After scraping through the entrance exams from a remote mountain village and getting into Capital University, Ji Qi was faced with the urgent problem of paying tuition and living expenses.
While Ji Qi worked three part-time jobs a day in his spare time, working himself to the bone and not even daring to order a bowl of spicy malatang at night, he saw his roommate, who had latched onto a rich man, accept a huge transfer and sweetly say, "Thank you, darling," into his phone. In that instant, he saw the light!
To hell with self-reliance. Becoming a sugar baby was the only way to save yourself twenty years of hard work!
Ji Qi initially planned to find a rich, beautiful woman to support him, but he just couldn't bring himself to ask women for money. In the end, he failed to land one and spent quite a bit of money trying to save face.
Then his roommate kindly pointed out that at six feet tall, with a narrow waist, long legs, pale skin, and a face like the campus heartthrob, Ji Qi was top-tier eye candy in the gay scene. Men were lusting after him from both ends.
He didn't even need to sleep with them. Just letting men get a whiff of him would make those sexually frustrated gay guys drool and offer up their money and luxury goods with both hands.
Ji Qi decided to give it a try, and discovered that, sure enough, gay men were easy to fleece. Heh.
Ji Qi started with a factory owner's son. The guy's whole deal was being rough, brutish, and uneducated, and only getting into college because his family donated a building. But he loved Ji Qi.
During their relationship, the factory owner's son spent an uncountable amount of money on Ji Qi.
What pleased Ji Qi even more was that the factory owner's son looked tall and brawny, overflowing with hormones. With his proud, striking good looks, he only had to crook a finger for a whole crowd of eager bottoms to flock to him, and yet he was unbelievably pure-hearted.
He would sweat nervously just holding Ji Qi's hand. Once, he bought condoms only to realize at the last minute that he didn't know how to use them. He had to look it up online to learn that you needed to squeeze the air out of the tip so they wouldn't break so easily.
Whenever Ji Qi pretended to be scared, the factory owner's son really would stop touching him.
But their relationship hadn't lasted long when the factory owner's parents found out their son was dating a man and cut off his allowance.
Ji Qi had no sentimental streak in him, and wasn't about to write some romantic story about a young couple sharing a rented apartment with the factory owner's son.
He simply said, "Bro, I really do want to spend my life with you, but I can't come between you and your family," then dumped him on the spot.
Later, Ji Qi heard that the factory owner's son had insisted on staying with him, so his father broke one of his legs and locked him in the house. One night, he sneaked out to look for Ji Qi and was accidentally hit by a car and killed.
Ji Qi merely went through the motions of burning a stick of incense and was sad for a few days before moving on to his next romance.
The second man's family wasn't nouveau riche like the factory owner's son's. They were a bona fide wealthy family with generations of status.
He gave Ji Qi money, connections, and opportunities, allowing him to make money on his own, too. But his kinks were something Ji Qi really couldn't accept.
The rich heir especially liked sharing intimate videos of the two of them in his group chat, without blurring their faces. He would add tags like #PrivateCollection #Wifey #Cup #NoOut, leaving Ji Qi deeply humiliated.
Ji Qi was determined to bring glory to his family. He was constantly on edge, afraid that if those videos got out, he wouldn't be able to live a normal life, even if he stopped being a sugar baby.
So he sold the rich heir's company's trade secrets to his third boyfriend, causing the rich heir's family to teeter on the verge of bankruptcy and leaving them too busy to look after themselves. Ji Qi took the opportunity to throw himself into the third man's arms.
As for the third man, there was even less to say. Ji Qi had thought the rich heir was the most deranged lunatic in all of history.
But the third man was especially fond of psychological manipulation. He wanted to break Ji Qi into a mindless pet, and nearly drugged him into becoming an idiot.
Ji Qi was a black widow who showed no mercy, either. The third man's fate was no better than that of the factory owner's son or the rich heir.
Ji Qi knew perfectly well he was a terrible person. His success and fame were built entirely on using his victims as stepping-stones. But so what?
Looking back in the end, he considered his life an inspiring tale of rising from adversity.
From a poor boy deep in the mountains to a CEO with assets worth hundreds of millions, who could say otherwise?
But the saying that people are accountable for their actions, that justice prevails and retribution never fails, had some truth to it after all.
Everything described above happened in Ji Qi's previous life.
In this life, Ji Qi has only just made it out of the mountains. His journey of using ex-boyfriends to pave the way to glory, then tossing them aside once they've served their purpose, has yet to begin.
In other words, he's inexperienced in every way: green, naive, and laughably inept.
But all his ex-boyfriends, whose lives ended in tragedy and who wanted nothing more than to skin him alive and tear him limb from limb, have been reborn.
They've learned the hard way that Ji Qi is a shameless bastard. No matter how smoothly he talks, they won't believe a word he says.
They are determined to make Ji Qi pay for his past mistakes with everything he has.
Reader's guide:
1. A multi-loop setup, with multiple people reborn repeatedly. The first loop is where the story begins, covering the events described before this guide.
2. Soap-opera drama, taming, and a chaotic love triangle. The tops are mostly mentally ill, each awful in their own way, with hardly a normal person among them.
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Theme: Never give up.