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Shen qingqiu stares at the baby right in front of him and sighs. Just a few hours ago, Wang Xiang (王香), one of the nicest Jie’s he ever met… is now gone…

She passed away due to giving birth to this small girl that he is holding in his hands. Oh how this child is the purest of them all, with no history of being in a brothel, with a bad personality or... even… murder…

The world is truly out to get his happiness, so many of the sisters in this brothel have passed due to men …

And he hated men.

“A-jiu…. We- we can’t keep the child…” one of the Jies said solemnly. Everyone in that room knew what she meant, a brothel is no place to bring up a child, its not what A-xiang would want either for her baby…

“... I’ll-… take care of her. ” 

It wasn't an easy arrangement to decide, he was a peak lord and cultivator, most don’t expect him to play house, let alone where said child came from. All the sisters were in silent agreement and mourned the loss of their sister, it was for the best. Yet it saddened them to see the last thing that their dearest A-xiang left behind get taken away too.

Kaixin (凯欣) is the name of the baby. It means to return triumphantly and be prosperous… it also sounded a lot like kaixin (开心）which meant happiness. 

Shen qingqiu would try his best to fulfill this and raise her to be a loving girl just like how her mother had been and wanted her to be.

Happy and prosperous.

 Though it seemed unlikely for scum like him to produce anything of value, right?

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Wang Kaixin (王恺欣) is a 14 year old who is your common npc girl who likes BL novels with smut in secret. 

Yes, you read right, she likes gay romance stories with not so hidden porn in it. 

Frankly, she only read it for the dull sense or horny and heart boner that came with it. She does read the occasional straight romance novels (she swears but the ‘occasional’ is more like once in a lifetime) but unlike some, she does do other things.. ish.

She is incredibly lazy, a procrastinator at its finest, loves to eat, sleep, watch videos of gamers playing and hanging out with friends… yes she has friends, who do not share the same interest in novels but do except her for it.

And on a fine day while she was waiting for her friends on the roof of a very tall building as she came a flipping hour early like the knob she is and went on her phone to pass time.

Not too soon of scrolling through media, she found a cool piece of fanart on rule 34 of a novel called Proud Immortal Demon Way.

‘Huh, shit name,’ she thought but felt the art was nice so she decided to read the novel, or well at least skim it because it was a straight romance novel, and not to mention harem. (Like her brother watches enough anime of that and over 6000 chapters like wtf)

"To be honest, it wasn’t a bad story. The starting plot and backstory was pretty decently portrayed and written, the only bad part was the porn writings. No, not bad  they were down right dumpster trash fire terrible, it was so blatantly obvious that whoever wrote this has never seen a pussy or a picture of the female reproductive system before and the descriptions of boobies were downright more uncomfortable and misogynistic than sexy.

And what was with the overly large chest melons?! Have some variant, like some flat chested skinny bitches, they're sexy too. Even the minors have some big tits like the hell!?" she mourned the females that might develop back problems with the weight they're carrying around. She would hate to be like them she thought while patting her chest in sympathy.

So the skim reading was going great, the fandom was really supportive of the basically harem porn novel but one specific user’s comment caught her eye.

Peerless Cucumber. His comments just reminded her of the fact that she has an argumentative essay due tomorrow but it will be future her’s problem.

His essays and criticism were so well pointed out that she wondered why this person is bothered to waste their time on such a feeble minded novel, like don’t like it, don’t read. But then again, his comments were very interesting and she enjoyed reading them  and scrolled on. 

It was time to head to her friend's meeting point to hang out, since they weren’t close and made her way slowly down the escalator whilst reading.

“What the fudge is this? Another sex pollen, this dumb book needs variety stupid incel author-” Immediately after whispering that to herself, she was hit by some fatass that probably fell on the escalator and now she’s flying down the floors like a superhero.

When her body, most likely her head, collides with the ground, she promptly blanks out.

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[ System Activating… ]

“W-what the fuck? Where am i?”

[ Code: “ this dumb book needs variety stupid incel author- ” initiating ]

“Uh hello.. Who are you? A weird version of google translate?…”

[ Processing… ]

“Am I in an isekai story? Gosh my brother would be so jealous- wait don't tell me my death was from a clumsy fatass!-”

[ Processing Finished… Welcome User UV003  (•◡•) /  

I am system ST52039 (✿◠‿◠) ]

“User … UV00- three?! There’s other people?!”

[ User is very observant! And answering user's question, yes! There are other users ᕙ(^▿^-ᕙ) ]

“Oh, uh, cool  I guess. May I know who they are and where I'm transmigrating to?” 

[ Nope! That will be up to you to figure out but you are transmigrating into the novel

(っ◔◡◔)っ ★Proud Immortal Demon Way★ 

original timeline character Wang Kaixin!（っ＾▿＾)  ]

“The fudge is this? Original timeline, you mean there are other timelines of that porn novel? Damn, I wanna read… Wait a sec, that’s my real name? But with a different kai?”

[ Yes! (◔◡◔)

Now, an introduction to your role. You are an infant so don't act like a grown child, you will unlock ooc function once you are of the age of five Good Luck! ✨(っ◔◡◔)っc(◕◡◕c)✨  ]

“Wah-!?”

