Translated by Eve
Edited by Kara
Eve: I said I wouldn’t pick up another project, but I loved this novel too much, it haunted me. Unlike my past projects, I’ve finished reading this one. I can say that it’s 1v1, protagonist shou, and has a happy ending. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do!
“Xiao Shaoye, we’ve arrived.”
Song Xuanhe had just woken up. While still in a daze, he heard these words and subconsciously replied, “Where are we?”
“The Qing City Orphanage. This is all the information on Xiao Yuanmu and the orphanage director.”
Someone placed a hard-covered folder by Song Xuanhe’s side. By coincidence, it bumped into his fingers that were hanging by his leg. The feeling of the hard plastic made him frown. He felt befuddled like he hadn’t yet fully woken up. Song Xuanhe rubbed his temples and finally opened his eyes.
After getting a clear view of his surroundings, Song Xuanhe subconsciously rubbed his eyes. He turned to face an elite-looking, unfamiliar man, who was sitting by his side. He felt even more absent-minded as if he was still in a dream.
Seeing Song Xuanhe furrowing his brows and rubbing at his temples, the man said with concern, “Xiao Shaoye, do you not feel well?”
Song Xuanhe had yet to understand what was happening. He was just about to ask who the man was, when an extremely boorish voice suddenly sounded in his head: 【Enthusiastically celebrating Host’s successful fusion with the character, Song Xuanhe, from 《The President and His Seven Boyfriends》. You don’t have to pay $998 or even $888, all you need to do is follow the plot and say your lines, and you can take home Death-Seeking System Z48!”】
The voice stopped. Words emerged in Song Xuanhe’s mind——【On the way to the orphanage Assistant Zhang Chao collated all of the information pertaining to Xiao Yuanmu and handed it over to Song Xuanhe.
Only, when he thought about this youth who had already revealed a great talent for business, Zhang Chao still couldn’t help but try and persuade him, “Xiao Shaoye, Xiao Yuanmu is unable to discern between what’s good for him and what’s bad for him. You don’t have to haggle with him. After some time, he’ll naturally accept you.”
Song Xuanhe laughed coldly. There was a determination to win in his voice, “I’m not patient enough to wait for him to accept. This time, he has no choice but to accept.”
When Zhang Chao heard this, he sighed inwardly over this young master. He only hoped that he would be a bit more sensible. Xiao Shaoye liked to play around a little too much and was the type to get tired of the old and enamoured with the new. 】
Song Xuanhe widened his eyes. He didn’t pay attention to the words in his mind. Instead, he was surprised by the sudden silence around him. The car that had just been steadily driven had paused its movement. However, looking into the rear mirror, he could see that the driver was still in a driving position. Outside, it looked like someone had pressed pause on the pedestrians’ actions. Even the unfamiliar man next to him was frozen, staring at him with a concerned expression.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Death-Seeking System…” Song Xuanhe repeated this once. There was dislike but also a sense of being at a loss in his tone, “You’re a Death-Seeking System named Death-Seeking?”
【You can change my name according to your tastes. Actually, my last host named me Er Shun, but I thought that it wasn’t dazzling enough, so I changed it into a name that had numbers and letters. Z48 not only suits my identity, but it also sounds very futuristic.】
There was too much wrong with these words. Song Xuanhe didn’t know from where he should start ridiculing it. Therefore, he just asked about proper matters, “Why did I transmigrate into this book? Also, why do I have to complete the mission you’ve given me?”
Transmigrating, or transmigrating into a book, wasn’t a new concept to Song Xuanhe, who often liked to read books in his spare time. From historical texts, to astronomy, to domestic and foreign classics, to even the multifarious types of online texts— he would not refuse to read any of them. So long as he had the time, it was fine.
However, he’d seen plots before where people had transmigrated because they had died in a car accident, jumped off a building and died, and all sorts of other reasons, but he never imagined that he would transmigrate after having just fallen asleep in a normal fashion.
Like he said, why, ah?
He, who was the youngest young master of the Song clan in his original world, had not lacked money nor power. He hadn’t been at the summit in terms of influence, but he also hadn’t been someone others dared to provoke without thinking it through. He lived freely, confident, and at ease. Only after eating until he burst would he have thought about switching lives.
【This is just the way it is, brother.】The System seemed to be taking the time to put its words together. Half a minute later, it continued speaking:【If you’re unwilling, I can send you back to your original world. However, you probably won’t live for more than half a year.】
“What do you mean?”
