The Main Characters Won't Stop Pampering Me!-Chapter 90: Deep Love and Agony

It was raining and drizzling outside, the streetlights reflecting in the slick asphalt where Yuanying’s vengeful, reckless existence had tragically ended.

Chi Yuantian, the stiff, awkward, impeccably professional eldest son and father, was kneeling on the wet pavement, his tailored suit soaked, his face contorted in a silent, agonizing mask of grief.

He wasn’t merely sad; he was shattered.

He held his daughter tightly in his arms, clinging to her small, cold body with a fierce, desperate strength that belied his usual reserved demeanor.

Huaijin had seen him wipe the rain and tears from his face in a gesture of absolute, raw agony.

There were no words, no sophisticated business tactics, and no corporate facades, only a father mourning the final, terrible failure of his life: the failure to save his child.

The deep love Huaijin witnessed in Yuantian’s eyes that night wasn’t wrong; it was profoundly, terribly real.

He just failed to express it.

While Yuanfeng poured out his heart and allowed Huaijin to see the affection he held for her dearly, Yuantian was the complete opposite.

He was awkward, stiff, and utterly incapable of showing affection directly, preferring stern demands to gentle encouragement.

His love was a hidden treasure, sealed behind layers of parental expectation, professional pressure, and his own severe, repressed personality.

Yet, Huaijin knew the truth: Chi Yuantian valued his children more than his life.

He simply didn’t know how to translate that deep love into a simple, reassuring hug or a word of unconditional praise. His entire life was a performance for his father, and his children had become unwilling actors in that drama.

Huaijin straightened up, her expression determined. She had two active battles now:

Defending her father, Yuanfeng, from Xu Meilin, that malicious woman, and saving her cousin, Yuanying, from her own tragic fate, which required healing the fractured relationship between Yuanying and Yuantian.

’The key is communication,’ Huaijin thought with the clarity of a reborn diplomat. ’Yuantian needs a translator. He needs a little girl to show him that his sternness is crushing his daughter, and that his love is the only thing she truly seeks.’ 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Huaijin picked up her small lunch bag and walked over to Yuanfeng, who was now putting the dishes away.

She bypassed the need for words and simply hugged him tightly around the waist, laying her head against his back.

Yuanfeng paused, his movements halting instantly. He rubbed her hands with his own large ones.

"What is it, my little dragon? Still sad about the grumpy uncle?" he asked gently.

"No, Daddy," Huaijin mumbled into his shirt. "Just happy I’m going to school. And I’m going to tell Yuanying that her father loves her very much. Because my uncle does. He just... needs a reminder."

Yuanfeng chuckled, completely misunderstanding the depth of her statement. "Well, you do that, sweetheart. You remind everyone that their fathers love them. Now, let’s get you to the car."

As Yuanfeng opened the door, ready to face the world with his beloved, clingy daughter in tow, Huaijin looked back at the small, simple apartment.

It wasn’t much, but it was their fortress of love, security, and truth.

She had survived one life of corporate chaos and tragedy. In this life, as a small, fierce, strategic child, she was determined to use the greatest weapon she possessed, unconditional love, to dismantle the cycle of pain and pride that was threatening to destroy the Chi family from within.

The clumsy love of Chi Yuantian for his daughter was the critical pressure point, and Huaijin, the reborn extra, would become the catalyst for its overdue, messy, and necessary release.

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The morning at the Elite School for Exceptionally Gifted Children (or, as Huaijin privately dubbed it, "The Academy of Perpetual Pressure") unfolded with the familiar rhythm of academic diligence.

Huaijin, despite her six-year-old body, was the most attentive student in her first-grade class.

She attended all her core classes, Math, Language Arts, and the requisite "Etiquette and Social Strategy", with the diligence of a CEO preparing for an annual report. The knowledge was tedious, but the discipline was necessary.

Lunchtime, however, was Huaijin’s true elective.

It was the only period of the day she genuinely enjoyed, as it brought together the unlikeliest trio in this universe: Chi Huaijin (the reborn extra), Chi Yuanying (the future villainess), and Liang Lingzhi (the future main female lead, currently unrecognized as the Chi family’s real eldest daughter).

Since Huaijin was six and attended the primary section, while Yuanying and Lingzhi were slightly older and attended the junior section, they had to coordinate their movements for the sacred ritual of eating together.

As Huaijin settled at a corner table, a flurry of stylishly uniform-clad children approached.

"Huaijin!" Yuanying announced, dropping her tray with an oomph that belied her usual composure. She immediately shoved her tray beside Huaijin’s. "I saved you the best cube of mango jelly, but only because you need the energy to analyze the next stage of our variety show script."

Right behind her came Liang Lingzhi, radiating a quiet, unassuming kindness that, in the future, would attract all the main character privileges.

Lingzhi, unaware of her true lineage and the tragedy that would befall Yuanying, smiled gently.

"Hello, Huaijin. Hello, Yuanying. I brought extra sliced apples. My mother says they’re good for focus." Lingzhi placed her tray neatly on the opposite side.

Huaijin felt a strange twist of emotion watching them.

It was deeply unsettling, yet bizarrely heartwarming, to see the future antagonist and protagonist sitting in peaceful truce, united only by their shared, if complicated, affection for Huaijin.

Yuanying, the tsundere, would constantly try to subtly outshine Lingzhi in classwork or social maneuvering, only to immediately revert to sharing secrets and gossip with Lingzhi five minutes later.

Lingzhi, with her inherently gentle nature, simply accepted Yuanying’s competitive streaks as eccentricities.

This is surreal, Huaijin thought, munching on her perfectly prepared meal. ’The future villainess is maintaining a fragile peace with the future female lead, all because they both decided that I am the neutral territory.’