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Shen qingqiu stared at the child in his arms. 

This little adorable, innocent and pure babe's life now depends on him, for both comfort and protection…

Oh how fate has brought him to this. 

Him… a man who started his life on the street as a dirty street rat into a slave of a household that despised him and then he murdered them... he did not deserve to be incharge of a life.

He did not want to make the same mistake of as his Qi-

… he did not want to be someone she trusted, only to disappoint her, fail her, betray her ...

Shen qingqiu pushed his thoughts away, he might hurt A-xin with how much he’s shaking or how he might Qi devastate at any second with his unstable thoughts...

Shen qingqiu walked slowly, not so willing to return to his peak just to hear rumors of how he unrighteously defiled a woman or stole a child...

Since none of the brothel ladies could produce milk so he bought some donkey milk for the baby. It was from a farmer whose donkey recently had a miscarriage but still produced milk. 

He also settled for daily deliveries to Qing Jing Peak so that she was well fed, with a backup food of some pure honey and he could still make soup for her if those were not an option.

Suddenly, the sound of someone flying rapidly towards him was heard.

He did not need to even turn his head to know who it was.

“I’m making my way back right now, you didn’t have to come fetch me Shidi .”

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Liu qingge was angry.

Recently, he had to put his plan of fighting the beast in the mountains on hold, as Yue Shixiong had told him to do a mission, which was reasonable…

But, he had to do the mission with the aloof strategist Peak Lord Shen qingqiu.

It was with a good reason but that doesn't mean he likes this arrangement.

BUT, since Shen qingqiu was not here, he had to tell him when he came back so he waited…

While waiting he went to beat- I mean train his disciples, more harshly since he had to do a mission with the Qing Jing Peak lord.

And then a week passed… Where the heck is Shen qingqiu?! He was not at his peak and he told his disciples to tell him when the sharped tongued man came back but no news came.

Usually when a Peak Lord leaves the sect to do something they must send a letter to the sect leader but Yue qingyuan did not receive anything.

This usually only happens when Shen qingqiu goes to the brothel at night but never for this long.

So he went down the mountain to search for his lecherous Shixiong...

He found Shen qingqiu who was carrying a decently large basket behind him… pushing that aside, he landed next to him.

“Shen-”

“I’m making my way back right now, you didn’t have to come.”

“Well why aren’t you flying on your sword? Yue qingyuan gave us a mission and I want to get it over and done with.”

“This master is busy.” Shen qingqiu said, turning around to face him. To say what he saw was a surprise, is an understatement.

“What?” 

For years on end, Liu qingge alway had a picture of Shen qingqiu as an aloof, untouchable immortal that no one will or ever understand, that was strict and cold with people of all sorts but the picture painted right in front of him was just… strange…

He was holding a baby in his arms like a father protecting his precious child, which was odd but it does explain why Shen qingqiu was not at his bamboo hut for a week. Yet more questions were left unanswered.

Liu qingge stared in bewilderment for a minute and right before Shen qingqiu got tired of waiting and started to turn around and continue walking.

“Congratulations...”

Shen qingqiu froze, “she's not my child.”

Liu qingge arched an eyebrow “ then whose is it, if not yours?”

“It was a friend or mine’s child… she died giving birth to her… so I’m- wait why am I telling you this?!” Shen qingqiu then proceeds to pull his sword out of his sheath and fly away, wanting to get away from that ‘brute’.

“Wa- Oi, wait!” 

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‘The Huang Gua Peak (黄瓜) is a placeholder name for one of the three unstated peak names.

It's the dumbest thing ever. Just because Airplane couldn't bother to give names to just Three, THREE, other peaks, System had decided to name it Huang Gua Peak, cucumber peak, CUCUMBER PEAK?! WTF IS THIS!?

Well at least it has its reasons, like how wayyyy back, they used to grow a shit ton of cucumbers which was why it became the farming peak of Cang Qiong Sect.

Its Peak's purpose is to study all sorts of plants and learn how they grow, like environments and how to cultivate them. 

It has the largest area taken out of all the peaks due to them growing a lot of plants and the land stretches to the bottom of their Peak.

Still, doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid though.’

[ System is sorry that user is not satisfied with these adjustments （ つ﹏╰） ]

`Yeah, yeah you've said it like a billion times “But these cannot be changed due to there being different users in world building.” ` Shen yuan scoffed

[ (╥︣﹏╥᷅) ]

Or should I say Shen qinggua (色清瓜, I’m definitely bullshiting all of my chinese naming skills) 

Yes, he was named after the fucking cucumber, like the previous generation of this peak, his Shizun. 

It started out as a joke to the founders of Cang Qiong sect, but it started to get passed onto the next.

But due to the confusion of two Shen qing in the sect they just address him as Shen yuan but for more formal meetings like between sects and guests, theyll use his Peak lord name.

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“Bro, you there? You've been spaced out for the past like 10 minutes.”

“huh? Oh… I recently just got a system notification-”

Shang qinghua pounced into Shen yuan’s personal space “really?! Me too, it's about the daughter thing right?”