【Actually, this is also the reason why we looked for you. Do you remember your physical examination you did a while back? Right now, you probably haven’t gotten the results yet. However, I can directly inform you of your result. Your body’s condition is not good. Right now, you already have middle-late stage stomach cancer. The cancer cells have already shifted to other parts of your body. With the current level of medicine in your world, the chances of being cured are extremely small.】
Song Xuanhe was silent for a while. He listened to the System’s words. A normal person’s first reaction would be to not believe these words. However, he knew his own body. He had gone to have a physical examination done, because he could perceive that there had been changes in his body. Nonetheless, he didn’t expect it to really be stomach cancer. It had even progressed to the middle-late stage.
“If I complete the mission, is there a chance to be cured after going back?”
【Rather, I should say that as long as you complete the story line, your body will cure itself without needing treatment.】
Song Xuanhe didn’t speak for a long time. He then suddenly smiled, “OK. I agree.”
The System sighed in relief and said:【Since it’s like this, I’ll first send the information about this world to you and let you get an approximate understanding of it.】
A book very quickly appeared within Song Xuanhe’s mind. Probably because he was reading in his head, he finished flipping through the book in minutes. After finishing, his expression was complicated and difficult-to-express succinctly. He endured and endured, asking, “You want me to do everything the Song Xuanhe in the book did again?”
The System felt rather guilty:【Yes.】
“I choose to live for half a year. Take me back.”
【Don’t, ah! Big Brother! We can discuss this!】
Song Xuanhe sneered but didn’t say anything again. He only roughly skimmed through the contents of the book once more.
This book was called 《The President and His Seven Boyfriends》. The focus was indeed on the President and his seven boyfriends. Probably because the censors have been strict lately, although the name made it seem like it was a very sexually explicit novel, the contents were actually very pure and harmonious. Although the main character was indeed always hopelessly entangled with seven men, right until the author stopped writing midway, he hadn’t confirmed his relationship with any of them, let alone did anything really happen between him and them.
The male lead of this novel was named Xiao Yuanmu. Just from looking at his name, you would feel like he kind of seemed like a great male lead from a stallion novel. And in reality, this danmei novel’s protagonist was actually very much like those “Mr.Perfect” male leads in stallion novels.
Xiao Yuanmu was one of the successors to the Xiao Group, one of the eight great financial groups in this world. His aura was ice-cold and ascetic; his personality was frigid and gloomy; his methods were decisive and vicious; his talent in business was outstanding. Under his command, the Xiao Family became the number one financial group in the world, reaching the summit of the world in a single leap. Xiao Yuanmu himself also became an existence that even the head of state had to treat deferentially.
Xiao Yuanmu was different from the other black lotus protagonists, who would smile on the outside but were actually sons of b*tches on the inside. He was an exotic flower that grew out of the mud, covered in filth. He was petty and would not refrain from speaking of taboo topics. He had a good grasp on how to “make stocks drop beneath the horizon while chatting.” He was a classic example of someone who could destroy a group with just a word. No one who offended him ended up with a good ending.
Song Xuanhe had a strong suspicion that the reason the author had given up writing in the end had a lot to do with how Xiao Yuanmu was too much of a Gary Stu. After all, if you made your male lead too Gary Stu, don’t even mention the readers, not even the author, who created him, would be able to accept him being pressed under any of the seven boyfriends, who weren’t even better-looking, richer, or more influential than him.
Even so, none of this had anything to do with Song Xuanhe.
What concerned him was the original host, who had only appeared in less than ten chapters, despite the novel being over a million words long— Song Xuanhe.
Song Xuanhe was the youngest young master of the Song Group that reigned over Jiang City. After graduating, he came out of nowhere and became one of the Song Family’s Vice Presidents. As soon as he entered the company, he took a fancy to Xiao Yuanmu, who had begun working for the company not even a month ago. Since then, he had begun a vigorous pursuit of the other.
Once you read up to here, you might think that Song Xuanhe was one of Xiao Yuanmu’s boyfriends. But actually, he wasn’t. This was because most of his scenes occurred before the male lead was reborn, and this book was mostly about what happened after Xiao Yuanmu was reborn. That meant it had nothing to do with Song Xuanhe.
If you really had to describe their relationship, then it would probably be: Xiao Yuanmu would still find it difficult to ease his hate for Song Xuanhe even after turning him to dust.
That’s right, 《The President and His Seven Boyfriends》was a rebirth story. Before his rebirth, Xiao Yuanmu had been an orphan, dependent on the orphanage director while growing up. Although he had been adopted several times because of his exquisitely good looks, he was always sent back to the orphanage in the end.
So long as there were other people around, there would be strife, especially in such a barren place like the orphanage.
Xiao Yuanmu was handsome, intelligent, and sensible. He was always the first pick of people who were coming to adopt. The other young children naturally rejected and isolated him because of this. They would even frame him for crimes he didn’t do and slander him.
