TCFMSCBF 1: Transmigrating into a Book

Three in the morning. Inside a warm bed, there was only the faint glow of a phone in night mode. Chi Chi hugged his big white goose plushie, his eyes moist with tears.

【Before school was even over, the little cubs on their first day of kindergarten saw their parents and ran over, crying “Daddy, Mommy” in soft and sweet voices.】

【The shou^[1] cub stood where he was, tugging at his sleeves before holding the little red flower^[2] in his hand high. “Class isn’t over yet. Teacher said we can’t leave early… I-I’m the class monitor…”】

Chi Chi gnawed on the goose’s neck. Wuwuwu, cub, don’t cry, Daddy will give you a hug.

【The gong^[3] cub turned his head and saw the shou cub standing in place, suddenly remembering something—the shou cub’s parents had apparently passed away.】

Chi Chi: Wuwuwu, gong cub, hurry up and hug your wife!

【He was just about to walk toward the shou cub when, suddenly, a hand that didn’t belong to him reached out from behind the shou cub and snatched away the little red flower in his hand.】

Chi Chi: ???

【The shou cub turned to look. It was a classmate named ‘Huo Xiao Cha.’】

【Huo Xiao Cha had a serious expression and a solemn tone: “Teacher said that people who cry today don’t get little red flowers. I’m going to tell Teacher to confiscate your little red flower.”】

Chi Chi: !!!

Give the little red flower back to him! Huo Xiao Cha!

While Chi Chi squeezed the big white goose’s long neck, he opened the comments section.

Transmigrated as the Little Bamboo Horse^[4] of the Goose-garten^[5] Bully^[6] was a completed novel, and there were already many comments on this chapter.

Some readers were just like him—wary of ‘Huo Xiao Cha’ and visiting the comments section to ask for spoilers.

【Requesting spoilers: Is Huo Xiao Cha a supporting character? Does he have a lot of scenes?】

【Floor 1: He’s a vicious male supporting character with a ton of scenes. He doesn’t exit the story until the very end—he’s so annoying. I wish I could transmigrate into the book and stab him.】

【Floor 2 Makka Pakka: It’s not that extreme. He just had a bad family of origin.】

【Floor 3: It’s one thing to blame his ‘family of origin’ for fighting over little red flowers with the protagonists when they were kids, but as an adult, he went out of his way to set traps for the couple. He even tried to crash a plane into them—can you really blame that on his ‘family of origin’? Family of origin is like a brick; you just move it wherever you need it to justify something.】

【Floor 4 Makka Pakka: I’m just saying that the impact of one’s family of origin lasts a lifetime. Huo Xiao Cha was an illegitimate son whose wealthy father refused to acknowledge him, and his mother only used him as a tool for extortion. That’s why he turned out this way. Besides, he regretted that final incident with the plane, and in the end, he died after crashing into a mountain himself.】

…

A high-rise of dozens of replies was built under this comment, mostly consisting of ‘Makka Pakka battling the masses single-handedly.’

The last few comments went like this—

【Floor 25: Unbelievable. Since Makka Pakka likes Huo Xiao Cha so much, then why don’t you go into the book and teach him yourself? Let’s see if you can handle it. Don’t come back crying and screaming once you’ve been honored by Huo Xiao Cha’s “filial piety.”】

【Floor 26: Hahahaha, transmigration-into-a-book warning!】

【Floor 27 Makka Pakka: Thank you. I will.】

【Floor 28: ??? Why am I suddenly confused? Makka Pakka, are you still there? Say something, Makka Pakka!】

The thread went completely off the rails from that point on. Everyone was calling out for ‘Makka Pakka,’ but ‘Makka Pakka’ never appeared again.

Chi Chi grinned and added a reply: “Makka Pakka, please respond if you copy,” then exited the comments section and continued reading.

*

Six in the morning. The protagonist couple had successfully grown up and married, then the villain had received his deserved punishment.

Chi Chi contentedly stuffed his phone under his pillow, hugged his big white goose, and rolled over, finally ready to sleep.

After staying up all night, he was exhausted and quickly fell asleep.

In his dream, there were two very cute little cubs. Chi Chi hugged the squishy big white goose tightly. “Hehe… cub… slurp^[7]… hehe…”

Suddenly, Chi Chi thought he heard the big white goose call out.

“Daddy?”

Chi Chi: Hehe… cub… the cub is calling me daddy…

“Daddy? Daddy?!”

