Crimson alert banners flashed across Gu Changsheng’s vision as the emergency chime of the [Super Dad & Plot-Breaker System] echoed inside his mind.
[URGENT FAMILY PROTECTION ALERT — FLOORS 2 & 3 INK-SEA LIBRARY!]
[The Chief Author of Fate has activated the “100x Speed Mandatory Orphanhood Overwrite” across 10,000,000,000,000 Jade Destiny Books!]
[Time Remaining Before Fatal “Dead Parent” Accidents Are Locked into Lower-Realm Reality: 29 Minutes, 54 Seconds!]
Gu Changsheng’s easygoing smile vanished, replaced by the calm, razor-sharp focus of a father whose children’s friends and neighbors were being threatened. He tapped his [Frost-Pine Town Iron Wok Spatula] once against his palm and turned toward the inner gatehouse at the back of the plaza.
“Thirty minutes to edit ten trillion books?” Gu Changsheng said dryly, rolling his shoulders beneath his blue kitchen apron.
“That hack writer really thinks he can pull an all-nighter to murder parents behind my back. Kids, Qingxue, Elders—pack up the portable seasoning rack. We are moving the kitchen upstairs.”
“Captain Tie Shan!” Grandpa Fu called out crisply, tapping his [Rank 9 Jade-Abacus Cane] against the porch stone as he addressed the newly recruited First Executioner Commander.
