Bai Cha was called a "genius." For his entire life, that was what people labeled him. But in truth, he was nothing more than a slightly mad little scientist.
Born into a world where people lived for 200–250 years, Bai Cha spent 116 of them buried in study and creating countless scientific innovations. In the end, however, his brilliance only provoked the greed of villains—leading to his untimely death.
Just when he thought his luck had run out forever, unable to tinker with his beloved inventions again, something pulled at his very soul. He encountered what called itself the Spirit of the World. After a brief conversation, Bai Cha made a contract with it:
The spirit would grant him rebirth in its own world, along with a new body that would allow him to create freely to his heart's content. In exchange, Bai Cha would have to make two men fall in love with each other and eliminate the villainess from their lives. Those two, the spirit insisted, were the keystones of the world's survival. No matter what, they had to love and stay together—not fall apart and perish separately.
To help him, the spirit even promised to hand over the future story of those men in the form of a novel, so that Bai Cha could study and prepare when the time came.
Okay! At first glance, it sounded ridiculously easy. After all, knowing the future was already the ultimate cheat.
Except… why didn't that so-called Spirit bother to mention that the two people he had to make fall in love were the male lead and the main villain of the story—men who loathed each other, forced into a political marriage neither wanted?
To make things worse, the body he was reborn into just so happened to be the illegitimate son of that very couple.
So basically—his mission was to make his biological father and his father's legal wife (a.k.a. his new stepmother) fall in love, warm up the family into the picture-perfect household… and then drive out any "third party" daring to come between them.
The problem? That so-called "third party" was none other than the original heroine of the novel—reviled here as the villainess.
And she was… his real mother.
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Still, if his birth circumstances weren't bad enough… then believe it or not, the family dynamics in this household were even worse!!!
Little Cha: "Daddy~" //puts on his cutest face, aiming to win his father's heart first
Father:Where did this clueless-looking kid wander in from? Get him away from me. //glances, walks past, utterly indifferent
Little Cha: "Big Mommy!! Daddy's hurt real bad, he's covered in cuts!! OoO!!" //switches tactics, trying to spark some wifely concern
Stepmother: "Dead yet?" //eyes gleaming with anticipation
Little Cha: "Big Brother… what should Cha do? How can Daddy and Big Mommy get along?" //asks seriously, seeking help
Older Brother: "Isn't it enough if they just don't kill each other? Why do they have to love each other?" //raises a brow, confused
Little Cha: "Enough!! Cha's struggling too, you know! There are so many things Cha wants to invent! Cha doesn't have time to waste, hmph! This family… it's hopeless for warmth, can't you all see that!?" //bursts into tears