This couldn't be happening. Was he hallucinating?

  "Xian?"

  The said girl skipped down the stairs and ran to hug him.

  "Xuān! Why are you home so late today? Did you join a club?"

  What was happening? How was his sister here?

  He looked at the shorter girl and gently pulled her off of himself.

  Yè Xian just smiled at him in return. That was....weird. His sister was not the one to smile like that if she saw him. Something was definitely wrong.

  The system giggled from behind him, its voice, as always, ugly to Xuān's ears.

  He glared at the system, annoyed and confused.

  Syntar floated closer and feigned an innocent expression and smiled.

  "Why host, don't you like the gift? The system prepared it just for you!"

  Xuān was angry. Was this a joke? He wanted to lash out at the system.

  He'd had enough.

  'Xian' kept questioning him about his day and Xuān felt a sharp headache. He handed his bag to a random maid and walked towards the stairs.

  "I am tired. Don't disturb me."

  He explained and walked up the stairs.

  Well, now, there was a problem. Which room was his? This mansion had too many rooms!

  After a few minutes, he finally found his room as a maid bowed to him, exiting a room, and said, "your room is cleaned, young master!"

  He internally cringed at the term but nodded and went inside his room. He locked the door and turned to the system that has been following him.

  "Explain."

  Syntar just giggled and sat down on the bed.

  "Well, host looked like he was missing his family! So, system thought to add your sister! Doesn't host like it? It took the system a lot of time to come up with all the data and make a perfect clone of his sister!"

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  Xuān was beyond angry. He frowned at the system.

  "This is unnecessary."

  Syntar just shrugged. It floated and stopped near his face.

  "Why? It took Syntar a lot of efforts to perfect the appearance! It would be a waste of its efforts to delete it now. Host should be-"

  "I said I don't need it."

  Xuān repeated. His voice slightly raised.

  "Ah, sorry. But Syntar can't do that. It takes a lot of coding to add or delete characters. An error might occur. Host is too sensitive."

  Xuān rolled his eyes and sat down on the bed.

  "You are an ass."

  Syntar just snickered.

  "And here Syntar thought that the host was innocent and didn't curse."

  "Shut up."

  Xuān sighed and leaned back.

  He looked around the room and...found nothing of his interest. The room considerably big and spacious.

  It had been just cleaned and was spotless.

  There was a PC on the desk.

  A small shelves with books. But all of them seemed to be mangas or such. He went and picked one up, turned the pages. He immediately shut the book after looking at the content. He put the book back and made a mental note to get rid of them later.

  Xuān didn't like the room one bit.

  It was so unfamiliar and so ugly. What kind of taste did the original owner of this body even have? He must have been a disgrace to humanity.

  He sat down on the bed again, a soft sigh escaped his lips. Syntar just kept staring at him.

  Then, he heard a knock. He turned his gaze towards the door.

  "Who is it?"

  "Young master, you should go take a bath. The dinner will be ready in an hour. Today, Mr and Mrs Yè would be present at the dinner.

  Wow. He has to meet 'his' parents too now? Hopefully the system didn't make his parents' clone.

  ~~~~~~~

  Apparently, the system was too lazy to clone each member of his family because now he found himself sitting on a large table with two random strangers who were supposedly his 'parents'.

  The dinner was very quiet. No one tried to make any small conversation except for the clone—he refused to call that clone his sister.

  The dinner ended without any events. Which was a good thing for Xuān.

  Xuān was back in his room, lying on his bed.

  He was exhausted from everything that happened today. First, he got hit by a car. Then he woke up in a stupid game. Can't you give a smart guy a break? There's only so much geniuses can handle.

  He hoped when he woke up this time, it would all have been a dream.

  That none of this was real.

  He desperately wished that this was all fake.

  He just wanted to go back.

  Slowly, he felt his eyes grow heavy. Soon, he fell asleep.

  ~~~~~~~~~~

  He was back at school. A driver had just dropped him off in a luxurious car.

  He entered the school grounds. There were students everywhere. A few waved at him, but he ignored them. First, he didn't even know them, second, it was awkward.

  The system followed him around as usual.

  "Host, today you must participate in the story! Since the canon plot has officially started you'll have to do lots of work and do your role properly."

  "You mean I need to play matchmaker."

  Syntar just giggled in response. Doesn't it know that it's mechanical voice is ugly to hear? It should especially not giggle.

  "Either way host. Today, you have a total of one task!"

  "Yay. I am so excited."

  Xuān remarked with a nonchalant, sarcastic tone.

  He made sure to keep his voice low so others wouldn't hear him talk to 'air'.

  "Host has a unique enthusiasm."

  "It's called sarcasm."

  "Your task, host."

  A blue holographic screen appeared in front of him and he read the text.

  [Task 1]

  Ensure the protagonist stays at school long enough to meet Saeko.

  "What is this?"

  "Your task!"

  The system offered helpfully.

  Yeah no shit, Xuān thought the blue screan was a freaking dog.

  "I meant, this is stupid. As much as I don't want to be the petty antagonist, this task is too small isn't it? Can't you atleast give me a real task?"

  "Don't whine host. You are a minor character. Remember? You aren't even the main antagonist or villain. Besides! This is important! If Kaito and Saeko don't meet, it will postpone their first key interaction!"

  "Sure. I don't care."

  The system floated closer, a mischievous glint in its eyes.

  "If you need ideas, then Syntar can help! Considering your character, maybe host should lock him in a storage room. Or maybe host could push the protagonist down the stairs, and send him to infirmary!"

  "No way." Xuān responded dryly. "By any chance, are you sadistic?"

  "Sadistic? Systems can't feel pleasure...or anything in particular. So, unfortunately, no."

  "Keep your ideas to yourself. I'll figure it out."

  "As long as you stay in character."

  Xuān belatedly realised a group of girls looking at him suspiciously and he speed walked inside the school building. It was going to be a long day.