It was the height of summer in August, and the sunlight was perfect. Xiaohan didn’t slowly wake up until the sun was already high overhead.

She yawned and crawled out of bed.

After picking up her phone to check the time, she saw that it was almost noon.

It was a rare weekend, and a quarter of it had already passed before it even began.

She checked her phone. There were pitifully few messages from last night and this morning. However, one from a specially followed contact caught Xiaohan’s attention—

【Chunan: Help me out】

Xiaohan was a little surprised.

It was rare for that guy to take the initiative and ask her for help…

Excited, Xiaohan typed out a reply—

【Xiaohan: Call me Dad】

【Chunan: ?】

【Chunan: I’m serious. No matter what voice you hear in your head later, just say yes. Got it?】

【Chunan: I’ll buy you milk tea after you agree】

Xiaohan stared at the messages for a while.

From what she knew of Chunan, that girl must have run into some serious trouble.

Otherwise, she’d never use something as completely irresistible as buying milk tea.

So Xiaohan excitedly sent another reply—

【Xiaohan: Fine. Dad will kindly help you this once】

The moment the message was sent, a voice suddenly appeared in her mind—

【Second-generation beta host selected for the Ideal Life System. Host has agreed to testing. Binding procedure complete.】

【Detecting the host’s current life stage. Generating final objective.】

【Objective generated: Become a famous superstar.】

【Mission system loading.】

【First-generation host failure penalty complete. Preparing to deploy exclusive assistant.】

Xiaohan was still frozen in confusion when a heavy object suddenly crashed onto the floor behind her.

She instinctively turned around.

At some point, a girl wearing nothing but a T-shirt had appeared on the bed.

She looked barely old enough to be an adult. Her long hair was slightly messy, and beneath her side-swept bangs was an exquisitely delicate face.

Her cheeks still carried a faint flush, as if from a hangover. Yet her eyes were perfectly clear, radiating an almost extreme rationality.

She looked strangely familiar.

Putting her eyes aside, however, she was exactly Xiaohan’s type.

The sudden appearance of a girl from thin air left Xiaohan dumbfounded.

“Uh… who are you?”

“Your dad.”

The girl climbed off the bed and sat on its edge with her legs crossed. She looked down and examined her own body for a while. Then she tugged open her collar and glanced inside.

After clicking her tongue, she said, “So this is the type you like? I never would’ve guessed.”

“…”

A certain possibility suddenly occurred to Xiaohan.

After a long silence, she cautiously asked, “Chunan?”

“Yep. That’s me.”

Chunan rubbed her temples. Her expression was impossible for Xiaohan to read.

“I never thought I’d be done in by something like this after living for so long.”

“…What happened?”

“To put it simply, some system tried to forcefully bind itself to me and make me pay for it. I cursed at it, so it sold me.”

Chunan sighed.

“Sold me to you.”

It had to happen today.

Chunan was a small gaming streamer. Just yesterday, she’d gone out drinking with several streamer friends from her circle.

She didn’t particularly like those gatherings, but networking and building connections were essential in the streaming world.

What she couldn’t understand was why none of those gaming streamers were shut-ins.

Naturally, she’d ended up drinking a little too much.

When she woke up that morning, she had a splitting hangover and a foggy mind. Then she suddenly heard something about a system binding.

Her consciousness hadn’t even processed it, but her body reacted first.

She’d cursed, “Get lost.”

Then, somehow, the system judged the binding a failure.

By that point, she was already awake. Unfortunately, time couldn’t be turned back, and the world had no regret button.

So she immediately made one last attempt to fix things.

She pushed the system onto Xiaohan.

Whatever Xiaohan’s life goal was, at least the system couldn’t sell her to someone else.

If the next host were a pretty girl, Chunan could probably tolerate it. But there was also a fifty-percent chance the next host would be a man, right?

Since the first host would be transformed into the appearance preferred by the next host, Chunan would most likely become a girl.

There was a small chance she wouldn’t change.

But if that happened, she’d rather restart her life on the spot. It might mean the next host was gay.

Chunan had never liked gambling with her luck.

It was better to find someone certain.

At least she could guarantee that she’d be able to keep Xiaohan under control.

Xiaohan grew even more excited as she listened.

“So you’re a girl now? And you can’t change back? You’re going to be my exclusive r… for the rest of my life?”

“Exclusive assistant,” Chunan corrected calmly.

“Then can I c—”

“No.”

“…”

Chunan stood up and kicked aside several pieces of clothing lying on the floor. She acted as if this were her own home as she went to the wardrobe and searched for something wearable.

“Can’t you clean up this pigsty? Anyone who didn’t know better would think a garbage collector lived here.”

“And you’re learning guitar, too. With a room like this, even if you pretended to be artistic and lured a girl home, she’d take one look inside and run.”

“…I only just started my vacation yesterday. I was exhausted. It’s not like I have to clean it right now.”

Xiaohan tried to salvage her image.

Chunan ignored her.

“Whatever. With this system mess, you probably can’t keep working like a corporate slave anyway. Spend the next two days packing, then come to my place. It has to be better than this pigsty.”

Xiaohan paused.

“Are you… inviting a wolf into your house?”

“It’s ‘letting a wolf into the house.’”

Chunan finally found several outfits she could force herself to wear.

The innocent young girl had been styled into something resembling a delinquent girl. Her calm expression only made the impression stronger.

“And if you really have the guts, you can find out which of us is the wolf.”

Xiaohan stayed silent for a long while.

In the end, she didn’t take the bait.

Even after becoming a girl, Chunan still seemed incredibly domineering…

Her appearance was exactly Xiaohan’s aesthetic preference, but her personality was a little too much to handle.

At the very least…

She had to try being on top once.

Chunan had no idea where Xiaohan’s thoughts had wandered. She suddenly remembered something important.

“By the way, what’s your system’s main mission?”

“Huh?”

“What do you mean, ‘huh’? Just think about the system. A system panel should pop up.”

“Oh.”

“So, what is it?”

“To become a famous superstar.”

The room suddenly fell deathly silent.

Chunan slowly turned to look at Xiaohan.

After a while, she raised an eyebrow.

“A superstar? You?”

“…What’s wrong with me?”

Xiaohan frowned slightly.

“Can’t I become a superstar?”

Chunan silently hugged her head.

“Isn’t that basically hell mode from the start…?”

“Hey! We both have systems now. Can’t you at least have a little confidence in me?”

Xiaohan couldn’t take it anymore.

“That’s true.”

Chunan seemed to spend a moment mentally preparing herself. Then she asked in a solemn voice, “Did the system give you some kind of newbie gift pack?”

“No. It doesn’t seem to have given me anything.”

“…”

After a brief silence, Chunan smiled faintly.

“How about we discuss how to deal with the next host? You handle the seduction. I’ll put him in a chokehold. How does that sound?”