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【Capital’s golden boy × money-loving kept woman】 【Their love had a clear price, but in the end, the sums stopped adding up】 By her third year with Tao Tingyu, Xu Qian had worked out the arrangement to perfection: ten thousand for dinner, twenty thousand for a date, a hundred thousand for the night. He paid readily, and she never crossed the line. They had three rules: no feelings, no heart-to-hearts, no marriage or children. Then a report from the obstetrics and gynecology department threw all her plans into disarray. Looking at the elegant, distant man in the hospital bed, she asked on impulse, “Brother, do you have a hundred million?” “Want to make a hundred million?” She swallowed the rest of her words. If he found out she was pregnant, he might demand every penny she’d ever earned. Xu Qian decided to hide from him. She’d used up this month’s allowance, so she wouldn’t see him. Want to meet? Pay extra? No way. If she couldn’t avoid him, she’d have to make something up: “You can only see me when you’re sick!” To her surprise, the golden boy took her at her word. From then on, Tao Tingyu was either sick or pretending to be. A headache today, a stomachache tomorrow, and the next day he landed himself in the hospital, all just to see her. “Didn’t you say I could only see you when I was sick?” he said, completely unapologetic. “I’m pretty sick right now.” Xu Qian looked at the normal reading on the thermometer and nearly cried. Worse, she realized she was beginning to look forward to each “sick visit.” And the look in his eyes was slowly changing, from cold and distant to unfathomably deep. They’d agreed not to get involved. So how had everything changed without either of them noticing? Until one day, he accidentally found the report she’d hidden away. His voice was hoarse. “How long were you planning to keep this from me?” It turned out the most precious thing wasn’t love with a clear price, but the tenderness you could never repay.