Winning the Male Lead - Chapter 2

The dim light made everything around them look very ambiguous. Yu Miao’s face was almost buried in the man’s chest, and the whole person was in the man’s arms like a boneless one. Shen Le Tian hid behind the sofa with his waist down and stared at the two of them.

Is this what it feels like to be cuckold? It’s feel funny though.

“Is my task completed?” Le Tian smiled and bloomed, and thinks happily, with this can I continue be a playboy?

System: “Three main points. First, one week after you complete the task, you will be able to leave the world and enjoy life. Second, she didn’t voluntarily get close to him, she was drugged. Third, this man is not as wealthy and handsome as you. He does not meet the conditions for the ‘green hat’. Quickly go and grab your fiancée back.”

Yu Miao came with her circle friend to Blue Moon. Her friend said that she brought her to meet a producer. She just had a drink in the box and felt dizzy, so she went to the restroom. She hadn’t even taken two steps when she stumbled and fell.

Le Tian was coaxed by system with “Not as wealthy and handsome as you”. Without hesitation, he rushed up and grabbed the man’s hand, lowering his voice as he said to the startled man,

“Who gave you the courage to touch my woman?” Honestly, saying such a domineering CEO-style line felt awkward! But strangely I feel satisfied.

The man looked innocent and speechless, “I didn’t touch her. She fell on the ground, I tried to help her up. Who would dare to touch the fiancée of you, young master Shen?”. He immediately pushed Yu Miao towards Le Tian.

Damn, this plot isn’t right.

The system, however, exclaimed, “This is a good opportunity. Bring Yu Miao to sleep at home!”

Le Tian: “…I think you just can’t wait for me to wear green hat.”

System: “I’m doing this for your own good.”

That’s the System for you.

Le Tian also knew that the system was right. He had to find a suitable opportunity for Yu Miao to meet Shen Lixing, and now was the perfect chance. Nothing will happen between the drugged female lead and a passerby, but spark of love will definitely happen between the female lead and male lead. Just thinking about it made him depressed.

The system felt Le Tian’s inner despondency, and comforted him by saying, “It’s better to endure short-term pain than long-term suffering. Sooner or later, Yu Miao will be with Shen Lixing”.

Le Tian: “Shut up, I don’t allow you to speak ill of Shen Lixing.”

System: “…”, what a good nephew.

*TL/N: This is really hard to translate, so I’ll just explain it like this. The system is trying to reassure Le Tian that Yu Miao will eventually end up with Shen Lixing, while Le Tian reacts with indignation at the system’s implication that Shen Lixing might have a shortcoming.

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By the time Le Tian returned to Shen’s residence with Yu Miao, it was already dawn. The servant of Shen’s residence surprised to see him bring a woman back and exclaimed, “Young Master, you’re about to get engaged!”

“Let me introduce you, this is my fiancée”, Le Tian pointed to the unconscious Yu Miao in his arms.

The servant’s expression changed in an instant, “Miss Yu is really beautiful in person, even more stunning than on TV.”

Le Tian was speechless and then asked, “Has Uncle gone to bed?”

The servant replied: “Young Master, now it’s very late. So, of course, the Master hasn’t gone to bed yet”

Le Tian: “…” get this maid out of here!

“Welcome back.”

As soon as Le Tian returned, Shen Lixing, indeed, hadn’t gone to bed. He leaned against the stairs while greeting Le Tian. He was wearing a neat tailored three-piece suit, as if he was about to go out, radiating charm that lit up the whole Shen’s residence.

Le Tian said sourly, “Uncle, where are you going in this middle of the night?”

“I originally had something to discuss, but not anymore,” Shen Lixing unbuttoned his suit and gestured with his chin toward Yu Miao in Le Tian’s arms, “What’s going on?”

“My fiancée, she’s drunk too much,” Le Tian shrugged, looking nonchalant.

Shen Lixing looked at Le Tian quietly, his long and thick eyelashes veiling his deep and inscrutable gaze.

He spoke softly with lowered eyes, “It’s not good to bring her into the house before getting married.”

Le Tian almost vomited out a mouthful of blood, ‘Do we really have to get official relationship to make me wear a green hat?’

“Regardless, it’s just a matter of time,” Le Tian said indifferently, “I will take Miaomiao upstairs to sleep”.

Le Tian deliberately emphasizing the word “sleep”, and then he was immediately warned by the system, “You are not allowed to touch the female lead.”

Le Tian sighed, “Can’t I even say hi to her? We have to provoke him first, do you know what provoke are?”

The system observed Shen Lixing’s subtle facial expressions and indeed noticed a slight upward twitch of his brow and a barely discernible downturn at the corner of his mouth, signs of anger. The system was satisfied, “Continue your work.”

Rarely did the system seem to align with his standpoint. Le Tian clasped Yu Xiao’s hand tightly. As soon as he wanted to taunt, he heard Shen Lixing chuckle. It was brief and sounded more like a cold snort, accompanied by a faint smile on his face. He shook his head mysteriously, “Young people these days.”

Feeling attacked, Le Tian thought to himself, ‘I may be 2500 years old this year, what about you, Didi?’

*TL/N: Didi, younger brother, younger man.

Shen Lixing obviously didn’t know that he was seen as a younger man by Le Tian. He instructed the servant sternly, “Take Miss Yu to the guest room to rest.”

