Meanwhile.
In the backyard of a spacious house, a black-haired man with slightly yellow skin was sitting in a rocking chair. In his hand, there was a light novel from Yae Publishing House.
His posture looked lazy, and he had even been sitting while reading the novel from morning to noon.
His name was Ye Chen.
In the previous world, he was a 21-year-old corporate slave with a salary neither big nor small. He was single, had never dated any women and often used his free time to play games.
In other words, he was an ordinary and rather pathetic man.
On his way home from his company, he was even more unlucky. A truck hit him and here he is now.
It had been over a month since he realized he had transmigrated to the world of Genshin Impact.
At first, he panicked because after being transported to another world, he didn't have a single acquaintance or money.
He was basically homeless!
But as if he was the protagonist of a fanfic novel, he happened to meet Morax who was using his human identity, Zhongli.
With his acting skills, he tried to make a good impression on him. For example, he gave him one of the grilled fish that he had cooked in the forest that day.
Morax seemed to like it and praised him for it. He said, "What an amazing young man."
The next day,
Some soldiers or security forces in Liyue called Millelith found him and took him to the Jade Chamber.
He met his favorite female characters in the games he had played. Ningguang and Keqing.
They both treated him with courtesy. The former gave him money and a place to stay.
But what made Ye Chen most excited was that she suddenly became his fiancee!
"That old man, Morax. He is very kind."
Although he did not know what the Stone God saw in a transmigrator like himself. All that could obviously happen because he had been doing something behind the scenes.
He certainly did not reject his kindness and was grateful.
"Still, it's been over a month... My rich and beautiful fiancé seems to be deliberately ignoring me."
Thinking of Ningguang's figure, Ye Chen's expression became lascivious.
What man doesn't like beautiful women?
He wasn't one of them!
"Of course, I know she must have objected to this engagement. She was obviously forced to obey Morax's orders."
"But..." Ye Chen closed the novel in his hand and grinned, "It's only temporary! In a moment, I make that arrogant woman submit to me and call me husband. Hahaha!"
Unfortunately, when he was laughing alone while fantasizing. He didn't know his fiancée was talking to Eiji and letting him touch her.
Since they first met, Ningguang had never even let her fiancé touch her and kept her distance with a polite smile.
Ye Chen did not notice a transparent green hat on top of his head.
He suddenly said, "System, it's been half a day since I was lazy. Where are my rewards?"
Immediately, a blue transparent screen with white text appeared before his eyes.
It was his golden finger as a transmigrator, System!
Surely there was a reason why he had been slacking off for over a month. He would not be surprised if people who recognized him including his fiancée had a bad impression of him.
Even so, Ye Chen did not mind enduring the humiliation temporarily before slapping everyone who looked down on him.
This was why he was confident.
[Ding! It was detected that the host has been lazing around all day and looks like a useless person.]
[For your achievement this time, you get Pika Pika No Mi from One Piece (no side effects).]
"Great! The reward this time isn't trash."
The name of the system is the Salted Fish System.
As the name seemed to suggest, as long as he often lay down or continued to be lazy, he would get random rewards.
For over a month, Ye Chen had gotten many rewards of course. But only a few of them were actually useful to him.
Put aside the things he called useless. Besides Pika Pika No Mi- the good rewards he had gotten were Double Happiness (when the user feels happiness, that happiness is doubled), Charming Demeanor (Easy to get support from the same sex) and Skillful Hands (Various life skill talents are improved, and hand techniques are significantly improved).
"Now that I think about it, Morax was probably influenced by my charm. Tsk! Unfortunately this charm is only useful to men!"
"Why not the other way around? That way, Ningguang and the other beautiful women of Teyvat..."
Even with Double Happiness, the happiness Ye Chen felt after gaining combat power from Pika Pika No Mi still diminished when he thought of that.
He shook his head and took out a strange-looking fruit from the system storage.
Without hesitation, he buried it. Instantly, his complexion turned pale and his cheeks puffed up.
"Hueek...!"
Protagonist Ye Chen vomited from the taste of the Devil Fruit.
The scene was disgusting.
He almost wanted to cry.
"It tastes like trash even though I've never eaten trash! System, why don't you change the flavor?"
Actually, he thought after the side effects of Devil Fruit such as not being able to swim and the weakness to Sea Water and Sea Stone that weakened the user. The flavor of the notoriously disgusting Devil Fruit from the original work changed.
