Chapter 5 — Rewriting the Villain's Script: My Daughter's Journey to Save Him

Fu Qiyan immediately pushed his hand away, his gaze icy and detached. "If you want a paternity test, fine. But I will be the one taking the child." Since hospitals took too long to process such requests, they ultimately decided on a DNA testing center. Gu Chi spared no expense, paying a massive sum to ensure they used the finest equipment and rushed the results through overtime. While waiting this time around, Gu Chi was visibly more frantic than before. His face was ashen as he paced back and forth endlessly, repeatedly interrogating the staff about the progress, the exact release time, and the margin of error.

From somewhere unknown, Xu Yanyan caught wind of the news and rushed over frantically. She pulled out a tissue, intending to wipe the sweat from Gu Chi's brow, and comforted him softly, "Don't worry... Even if Zhuanzhuan isn't your child... I will still—"

Before she could finish, Gu Chi violently slapped her hand away and interrupted her in a cold, dead voice: "Impossible."

Bloodshot veins webbed across Gu Chi’s eyes. "Zhuanzhuan can only be my child."

Xu Yanyan froze in place. She had never seen Gu Chi so unhinged and utterly out of control. Was it because Zhuanzhuan wasn't his child, or because Xu Zining had betrayed him and given birth to another man's baby?

Six hours later, the final results were released: Based on existing data and DNA analysis, there was no genetic evidence to indicate that Mr. Gu Chi was the biological father of Xu Zhuanzhuan.

Gu Chi stared fixedly at the test report, his entire body swaying as though he were about to collapse. Xu Yanyan rushed forward to steady him, but the very next second, her eyes widened in horror as she watched blood begin to trickle from his nose.

"I have to find her and demand an explanation. Why? Is this her way of revenging herself on me?" He lunged toward the door, his voice hoarse with rage and humiliation. "Xu Zining, even if you have to hide at the ends of the earth, I will dig three feet into the ground to find you!"

Right at that moment, a call came from the police. My mother's body had been found by the riverbank, already severely decomposed.

I wiped away my tears and whispered softly, "Mom is dead. She is never coming back."

Gu Chi collapsed onto the floor, sliding limply down the wall. "That's right... She's dead."

Only at this exact moment did he truly accept the reality—Xu Zining had genuinely vanished from this world. Every bit of hatred, every grievance, every ounce of remorse and guilt—there was no longer anyone left to receive his explanations. The person he longed to see was gone forever.

Tears spilled from the corners of Gu Chi's eyes, as if in a single fleeting moment, all the life had been drained from his soul.

A few days later, I heard the news: While driving in a state of utter psychological breakdown, Gu Chi had caused a severe traffic accident. Alongside Xu Yanyan, who was also badly injured, he was hospitalized. Simultaneously, the Gu Corporation was hostilely acquired by outsiders, changing hands completely.

Even in his coma, Gu Chi continually murmured a single name: "Zining... Zining..."

Consumed by bitterness and heartbreak, Xu Yanyan proactively filed for divorce. It was only after my mother truly died that the Xu family finally began to remember her good qualities. Father Xu suffered a cerebral infarction from grief and was confined to a wheelchair. Mother Xu cried so much that her old eye condition flared up, rendering her nearly blind. They stripped away every last asset registered in Xu Yanyan's name, leaving her to fend for herself amidst a crushing mountain of debt. It was as if... only by doing this could they somehow make amends to the daughter they had lost.

As for my father, he finally sat before his computer and opened an email that he had kept sealed away for years.

【Fu Qiyan. You might not believe this, but we have a daughter. Her name is Xu Zhuanzhuan. She is six years old now.】

【She is truly, truly adorable. Once you meet her, you'll understand. You are bound to love her—don't ask why, I just know it's true.】

【To be honest, it's a bit embarrassing to admit... I have a very special identity: I am the villainous female supporting character. Xu Yanyan is the female protagonist. Gu Chi is the male protagonist. And you—you are the ultimate villain of this entire story.】

【That's right, the world you live in is merely a novel, and I am a transmigrated player, a "conquest system user." My real name is Xu Diao. My objective upon coming here was to conquer Gu Chi and make him fall in love with me. If I failed, the penalty would be erasure.】

【If you are reading this email... I suppose I have already been deleted by the system.】