When the servant came up, Le Tian only made a symbolic attempt to resist. First, because he was, after all, the beloved little nephew, and Shen Lixing seemed to treat him fairly well—at least it was a better option to be obedient than opposing the controlling and domineering psychopath. Second, the servant’s strength was extraordinary, and a tug from her made Le Tian feel like his bones were about to crack.

“Hiss…” Le Tian grimaced, clutching his wrist, wearing an expression as if his hand had been broken. Shen Lixing beckoned, “Come here.”

Le Tian reluctantly walked up to Shen Lixing.

Shen Lixing stood on the steps, towering over Le Tian by half a body length. He reached out, patting Le Tian on the head gently, and took his hand to rub it. He whispered, “Thinking of trying to defy your uncle again?”

This is a warning! This is must be a warning!

Back when Shen Le Tian had left home and clashed with Shen Lixing, it had caused a major rift. Le Tian had put in an enormous amount of effort to regain Shen Lixing’s favor, doing many shameful things just to please him and understand his personality. The conclusion was summed up in eight words: “a suited thug, a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.

Even if he looks kind and gentle, one must not let down their guard. This man’s bottom line was high, and behaviors like “defiance” were seen as a challenge to his authority— something Le Tian never dared to do.

So, Le Tian immediately backed down and said sullenly, “I didn’t.”

“Be good,” Shen Lixing rubbed Le Tian’s wrist and said with a smile, “Didn’t you always wanted a yatch? Your Uncle will give you one.”

“!!!”, long live Shen Lixing!

Le Tian, a complete hedonist, immediately threw all the unhappiness in his heart out of the clouds and nearly jumped up with joy. If Shen Lixing can always treat him so well, he honestly doesn’t mind being just a little cuckolded, as long as Shen Lixing always acknowledged him as his nephew. Everything would be totally okay.

“Uncle, I love you so much!” Le Tian couldn’t resist hugging Shen Lixing.

Shen Lixing hugged him as if holding a child, and said with a smile, “When you were little, I could lift you with just one hand. Now that you’re grown up, I can’t do it anymore.”

‘Bullshit…’ Le Tian thought to himself. You never even looked at me when I was little, and now you’re hugging me. He lifted his head and smiled, “I’ll always be a kid in front of Uncle.”

The system almost vomited. This 2500-year-old monster is really disgusting.

However, Shen Lixing seemed to enjoy Le Tian’s coquettishness and naivety. He slowly lowered his head and touched Le Tian’s forehead, catching Le Tian off-guard. The skin contact made Le Tian stunned. As their eyes met, Shen Lixing solemnly said, “Le Tian, the person I care about the most in this world is you, because only you and I share the same bloodline.”

About that… Sorry… Unfortunately, I…

Le Tian was very guilty, so he didn’t dare to move and could only smile awkwardly.

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The next morning, Yu Miao woke up at Shen’s residence, feeling dazed. In fact, ever since she met Shen Le Tian, she hadn’t spent a single day in clear consciousness. Everything felt like a dream.

Knock, knock. 

The door was knocked. Yu Miao hurriedly said, “Come in.”

It was the maid who knocked on the door and said stiffly, “Miss Yu, you can leave now.”

Yu Miao felt as if she was a prisoner who had been released from prison at the police station. She immediately got up and didn’t care about her disheveled appearance. She didn’t say a word and followed the maid out. She didn’t even ask why she was here, nor did she ask about Shen Le Tian. She swiftly got into the car arranged by the maid, “escaping” from the Shen’s residence.

When Le Tian woke up, he learned from the system that the female lead had left without even seeing Shen Lixing, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. All he could do was sigh softly, “I guess money relationships are really unreliable.”

Yes, Yu Miao is the fiancée he “bought” with money. It was all because the system had made him very nervous from the start, so he had to quickly establish Yu Miao’s boyfriend status by spending money.

Fortunately, Yu Miao fulfilled the standard plot of having family problems. Her father was a gambling addict in debt, her mother was seriously ill in the hospital, and the overarching theme was “I need money.”

A contractual relationship between husband and wife, such a romantic plot, but unfortunately, Shen Le Tian was not the male lead, destined to hurt both his wallet and heart. But fortunately, Le Tian is not Shen Le Tian. He had no psychological burden, spending Shen’s money and tarnishing Shen Le Tian’s reputation.

What does it matter to Shen Le Tian that he is wearing a green hat of Shen Lixing? But what surprised Le Tian the most at this moment was that the attraction between Shen Lixing and the female lead, Yu Miao, was much lower than he had imagined.

It’s too low!

When he had fought so hard to get to the position of the second male lead back then, he couldn’t even compare to the male lead’s casual smile at the female lead. At that moment, he felt utterly hopeless.

The attraction between the male and female leads is the most critical rule in these romantic worlds. Regardless of their disparate backgrounds and contrasting personalities, as long as he is the male lead and she is the female lead, they can always come together from the dark, making everything else in the world merely background.

They are like shining sun and moon, and characters like Le Tian are not even worth comparing to shooting stars.

Le Tian couldn’t help but wonder whether Shen Lixing truly had the capability to “put a green hat” on him in this world.

To this question, the system gave the answer, “Wanted criminal No. 0, do you have a misunderstanding of the word ‘punishment’? If the task is accomplished so easily, can it still be considered a punishment? There is no so-called attraction between male and female leads here, It all depends on you, the formidable Alliance disruptor.”