[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-entertainment-the-system-makes-me-a-scoundrel-an":3,"chapter-entertainment-the-system-makes-me-a-scoundrel-an-entertainment-the-system-forces-me-to-be-a-home--chapter-86":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Showbiz: The System Made Me a Wife-Stealer, and Reba's Loving It",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1969214,2796,"Chapter 86","entertainment-the-system-forces-me-to-be-a-home--chapter-86",86,"\u003Cp>If you have no strength, no one will spare you a glance even if you beg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen stated the ugly truth upfront.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have a lot of confidence in my own works.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you all know that film and television investment has risks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just like the stock market, you never know what situation you might encounter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's possible the results will be dismal, or even not be given a chance to air or screen, losing everything down to the bottom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zheng immediately stated his position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course we are willing to bear the risks; you don't need to worry about that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For each drama, each of us can only invest a few million; we wouldn't have the chance to invest more even if we wanted to.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just pocket money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few million!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pocket money!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These words were indeed dominant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they were also the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Movie bigwigs like Xu Zheng, box office stars,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had already passed the stage of simply taking a salary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, they took a share of the profits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A movie would easily sell over a billion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn't he take a share of 200 or 300 million?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that was after taxes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These few million were truly just his average daily income.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a drop in the bucket!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Begging for flowers...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Ge suddenly smiled mischievously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Su Chen, do you have any thoughts about becoming a father?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Logically speaking, you're not that young anymore, you're 25.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you have a child now, you'll be 26 by the time it's born.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's about the age when most men become fathers, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Decades ago, when the economy was backward,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>people almost all got married and had children at 20.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In some places, even earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would get married and have kids before they were even adults.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in recent years, the level of economic development had been rapid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People's cost of living was getting higher and higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people couldn't afford to get married and didn't have time to find a partner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The time for having children naturally pushed back significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially for stars in the entertainment industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either they were afraid that marriage and children would delay their careers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>or they hadn't played enough and didn't want to be tied down by a wife and children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't look at Hu Ge talking happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was nearly 40 now and had just had a daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after becoming a super dad,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Ge's slightly depressed mental state had been healed quite a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Teng also urged: \"Have a little cotton-padded jacket; isn't it cute and adorable?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a process most men have to go through; it's very cool!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not like you can't find someone to have one with.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Teng's gaze swept over the goddess sisters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which one of them wasn't a goddess with a thousand charms?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as Su Chen was willing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he estimated that not one of them would refuse his request to have a baby!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen smiled bitterly: \"I'll consider it when I reach your age.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the celebration banquet ended,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Mi dragged Su Chen into the room and locked the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She squeezed her large water balloons with her arms and stared at him seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just now, even Old Hu and the others suggested you have children.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So have you thought it over? I'm already 31; I'll be 32 after giving birth, almost an older mother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can't drag this out anymore! Now that you've helped me win back Jiaxing, the new company's market value is also soaring.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next, there are several more dramas to prepare.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So I've pushed away my schedule for the next half year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next, we'll rely on the company and these few works to make money; you understand what I mean, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen nodded heavily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understand! You cleared your schedule, isn't that just to raise the fetus?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Mi: \"Smart! I love talking to smart people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After this child is born, you don't need to raise me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I probably won't have much time to take care of it either; just leave it to my dad, my mom, and the auntie to watch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When you have time, you can go play with her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When you don't have time, you don't need to go. Just be busy with your own work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It doesn't even matter if you act like the child doesn't exist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entertainment industry was very chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many stars' children didn't even know who their father was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were also stars who gave birth and didn't raise them,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>or raised them and then severed ties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These things were common.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Mi was a woman who was very traditional in her bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wouldn't be like those \"feminists\" who refused to bear children for men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>having a child was her obsession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After wasting so many years with that old acting dog Liu Liu Kaiwei,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with Su Chen here now,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she didn't want to waste a single second!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then wouldn't I be reduced to a miserable reproductive tool?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen's scalp tingled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Mi said coldly: \"I'm just asking you, do you want to be this reproductive tool or not?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen hesitated for half a minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then nodded heavily!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A top-tier actress in the entertainment industry,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Mi, the goddess in the hearts of countless otaku!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Begging frantically to bear a child for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who could resist this temptation?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In any case, Su Chen couldn't resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was also a person with strong traditional concepts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always wanted to live a life with a wife, children, and a warm bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wife was probably unlikely,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>because he wouldn't get married.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But having a child, especially a daughter,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that would be too happy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many stars liked to keep pets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they weren't working, they would play with their pets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how could a pet be as fun as a little cotton-padded jacket?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Ge liked keeping cats very much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had previously bought a house specifically to keep many, many cats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he had a daughter, he didn't really pet cats much anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, he would have to have children sooner or later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a reproductive partner as perfect as Yang Mi,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and someone to help raise the baby so it wouldn't delay his work and life,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Chen had no reason to refuse!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just consider it a birthday gift for Yang Mi!\u003C\u002Fp>",1064,"2026-06-15T09:24:57.162Z","2026-06-15T09:26:37.979Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","236ecbd18d6d6a70c3a11725ac52bb04c51194927517d437ce77c813f9a3d30d","entertainment-the-system-forces-me-to-be-a-home--chapter-87","entertainment-the-system-forces-me-to-be-a-home--chapter-85",214,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fentertainment-the-system-forces-me-to-be-a-home--cover.jpg"]