After Taking a Special Side Gig

Mi Shanxin met a strange person in a coffee shop.

The first thing she asked was, “Hey, would you be interested in being my mom?”

Mi Shanxin splashed her, but the woman wasn’t angry at all. She smiled and said, “This coat cost eighty thousand yuan.”

Just as Mi Shanxin was about to call the police, the woman added, “I’ll give you a hundred thousand.”

“I want you to pretend to be my mom in front of my grandmother for a few days.”

It was end-of-life care: a hundred thousand yuan up front, and eight hundred an hour.

Faced with a huge temptation, Mi Shanxin, who lived alone, turned her down. She said she couldn’t act.

But then she ran into Jian Wanji at calligraphy class.

Jian Wanji was sitting with a group of children, smiling as she called out, “Teacher Shanxin.”

Jian Wanji was like gum stuck to your shoe: hard to get rid of, rich, beautiful, and frivolous.

In the end, Mi Shanxin agreed, but she had one additional condition:

She had a sleep disorder and needed help falling asleep peacefully.

Though Jian Wanji had a thousand reasons to refuse, she agreed to this decidedly unusual request.

She worked overtime and studied every trick in the book, all to please her little mom for a month.

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After agreeing to the role-play, Mi Shanxin was treated like royalty, with a car picking her up and dropping her off every day, rain or shine.

The sound of money arriving in her account was lovely. What made Mi Shanxin miserable was that even with a good night’s sleep, she still couldn’t stop herself from falling for Jian Wanji.

Just before the Spring Festival, the old woman suddenly passed away.

Mi Shanxin and Jian Wanji should have ended things for good. Instead, Mi Shanxin wanted to have her completely.

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Friend: “Are you crazy? How old is she, and how old are you? Do you have a thing for old women?”

Mi Shanxin: “She’s not old enough for that.”

Friend: “What do you even like about her?”

Mi Shanxin: “Because she needs me and no one else.”

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1. Huge age gap: 39 x 20

2. A number one who doesn’t believe in love x a very demanding zero

3. An innocent younger woman with a fiery side / a true carnivore

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