A One-Yuan Coin

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High-energy, outwardly innocent but secretly cunning top x low-energy, gentle office worker bottom

1v1, mutually devoted, younger top, happy ending, sweet romance

Ling Yan is an overworked employee at a major tech company, struggling at the bottom of the ladder. He tells himself that if he hasn't achieved anything by thirty-five, he'll quit and return to his village.

One day, on his way home from work, he impulsively spent a one-yuan coin on a fortune-telling service and met Su Yun for the first time.

He thought they would never meet again, but then discovered that this fortune-telling master worked eight side jobs a day. Ling Yan kept running into him in all kinds of places, and the fee for every service was always one yuan.

Su Yun completely changed Ling Yan's life. But just as Ling Yan opened his heart, he unexpectedly discovered that these encounters had never been chance meetings. It had all been a scam, all deliberately arranged.

Su Yun:

"New shop, plenty of side gigs and plenty of services."

"Dear customer, I'm very expensive. But I'll let you pay later. The deposit is one yuan."

Ling Yan: "I don't think you're anything like your name. You're not like those dim, hazy evening clouds."

Su Yun: "Then I hope you live up to your name, Ling Yan. You'll surely achieve great things."

Ling Yan:

"Su Yun, you made my life interesting, but now I realize I'm a joke. It was all fake."

"Su Yun, during all the time we've spent together, have you said even one honest thing?"

Su Yun:

"When you use a coin to make a choice, the moment you toss it, whether it lands heads or tails no longer matters."

"Ling Yan, deep down, you already knew the answer when you asked me that."

[The author's ramblings]

1. The top genuinely loves the bottom. Seventy percent of their interactions are sincere, not an act.

2. The story is sweet from beginning to end, with angst only in the last few chapters. They both communicate, so misunderstandings are cleared up quickly.

Theme: Keep working hard at life.