I’m Keeping the Overbearing CEO After He Went Bankrupt [Rebirth] 69

Chapter 69: Qingbao’s Baby

After ending the call, Huo Li casually cooked himself some noodles and then went to sleep.

…

He dreamt of his past life.

In his past life, a year after Chu Qing’s death, Yu Weixi had come to find him.

Yu Weixi was a person who should have been dead. He had fallen ill at the age of twenty, but instead of dying, he had bound himself to a system. The system required him to complete tasks, and once he did, it would give him a complete life of his own, plus a big reward.

Yu Weixi had exchanged this reward for a rebirth system and given it to Huo Li.

“Mr. Huo… if you could start over again and be with Chu Qing, would you be willing?”

At that time, Yu Weixi had gone to the US to find him and asked, “Are you willing to reset your life once?”

Yu Weixi didn’t dare to just give it to him, worried that he wouldn’t be willing.

But how could Huo Li not be willing?

…

{Host, have you remembered?}

A mechanical voice appeared in his mind. Huo Li frowned slightly.

He really hadn’t expected there to be such an AI-like existence that broke all laws of technology.

He had originally wanted to have a conversation with the system, but he found that he could only perceive it in his dreams and couldn’t do anything extra.

{Host does not need to worry. Even if we cannot have a conversation, I can perceive what you are thinking.}

{Host is a person who has been forcibly implanted with the system and is also the second receiver. Therefore, you cannot use the system like other hosts. I apologize.}

The system began to explain, saying that he was not someone the system had found and signed a contract with. He had just received Yu Weixi’s system. And, he had originally discussed it with Yu Weixi, and he would later change the contract with the system and move it over. However, he had died in an assassination the next day.

So Yu Weixi had no choice but to have the system forcibly implant and invade him. This process had inevitably damaged his sea of consciousness, so in order to protect him, the system could only temporarily remain dormant in his sea of consciousness and could not be activated.

After hearing this, he still felt it was a bit magical.

No wonder… I was able to be reborn, to return to the starting point.

Everything had an explanation.

{Host has now completed the ‘Rebirth and Change Fate’ task. You now have a reward that can be exchanged!}

{Ah, let me explain here. The task content is to prevent the lover’s death and ensure their safety for sixty days after the original date of death! It’s exactly sixty days now!}

He raised an eyebrow slightly.

This task is really…

{The rewards here… you can exchange them for countless exchange times, for countless small rewards, or you can exchange them all at once for a big reward!}

He asked in his mind, what were they?

{Small rewards… there are the “golden gun that never falls” and the “youthful good waist” set that you need! There is also the wealth that you probably don’t need…}

The system said one by one.

{A big reward can only be exchanged once, such as the rebirth system that the previous host gave you…}

Huo Li: Is there anything that can cure diseases? Or something that can make people happy? Something that can eliminate depression.

Even rebirth is possible. This should also be possible.

The system replied as follows:

{Sorry, money can’t buy happiness.}

Huo Li: “…”

{Host, please know that the system cannot exchange for anything related to life and death. It can only take you back to the past through rebirth, for you to change it yourself. The same goes for emotions. Otherwise, the order of the world will be in chaos.}

Huo Li: Then is there anything I can give back to Yu Weixi?

{Now that you have been reborn to the past and have changed yourself, the previous host, Yu Weixi, has forgotten his past life and also has a system. It is detected that there is no life-threatening danger or need for the system’s help in the present and future.}

He and the system chatted about the rewards for a while, and in the end, he decided not to exchange for anything and to keep it for now, in case it was useful in the future.

{Alright, but please exchange it as soon as possible!}

He frowned. Why? Could it expire?

{It won’t expire, and the longer you keep it, the better! The reward is that the longer the task target lives, the higher the score that can be exchanged!}

To be honest, he was a little uncomfortable with the idea of treating Chu Qing’s survival time as a task.

But in any case, it was this system that had sent him back. The system was just a machine, so he would let it go.

So? Why do I have to exchange it early?

