[Quick Transmigration] The Pretty Little Cannon Fodder Who Doesn’t Speak - Chapter 2

“What about the original owner of this body?” Xia Zhixu asked.

Yuan Bao replied, ‘The former host has already consented to the exchange with the Time and Space Bureau and has gone on to be reincarnated. Rest assured, host, we are a legitimate system and would never arbitrarily take over someone else’s body.’

Xia Zhixu, “What is my task?”

Yuan Bao, ‘Host, your task is to improve yourself and strive to be a better person by redeeming those who have done wrong and actively engaging in good deeds. You can earn points through the system by performing these good deeds. The more people you help and the more good actions you take, the more points you will accumulate. We recommend focusing on research initiatives, such as conducting scientific studies or participating in pharmaceutical research.’

Xia Zhixu, “Can any wish be granted?”

Yuan Bao, ‘Yes. Does the host want to return to the original world to seek revenge?’ 

Xia Zhixu clenched his fist. “No, I want to get rich overnight.”  

Once he has money, he won’t have to consider arranged marriages. In truth, he never liked Lu Jingzhi at all. He once had a crush on someone who had been genuinely kind to him without any hidden motives, but that person had passed away.

He didn’t like Lu Jingzhi, but being born into the Xia family, he had no choice but to walk this path. After all, who asked him to be just a pretty vase?  

Yuan Bao, ‘…’

This host’s wish really… quite practical.  

Xia Zhixu, “Then…What happens if I fail to complete the task?”  

Yuan Bao, ‘You’ll die.’

Xia Zhixu’s eyes instantly filled with tears.

It’s terrifying! He’s just a pampered vase!

Yuan Bao, ‘Host, the system is about to upload the plot of the small world to you.’

Yuan Bao was afraid that if it didn’t upload the plot, Xia Zhixu’s tears would start flowing again! It was just a new system—it really couldn’t handle this!

Before Xia Zhixu could react, a flood of memories and plot details poured into his mind.  

This small world was built based on a novel.  

The original host was also named Xia Zhixu. But unlike the current Xia Zhixu, who was taken advantage of by a scumbag, this world’s Xia Zhixu was the one who took advantage of others.

That’s right, the original host was a scumbag man.  

But he wasn’t a main character.

The original host was born in a remote, impoverished mountain village. If he had been an only child, his parents would have spoiled him, but he had a younger brother.  

As the saying goes, ‘The Emperor favours the eldest son, while the common people favour the youngest.’  

The original host’s parents showed blatant favouritism toward his younger brother. They even went so far as to pressure the academically gifted original host to drop out of school to work and support his younger brother’s education and living expenses.

As the new school term approached, his parents refused to provide him with tuition fees or living expenses. Xia Zhixu didn’t want to drop out, so he gritted his teeth and borrowed money for tuition from relatives. However, when he returned with the funds, his father slapped him. 

His father snarled at him, “Since you borrowed the money, you will pay it back. We won’t give you a single penny! Our family is already poor. Why don’t you drop out and get a job? What’s the use of studying so much?”  

Xia Zhixu immediately retorted, “Then why don’t you make my brother drop out?” 

After saying this, Xia Zhixu was beaten severely and could barely get out of bed the next day.

Xia Zhixu’s family had completely cut him off financially, leaving him, a high school student, with no means to support himself. Desperate and feeling alone, he sat crying on the street. It was during this difficult moment that he encountered Song Qingchuan, a man four years his senior, who also came from the same village.

Song Qingchuan worked as a motorbike taxi driver in the town, earning money by giving people rides.

The roar of the motorbike stopped in front of him, and Xia Zhixu looked up to see Song Qingchuan.

Song Qingchuan’s father was an old bachelor. One day, he brought home a stunningly beautiful woman, and the two began living together. Seven months later, the woman gave birth to Song Qingchuan. Song Qingchuan was in poor health, so the old bachelor spent all the money in the house to nurse him back to health, and Song Qingchuan survived.  

