Hovering at the center of Floor Nine, the solar-system-sized [Supreme Dad Care-Package Upgrade Box] glowed like a miniature golden sun. Its open lid revealing three vast, velvet-lined fusion slots engraved with the ultimate law of Gu Changsheng’s system:
[UPGRADE BOX RULE #1: REMOVE 100.00% OF ALL FLAWS, MALICE, CURSES & BUGS — RETAIN AND AMPLIFY 100.00% OF BENEFICIAL UTILITY!]
Inside Gu Changsheng’s right hand, the scrawny Chief Author of Fate stared down into the glowing golden depths of Slot Two. His ink-stained knees knocking together like castanets as the warm scent of laundry soap, roasted chicken. Elementary school textbooks wafted up from the bottom of the box.
“Wait! Let’s talk about this like fellow creators, Gu Changsheng!” the Chief Author babbled frantically, grabbing onto Gu Changsheng’s wrist with both hands. Meanwhile, he tried to keep his boots from touching the rim of the box.
“I can rewrite the ending for you right now! I’ll make you the sole Emperor of Ten Thousand Realms! I’ll give your kids a billion spirit mines!
Just don’t put me in the box that turns bad guys into polite public servants!!”
“My kids already have a warm home, and I prefer being a dad to being an emperor,” Gu Changsheng said mildly.
