“Achoo—!”

Luo You sneezed.

“Someone’s talking about me… Who is it? Has to be that brat Zining!”

He took the elevator to the 18th floor, entered the passcode, and opened the front door.

With an exhausted face, Luo You shrugged off his suit, then unbuttoned the top two buttons of his white shirt, revealing a set of masculine, well-defined muscles.

“Zining, I’m back. Is dinner ready yet?”

Thump thump thump thump thump thump—

Rapid footsteps echoed from the living room.

A girl around seventeen appeared.

She wore a very casual and revealing outfit—white ribbons peeking from under her short skirt, shoulder-length beige hair silky and smooth, and her still-babyish cheeks soft and tender. When she opened her mouth, you could spot tiny sharp canines.

This cute, energetic girl burst into a ten-meter sprint straight toward Luo You, holding up a DSLR camera—

Click! Click!

“Hey! Don’t just start snapping pictures of my pecs like it’s nothing! You’re drooling! Show some class, young lady!”

“Ah! Ah! Give it back! I was just getting some reference shots!”

Luo You deftly snatched the camera, held down the girl lunging for it, and began deleting the photos.

Just as he was about to hand it back, Luo You noticed the memory card was almost entirely filled with photos of himself half-dressed—
Even ones of him in the shower!

Thankfully, the crucial parts were obscured by steam… preserving at least the last shreds of his privacy.

‘What the hell? This damn girl’s completely lost it!’

“When did you even take these?! Delete them! All of them!”

“What?!”

The girl panicked. These were her treasured collection, compiled over a long time.

Her attempts to snatch the camera turned into an all-out brawl.

“You bastard! Let go! I took those! Who gave you the right to delete them?!”

“Excuse me?! I’m your dad! Of course I have the right! And if you’re not careful, I’ll sue you for violating my privacy!”

“Aaahhh! Give them back!”

Scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch—

Luo You’s arm got clawed into a bloody mess.

Fuming, he grabbed the girl by the neck and effortlessly pinned her to the floor.

The size difference made it laughably easy.

“Admit you were wrong!”

“Ack—ow ow ow! Dad—Daddy, I was wrong! I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I love you, Daddy, really!”

“…(lets go)”

🎵 “The only one who’s good is Daddy~ A kid with a dad is a treasure~ Love you so much…
…My ass! Eat this, bastard!
…Aaaah I was really wrong this time! Dinner’s ready, Daddy! Hurry and eat it while it’s hot! Love you!”

As expected, this little demon hadn’t matured a bit after all these years.

Luo You winced.

The girl’s name was Luo Zining, his adopted daughter.

He’d defected from the organization seven years ago, and adopted her two years later.

But after raising her for five years, she was still like a stray cat—never truly tamed.

“Go do your homework.”

Luo You let go with a sigh.

Zining scrambled back to her room in fear.

‘This psycho dad isn’t human—he really would slam his daughter into the floor!’

But the more she thought about it, the angrier she got.

Zining stomped back out and made a smug face at him.

“Tightwad! Bottom-tier scrub! What’s wrong with taking a few photos? It’s just reference for my new doujin!
You act like those pecs of yours are some kind of national treasure! Bleh~~
One day, I’m gonna turn them into big, soft steamed buns!”

After delivering her villain speech, she slammed her door shut, locked it, and clearly had no plans to emerge from her safehouse.

“……”

Luo You was speechless.

He was used to it by now.

Having a noisy daughter at home added some much-needed spice to an otherwise dull and repetitive life.

If only she weren’t a hopeless fujoshi…

“Sigh. Time to eat… huh.”

On the table were several dishes that looked like they’d been chewed on by dogs.

Luo You took 5 minor damage points from visual impact alone.

‘Whatever, at least she cooked it herself—wait, what’s this?’

As he grabbed the utensils, his eyes happened to land on the trash bin.

Inside were some takeout containers.

‘Well… at least that means it probably doesn’t taste too bad.’

To put it nicely, Zining’s cooking skills were not impressive.

The fact she could use a rice cooker at all was already a miracle.

So eating takeout occasionally wasn’t the worst outcome.

But with just a glance—Luo You put down his chopsticks.

He looked again at the trash.

The container still had the order slip stuck on it:

“Extra super spicy. The kind that could kill people from Guang○.
If it’s not spicy enough, I’ll leave a bad review.”

That line was highlighted in marker by the restaurant.

The reply?

“Don’t worry, sis! Even if it’s a Si○uan native, we’ll still make it burn!”

“……”

Luo You may have lived in the northern-southern region, but his spice tolerance was definitely not on par with those southern provinces.

If he ate this, he’d probably be walking bowlegged tomorrow—

And get stared down at the gym by a bunch of bowel-certified creeps.

“Screw it. I’ll order takeout too.”

He shook his head, pulling out his phone to order a mutton offal hotpot.