But he was wrong.
[The system only removed the side effects, not the flavor, host.]
The system's voice was like an emotionless woman.
"Tsk! Forget it." Ye Chen clicked his tongue and immediately tested Pika Pika No Mi's ability. He instinctively knew how to do it.
His figure turned into a golden-colored light and moved around the backyard very quickly.
He could now manipulate light and move as fast as light like Kizaru! Not only that, since he had been watching One Piece, he knew there were still many things the Pika Pika No Mi user could do.
A few minutes later.
Ye Chen finally came out of the house, he was planning to visit his fiancée for the first time.
There was a smile on his face because now, he could finally change the way she looked at him.
He would show off his power and help her solve some problems that were difficult for ordinary people to do.
That way, Ningguang would at least have a good impression on him, right?
She would fall in love with him and marry him right after that!
"Hehehehe. Oh, there are also Keqing and other beautiful women in Liyue. Having one wife won't be enough for a man like me, I have to make a Harem so as not to embarrass the other men (transmigrators) who are as lucky as me."
On the way, Ye Chen laughed and ignored the bad looks from the Liyue residents who recognized him.
His identity as Ningguang's fiancée must have spread to the point that almost everyone knew about it.
Many men were jealous of him and often gave him disdainful looks. Ye Chen was used to it and enjoyed it, but...
"Hm? Is it just me or are their gazes more mocking than usual? Not only that, they don't look envious of me."
The men he passed on the street glanced at him and then laughed. The women did the same.
Ye Chen frowned.
"Hey, is that him?"
"Yes, that is Lady Ningguang's fiance."
"Geez, I don't know how Lady Ningguang got engaged to him but... I'm sure it won't be long."
"Hehe, that's right! I heard that this afternoon Lady Ningguang invited a very handsome man to her residence. Reportedly, he will stay with her temporarily and be given a bedroom in the Jade Chamber."
"Wow! That man is so lucky! I'm so envious. As far as I know, no guest has ever received such an honor before."
"Not even Lady Ningguang's fiancé?"
"Yes, Lady Ningguang seems to be making her fiancé stay away from her."
"Pfft! That's pathetic."
The people were whispering in a not-so-low voice.
They were clearly doing it on purpose and wanted him to hear.
Ye Chen's expression became ugly, he walked up to one of the men talking about him and pulled his collar. "Where did you hear that news?!"
His sharp voice attracted the attention of the people around.
However, he did not care and stared at the surprised expression of the man in front of him with a cold gaze.
"Y-You... What are you doing? Let go of me!
"Answer me!"
Ye Chen looked terrifying at this moment, he was like a husband who knew his wife might be having an affair.
To be honest, he hoped everything he heard was nonsense.
There was no way Ningguang would do such a thing when she was already engaged.
"Hiik!" The male NPC was frightened and replied, "I-I heard it from some Millelith soldiers on patrol, and they said they heard it from one of Lady Ningguang's secretaries who was gossiping with other women."
Hearing this, Ye Chen let go of him and rushed towards the Jade Chamber.
Although he did not believe it right away and wanted to confirm it himself, he had a bad feeling.
He was a fanfic protagonist, no other man should have such a relationship with the women he liked.
In the original work, Ningguang never even had a fiancé.
'I know, that guy must have a purely cooperative relationship with Ningguang.'
'They are not that close to each other.'
Ye Chen convinced himself.
...
On the other side.
In Ningguang's study.
While Lumine, Paimon and Keqing reluctantly left the two of them and went elsewhere.
"Eiji, are you sure this will really work? Ye Chen is a lazy man, just like me, he doesn't seem to care much about this engagement."
That was the impression Ningguang had of her fiancé.
Otherwise, the other party would have come to her long ago and probably asked her to do outrageous things.
She would have refused of course.
Eiji casually said, "Trust me, he will come."
A moment ago.
He had heard how the description of the man named Ye Chen from Ningguang was.
Just from the information about him spending over a month lazing around in the house.
He was almost certain that Ye Chen had a system related to his actions.
It had actually been confirmed by his ability, Rasiel.
That was why he told Ningguang to spread the news about him through her secretaries.
[Ye Chen is a salted fish type protagonist. Him being lazy doesn't mean he's not interested in doing other things, especially when he has a fiancée as beautiful as Ningguang.]