{It’s like this. The system has detected a new life in the task target’s belly! Therefore, the calculation will be bugged, and it might even start from the baby’s 0. At that time, the host will not earn but will lose!}

So that’s how it is.

…

No, wait.

Wait??!

He only felt his mind explode.

What did the system say?

{Does the host not understand? The task target is pregnant!}

…Oh my god.

His mind was shaken, and he directly broke the connection with the system, opened his eyes—and got up.

Chu Qing… his Qingbao…

He anxiously wanted to call him, but then he felt that he was already asleep and should not be disturbed.

He took a deep breath and turned to call his assistant.

“Send me the trial materials. I’ll look at them now!”

“Ah…?”

“And change my flight. I want to go back a day early.”

“…Oh.”

He held his phone and got up, pacing back and forth on the balcony.

This is the first time both of them are becoming fathers.

What a pity… he’s not by his side.

He was a little annoyed.

At such a critical moment, he’s actually not here.

At this moment, he had completely lost the usual calmness and aura he should have.

He was first shocked, and then a wave of joy washed over him. After all, his lover was pregnant. How could he not be happy? But after the initial wave of emotion passed, he felt worried again.

His physical and mental qualities were not good, and he had heard that pregnancy was very hard.

He couldn’t bear to let the person he wanted to hold in his palm and dote on suffer.

But now…

What’s done is done. All I can do is to do my best to take care of him.

He took a deep breath. He would do his best to take care of him, to make him comfortable, and to reduce his suffering as much as possible.

He was confident. He would accompany him to recover together.

And then they would have a home…

…

Ding…

He was woken up by the alarm clock. He opened his eyes and looked at the sky. The first thing he did was to grab his phone and check his messages with squinted, hazy eyes.

He had the last scene to shoot—Losessi’s farewell. He had to get up early to warm up with the dance teacher, practice the moves, and then shoot the farewell.

In Losessi’s farewell, he first danced with the other dancers, with his friends, his partners in the theater, the people he knew… saying goodbye to them one by one in his heart. Then he sat down and played a final farewell for Versailles.

This scene was sad, and it was also the famous scene of this drama, the most important scene for Losessi.

Director Roseland’s only requirement was—sadness.

Not a forced sadness, but a natural expression, a sadness that came from the bones. This was the end of Losessi’s life.

“You should have no problem,” he said. A few of the mentors from the music group, including Monk, had come to supervise.

He looked at him with a grin. “I see you’ve been very down these past three days.”

He retorted, “I’ve been eating well and sleeping well.”

After a pause, he added, “I… I’ve been eating more than usual and sleeping more than usual.”

He had been working hard. With Huo Li gone, he had to live a good life and wait for him to come back.

Hearing this, Monk just raised an eyebrow with a smile.

He had not shown his sadness, but he was really very sad now.

Not only Monk, who understood him and was perceptive, but Yu Weixi also knew that he had been in a bad mood these past few days and had been buying him delicious and fun things in various ways, and had been with him all the time after work.

So he had also worked even harder. He could not let everyone down for their kindness to him.

“Chu, let’s begin!”

“Good.”

…

After a dance, they saw him sit down at the grand piano in the center of the theater.

He lowered his head, his long hair falling naturally.

He placed his ten fingers on the keys, took a deep breath, and as if he had swallowed all the words he wanted to say, he began to play slowly.

His eyes had no emotion, and he played like a walking corpse.

—Only music.

Music and singing could not lie. No matter how well you pretended, the music was sad. What those ten fingers had constructed was a realm of endless pain.

Pain was not scary. What was scary was that there was no end in sight.

But Losessi’s end had already arrived.

And Versailles, who was sitting on the side, listening to him play, did not know his plan. He just felt… that he was very beautiful at this moment.

He took a deep breath.

He would not be unable to act out the feeling of sadness. Huo Li was his joy, and also his sorrow.

He thought, If I can’t be with the person I like, just like him, then I will definitely be just as sad.

…

Will you love me when the roses bloom…
Will you love me when the sun falls…
I will love you through the thorns…
I will love you even if it wouldn’t rise…
I love you…

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