
Right, the robots have names.
'...Hey Riri, aren't my characters chosen based on the skills I have? But I don't have a skill for building robots?' Wei Xinqian once again starts to question Riri, a glimmer of hope still in him. He still prays that Riri would say that he was put into this world by mistake and that they would head off to the correct world immediately.
'Yes, but you have a level 8 skill for doing work. Even if the robot is not fixed, you should still be able to finish the work given if you work hard. From the information I was given, it seems no other robots will malfunction during your time here. You will not need to fix or build any robots.' Riri answers his question, striking his newly regenerated hope down of this world being a mistake.
Okay, why did only that one robot malfunction while all these other useless robots like the one that was currently picking up items on the ground and placing them back down into the spots where it picked them up exist! What was that robot even created for? Okay. Fine. Whatever. He has to catch up on his work before he ends up doing even more the next day. Wuuuuu.
Wei Xinqian sighs and talks to his robot sadly. "Alright, show me the work I need to do please. Could you tell me the estimated amount of work that I'll have to do each day?"
The robot answers, "According to my calculations, if you reply to all your emails today, you will likely not receive replies until at least two days have passed. As for documents and paperwork, you only have a bit you need to work on. It will likely only take you around an hour per day to fill everything out. For your meetings, your next one is scheduled for 5pm today. Your next meetings are at 10 am and 8pm tomorrow. The current time is 3:30pm."
Dammit, his next meeting is in an hour and a half? He doesn't even know what this meeting is for, and more importantly, he doesn't know what companies he's managing either. All he knows is that there's something to do with technology. He just joined this world, and he already has to start working. QAQ
The robot turns around, gesturing for Wei Xinqian to follow it to his office room - wherever that is.
Riri's voice pops up in Wei Xinqian's head, actually being kinda helpful this time. 'Host, you manage an electronic company and an industrial robot company. They are both very large companies whose items sell for thousands of dollars. Your next meeting is with the design team of the electronic company, and to go over designs that they have made.' Riri tells Wei Xinqian the details of the companies and all the information he needs to know for his meeting as he walks.
Wei Xinqian listens intently to what Riri's saying while following the robot to his office. He realises that this really is a big house - there's lots of hallways on the way to his office, and in each one he can see at least one robot walking around. He wonders how much time the original body had spent - time and money - on these robots. They must be very special to him, as he even named them, like Douglas and Tobias. He takes note of them, hoping that he can treat them as well as the original owner.
When Wei Xinqian starts thinking about robots and technology, he remembers something very, very important.
Checking his pockets, Wei Xinqian asks Riri his very, very important question. 'Wait, Riri, do I still have my phone? I know the original owner probably also has a phone but I still have my original phone, right? My games are on there. It's not with me right now. And also, will my games be kept?' I mean, he just got a new phone from Riri before he started the first world. There's no way his phone wouldn't be allowed here, right? He doesn't know about his games, but he really, really, hopes that they would still be there.
After hearing his questions, Riri recalls putting the phone into a safe place somewhere before they teleported to the first world, but does not recall where they put it. Riri remembers his freakout before when he realised that he didn't have his games.
Riri: !!! Oh crap! Where did I put his phone?
Secretly panicking, Riri replies to Wei Xinqian's questions. "Yes, you do. You will receive your phone when the first task is given to you. For now, you can use the electronic devices that the current owner has. Games on your phone will still be accessible. However, nothing else related to your world will be available from your phone."
Riri plays off the loss of his phone smoothly. 'Now, if you can excuse me for a second, I have to check some information in the system. Just call for me if you need me.'
'Okie dokie.' Knowing that he would have his phone soon, Wei Xinqian happily follows the robot all the way to his office. Opening the door, he finds a clearly broken robot, with occasional puffs of smoke coming out of its head. Ah, that must be Douglas. He could imagine how the original owner felt when he realised that Douglas was broken. After all, he had also experienced a similar loss when his last phone had overheated and broke.
"Alright, thanks for bringing me here, Tobias. You can leave me to do my work now." Wei Xinqian smiles gently at the robot.
"No problem Master. It is my responsibility. Try to not be too distraught about Douglas." Tobias the robot replies, a smiling face appearing on its screen. It spins around slowly, and starts rolling away.