It was because he had grown up in such circumstances that Xiao Yuanmu had become reclusive and cold. He had become expressionless at a young age and would be completely indifferent to everything and everyone else. Nonetheless, it was fortunate that he had the Director’s fine teaching. Therefore, even under such circumstances, there was a type of kindness that only young people would have still in Xiao Yuanmu’s heart.
However, this rare kindness was thoroughly destroyed by Song Xuanhe.
As soon as he entered the company, Song Xuanhe began to court Xiao Yuanmu. However, Xiao Yuanmu hadn’t liked him and would not accept him. Therefore, Song Xuanhe used the orphanage director to force Xiao Yuanmu to compromise.
After the two of them got together, it wasn’t long before Song Xuanhe became fed up with Xiao Yuanmu’s constant expressionless and frigid appearance. Even so, he hadn’t broken up with him. Instead, he had begun to torment Xiao Yuanmu for fun. He would willfully order him about, and tease him, and humiliate him in public. He even let his friends make fun of him and play tricks on him.
Afterwards, at a banquet, Song Xuanhe directly gave Xiao Yuanmu to a greasy-haired, big-eared, sadistic businessman as a gift. And, it was precisely this that led to Xiao Yuanmu’s death.
——When he was on the way to the hotel with the businessman, the car Xiao Yuanmu was in crashed into a truck head-first. He died on the spot.
Xiao Yuanmu, after being reborn, naturally hated Song Xuanhe to the bone. However, he was extremely calm. After laying low for a while, he once again gathered all the evidence of the Song Family’s lawbreaking that he had found before. He then dumped it all in front of Song Xuanhe, threatened him thoroughly, and then left. He made use of his knowledge of the past to buy a lottery ticket worth 5 million and then left the city, heading for Hai City.
Afterwards, Xiao Yuanmu went to work for the country’s biggest stock exchange. After working for some time, he spent his time learning and also used the five million he won to practice under a different identity. His gaze was precise, and in just half a year, that five million grew more than twenty-fold. He had accumulated nearly 100 million in capital.
And, it was in that moment that Xiao Yuanmu’s biological parents found him. They allowed him to leap from his status as an orphan to one of the successors of the Xiao Group, one of the great eight financial groups in the world. “Reaching Heaven in a single bound” was not even adequate enough to describe it.
In the Capital, the Song Family had both estates and connections. However, compared to a giant like the Xiao Family, they were nothing but an ant. They could not be mentioned on equal terms.
Therefore, Song Xuanhe’s fate could be imagined—after the Song Group went bankrupt, Song Xuanhe somehow became impotent. He was unable to recover from this one setback and was tricked into drug addiction while he had been drowning his worries in alcohol. In order to support his drug addiction, he had laid beneath all sorts of men, jumping from bed to bed. In the end, because those people had grown tired of playing with him, they threw him into the forest, where he was torn apart by ferocious wolves. He died without an intact corpse.
When he saw this, Song Xuanhe didn’t know if it was worse to help the original host walk down the plot, dying without a complete corpse, or go back to live a confident and easy life for half a year before dying of cancer.
Eve: For now, updates will be once a week, Sunday. I want to take some time to stock up and gauge my workload. Hoping to make this twice a week soon~
Anyway, this story is super cute with some thorns. It’s also a very long slow burn with lots of UST.
this first chapter is really interesting. wonder how it will progress to XY liking SX
thanks for the chapter💕💕
Thanks for reading 💕
Just discovered this. The story looks interesting, I’m weak with this type of ML haha. Going to binge read available chapters tonight.
Thank you for the amazing translation. ❤
Ah! So good! Thank you for picking up this novel, I love it already 💕 thank you for your hard work~
I already love this system (о´∀`о)
Thanks for reading! It’s one of my favourite novels 💕
Thank you, Eve <3 I don’t know yet if it’s my cup of tea, but it sounds interesting, so I’ll stick around for a bit Cx
Thanks for giving it a try! Hope you like it 💕
Aiyo. Sometimes I think these authors just love coming up with sad backstories and cruel fates. Is this a protagonist gong story??
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
It’s protagonist shou! Although MC (SXH) thinks ML (XYM) is the shou right until they do it for the first time hehe. The gong/shou dynamics is really subdued and not really emphasized in this novel which is pretty refreshing!
wonder how reaction of ML for mc after rebirth. is it will be fierce since begining…
We get a pause button everybody~ at least mc has time to immerse himself to the story…
Thanks for the chapter~ ( ^ ♡ ^ )/
Ooh this sounds interesting!! Definitely gonna stick around!
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
This story looks interesting!! 😍
Thank you for the chapter!!☺️
Very interesting! 💕
This sounds interesting 🤩
I wonder how the story would unfold. For now, i’ll bookmark this 💕
Can someone explain what UST means? I tried googling it but I still can’t figure it out.
