Quick Transmigration: Saving That Cannon Fodder

Huo Jingchen's eyes were filled with regret. When a stack of photos was thrown on the coffee table, Huo Jingchen's pupils shrank.

A woman's vicious voice rang out:

"You had a son back then, right? What was his name... Liang Yucheng?"

She burst out laughing: "Liang Yucheng... Liang Yuchen... they really are a loving couple."

In the photo, the father and son still live in that alley. For some reason, they are dressed simply and carrying a worn-out sack to collect bottles.

The scene of picking up the child from the orphanage kept replaying in my mind. On that sunny day, they picked up Chenchen and took him home. On the way, the three of them were filled with hope for the future.

But when did all sorts of temptations and men and women appear around me? My brothers' partners were either rich or powerful, or highly educated returnees from overseas.

He was the only one who dared not even utter Liang Qinghe's name.

It wasn't just because he was a man, but also because of his background, his job...

Liang Qinghe was very good-looking, but after more than twenty years of wind and rain, his face was tanned dark, his hands were covered with calluses, his fingers had many cracks with overlapping old and new ones, and his fingernails almost always hid dirt that could not be washed off...

At the time, Huo Jingchen only felt that he was dirty and had the air of a person from the bottom of society. Even Liang Yuchen was made rough by him.

He had thought about leaving Liang Qinghe and living on his own, but that was Liang Qinghe, the one who supported his schooling, the one who accompanied him through his arduous studies in the village.

At that banquet, Huo Jingchen drank alcohol, and his mentor's daughter, Lu Xiao, confessed her feelings to him in public.

Amidst envious glances and teasing remarks, he agreed to date Lu Xiao.

At that time, Lu Xiao seemed to have no idea of ​​Liang Qinghe's existence.

Even when Liang Qinghe caught them in the act at the hotel, Lu Xiao was fooled by him.

He maintained this arrangement for two years, during which time he and Liang Qinghe were like ordinary friends, their closest interaction being taking care of Liang Yucheng together.

Believing he had gradually drifted apart from Liang Qinghe, he cleverly begged her to break up with him, and from then on, he acted as if nothing had ever happened.

Now, almost eleven years have passed, how did this woman know these things?

Huo Jingchen took a deep breath: "After I got together with you, I haven't been with him. If you have any anger, you can take it out on me."

"Snapped!"

Lu Xiao slapped him hard across the face, making him turn his head to the side.

"Then tell me, do you love him or do you love me?"

Huo Jingchen remained silent, and Lu Xiaoyang raised her hand to slap him across the face again.

This time, however, Huo Jingchen grabbed her raised hand.

Lu Xiao met a pair of cold eyes. Huo Jingchen flung his hand away, and Lu Xiao staggered a few steps and fell onto the expensive carpet.

Tears suddenly streamed down her face; she couldn't believe it.

"What do you mean? You don't love me anymore? I've sacrificed so much for you. If it weren't for my dad helping you, you wouldn't have been able to climb to this position."

Huo Jingchen scoffed: "Does love matter? When your family chose me, wasn't it because they valued my abilities and looks?"

"Lu Xiao, if I, Huo Jingchen, were just a beggar picking through trash, would you still keep saying you love me? Would your Lu family agree to you marrying me?"

With each word Huo Jingchen uttered, the anguish in his heart deepened.

Because he knew that in this world, only Liang Qinghe would be kind to him without any reason.

Only Liang Qinghe was willing to support Huo Jingchen, who had no future and no ability.

Putting away the photos on the table, Huo Jingchen said coldly:

"Lu Xiao, I advise you not to cause trouble for that father and son."

After taking two steps outside, Lu Xiao, lying on the ground, broke down in a scream, which eventually turned into sobs:

"Where are you going? Are you going to find them?"

Huo Jingchen, you promised my dad you'd take care of me for the rest of your life, you said you'd love me forever, you lied to me... Waaah..."

Huo Jingchen stopped at the door and said calmly:

"You can choose to get a divorce."

The two had been together for over ten years without having any children. When the word "divorce" was uttered, Lu Xiao was stunned for a moment.

Watching the man's heartless back, Lu Xiao burst into tears.

"Why? Why does it become like this?"

Why is Huo Jingchen so heartless?

[Of course, it's because the protagonist of the original world didn't die. Logically, Liang Qinghe should have died, and he would have become Huo Jingchen's eternal white moonlight.]

A mechanical voice echoed in Lu Xiao's mind, but Lu Xiao remained dazed.

[You're the system, why don't you just kill Liang Qinghe? He's not good enough for Huo Jingchen.]

System 051 sighed helplessly: "[The system isn't omnipotent. I told you from the beginning that it would be best to find a different target, but you insisted on pursuing Huo Jingchen.]"

Lu Xiao gritted her teeth, the ruthlessness in her eyes almost overflowing.

Why can't I win over Huo Jingchen? It's all your fault! If you had sent me back to my childhood, I could have gotten Lu Jiang to pay for his education, and Liang Qinghe wouldn't have had a chance.

051 felt she was being unreasonable: "But you've been with them for a long time since you came here. Why are you trying to steal them from Liang Qinghe? What does that have to do with me?"

[What do you mean? You said yourself that if the strategy is successful, Huo Jingchen won't think of that person anymore.]

051 speechless: [Big sister, it's you who insisted on making trouble for Liang Qinghe, not Huo Jingchen. You're the one who had to cause a scene.]

Lu Xiao was furious: [Isn't it because your strategy items are faulty? His strategy points are stuck at 80. When is he ever willing to have a child with me?]

The thought that Liang Qinghe and Huo Jingchen had such a big child, while she didn't even have an adoptive parent, made her furious.

When I first read the book, I realized that Huo Jingchen was dragged down by Liang Qinghe. Otherwise, Huo Jingchen could have found better teachers and resources, and given time, he would have surely soared to great heights.

How could I possibly stay in that dilapidated urban village for a sickly person?

Even if the ending in the book is good, he is still dragged down by two sickly people and struggles alone in the big city.

Huo Jingchen is such a capable person, yet he doesn't even have a child of his own.

In the end, he will give all the wealth he has earned to that deaf man from the orphanage. Does that deaf man even deserve it?

Before transmigrating into the book, Lu Xiaogang gave the original work a one-star review with a thousand-word negative comment: Homosexuality is disgusting, and the person who can write this kind of story is even more disgusting.

He felt sorry for Huo Jingchen. Why should a top student be a homosexual with questionable values?

In her mind, a man like Huo Jingchen should marry a virtuous, beautiful, and lovely woman, and the two of them should have several children, preferably several sons.

After all, her daughter would be competing with her for Huo Jingchen's love, and she didn't want that.