The Man I Kept Became My Creditor

[Sugar dating and payback + tragic love + younger man + unchaste heroine, chaste hero]

To save his mother, a fallen prodigy accepts her financial support.

But his mother dies, consumed by grief after learning the truth.

Years later, he returns successful and takes her, now in prison, back to his side. “This time, it’s your turn to pay your debt.”

Hero: calculating and restrained.

Heroine: materialistic and money-loving, but bold in love and hate, and intolerant of evil.

Content warning: the heroine is McDonald's.