Unresolved sexual tension
Thanks.
I was also confused with the term.
It helps to search them with slang added in google. I searched for ust slang and the abbreviation popped up immediately.
+1
Hi eve-san! The story is very interesting! I really like! I wanna ask, can I translate into Indonesian? I will wait for your reply
Thanks for the translation!💕
Sure. If you want me to link it in the description page, send me the link when you have it set up.
thank you eve-san! this is the link https://www.wattpad.com/834755276
Thanks eve-san! This’s the link https://www.wattpad.com/834755276
Eek! No wonder he prefers to just die from cancer. Everyone must die eventually, but I’m not sure I have the mental strength to survive addiction, prostitution, and being torn apart alive.
Right??? LMAO Why die the hard way if you can die the easy way
WTF with the book summary.
So gruesome.
No wonder Song Xuanhe would rather go back and endure the stomach cancer.
So would I.
Seriously.
Thanks for the translation, tho’.
I wonder how he would change the happening in the story.
Interesting story’!! Thx for picking this
Thanks for the chapter 😊😍 Uhhhhh…WTF! Yeah, go back to your cancer baby. At least you’ll have your dignity.
I really love slow Burning romances, so I’m up for the suffering and the laughs and that Z48’s orders. If Song Xuanhe must follow the script… How is he going to save himself!
Thanks for the translation!
hahaha if I were you I would choose dying by cancer rather than the other choice
What is UST???
Unresolved sexual tension
Oooo… hihihi thank you for answering. 🤭
This chapter went from 0 to 💯 real quick
I just told my friends that I don’t want to engage in slow burn stories, but now I stumbled upon this one..
Haha.. My heart hurts alreadyヽ(;▽;)ノ
Better died from stomach cancer, at least you only will suffer for half a month. 😅
“Very long slow burn” got me hooked 😌. Thank you for the chapter!
what is UST? -blinks-
Unresolved sexual tension
ty!
Ykw I’d definitely choose living for 6 months being doted on and enjoying everything life could offer than living for years while going thru what og SXH will endure…….
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What I don’t understand is why make someone transmigrate if all he has to do is act the the as the original host?(since the original host can do his own job) It makes more sense if someone else transmigrates to save/help the original host
I choose to live a confident and easy life for half a year before dying of cancer 🙂
wats UST?
ooh okay got it,unresolved sexual tension LOL
Ohohohoho how did you know UST is my lifeblood and slow burn is my favorite. Thank you for the meal~~! 🍽🍽🍽
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The sudden appearance of wolves at the end had me chuckling
Welp, it’s interesting and got me hooked but—– there’s a question…
How the frick did the terms ‘got tired’ relate with being thrown to the wolves? Like really, couldn’t they have just dumped them somewhere or left him? It’s much more plausible to die because of overdosing so why die because people got tired of him?
Peace~ the words just made me pause.
Hello Eve, This novel is interesting, I like this Novel. Would you mind if I translate into Thai language and post for free on readawrite.com [Thai novel website]. I will give you a credit and add the Raw and English version URL link for the readers
I will wait for your reply.
Thank you very much for your translation. You are a good translator. ^^
Hmm it kind of irks me that the author thinks living with cancer especially stomach cancer in late stage is easy. Even with palliative care living with stomach cancer is torture. But I guess the MC is between a rock and a hard place what with getting drug addiction and getting ripped apart by wolves in the story plotline.
id choose dying of cancer. at least I’ll die with my dignity intact…
Huh.. What a bad situation to transmigrate into. Looking forward to more. Thanks for chapter
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When I don’t know what to read and was lost don’t know what to do. I found this. Thank you for translating 🙏
Thank you ❤️
Re-reading for the third time.😍
I saw someone post this on wattpad but they said read the story at here so here i am
Thank you so much for your hard work!O(≧▽≦)O
rereading this story because i miss them
I like this kind of trope. Starting now
Rereading for the second time after all these updates! Always thankful for everybody’s hard work! 🌸
I like the mc. He’s not indecisive hoho
Thank you so much
Re-reading for the 5th time still love this story❤️
Hmm it seems heavy, but I’ll give it a try
Living for half a year sounds better than continuing with the plot.
Well, I would also want to go back, haha 😅 Sounds like much of drama, so I’m here! (◍’౪`◍) Let’s see how this will develop~ Thank You for sharing this novel with us! (੭ु ›ω‹ )੭ु⁾⁾♡
REREADING THIS FOR A SECOND TIME BECAUSE THIS HAS OFFICIALLY BECOME ONE OF MY COMFORT FICS, THANK YOU FOR TRANSLATING THIS 🫶💕💕💕💕