The Rules of the Upper Class

A gambling addict for a father, a mother who disappeared, an indifferent grandmother, and a broken home.

Bai Che spent the first twenty years of his life in misery. To support himself, he even resorted to selling his body. With his stunning looks and a silver tongue that could fool the dead, he latched onto a wealthy businessman from eastern Guangdong, made a killing, then dumped him and prepared to flee overseas to escape the people hunting him.

Then, at the age of twenty, he heard that his mother had died in a psychiatric hospital overseas. Only then did Bai Che learn that the mother he had never met was once a famous starlet in Hong Kong City, and had once been the secret lover of a mysterious tycoon.

He was the illegitimate son of Ye Yuying, the richest man in Hong Kong City.

With Old Master Ye nearing death, sentimentality took hold of him. He specifically sent someone to bring Bai Che back to the old residence, so he could make up for the father-son bond they had missed for more than twenty years.

When Bai Che first heard the news, he nearly laughed himself to death. It seemed his mother had still looked out for him: even dead, she had left him such a huge surprise.

He thought the fortune of a lifetime was waiting for him, that he would leap from rags to riches and become successful overnight. Instead, he had walked right into a den of wolves and tigers, where they devoured him whole and chewed him up before swallowing the bones.

The Ye family followed strict rules of etiquette. His older brothers had all been raised according to the traditions of old European gentlemen, each more refined and agreeable than the last. But behind their distant, polite masks, something far more secret and repressed seemed to lurk.

Whether it was the attic secured with ten locks and strictly forbidden to enter,

or the glass of murky, spoiled red wine left on the table in a hidden room behind the bathroom mirror,

or the explicit, fetishistic nightclothes prepared for him, or the white pills crushed and dissolved into his warm milk, everything made him feel surrounded by danger.

This European-style manor stood on a mountainside overlooking the sea. By day, the sunlight was so dazzling that not a trace of shadow could be seen. But at night, all the suppressed, concealed, unspeakable madness surged through the depths of darkness, dragging him down into the deep along with it.

The supposedly wealthy and illustrious Ye family was actually full of neurotics repressing their true nature. Bai Che only understood the truth after they had all taken turns with him.

Looks like he'll have to go back to his old tricks: make money, dump them, and run.

* Faux-incest, melodramatic and deliciously angsty

* Set in the early 2000s

* All the tops are virgins

* The bottom used to only top, and he talks dirty and swears like a sailor

# A nasty love scammer flirts and runs, only to get in over his head with a pack of long-repressed neurotics and get thoroughly schooled by them one after another

# Arrogant, hypocritical, entitled top & promiscuous, shameless bottom

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