Shen yuan slapped him with the thick book he was reading “Have some personal space but yes. Did you have to active the partner daughter scenario pusher ”

“Yeah it didn’t say it was active until like a minute ago, which was when I assume, you agreed to it?”

“I guess both of us had to consent and agree before it could be activated”

“Strange… hey system what is this scenario pusher about?”

An all to familiar chime filled both of their ears

[ A new fellow friend has arrived into the world to help with the plot!!1 ( ⌒o⌒)人(⌒-⌒ )v  ]

“What?!” “WHAT?!” Both transmigration shouted 

“Did we just send a poor soul into this horrid world?”

“Bro.... how could we… should we find them?”

[ system highly suggest not to interfere with her ( ◡́.◡̀) (^◡^ ) ]

“Oh so they’re a girl? Cool!- no wait- that's bad, they might become one of Luo bighe’s wives...”

“Shit, that's way worse, if they become a wife of thousands… we need to definitely change the plot for the sake of bringing her in…”

“... I mean we could leave her alone-” he got whacked again.

“You hack author! Just because you treated women like sex addicts in your novel doesn't mean you can do that now, shes a real girl!!!”

“... you’re right, you’re a feminist, I can't fight you..” Shen yuan whacked him again but made no effort to correct him.

“owie... that hurts…” Shang qinghua gave his best puppy face, in which Shen yuan just sneered at.

“You're a baby. Anyways, we're gonna have to find that new female friend, hopefully it'll be easy. System, where do we find this new user?”

[ (╥﹏╥) wuwuwuwuu user did not listen to what we just said? We told you not to interact but since user asked so nicely (ɔ◔‿◔)ɔ ♥ she in Cang Qiong sect right now! ]

“Huh, so I assume she has transmigrated into one of the disciples? Though, there could also be a possibility of Qi qingqi since she's also female unless she transmigrated into a guy?”

“Isn't that a good thing? She wouldn't become a wife like that. Heh, less work for us!” shen yuan gave him an unimpressed look

[ To confirm User's query, the new user is in a female's body! ٩(^◡^ ) ]

Qinghua signed in disappointment, "can we at least know of her age to see how big the damage is?"

[ She is an adolescent! ]

"shit! We brought in a child !?!?"

“That's terrible , we gotta stop the protagonist from getting her into or starting a harem”

“Make him… gay?” 

Shen yuan stares deadpan at Shang qinghua…

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I felt like I was in the clouds, hovering with a quiet mind, until I heard a water droplet sound in my ears.

I was pulled into something, and then I felt like I was on a very comfortable bed…

‘Ah it was so nice… it felt like standing next to the refrigerator during a hot summer day…

“Gah”

…

Wtf was that.

I opened my eyes… Why tf am I so small!?

[ Welcome User to the world of Proud Immortal demon way!!!!11!!!1111! (っ＾▿＾)۶  ]

Oh. right, I transmigrated into an infant child… IN THIS STUPID WORLD?!?

“I don't wanna be a lowly wife in a harem to make babies huhuhu….” kaixin cries 

That's when Shen Qingqiu heard the cries and came to pick her up and pat her back, wondering why she upset. He just fed her a hour ago, and then too a nap peacefully…

‘Is that…. Sqq? That very shitty man with piss poor attitude? But definitely didn't deserve becoming a pickle? Ah……. I hope he's not as bad as the fandom says…’

[ Fear not user! Even if you become a wife, the system will make sure you would not be ravished without consent! ( ˘▽˘)っ   ]

‘That doesn't make being one woman of an infinite harem any better! Why couldn't I be a guy, having a dick is way cooler than a cunt wuwuwuwu…’ the baby whimpers.

Shen Qingqiu hears louder whines come for her and pats her back, “a-xin…shhh…"

[ system suggests you keep your inappropriate words to yourself! Although this is a rather… inappropriate story, you and the other users have the power to change it! ]

I internally gape at his softness…. 

"Is he my dad now?... there's no way this was the antagonist the fandom was talking about?!”

The system just giggles as I laze about and calm down in the embrace of my supposed new father….

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Somewhere in the nearby village a boy limps slowly.

His body is covered with ugly blue blacks, cuts and ache. He mouth is spiked with the taste of metallic iron from a sudden bite of his own tongue.

In his arms he holds a lone cold bowl of porridge in his arms, carful not to spill its contents.

As he reaches a small rundown house and opens the door. He's met with a strange feeling that's something is wrong ….

"Ma?....." he calls out, stomach twisting, bile rising. The last thing he remembers is his mother going to bed….

"no…. No…. NO- MA?!-" he places the bowl quickly on a table as he rushes to the bedroom.

His mother lies there, with a serene look on her face.

But he knows better than to be fooled like that.

He quickly checks her pulse….

Nothing.

He checks her breath

Nothing

"no- No- No!..... no….please… ma…. Dont leave…"

He sobs into her robes. The ragged driving thing, stings his eyes with the dirt as he places his head on her chest. It taste of grime and dust. 

Yet, he can't find himself to pull away.

He sobs, cries, wails into her clothes, its almost no different from her being drenched in water rather than tears.

He cries for the longest time. Until he passed out from grief…

..

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