The Female Lead is Raised by Bosses

“Your Highness, your face mask fell.” The smart butler picked up the mask on the ground. After scanning it with its pupils, it said: “It can still be used.”

“Your Highness, shall I reapply it for you?”

“Take it away!”

Xiu Jin didn’t have time to care about some face mask. He got off the massage chair, turned the screen towards the smart butler: “What do you see?”

The smart butler primly folded the face mask. Seeing the words on the screen, it read aloud: “Intimacy point +50.”

“……”

Confirming that he didn’t read wrong because his eyes were blurry from fatigue, Xiu JIn stared at the +50 for half a day until the prompt disappeared. The original -10 intimacy points in the upper right-hand corner had become 40. 

The negative number had become positive.

He didn’t even enter the game for half a day. How did his intimacy points suddenly increase this much?!

Suddenly, Xiu Jin remembered that ugly ant corpse beast.

His precious daughter must have known it was him helping her fight the corpse beast. That’s why she had good feelings towards him and the intimacy points increased naturally as a result.

But… why didn’t it increase when he was online?

Were the intimacy points delayed?

Xiu Jin’s mind was a mess. Then, these thoughts were shoved aside, only leaving behind joy that emanated from within.

It didn’t matter whether or not the intimacy points were delayed. Now that he had intimacy points, he could buy his precious daughter some good food!

This afternoon, Xiu Jin had gone back to the black market. However, he made the trip for nothing as the seller of NR still didn’t come. Furthermore, he also had to deal with Chu Xinran, which made him tired and annoyed.

Now, because of the increase in intimacy points and a +50 increase at that, he felt at ease. All the unhappiness within his body faded away.

Right as he tapped on the market to see what he could buy, another notification appeared: [Zhu Yuan was infected by the virus. To keep Bian Bian from feeling sad and scared, he chose to leave alone.]

Xiu Jin’s movement paused.

    ？

Zhu Yuan had been infected and turned into a zombie?

Like Lu Yu?

“How could that happen?!” Xiu Jin’s brows wrinkled tightly together. His relaxed, joyful expression was replaced with a gloomy one. Forget about Zhu Yuan leaving behind his precious daughter by herself, how did Zhu Yuan become infected?

When he had logged out of the game, everything was clearly finished. It should have been fine.

Without waiting for him to think, the system popped up again: [Zhu Yuan’s departure affected Bian Bian significantly, causing her to get sick and run a high fever at night. Thankfully, her fever has gone away without any problems. However, her body has lost too much energy, Please provide energy for Bian Bian.]

Compared to Zhu Yuan, of course, his precious daughter was more important. Xiu Jin didn’t leave any room for thought, he immediately tapped to open the market.

“Why are the other columns still grey?” He was speechless. Other than the food, he had also wanted to buy other things for his precious daughter. “Don’t I have intimacy points now?”

The system was silent.

Tapping open the food column, all the icons in the first row were finally lit up. In total, there were four icons. Other than the red apple, the following three icons were categorized as such:

[Organic mineral water]: 100-star coins. Organic mineral water contains special minerals suitable for children ages one to five and will enhance their physical fitness. Limit one bottle at a time.

[Magic jumping sausage]: 200-star coins. Magic jumping sausage is made with special meat and will help one to five-year-olds develop better bones, absorb energy better, and promote healthy development. Limit one purchase at a time.

[Brain development toddler milk powder]: 500-star coins. Milk powder is one of the essential energy sources for toddlers. Brain development toddler milk powder can help one to five-year-olds develop their brain regions and makes the toddler more and more intelligent as they grow. Limit one can at a time.

After reading through, Xiu JIn was unsatisfied: “Why are the others still grey?”

He wanted to let his precious daughter eat a big meal!

Not these simple, unappetizing-looking foods.

[First of all, your intimacy level is insufficient so you can’t open the icons. Secondly, Bian Bian is still young. Her body does not have a high tolerance. Foods that are too high in energy will lead to negative side effects for her. Note that the side effects are irreversible. Player 1, please raise Bian Bian reasonably.] 

Xiu Jin: “……”

So this was to advise him to be sensible about using gold and to not show off his wealth like some sort of parvenu? To not buy, buy, buy and end up hurting Bian Bian? Is that what it was trying to say? 

[Yes.]

Xiu Jin: “……”

He didn’t feel like acknowledging this trashy system.

He was raising a daughter, not a pig, so naturally, he should be the judge of what he can buy and what he can’t buy. He only wanted to have more choices, to let Bian Bian experience a wider variety of food. That way he’ll be able to raise her so she’s fair-skinned and well-fed.

All the remaining icons were grey. He wasn’t sure what they were, so he asked again: “How many more intimacy points do I need for them to appear?”

The system answered quickly: [500.]

Perhaps the +50 intimacy points gave Xiu Jin a burst of confidence because at that moment he felt that 500 intimacy points weren’t that big of a deal. After all, his precious daughter knew of his existence and knew that he wouldn’t harm her. The intimacy points would be easily earned.