Wei Xinqian looks around the clean and tidy room - apart from the broken robot - and sighs. Hopefully he can finish his work soon so he can have some time to relax. Sitting down on the weirdly comfortable chair, he turns on the monitor that was on the desk and starts to check his emails and prepare for the meeting. This is only the first day that he was here and they already had him working like his original life. Meh, it wasn't that different from his original life though. After all, he was also only working to earn more money to spend on his games. This time, he could still spend the money on gacha but with extra work, he could get an ultimate gacha golden wheel spin. It'll be worth it in the future... for the ultimate gacha! QAQ.
Wei Xinqian decides to start using his Robot Worker tomorrow. He has to get a sense of everything that is going on in this world during this time, so it's better for him to do everything himself. He also doesn't want to bother Riri as they might be doing something important with the system.
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Meanwhile, Riri was frantically searching through their system space for Wei Xinqian's phone. And yes, systems have their own spaces. When the host doesn't need them, the system retreats to their space which is a room they can design themself and stay there until their host needs them again. When systems go quiet for a long amount of time, it is very likely that they are watching movies or shows, or playing video games with their system friends.
The system might be cute, but their system space was definitely not. There were random bits of code scattered everywhere, and even their items were thrown around their room haphazardly. Riri remembers putting Wei Xinqian's phone somewhere in their system space to keep it safe. Unfortunately, because of the mess the system space was in, the phone was immediately hidden by a bunch of trash.
Riri rushes around their system space, throwing even more things around, trying to find Wei Xinqian's phone. The agitated system checks under random plant pots and tables in panic, hoping that they would be able to find the phone there.
After searching around for 30 minutes, Riri stops and takes a short break. Looking around their system space, they realise just how messy it is. They wouldn't be able to find anything in this mess. After searching for so long, the cute system finally decides to change their ways, and make their system space as cute as them.
Instead of throwing more things around and making the space more messy while trying to find Wei Xinqian's phone, Riri finally decides to be productive and clean up their system space. To motivate themselves, they think of the reaction Wei Xinqian might have if he didn't get his promised phone. "Riri, I'm going to kill you, you tr*sh system! Is there a way to report systems? I want a new system! (The following statement has been redacted)."
Riri shakes in fear at this thought, and starts to clean their space rapidly. They fold clothes, sort books, throw trash away and rearrange their furnishings and furniture so the system space looks nice again. After cleaning for an unknown amount of time, the hardworking system floats to the ceiling and admires their handiwork.
Wait, what were they doing here again?
Right. Wei Xinqian's phone.
Riri checks the time - 11:30pm.
...Oh crap! It's been 8 hours since I started to clean! And I still don't have the phone!
Riri starts to get into a state of frenzy again, about to wreck all the work they just did in another attempt to find Wei Xinqian's phone. When suddenly, they remember something. Riri carefully floats over to the only drawer in the room, and opens it nervously. There, they found Wei Xinqian's phone.
Riri, the lazy and forgetful system: ...QAQ. I wasted my time cleaning up. I forgot I put it there because that was where Wei Xinqian first found his phone.
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Riri leaves their system space and returns back to their host. As there was no one around, they pop up next to Wei Xinqian in their cloud form.
"Host! Sorry for taking so long, there was a small problem in the system." Riri, once again smoothly plays off their 8 hour absence. Hehe. The host will never know.
Wei Xinqian, who found his way to the bedroom during Riri's absence, looks up and gives them a wide smile. "Riri! I finished my work today~ Can I have my phone and the first task now?"
Riri wasn't used to their host smiling at them so happily. "Ehem. Good job today host! Yes, you can have your phone and your first task now. Here's your phone! Please continue to work hard!"
A phone appears in Wei Xinqian's hand. Wei Xinqian immediately opens it, happy to finally relax and play his games after working so hard today.
"Before you start playing your games again, here is the first task! Detailed information about this task will be given when you ask. The task is to be done the day after tomorrow."
A system prompt appears in front of Wei Xinqian.
[Task No. 1: Meet with the White Moonlight Bai Ling, and prevent him from meeting up with the Male Lead Zheng Ren and the Main Character Qian Maizou on that day : +1 Spin]