The Female Lead is Raised by Bosses

Bian Bian was in a daze, still not quite awake.
Unused to the bright light, she rubbed her eyes.
A strange feeling filled her heart, making her feel like the invisible uncle had come.

She vaguely remembered that she had fallen asleep near her grandpa, but now she was in her bed.
It would have been impossible for her to have returned to the room while sleeping—How could she walk when she was asleep?

More importantly, the dress that she had been wearing had been changed.

The first thing that Bian Bian noticed when she woke up was not that she was lying on a bed, but that the dress she had been wearing had been changed into a completely new one.

The dress that Bian Bian was wearing now was one that she had worn before.
Sure, it was pretty, but Bian Bian didn’t like it.
Grandpa liked it a lot though, saying that she looked like a cute princess wearing it.
However, grandpa didn’t let her wear it outside, only letting her wear it when they were at home.

The little girl felt that the lace flowers on the dress were too prickly, but for the sake of her grandpa, she would wear it obediently.
After grandpa left, Bian Bian had shoved the lace dress to the bottom of the closet.

One reason was that she didn’t want to wear the prickly dress again.

Another reason was that it reminded her of grandpa whenever she saw it.
Thinking of grandpa made her heart ache.
Hiding it away made it harder for her to feel sad.

Right now she was laying in bed, wearing that dress.
Other than the invisible uncle, she couldn’t think of anyone else who could’ve helped her change.

Uncle Zhu Yuan had already left.
There was nobody else in the house.

Bian Bian didn’t know why this uncle was helping her but never appearing before her.
Since she knew he would come and leave quietly, she instinctively asked: “Uncle, did you come?”

Nong Jiusi had been so excited by the little one’s fickle way of addressing him that he had hummed internally.
He was addicted to the way that the little girl had called him daddy before.
Why did he become uncle now that she was awake?

No matter how he looked at it, it felt like the game was doing this on purpose

Regardless, Nong Jiusi still planned on responding to the little girl.

Problem is, how to respond?

System: [Intimacy level is not high enough to communicate with Bian Bian.]

Nong Jiusi: “……”

While waiting for the uncle to respond, Bian Bian wriggled her sore little body and freed herself from the blanket—Because her temperature returned to normal, Nong Jiusi had loosened the blanket.
That was why the little girl was able to get out on her own.

Bian Bian raised her hand to wipe away the beads of sweat from her forehead and was poked in the face by the lace on her sleeve.

Thus, she earnestly rolled the lace sleeve up a few times.

Nong Jiusi, who had been silently watching the little one’s movement, asked Nong Tang: “Why is she rolling up her sleeves?”

Nong Tang, who had been silently watching his lord play the game, thought for a bit and said: “Perhaps she’s… hot?”

This was when Nong Jiusi realized that he had changed the little one into a long-sleeved dress.
No wonder he had some trouble putting it on her earlier.

That wasn’t his fault.

“In this closet of clothes, the workmanship, fabric, design… Which one can be considered pleasing to look at?” Lord Jiusi roasted with a blank face.
“Only this one was slightly more decent.”

Nong Tang didn’t speak.
He had the same opinion.
Out of all the clothes in the closet, only that one was a bit brighter—The dragon race’s sense of beauty was just that superficial.

However, he wasn’t the one playing the game.
He just needed to listen with his mouth shut as his lord ridiculed the game.

The system didn’t respond either.
It wondered what the hell do you know?

……

She swallowed a few times.
Bian Bian was hot and thirsty.
She wanted to drink water.

After the apocalypse, the weather no longer changed four times a year with the seasons.
Now there were only two seasons left, summer and autumn.

For ability users, this kind of weather wasn’t all that different from the past.
Ability users’ bodies were influenced by their abilities, automatically strengthening to better adapt to the changing weather.

But for ordinary people, it wasn’t as comfortable.

Fortunately, Bian Bian’s physique was unique.
She was not afraid of the heat.
Even during the hottest of times during summer, her body remained cool, and she sweated a little.  When she went to bed, Lu Yu had to cover her with a blanket to make sure she didn’t catch a cold.
Even then, Bian Bian didn’t feel hot.

In the winter, for his granddaughter to spend the winter warmly, Lu Yu would scavenge a lot of food in advance and use his gold welding abilities to reinforce their surroundings so that their house was warm like it was in the spring.
They only went out after the cold winter had passed.

……

That’s why, in most cases, Bian Bian only felt hot when she was feeling unwell or if she stayed outside too long during the day.

She wanted to get out of bed to get water.
However, her fever had just subsided not too long ago, so her body was still sore.
Instead of getting out of bed in a hurry, the little girl laid on the bed recovering her strength.

She was very familiar with this kind of situation and knew what the best course of action was by herself.

—In the early days after Lu Yu had been infected, Bian Bian suffered from three high fevers.
She fell asleep every time without knowing anything, and after she awoke, the fever would have already subsided.
The first two times she woke up, she had rashly walked around before her strength recovered and fell.

Of course, those three fevers also gave Bian Bian certain benefits.
Her body, which Lu Yu had pampered since childhood, adapted quickly to this kind of life—For instance, she didn’t vomit after eating, and she didn’t get fevers after washing with cold water.

Bian Bian didn’t know what this meant, but she liked these changes instinctively because getting sick and running fevers was uncomfortable.
She didn’t like it.

The room was quiet.
Bian Bian’s bright eyes quietly surveyed her surroundings, extremely hopeful that the invisible uncle will respond to her.

But even after waiting for a while, there was still no sound.
Her long, moist eyelashes drooped: “Uncle, did you already leave?”

Nong Jiusi: “I’m here.”

