A Billionaire CEO Brings His Child Home: The Awakening of the Stay-at-Home Dad System

As the car pulled out of the highway tollbooth, Chen Hao glanced at the navigation.

There are still more than 60 kilometers of provincial highway ahead. At our current speed, it will take another hour or so to reach Fengshuping.

"Tingting," he glanced in the rearview mirror, "we'll be back home in a little over an hour."

Shen Xiaoting lifted her head from the car seat and her eyes lit up immediately when she heard the word "hometown".

She hugged the plush rabbit and asked softly, "Are we almost there?"

"Soon, very soon," Chen Hao said softly.

"After you get off this highway, take a provincial road for a while, and you'll arrive."

Shen Xiaoting nodded, hugged the rabbit tighter, and didn't say anything more, but the anticipation on her little face was unmistakable.

Chen Hao drove the car onto the provincial highway.

Provincial highways have much more complex road conditions than expressways.

The road surface is not very smooth, and there are occasionally potholes and repaired cracks;

The lanes have narrowed, now there are only two lanes in both directions, separated by a yellow dashed line.

Large trucks, farm vehicles, electric vehicles, motorcycles, and even pedestrians all share this road, and every now and then a vehicle will suddenly appear from a side road.

However, these are not problems for Chen Hao now.

His hands were on the steering wheel, his posture relaxed, but his eyes were focused.

He can grasp the position, speed, and trajectory of every vehicle within 100 meters ahead with just a glance.

His right foot switched between the accelerator and brake with fluid grace; every acceleration was smooth, every deceleration was gentle, and every lane change was as precise as if measured with a ruler.

A large truck was driving slowly in front of him, its exhaust pipe belching black smoke, and it was only going about 40 kilometers per hour.

Chen Hao didn't rush to overtake; he first observed the oncoming lane—

There were no cars within two or three hundred meters. Then he glanced at the rearview mirror to make sure no cars were approaching quickly from behind.

Then he turned on his left turn signal, gently pressed the accelerator, turned the steering wheel to the left, smoothly cut into the oncoming lane, accelerated, overtook the truck, turned on his right turn signal, and cut back into the original lane.

The entire overtaking process was completed in one go, without the slightest unnecessary shaking of the car body. Shen Xiaoting, sitting in the back seat, did not even feel any bumps.

[Ding! Successfully completed a precise overtaking maneuver on the provincial highway. God-level driving skill experience points +156!]

Chen Hao's lips curled up slightly, and he continued driving.

The provincial highway has many curves, some of which are sharp and narrow, and the view is blocked by the trees and buildings along the roadside, making it impossible to see oncoming vehicles.

Chen Hao would slow down before each curve, keeping the speed within a range that ensured safety without making his daughter uncomfortable.

Then cut through the apex of the corner in a perfect arc, and accelerate smoothly as you exit the corner.

[Ding! Perfect cornering control completed, God-level driving skill experience points +128!]

[Ding! Completed complex road condition driving test, God-level driving skill experience points +143!]

[Ding! Successfully navigated the speed bump. God-level driving skills experience points +67!]

The system notification sounded almost every one or two minutes, and Chen Hao had gotten used to it, so he simply ignored it.

His attention shifted between the road and his daughter, occasionally glancing at the back seat through the rearview mirror.

Shen Xiaoting sat in the car seat, holding the rabbit, her little face turned towards the car window, her expression much more relaxed than before.

The scenery outside the window changed from the guardrails and median strips of the highway to farmland, woods, streams and scattered houses. She found it novel and her eyes never stopped looking at it.

Viewers in the live stream also noticed the changes in road conditions.

"The streamer got off the highway? What kind of road is this? It looks like a national highway?"

"It's a provincial highway, the kind with two lanes in both directions."

"The road conditions are so complicated, there are so many big trucks."

"The streamer drives really smoothly. When I ride in my husband's car on roads like this, it shakes like crazy."

"Hao-ge, your driving skills must have been really good, right? Every lane change is so smooth."

"Pay attention to his overtaking timing. He always overtakes when the oncoming lane is completely clear, and he does so at a very fast speed to reduce the time spent driving alongside the car. This is a habit of professional drivers."

Chen Hao used his mind to send a message in the live broadcast room: "Provincial highway, it will be a little over an hour to get to my hometown."

"A little over an hour! Almost there!"

"Looking forward to the streamer's hometown!"

"Is your daughter also looking forward to it? She keeps looking out the window."

"The little cutie looks so adorable holding the rabbit, I want to steal it and take it home."

Chen Hao glanced at his daughter in the rearview mirror, feeling a warmth in his heart.

He sent another message telepathically: "She's really looking forward to it and keeps asking how much longer until we arrive."

The comment section was flooded with "Ahhh, so cute!" again.

Just then, the system notification sounded again—

[Ding! You have reached the required amount of experience points for god-level driving skills!]

[God-level driving skills upgraded: LV1 → LV2!]

[New skill modules: Anticipatory Driving, Handling Extreme Road Conditions, and Vehicle Status Awareness.]

[The current god-level driving skills have been upgraded to the intermediate level, further enhancing the host's driving abilities.]

In an instant, a flood of information rushed into Chen Hao's mind—

It wasn't a stiff, forced feeling, but rather a natural experience, as if something he already knew had suddenly been awakened.

He could feel his perception had broadened, extending beyond just the road in front of him and the view in the rearview mirror to the entire 360-degree space—

He could "feel" that the driver of the car behind him was distracted because the car swayed slightly in the lane;

He could "sense" that an electric scooter might suddenly appear at the intersection ahead because the truck parked on the side of the road blocked his view, and there was a pair of feet dangling next to the truck's wheels;

He can "feel" the friction between the tires and the ground, he can "feel" the temperature of the brake pads, and he can "feel" the subtle balance between the engine speed and torque output.

These things were not things he saw with his eyes or heard with his ears, but things he directly "perceived," as if his body and the car had become one, and the car had become an extension of his body.

Chen Hao took a deep breath, tightened his grip on the steering wheel slightly, and then relaxed.

The feeling was so wonderful; he had never experienced anything like it before.

He glanced at his daughter in the rearview mirror to make sure she was safe and sound, then turned his attention back to the road ahead.

After his god-like driving skills reached LV2, he drove even more confidently on the provincial highway.

Every operation is anticipated in advance, every press of the accelerator is just right, and every brake is as smooth as caressing the road surface.

The viewers in the live stream seemed to have noticed the change as well.