【Fu Qiyan, please believe me. This time, I really am not lying. I truly am the villainous female supporting character. Extremely villainous. And Xu Zhuanzhuan is genuinely your daughter. If you don't believe it, you can take her for a DNA test. Guaranteed by the author herself, one hundred percent blood-related, certified biological father and daughter.】

【If you still can't figure out where this child came from... Let me give you a hint: Seven years ago, at club XX, your rivals drugged you heavily, and the women around you were all high-level predators you couldn't possibly touch. I couldn't bear to watch you fall victim to their scheme, so I secretly carried you away and hid you. Before I could even get you to a hospital, inside the car... you... cough, cough...】

【I'm a woman, and physically weak, so I couldn't fight you off. You understand. Anyway... what happened, happened.】

【If you want to ask: "Aren't you feeling guilty for betraying Gu Chi?" To be honest—not really. After all, the green hat I put on Gu Chi is probably long enough to wrap around City A twice...】

【I know, reading this far, you must be utterly speechless. The day you came looking for me, I said a lot of cruel things:】

【"You're just an illegitimate son with no status."】

【"You aren't even worth a single strand of Gu Chi's hair."】

【"Being with you means you'll never be able to hold your head high for the rest of your life..."】

【Those words were truly, truly harsh. If I were in your shoes, I probably would never forgive them for as long as I lived. Therefore, I understand why you didn't want to see me again.】

【The day you came to find me... was also the day I discovered I was pregnant. I wanted to take one last gamble for the sake of the child in my womb, wanting to see if I could successfully conquer Gu Chi after all. As expected, I failed. I was still too weak, too inexperienced.】

【But fortunately—I gave birth to Zhuanzhuan. I gave birth to our child. And I won a chance from the system to raise her until she was six years old.】

【She's six now. I really tried my absolute best.】

【"Every extra day I get to live is a bonus." Gu Chi doesn't love me, which is entirely understandable. After all, from beginning to end, my heart belonged to only one person—you.】

【My time is up. At this very final moment: I am sorry, Fu Qiyan. I am sorry for letting you cross paths with someone like me. I am sorry for having a child with you and only telling you now.】

【If it's possible—I hope you can take good care of Zhuanzhuan. And I hope Zhuanzhuan can take good care of you.】

As the letter reached this point, the door to the study slammed shut with a heavy crash.

【In the days to come, I hope the two of you think of me less and less. Because if you do... it surely means you are living very happily.】

That day, the sound of stifled, breath-shattering weeping echoed from deep within Father's study.

A year later.

Waking up in the morning, I was still lazily melting under the covers. Father had already prepared breakfast, using the mouth-watering aroma to coax me awake while intentionally raising his voice: "Lu Sicheng isn't going to wait for you! If you don't get up right now, you'll be late for school!"

Lu Sicheng!!

Hearing that name, I sprang up like a coiled spring! He was the most handsome boy in my class! Every girl in school was green with envy just because I got to walk to school with him every day!

Father gave a light, cold hum, dragging me into the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face before expertly tying my hair into its familiar, neat bun.

"So where is Lu Sicheng?" I asked anxiously.

"Got tired of waiting, left ahead of you," Father replied calmly. "Will you dare to sleep in next time?"

Hearing this, I abandoned breakfast entirely, hoisted my schoolbag, and sprinted for the door like a flying arrow.

Just as Father opened his mouth to say something, his entire body suddenly froze in place.

I looked up, puzzled—could Lu Sicheng have turned back?

Standing at the threshold, however, was a completely unfamiliar woman. Her long, dark hair cascaded over her shoulders, and a green silk dress hugged her slender figure, yet the smile on her face was overwhelmingly, achingly familiar.

She swallowed nervously, looking slightly tense as she spoke, "Um... good morning."

I knew it. She was my biological mother. The mother who had come from the real world—Xu Diao.

What no one else knew was that—after my mother died, Brother System had come to find me. It said: If within 24 hours, I could prevent Father from committing suicide, make him accept me, make him believe that Mother loved him deeply, and convince him that I was truly his biological child—then Mother would be allowed to return.

The prerequisites were:
• Never reveal Mother's identity as a "conquest player."
• Absolutely never let Father realize this world was a novel.

Brother System said this was the final mission it would ever execute, and it wanted to do one genuinely good deed.

Brother System—was a very, very good system.

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