Wasn’t This Just a Sugar-Daddy Arrangement? How Did I Fall for Him?

[Clear-headed, gentle bottom Cheng Nuo × gentle, controlling top Zhan Qichi]

[Kept lover + showbiz + sex first, feelings later + sweet and angsty + devoted couple + one-on-one romance + happy ending]

Cheng Nuo is a little-known celebrity with a struggling family and a career at a dead end. He plans to find a sugar daddy, but by a twist of fate, the mysterious Zhan Qichi swoops in and claims him first.

When Cheng Nuo wakes up, he already belongs to Zhan Qichi.

A contract paying a million a month, his debts wiped clean, his younger sister moved into a VIP ward, and a surprise job at Shadow One Entertainment, a top film and television company.

Born into a powerful family and worth hundreds of billions, Zhan Qichi has a spotless private life, as clean as a blank sheet of paper. Then he meets Cheng Nuo and breaks his own rules.

He gives Cheng Nuo opportunities and helps pave the way for his career. He’s far too gentle to seem like a sugar daddy, yet Cheng Nuo is finding it harder and harder to tell who the prey is in this arrangement.

But Cheng Nuo keeps his head clear.

Zhan Qichi’s kindness is real, but so is the contract.

As they grow closer, Cheng Nuo realizes he has already fallen for Zhan Qichi amid all his indulgence and care.

One is a refined CEO who pays for company; the other is a struggling newcomer who sells himself to support his family.

What begins as a mistaken arrangement slowly strays from the path of each getting what they want.

When true feelings get mixed into a contract, the first to fall in love is the one who loses.

But Zhan Qichi never planned to win in the first place.