Does a Flirtatious Gold Digger Have to Be Everyone's Favorite?

[The protagonist has ambiguous relationships with several love interests along the way, but the ending is one-on-one. The other love interests are left to pine alone in the digital age.]

[Flirtatious love-scammer, gorgeous and heartless protagonist × devoted, lovestruck, rich, cool-headed love interest]

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Song Yi's parents divorced when he was young, and he never knew where his next meal was coming from. He doesn't believe in love, only money.

As it happens, he also has a beautiful, seductive face that lets him string along a crowd of rich young masters, who line up to shower him with money.

Unlike those who cast their nets wide, Song Yi is very devoted: he scams one person at a time. He makes them think he's sincere, so they fall for him completely, and even after a breakup, they keep clinging to him.

[Straight Childhood Friend]

His childhood friend is sunny and handsome, exactly to Song Yi's exacting taste. He hands over all his allowance, and gives Song Yi his competition prize money without a second thought. He's basically a human ATM, a self-heating massage wand that spits out gold coins.

The problem is, his childhood friend is aggressively straight. They've watched porn together, kissed, and slept together, and he still thinks they're just friends.

Song Yi sees no future in dragging things out with him, so he transfers schools and gives him the full block-and-delete treatment.

Hey, weren't you straight? How come you even let him put his balls in you?

[Homophobic Young Master]

After transferring to an elite school, Song Yi gets seated next to a rich, homophobic young master, who takes one look at him and decides he's gay, then picks on him at every turn.

Song Yi thought he would be hard to win over, but all it took was acting pitiful and saying he wanted him to pretend to be his boyfriend because his childhood friend was bothering him. The guy fell for it, then kept pestering Song Yi to teach him how to kiss as payment.

Hey, weren't you homophobic? How come, right after he moved on to someone else, you cried and threatened to jump off a building unless he'd get back together with you?

[Sugar Daddy CEO]

Song Yi isn't satisfied with scamming rich second-generation heirs anymore, so he turns to the wealthy patron who sponsors him. The man is a self-made billionaire, has a six-pack, and is worth hundreds of billions. Aside from being a little old, Song Yi likes everything about him, especially how readily he hands over money.

Hey, weren't you only treating him as a lover? How come you want to marry him now?

[Boy Next Door]

The boy next door has watched Song Yi grow up and always looked after him, until he catches Song Yi kissing three different boys in the hallway on three separate occasions.

The last time, he goes to his business partner's home to pick up some documents, only to find Song Yi behind the office chair, sitting on the lap of his cold and unapproachable business partner. Song Yi's gorgeous face is flushed, his red lips parting in hot breaths, and his unfocused eyes glance over at him, full of allure.

Hey, weren't you so careful about keeping yourself pure? How come you volunteered to be his mistress?

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Song Yi has scammed enough and plans to find an honest man to settle down with. But when he turns around, one of the men he dumped through cold violence is still standing there, waiting for him like a sad puppy.

The man's features are stern. He lowers his eyes and asks softly, "Yi Yi, I have a lot of money now. Could you give me another chance?"

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The official love interest is the last one to appear. He becomes the other man's mistress, actively steals him away, and the protagonist immediately moves on to him.

Song Yi and the official love interest will break up once, at Song Yi's initiative. In the end, they fight tooth and nail for each other, and Song Yi successfully gets back together with his ex.

[Reading Guide]

1. All the love interests are completely chaste, chaste, chaste, chaste, chaste. No cannon-fodder protagonists or side couples.

2. A little angst. Every love interest gets his own heartbreak-and-redemption arc^^

3. This story is all about watching the rejected love interests lose it and go crazy. Only the official love interest gets the title of boyfriend, but the protagonist will have flirtatious relationships with the others along the way, very flirtatious ones. If you only want a pure one-on-one romance, this isn't for you.

4. The official love interest appears fairly late, though he's mentioned indirectly earlier. Before VIP chapters, most of the story focuses on the childhood friend and the closeted homophobic guy.

*Song Yi's name comes from the phrase, "May good times come, and may everything go well."

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