However, the woman left when Song Qingchuan was three years old.

His father raised him alone. With no skills and advancing age, he ventured into the mountains to catch venomous snakes for sale, earning money to afford Song Qingchuan’s education.

But misfortune came one after another. When Song Qingchuan was thirteen, after being bitten by a venomous snake while catching them, his father passed away.

The relatives who had never been in contact with the old bachelor came to fight over his inheritance. They claimed that Song Qingchuan was not the old bachelor’s son, that he did not resemble him at all, and that he was a bastard who did not deserve to inherit anything. It was only thanks to the village chief’s intervention that Song Qingchuan was able to keep a dilapidated house.

When Song Qingchuan was fifteen, he sold the old house and never returned to the village.

Song Qingchuan was very good-looking, but not in a feminine way. It was as if there were an invisible wall between him and the rest of the villagers.

It was precisely because of his excessive handsomeness that the original Xia Zhixu recognised the twenty-year-old Song Qingchuan at a glance.

Song Qingchuan asked him about his situation, took Xia Zhixu to eat a bowl of noodles, and gave Xia Zhixu a thousand yuan. It was this thousand yuan that moved the original host’s conscience.

He began to warm up to Song Qingchuan. As someone whose parents had also neglected him, he knew precisely how to soften Song Qingchuan’s heart.

Xia Zhixu acted as if his whole world revolved around Song Qingchuan, willing to risk everything for him. 

Xia Zhixu gradually warmed Song Qingchuan’s heart. After gaining university admission, Song Qingchuan moved to Province A and took a job at an auto repair shop to earn money to support Xia Zhixu’s studies.

Since the original host was a scumbag, naturally, he would not continue his relationship with Song Qingchuan.

After Xia Zhixu arrived at A University, he was dazzled by university life—especially with his looks. He attracted several wealthy admirers. One of them was Jiang Minghui, whose family was more affluent.  

There were many homosexuals at the university, and Jiang Minghui pursued Xia Zhixu with constant lavish gifts, which tempted Xia Zhixu.

Every time Song Qingchuan called Xia Zhixu, he would impatiently brush him off with various excuses, only contacting Song Qingchuan when he was short on money.

One day, Song Qingchuan took a break and came to visit Xia Zhixu, bringing some fruits. Only to witness Jiang Minghui giving a gift to Xia Zhixu. Seeing the ambiguity between them, Song Qingchuan realised the truth. When he confronted Xia Zhixu, he laid everything out bare.

Not only did he show no gratitude, but he also shamelessly said that Song Qingchuan wasn’t good enough for him. He’d gotten into university, and someone like Song Qingchuan, who only made three or four thousand yuan a month, wasn’t in the same league. He also said that there were several wealthy suitors at school who were pursuing him.  

He belittled Song Qingchuan and left with the final words, “Don’t come looking for me anymore.”

Jiang Minghui looked down on Song Qingchuan with a superior air, mocking him relentlessly and belittling him as utterly worthless.

In the original plot, Xia Zhixu quickly started dating Jiang Minghui.  

Meanwhile, Song Qingchuan, after being trampled on his sincere feelings, began to turn dark.

During his senior year, Xia Zhixu and Jiang Minghui reunited with Song Qingchuan at the birthday banquet of the male lead, Gu Jingming. Song Qingchuan had transformed—he was now the heir of the Qi family, now known as Qi Han.

It turned out Song Qingchuan was not the son of the old bachelor. After being abandoned by Xia Zhixu, he worked hard to earn money and unexpectedly met his biological father. After a series of events, he was acknowledged and accepted back into the Qi family.

[T/N: huāpíng (vase; pretty but useless person).

(皇帝爱长子，百姓爱幺儿) ‘Emperors favour the eldest son, but commoners love the youngest child’- It’s a saying used to describe parental favouritism—especially when younger siblings get more attention or care than the older ones in regular families.]