Five hundred… Piece of cake.

Xiujin clicked on the checkout option and swiped. The payment was successful.

Just as he was happily placing the three items he bought onto the table, a sudden notification popped up: [Intimacy points used up.]

He stared blankly as the “40” in the upper right-hand corner turned to “0”.

“……”

When buying goods, in addition to stealing money, this trashy system took intimacy points too?!

System: [Of course. You need to use the money to buy a ticket/pass to enter the black market, and once you enter, money is also required to buy items. Intimacy points and star currency follow the same concept. One is used to unlock the purchase channel and the other is used to pay the price. ]

Xiu Jin accepted the explanation with furrowed brows.

Wait a second―

“It even knows that I went to the back market?” He stared suspiciously at the game screen, “Are you an intelligent system?”

System: ……

System: [I thought you already knew that from our first conversation.]

Compared with Nong Jiusi’s intelligence, the difference was like heaven and earth.

The system pondered silently.

However, there were a few advantages— He was easy to trick and easy to control.

Xiu Jin humphed— He was just momentarily surprised that the system of an ordinary game was an intelligent system.

No game developer would use an intelligent system for an ordinary game. That was because it was difficult for the server of an ordinary game to hold the amount of information/data required for an intelligent system.

But now he understands.

He reckons the reason for using krypton gold was due to this incompatibility. It wasn’t that the game doesn’t allow the usage of gold, but that the server could not sustain it. The intelligent system could only be set in this mode.

With that in mind, Xiu Jin wasn’t all that angry at the trashy system anymore.

Once he finds out which game company developed the game, he’ll use his money to buy the game and ask a professional team to reform it.

Even if it was only his daughter in a game, he was going to give her the best. The best way to do that was not just through using krypton gold— It was to change the basic doomsday setting and give his precious daughter a whole new world.

While Xiu Jin’s imagination ran wild like a heavenly steed soaring across the sky, his hands were not idle. He slid all the items he bought onto the table and then attentively observed his precious daughter’s expression.

She shouldn’t be startled this time, right?

Bian Bian, who was gulping down the mineral water that she had opened by twisting until her hands were red, saw the three items suddenly appear on the table. She didn’t check what the items were immediately, but instead in a tone that was both cheerful and mixed with a slight uneasiness, said: “Uncle, you’re here?”

Xiu Jin was struck with a bright idea and pushed the bottle of organic mineral water to indicate that he came.

Bian Bian’s eyes brightened. The smart little girl understood the hint and looked around, her eyes bent into crescent shapes. She showed her teeth, which were white like glutinous rice, and asked while picking at her little finger: “Can you let me see you?”

She didn’t know why the Uncle didn’t meet with her, but she really wants to meet him. She wants to thank him.  Grandpa said that you must show gratitude to those that help you, so she wanted to meet the Uncle in person and thank him.

As she spoke, she straightened her small body. With a sweet voice, she introduced herself: “Uncle, my name is Bian Bian. I’m five years old.”

She was as serious as could be.

That was quickly followed by: “No matter what Uncle looks like, Bian Bian won’t be afraid.”

She felt that perhaps the reason the invisible uncle didn’t meet with her was that he was not good-looking.

As far as appearance was concerned, Xiu JIn possessed incredible acuteness― From childhood to now,  he was blessed by the heavens.

As a result, he miraculously managed to understand what his precious daughter was implying.

  ―Bian Bian thought the reason he didn’t show himself to her was because he’s ugly?

How could that be?!

As the son of a royal family who was voted the most handsome by the general public, how could he leave such an impression in his precious daughter’s heart?

He thought of the self-portrait that he’d painted in the back of his closet.

In order to prompt Bian Bian, Xiu Jin pointed at the bedroom door with the jumping sausages.

Bian Bian watched on curiously as the jumping sausages flew up and stayed suspended by the bedroom door. She sniffed with her small nose, it smelled so good~

However, as a father who was wholeheartedly determined to prove his beauty, he completely missed the little girl’s expression. Bian Bian entered the bedroom with the magic ball in her arms.

Xiu Jin slipped the jumping sausages into Bian Bian’s hands and after a while of moving around his fingers, finally opened the closet.

The self-portrait from last time peeked out.

Bian Bian held the jumping sausage without taking a single bite even though she was tempted by the sausage’s fragrance.

Then, she went to the wall and looked at the self-portrait.

“Uncle, are you trying to tell Bian Bian that you look exactly like the person in this picture?” asked Bian Bian

It’s unclear as to what happened to the original portrait, but there were a lot of strange marks that had appeared on the face. It looked as if the face was covered in scars. The right eye had been smudged, looking as if he was blind in one eye and wearing some sort of mask.

It was not “handsome” at all.

Xiu Jin: “……”

“No, that’s not me!!!” He roared loudly