[This man has a system. As long as he's lazy, he'll get random rewards including an increase in power.]
Ye Chen has such a thing?
Isn't that cheating?
Ningguang was surprised but she felt that the man in front of her was more underhanded and mysterious. He could find out what Ye Chen's secrets were when he had never even met him.
By the way, they were now preparing to perform a play.
This was Eiji's idea and she agreed.
Although she wasn't sure how this would help solve her engagement problem.
[Host, you obviously just want to give the protagonist a green hat.]
'Miss System, that's not true. I'm also helping Ningguang.'
More precisely, this is one of the processes.
"While waiting, how about you take a look at this, Ningguang?" Eiji handed a blueprint to the woman in front of him.
Not only was he dealing with the protagonist, he was also taking this opportunity to woo the heroine.
"This..." Ningguang took the blueprint and was reading it. Immediately, her eyes lit up like a businessman when she saw the opportunity to gain more money and power.
Eiji knew a woman like Ningguang wouldn't be moved just by his good looks.
That was why he used the Emperor Mechanic's ability to create a technology and used his Creation Magic to write it down in blueprints.
"It is a blueprint of a Teleportation Gate that allows anyone to travel long distances in an instant. For example, you can go from Liyue to Monstadt within seconds without worrying about the long travel time. I'm sure a woman like you can understand the value of this technology."
In Teyvat, the level of technology such as means of transportation still lags far behind the earth. In the past, the Khaenri'ah who were renowned for their technological development had not even invented anything similar to a motorcycle or a car.
They focused on other things.
What Eiji is offering is a technology that is much higher level and the benefits are enormous!
Ningguang was excited, "I see. This is amazing! It's not just magic, it's the application of Geo principles coordinated with Electro energy or lightning to create stable spatial distortions! Why did you give it to me, Eiji? This technology can make you the richest and most powerful person in Teyvat after you create it."
Eiji shook his head, "Money is not my main goal, Ningguang. My goal is you."
"Me?" Ningguang widened her eyes and felt her face heat up a little. She was not stupid enough to not understand what Eiji's words meant.
He was wooing her!
And the Teleportation Gate blueprint was his bait.
"Yes." Like a demon tempting a human, Eiji began to say more, "Imagine that right now, the journey from Liyue Port to Jueyun Karst takes hours, even with the best horses."
He then pointed at the blueprint in Ningguang's hand, "But with the Teleportation Gate that even I have customized to the elements in this world..."
Ningguang gulped, "With this gate... the trip can be done in seconds."
"Exactly. Imagine if we installed Teleportation Gates at every military outpost, in every remote village, and at the major trading points in the Seven Nations."
Ningguang's breathing quickened slightly, her large chest seeming to rise and fall as she adjusted her sitting position.
The way she looked at the man in front of her was not the same as before, she was now looking at him flirtatiously.
Keqing, her secretaries and many people in Liyue would definitely be surprised.
After all, who was Ningguang? Before being forced into an engagement with a man like Ye Chen. She had long been single and as a person who could be called the Queen of business, she was not interested in romance between men and women.
She was only interested in the Teyvat currency called Mora.
Her obsession with acquiring Mora made her one of Liyue Qixing and the richest woman in Teyvat.
But more than that, she wanted to expand her business empire to include the other six nations.
It was a dream she had yet to achieve at the moment.
But with the blueprints in her hand and Eiji's help...
Oh my! This man was not only extremely handsome, he managed to make this woman very interested in him.
"Assuming that Liyue becomes the owner of this technology and leases it to other countries. Liyue will benefit greatly. Trade will also explode. Emergency responses to crises—be it monster attacks or natural disasters—could happen instantly."
[As expected from Ningguang. This one wife-to-be seems fit to be the one to manage all my businesses in Teyvat. She will make a lot of money for me and make it easier for me to do things in this world.]
The heroines of the Draconic Deus became a little interested in Ningguang.
That was because among the three heroines of Teyvat, she was the one who received the highest praise from Eiji.
Ningguang felt proud, but was also stunned to hear how Eiji mentioned her in his heart.
One of his wives?
That meant he had other women who were his wives out there. However, Ningguang thought it was normal.
With just his face, Eiji could make many women in Teyvat throw themselves at him.
Combined with his abilities... At least as far as she was concerned. Even she couldn't help but like him and wouldn't mind being...