The thing in his arms struggled a couple of times, hitting Chi Chi and hurting him. Only then did Chi Chi blearily open his eyes…

?!!!

What is this thing?!

Chi Chi sprang up from the bed in an instant, staring at the little cub curled up on the mattress. 

The little cub was lying on his side, fast asleep in a fetal position. He appeared to still be dreaming. “Daddy, don’t hit me, I’m scared.”

Chi Chi grabbed a pillow to shield himself and weakly said, “Little kid, I’m the one who should be scared, right? I remember being the only one in my house…”

So…

Chi Chi blinked. Did my big white goose turn into a spirit?

He looked around. His surroundings were unfamiliar, and this wasn’t his room. His gaze drifted back to the ‘big white goose,’ and his brain, foggy from staying up all night reading, slowly began to turn.

Big white goose, white goose, goose…

Goose-son!^[8]

It seemed he had transmigrated into a book—the very one he had just finished reading last night, Transmigrated as the Little Bamboo Horse of the Goose-garten Bully!

Chi Chi was greatly shocked, but then he quickly lay back down beside the little cub. 

Transmigrating or whatever wasn’t the issue. First, he had to admire this paper-man character up close.

The little cub is good-looking—fair-skinned and clean, with soft black hair falling over his forehead.

He was even cuter than the little cub in his dreams.

So is this the gong cub or the shou cub?

Under Chi Chi’s loving gaze, the cub’s long eyelashes fluttered, and he slowly opened his eyes.

“Daddy…”

Chi Chi bit down on his own hand—Ow! The cub called me daddy!

The little cub raised a hand to rub his eyes. He stole a glance at Chi Chi and whispered, “Daddy, Xiao Cha wants to sleep a little longer, is that okay?”

“Of course…” The smile on Chi Chi’s face slowly vanished. “Huh?”

Xiao… Xiao Cha?

Refusing to give up, Chi Chi asked once more, “Little friend, is your name Huo Xiao Cha?”

That Huo Xiao Cha? The unloved-by-his-parents, vicious male supporting character who specifically steals little red flowers from the protagonist cubs?

Out of Chi Chi’s sight, the cub curled his lips in a pout. However, maintaining his cute appearance, he nodded at him. “Yeah, Daddy, what’s wrong?”

“Nothing’s wrong. It’s fine. It’s just great.”

Chi Chi reached out his ‘demonic claws^[9]’ toward him.

Chi Chi’s hands were about to turn into the crane of a claw machine! 

Is there anywhere in this book that can recycle a vicious male supporting character in his early childhood stage?

Huo Xiao Cha dodged his hand and burrowed straight into his arms, saying with an adorable and sleepy nasal tone, “Daddy, I’m sorry, I won’t sleep anymore. Daddy, please don’t be mad, okay?”

Chi Chi choked up, feeling as though he had been struck by something right in the heart. The string in his mind completely snapped as he scooped the cub into his arms. “Daddy’s here. Sleep—sleep as much as you want.”

Just like he would hug his big white goose, Chi Chi held him close and gently patted his back.

Chi Chi had stayed up all night reading the story, so he hadn’t slept much to begin with. Not long after closing his eyes, he actually fell fast asleep.

On his first day as the biological father of the vicious male supporting character, on the very first morning, Chi Chi was out cold.

Huo Xiao Cha lifted his head from Chi Chi’s arms, looking at him with a scrutinizing gaze. 

What’s wrong with his daddy today? Why does he seem so strange?

In Huo Xiao Cha’s memory, his daddy was always very strange.

A few years ago, when he was still very small, his daddy was still very good to him. He would cook delicious food for him, dress him in nice clothes, and even take him to the Huo residence to introduce him to the family.

Yet later, the Huo family made it explicitly clear that they would never allow his daddy to step through their doors with him, and everything changed.

His daddy started becoming very impatient with him. Every month, he would make him call his ‘Big Daddy’ to ask for money. Once the money was in hand, his daddy would go out to have fun. He would leave behind a lot of puffed junk food and, only when he happened to remember, call Grandpa Zhang from downstairs to come up and check on him. 

Yesterday, his daddy had just happened to run out of money, which was the only reason he had come back to make him place the call. 

After the call, it was already too late so his daddy stayed and slept at home for the night.

Huo Xiao Cha was originally supposed to sleep separately from him, but he missed his daddy far too much. So, after his daddy fell asleep, he toted his little pillow and blanket over, wanting to sleep with him.

