Keeping Her Close: The Cold-Hearted Tycoon's Fatherly Way of Winning Her Back

[Steady, scheming tycoon top × Proud, innocent fallen-heir genius bottom]

[Two male leads + age gap + mutual salvation + doting father figure raises him anew + face-slapping and humiliating villains]

On his twentieth birthday, Shen Zhiyu loses his family and is saddled with astronomical debts. The once-proud genius perfumer falls into the gutter overnight.

His awful relatives kick him while he's down, and his rivals relentlessly put pressure on him.

Just as he's at the end of his rope, Lu Huaijin, the trillionaire tycoon feared by everyone in Jinghai, arrives like a godsend.

The man tosses him a black card and pays off his astronomical debt, then backs him into a corner.

“I'll pay back what the Shen family owes. But you have to be my personal perfumer and move into my estate.”

The outside world assumes that the cold-blooded Mr. Lu has simply acquired a pretty canary.

That is, until Shen Zhiyu dazzles the world at the International Fragrance Awards with a rare, long-lost formula and reclaims his throne.

Backstage, a reporter catches the decisive head of the Lu family kneeling on one knee, gently massaging Shen Zhiyu's ankle.

As the whole internet watches in shock, Lu Huaijin gives an imperious reply in an interview:

“My love went through a lot of hardship. I just want to bring him back to the greenhouse, spoil him endlessly, and raise him all over again.”