Bian Bian couldn’t hear him.
Her wide eyes flashed with distinct disappointment.

Nong Jiusi: “……”

He glanced at the intimacy points that were suspended midair in the upper right corner.
The number “0” was displayed there.
He had disregarded it earlier, but now, he couldn’t ignore it even if he wanted to.

“Other than the little one, is there no other way to increase intimacy points?” He asked the system indifferently, staring in the direction of the intimacy points.
His fingers once again began to clench together.

System: …….

[I can’t do anything even if you hit me again.
The intimacy level is based on how Bian Bian feels about her dad.
It’s all according to her heart.
As long as you are good to Bian Bian and you make her feel cared for, happy, and that she’s being helped, the intimacy level will naturally increase.]

—This explanation + hint was not mentioned to Xiu Jin.

That is to say, brute strength was useless.
He could only go through the normal procedures.

It was just like a computer server.
Perhaps you’re able to find loopholes that allow you to break through the firewalls and get into the confidential files within.
Then afterward, you find that there’s another, even more, complex password required to access the confidential files which can’t be cracked by normal means.
You can only gain access when you obtain the password.

Nong Jiusi stared at the “0” for a long time.
His elegant eyebrows were knit together.
He pointed at the little girl on the bed, squinted, and said: “I bought you a gun, helped you block the ant, changed your clothes to help you cool down… And now, you don’t know me, huh? You don’t call me daddy and the intimacy level isn’t increasing, little…”

He didn’t finish his sentence.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, he saw Nong Tang’s head hanging low.
He couldn’t see his face, but he could see that the two horns on top of his head were twitching restlessly.

Nong Jiusi stopped talking.

“Nong Tang.”

“Lord,” Nong Tang lifted his head and looked directly at Nong Jiusi with a face that was both magnanimous + awed.
That expression was as normal as ever.

He would never admit that he was laughing a moment ago.

—The main reason was that he had never seen his lord talking with that kind of tone.

It was like how a child’s beloved toy was confiscated by their parents.
Because they couldn’t be angry, they could only mutter to divert themselves from the anger in their hearts.

Nong Jiusi made a motion, signaling Nong Tang to come forward.

Nong Tang bowed respectfully, “Lord, your dinner hasn’t been delivered yet.
I will go take a look.
The chef is probably slacking off again.”

Nong Jiusi stared at him for several seconds.
He stared until Nong Tang’s scalp went numb, then made an indifferent “mm” sound.

Only then did Nong Tang withdraw as if given amnesty.

He remembered the lesson: Don’t laugh when in front of the lord.
If you have to laugh, laugh when there’s no one there.

After that interruption, when Nong Jiusi looked at the number “0” again, he found it to be a little more bearable.
When he finally took his eyes off of it, he noticed that the little one had already gotten off the bed and was holding the magic ball.

“Is this from the uncle? It’s like shiny light.” Although the light from the magic ball was bright, it was not glaringly so.
After adapting to it, even if you hold it close, it will not harm the eyes.

“Hui Hui, this was given by uncle.” Her eyes became crescents due to happiness.
She held the magic ball lovingly as she blew out the candle.

As Nong Jiusi was wondering who “Hui Hui” was, Bian Bian noticed that Hui Hui was not on the bed.
In a panic, she ran crookedly outside with the magic ball towards the stairs, no longer caring about drinking water.

Nong Jiusi followed behind her.

It was only when she retrieved the bear by the metal wall did the panic on Bian Bian’s face disappear.
Hugging the bear tightly, she presented the magic ball like a treasure: “Hui Hui, look.
We’ll be able to see at night without the candles now.”

Her sudden dash to the stairs had woken the zombies upstairs.
Bian Bian was already no longer scared of this kind of crashing sound.
Thus, she even poked her face in the hole.
Her eyes shone as she excitedly said: “Grandpa, I have a light now.
I won’t bump into things because I can’t see them anymore.”

Nong Jiusi stood beside her.
Hearing the crashing noises, he couldn’t help but look towards the little one.

He heard that humans had fragile ears, that staying in a noisy environment was detrimental to hearing.

Slender fingers bent slightly and knocked a few times on the metal wall: “Quiet down, aren’t you afraid of causing your granddaughter to go deaf?”

The crashing sounds became a lot quieter.

Nong Jiusi’s eyebrows rose.

“Grandpa, I’ll be going back first.” After happily sharing her happiness about the light with her grandpa and Hui Hui, Bian Bian went back into the house and closed the door.

A hand pressed against the seam of the door.

Nong Jiusi who had almost been locked outside: “……”

Noticing that the door wouldn’t close, Bian Bian pulled open the door.
Nong Jiusi took this chance to walk in.
This time, the door closed.

The little girl was oblivious.

Bian Bian placed the small bear and the magic ball onto the table.
The mineral water that had been unscrewed before had run out.
She could only get a new bottle, using two small hands to twist—

Nong Jiusi didn’t think too much, subconsciously reaching out to help when all he could see turned black.
All of the images disappeared.

“……”

Disconnected again?

He was about to log back in when he suddenly glanced at the time—

From when he started playing to now, three hours had passed.

He… played for 3 hours?

This knowledge made Nong Jiusi restrain the hand that wanted to log back into the game.

He originally wanted to study the NR device.

Having finally remembered his original purpose, Nong Jiusi did not tap on the game again.
Instead, he once again went back to soaking in the springs and began to study the NR’s functions.

……

Xiu Jin finished his work and went home to comfortably soak in the bath.
Then he put a face mask on, laid in his massage chair, and logged onto the game to see his precious daughter.

Once he entered the game, a system notification popped up: [Intimacy points +50.]

？？？

Xiu Jin sat up so abruptly the mask on his face fell off.