Strength was never in my nature, but it grew in me the moment I learned how to protect my sister.
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"I don't know what you are, but don't you dare put your hands on Lu Yu!" He screamed this out loud in mid-air, unable to control his fury.
His voice echoed through the hotel walls, then, with a slight shift in light and shadow, as if the air itself had folded, a tiny figure stood before him. It was a girl who looked no bigger than the palm of his hand, her proportions so exquisitely delicate that it seemed unreal, as if an illustration which came straight out of a fairytale.
She wore a simple dress, its hem soft and swaying gently with her movements without making a sound. Her face was round, her features delicate, but her eyes were exceptionally clear, like starlight reflecting flowing data, quietly gazing at him emotionlessly.
She floated in mid-air, her toes off the ground. There was no tangible physical sensation around her, but one could clearly sense that—
It's like an "existence" that has been given a form.
The little chibi system circled around him, tilting its head innocently as if it had no idea what he meant.
[Calm down, my host, I don't hurt people.]
Seeing the look of distrust in Lu Ye's eyes, the system let out a sigh in a very human-like manner. It tried to let his guard down, but as a system without emotions, it has a hard time understanding human thought processes, so after scanning through its database, it chose to tell the truth.
[Let me introduce myself first. I'm the Love Strategy System, and the system's ultimate goal is to share love and peace with the world!]
Its way of speaking sounded like a robotic creature coming to life, and was pretending to act as a human. After saying this, the system suddenly changed its tone—
[But it's so weird, I remember I secretly looked through the list of hosts before. The next person that's gonna die in the world #156 is called Lu Yu, but it somehow ended up being you… The main system should never be wrong though… this is so weird… ]
[Whatever, since you are now dead and can no longer go back to your original world, then you could just help me complete the mission, and upon completion, I can grant you a wish.]
After the system's explanation, Lu Ye felt that a breath of relief escaped him (although he didn't totally believe its words yet), but he still wanted to confirm. "You said that Lu Yu was gonna be the next one to die, but now that I'm dead, is she gonna survive?"
[Of course not! Even though I'm not sure why you are here, what's on the main system's list will not change. It represents the highest level of fate's design, and fate won't change. That means that Lu Yu is still gonna die after you…]
The little chibi system stopped its words when it noticed the sadness sorrowing Lu Ye's face, and although don't fully understand the reason for his sorrow, it still tried to comfort him—
[If you would like for her to live, you can accept my request, and after doing so, you can wish for her to come back alive.]
"Really…? You can really do so?"
The little chibi system patted on its chest and promised:
[I… the Love Strategy System is super strong… I'll definitely be able to do so… as long as you listen to my words.]
Lu Ye collected himself, pushing his frustration and fear aside, "What do you need me to do now?"
[Easy thing—
So first… welcome to the novel "Runaway for the 100th Time: The CEO's Secret Baby"!]
"CEO's Secret Baby…?" Lu Ye suddenly had a bad feeling about this.
[Correct! So the story starts long, long ago, when the female lead Ye Qingcheng was told to be the 'fake heiress' of the Ye family. Her biological family is totally different from the Ye family; her father was a habitual gambler, drowning the whole family in debt, while her mother, although a nice woman, was weak and submissive, never daring to resist her father's words. Poverty clung to this family like a shadow, which also led to the psychological distortion of this 'real heiress'.]
The system paused for a second, observed Lu Ye's expression, and, seeing that he didn't offer any comments, it continued speaking.
[After the 'real heiress' returned, she believed that it was Ye Qingcheng who caused her to end up in this way, so she framed Ye Qingcheng, planting false evidence and twisting the truth until she was driven out by the Ye family in disgrace.]
[Then she went to the bar that day, and got drunk. The 'real heiress' tricked her to go into the hotel room which she planned earlier, but Ye Qingcheng accidentally went into the male protagonist's hotel room, and they slept together. Don't ask me why she was able to get into his room without the hotel key card; that's just how the author wrote the novel.]
The system quickly explained the relevant settings before Lu Ye even had the time to ask any questions.
[The next day, when the male lead woke up, he found a note on the nightstand written by Ye Qingcheng explaining that it was an accident. Of course, as the CEO of these novels, he won't believe that it was just an accident, so he called his assistant and commanded him to collect the information of Ye QingCheng in three minutes. The assistant was unable to find out the woman's identity, and as time went on, the male protagonist stopped pursuing the matter.]
[Then the novel skipped to 3 years later, and during this time, Ye QingCheng got entangled with a famous actor, a specialist physician, a mafia boss, and a spoiled second son of a rich family. After this and that happened, she was finally found by the male protagonist, who saw Ye QingCheng's three year old child and thought that it was someone else's child, with Ye QingCheng not willing to explain either, such that after running away for 100 times, the male protagonist found out that the child was his, and they went happily ever after.]
[Oh yeah, I should also add that the three year old child is also a genius; he was the CEO of a large company, and it was him who orchestrated the reunion of the male and female protagonists. And so that's the whole story.]
Lu Ye felt speechless, "...Why didn't Ye Qingcheng just tell the male protagonist that it was his child, and where in the world did these actors, physicians, etc. come from?"
[Don't mind these details… that's just how the story goes.]
Lu Ye laid back down onto the bed, as he needed some time to consume this information.
He asked, "Since you're a Love Strategy System, then I'm guessing you need me to do something romantic. Let me guess, am I supposed to seduce the female lead so that she doesn't need to go into this plotline?"
[Nice thought… but you're wrong.]
"...Am I?"
[Your mission would be to seduce the male protagonist.]