By this point, no matter how much Zining pissed him off, Luo You had a million reasons to forgive her.

She was just too rebellious.

If he took everything seriously, she’d probably inherit his estate out of spite by next year.

Honestly, best-case scenario? Get her married off ASAP—let her torment someone else’s son instead of her old man.

He quickly wolfed down dinner, took a rushed shower, threw on his pajamas, and flopped onto the bed.

From the other room, he could still hear Zining gaming.

“Still not asleep at this hour?”

He clicked his tongue in annoyance, but didn’t go scold her.

He’d long since decided—

As long as Zining didn’t make any major screw-ups, he’d let her live however she wanted.

Even if one day she shouted,

“Dad, you don’t understand him!”

—he wouldn’t waver.

Soon, Luo You drifted into sleep.

In his dream, Luo You was piloting a giant mech, locked in a fierce space battle with another mech.

“Luo Youyou! This time, I’m gonna make you kneel before me! Then I’ll show you my newly-equipped Planet Buster Cannon!”

“Wh—That model! Isn’t that…!”

“Haha! Too late now! That’s right!

It was salvaged from your precious wingman’s unit!”

“No—!! Darling’s Planet Buster Cannon is… Wait, what?”

Luo You shot awake.

He’d jumped out of bed with such force, he landed on the floor.

‘What kind of damn dream was that?!’

‘Why the hell did Darling’s Planet Buster end up on someone else’s mech?!
Is this NTR or just tragic romance?!’

‘No! Stop! Who cares if it’s romance or not?!
Has working at the gym these last few years finally turned my brain into protein powder?!’

…But the mech body in that dream had felt so right…

“Darling’s Planet Buster… is too… soft…”

The nightmare was so intense, Luo You swore he still heard it echoing in his ears—
making him shudder awake.

“No wait! That sound—it’s coming from the other room!

He stared at the wall by his bed.

If he remembered correctly, Zining’s computer desk was right on the other side.

Bang!

Without another thought, Luo You shot out of his room like a missile and kicked open her door.

“Wh—!”

Zining, dressed only in a lace lingerie set, shrieked.
She grabbed a white sock-stuffed slipper and flung it at him.

“Get out! You breaking in at night to inspect your daughter’s ‘development’ or what?! Scram!!”

“Ptui! There’s nothing worth inspecting on your flat board anyway!”

He said that, but still closed the door to avoid suspicion.
Then shouted from the hallway,

“You maniac! Don’t blast your BL games in the middle of the night!
What if the neighbors misunderstand?!”

“Bleh~~!”

He could hear her pulling a face at him through the door, followed by the click of a lock.

“I want the neighbors to misunderstand!
Ever wonder why not a single young lady or housewife from next door tries to flirt with you?
It’s because they know you’re a giant homo!”

“You what now—!?
What kind of nonsense have you been spreading while I’m not home?!”

Luo You pounded on the door, furious.

His chest ached with rage.

“If I hear one more peep from your speakers, I’m flipping the circuit breaker!”

“Hmph! I’ll keep blasting it! Just try me!”

Though she was defiant, the sound actually did stop.

‘Tch! What the hell is this?’

Woken in the dead of night by a robot yaoi dream…

It reminded him of his time in the organization.
Of her.

——So the mighty Aurora Witch was hiding that side all along~

——N-No! That’s not true!

——Don’t lie to yourself. I’ll help you awaken your true desires…

SLAP!

Luo You smacked himself across the face to stop the flashbacks.

“That woman… Xingyue!”

He muttered the name bitterly.

In that final battle with Xingyue, the strongest magical girl—

He—no, she—accidentally awakened her own inner “femininity.”

The realization terrified Luo You so much, she never dared transform into Elera again.
She left the organization overnight and began living a mundane life.

Two years later, she adopted Zining.

Over the next thousand days and nights, to reclaim her lost masculinity, she deliberately took a job at a gym.

After years of training, she became more manly than ever.
Raising Zining as a “father” was part of that goal.

But now, her daughter saw her as nothing more than BL material.

“Hmm? Come to think of it—
Doesn’t this mean Zining acknowledges my manly charm?”

Luo You rubbed her chin in deep thought.

After all, BL protagonists had to be masculine, right?
No way a weakling would get imagined into that kind of stuff.

In that case, maybe being turned into BL fodder wasn’t the worst thing ever…

Operation: Regain Manhood—SUCCESS!

Then she remembered—Zining said she wanted new reference photos for her new doujin.

Then she remembered the weird looks from her gym trainees lately…

‘No way… The real culprit is—’

“Damn it! I can’t let this girl rot any further!”

Sure, reclaiming her manhood was nice and all—
But being forcibly rewritten by her own daughter into a bottom? Absolutely not!

Luo You stared at Zining’s locked door.

Determination gradually hardened in her eyes.

Even if it means turning her daughter into a yuri,
She would never let her rot into a fujoshi.