"Eiji."
Under Eiji's surprised gaze, Ningguang got up from her seat and walked towards him flirtatiously.
Instead of sitting beside him, she sat on his lap and wrapped her slender arms around his neck.
Ye Chen, hurry up and come!
Eiji was excited.
"Yes? Ningguang, do you agree?"
He shamelessly hugged her waist and rubbed her legs.
Ningguang stiffened slightly, but then smiled and looked at his handsome face with a charming gaze. "You gave me the key to revolutionize all of Liyue and even Teyvat, Eiji. You really are... cheating. It's hard for me not to be tempted by your offer. I wanted to agree but now I'm still engaged."
She sighed when remembering Morax's request for her to get engaged to Ye Chen.
Eiji smiled and pinched Ningguang's chin, their lips so close that anyone would think they were kissing.
Ningguang's heartbeat beat faster, this was the first time a man had done this to her.
She was nervous of course, but there was anticipation and a sense of immorality in her heart. Especially when she was a woman who was engaged to another man.
"Don't worry about it. Did you forget? We are now in the process of canceling your engagement. As for Morax? If he has any problems, I'll deal with him."
Eiji said domineeringly.
Ningguang was moved and the next second, their lips met.
"Hmmm~"
They kissed and Eiji did not hesitate to stick out his tongue. Ningguang opened her mouth and awkwardly moved her tongue.
It was her first kiss. She did not expect to lose it to a man she had known for two hours.
But just as they exchanged water with each other, the office door opened.
*Bang!*
Ye Chen walked in impatiently and froze when he saw the scene in front of him.
His fiancée, Ningguang was sitting on another man's lap while wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing.
From his vantage point, he could even see their tongues and saliva intertwining. Just then, his face gradually turned green and his body trembled.
"Ningguang! You, you're having an affair?!"
Hearing this, Ningguang who was immersed in the kiss gasped and glanced at the man standing at the door.
She felt embarrassed, but remembered this was part of her and Eiji's plan. So, she wiped the saliva on her lips and looked at her fiancé indifferently.
"Ye Chen, what a coincidence that you came. That's right, I had an affair."
"You admit it?!"
Ye Chen was dumbfounded, he didn't expect Ningguang to not bother to refute. It made his heart hurt even more like an NTR victim.
There was also a feeling of humiliation when seeing Eiji still hugging Ningguang's body.
He himself never did it as her fiance.
How could he?!
"Why not? Ye Chen, from the beginning I was forced to get engaged to you because of the request of the Stone God, Morax. But now... I can't hold it in anymore, I have a man that I like. Therefore, I am canceling my engagement with you."
Ningguang didn't ask, she made an announcement.
"What?! No, you can't do this. I don't agree!"
Ye Chen was reluctant to let go of a woman as beautiful as Ningguang and let another man have her.
Ningguang was disgusted.
"It's already decided, you can't refuse unless..."
"Unless what?" Ye Chen was curious.
Ningguang smiled and pecked Eiji's lips before his eyes.
"You don't mind bearing a green hat."
"No! No way! I, Ye Chen, will not accept such an insult!" Veins bulging on the protagonist's forehead, he then pointed at Eiji. "And you, who are you? Don't you know Ningguang is my fiancee? Morax himself has approved of our engagement, but you dare to seduce her!?"
Eiji laughed and said, "I'm Eiji Seiya and I dare, what can you do?"
[Let me guess, the protagonist like Ye Chen will next say "I'll kill you!"]
"I'll kill you!"
Pfft!
Ningguang couldn't help but laugh. But anxious because from Ye Chen's fingertips, a golden laser shot out very quickly towards Eiji.
She panicked and didn't have time to scream.
But before that, Ye Chen's attack suddenly stopped in midair and slowly re-entered his finger.
"Want to kill me? You won't be able to do it."
Eiji smiled faintly, his ability as the Herscrheer of Genesis activated. But to strike back at the protagonist, this time he used one of his Tenseigan techniques.
From his fingertips, a silvery tornado blew towards Ye Chen and sent him flying.
The attack could perforate the Jade Chamber that Ningguang cherished. But before that happened, he opened a portal to his attack and Ye Chen was teleported out.
The residents of Liyue could see a silvery tornado flying in a straight line from the side of the Jade Chamber.
They were shocked and wondered what had happened?