However, his daddy didn’t like him. He had planned to sneak away before his daddy woke up, but he had slept too soundly and ended up being discovered.

Huo Xiao Cha looked at Chi Chi and tentatively reached out his hand, touching his hair and ears. 

He hadn’t dared to look up at his daddy last night. Only now did he see that his daddy had dyed his hair back to its original color, and his ear piercings were gone.

Was it possible that his daddy was going to change yet again?

Huo Xiao Cha’s eyes were red, but he quickly sat back up again.

No, he couldn’t let himself be fooled by surface appearances. He had already made a plan for his life—once he turned eighteen, he was going to leave his daddy.

Huo Xiao Cha kicked his short little legs as he climbed off the bed and walked out of the room without looking back.

*

Twelve o’clock noon. Chi Chi, who was used to staying up late, woke up right on time.

He fumbled for his phone from under the pillow and successfully unlocked it with his fingerprint.

Mhm, it’s his phone. It seems he has returned to the real world. The book-transmigration experience was quite good, and the little cub was very cute—it’s just that he couldn’t handle the vicious male supporting character calling him ‘Daddy.’

Chi Chi scrolled through his phone for a while before sluggishly crawling out of bed and pulling open the door.

…

This was a scene he had never seen before. The living room and kitchen were separated by a glass door.

A little cub, wearing an oversized apron and standing on a small stool in front of the stove, was tossing green vegetables into a pot.

Chi Chi’s footsteps faltered, and he tentatively called out, “Huo… Huo Xiao Cha?”

Huo Xiao Cha turned his head. “Daddy.”

Chi Chi almost couldn’t catch his breath.

Had he really transmigrated into the book?

Help…

Chi Chi leaned against the wall. He walked over tenaciously and picked the cub up off the stool. He then took off his apron and put it on himself. “Let me… let Daddy do it.”

Even if he wasn’t his own flesh and blood, and even if he was a vicious male supporting character, there was no way Chi Chi could stand by and watch a five-year-old child standing by the stove, lighting the fire and cooking.

Huo Xiao Cha stood beside him, looking up at him.

Is he going to be nice to him again, and then take him to the Huo residence to be recognized?

Chi Chi gripped the chopsticks, continuously stirring the green vegetables in the pot.

Is it cooked?

Why does it still feel a bit raw? Better cook it for a little while longer.

Chi Chi stirred the pot soullessly, turned his head, and met Huo Xiao Cha’s gaze.

Chi Chi calmed himself down, giving him a ‘loving’ smile. “Xiao Cha, what were you planning to cook just now?”

Huo Xiao Cha pointed at the countertop. “Instant noodles.”

“Adding green vegetables to instant noodles? You’re actually quite health-conscious.”

“Daddy said before that meals should have balanced nutrition, and that I should eat more green vegetables.”

“How is eating instant noodles ‘balanced’?” Chi Chi muttered, then turned back, only to find the green vegetables had turned yellow. He hurriedly, in a flurry, scooped the vegetables out of the pot.

In the living room, Chi Chi and Huo Xiao Cha sat side-by-side on the floor in front of the table, with two cups of instant noodles set before them, along with a dish of lettuce with oyster sauce—oyster sauce and “over-cooked” vegetables.

Huo Xiao Cha picked up a limp, yellowish leaf with his chopsticks. “Daddy, the vegetables are over-blanched.”

“It’s not good for children to eat raw things.” Chi Chi calmly served him more vegetables, “Eat more. This is proof of Daddy’s love for you.”

Huo Xiao Cha frowned as he swallowed a leaf. He silently pushed the dish away, then took out the remote and turned on the TV.

The moment it was turned on, it was the children’s channel. It must be what Huo Xiao Cha usually watches—

【In the Night Garden—Upsy Daisy—Makka Pakka—】

Chi Chi gave a start and suddenly looked up. “Makka Pakka?!”

【Makka Pakka, go teach Huo Xiao Cha then.】

【Hahahaha, Makka Pakka Transmigration Warning.】

So Makka Pakka was actually me!

Chi Chi bit through his noodles fiercely. He turned his head and snatched the remote from Huo Xiao Cha’s hand. “You’re not allowed to watch this.”

He switched the channel to the Legal Channel’s Today’s Law. “Children should watch more of this.”

Especially the kind like you—a vicious male supporting character who, after growing up, will be a “roc spreading its wings^[10]” on the very edge of the law.