If You Look Like That, Why Didn't You Say So Earlier!

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*A fun-loving, versatile receiving partner × a refined, depraved, smiling-tiger pursuing partner*

Sui Yi grew up in an orphanage and has been poor his whole life.

His only goals are to make money and make a lot of money.

He'll take almost any side job for a buck: boosting accounts, playing games for others, filling in for classes, running errands, grinding, farming, picking things up, making deliveries, lining up, keeping someone company...

It's all part of his business.

As long as the money's good, nothing is a problem.

One day, a regular customer placed a special order with him: chat-for-hire.

The client wanted Sui Yi to imitate his way of speaking and chat with his online-dating partner.

Sui Yi knew something was fishy about the job, but the client was offering way too much.

Sui Yi accepted right away and said, "It's just a few messages."

But after two days of chatting, Sui Yi regretted it.

The client's online-dating partner was too chatty. For those two days, Sui Yi had to reply whenever he was awake, and he also had to keep up the client's sweet, cute way of speaking. It took so much time and energy that it seriously affected his other jobs. After much deliberation, Sui Yi asked the client to cancel the order.

The client offered to pay more, but he didn't even reply.

His next food-delivery order had come in.

After spending several days delivering food in the wind and sun, the chat-for-hire client contacted him again. The job had been exposed, and the online-dating partner now wanted to pay Sui Yi to chat with him, since he thought Sui Yi always replied to every message and was great to talk to.

The client also said he'd decided to accept the online-dating partner's referral fee and painlessly pass him along to Sui Yi.

Sui Yi had to read those two sentences three times with a frown before he understood them.

He typed back: If your partner's so rich, why don't you take the job?

The client replied solemnly: He's too ugly. I can't stand looking at him.

The client: [Photo of an incomparably ugly face] He looks like this.

Sui Yi: ...

At that moment, he truly understood that being so ugly as to be a rarity in the world was a kind of talent.

I can't take it. I want to throw up.

The client sent another message: He said he'd pay 500 a day to have someone chat with him.

Sui Yi: ...

Damn, I threw up too soon.

Sui Yi replied seriously: I think... maybe... I could probably accept. Just chatting, okay?

The client: Sure, I'll send him your contact in a minute and have him add you.

Sui Yi: OK

Sui Yi didn't want the job, but the offer was just too, too good.

The online-dating client didn't add Sui Yi until the next evening. As soon as they connected, he sent a huge transfer.

Sui Yi did the math. That was enough to buy three months of his time. Money talks! It's just chatting, right? Then let's chat!

Sui Yi imitated the chat-for-hire client's tone and messaged the online-dating client to thank him.

Sui Yi: Thanks for the treat, hubby (^з^)

The online-dating client replied: ?

Without thinking anything of it, Sui Yi asked sweetly: What's wrong, hubby? *^_^*

The online-dating client: Do you call everyone hubby?

Sui Yi understood. This was a test. He replied smoothly: Of course not! I only call you that because I like you.

The online-dating client: Oh.

Why had the online-dating client suddenly gone cold? Sui Yi was confused, then promptly stopped wondering.

Who cared what kind of persona he wanted to try? As long as he paid!

The online-dating client really was rich and generous.

When he was happy, he liked sending Sui Yi money. When he was unhappy, he liked sending him money too.

Sui Yi got so carried away living off his sugar daddy that he forgot himself, and he became more and more skilled at acting cute.

Late at night, he couldn't help thinking how unfair the heavens were. They'd given the online-dating client so much money, but not a face anyone could look at.

The more time they spent together, the better they understood each other. The more they chatted, the sweeter things became. This was very dangerous.

After wavering for a long time between the online-dating client being extremely rich and the online-dating client being truly hideous, Sui Yi finally decided to end their contact once their arrangement was over.

When the three-month term ended, Sui Yi sent a message saying he was no longer taking orders, then blocked the online-dating client.

If he waited any longer, he was afraid he wouldn't have the heart to do it.

His heart was already getting a little out of control.

But he... was genuinely afraid of falling in love with an ugly person!

*

Pei Lang added an all-purpose hired hand from an alumni group. From the photo, he looked like the younger brother his childhood friend had recently found after he'd been missing for eighteen years.

Remembering that his friend had said the younger brother ran away from home after falling out with the family's adopted son,

Pei Lang added the kid out of curiosity and a bit of older-brotherly concern, then sent him 50,000 as a welcome gift.

But why did the kid... why did he call him hubby right off the bat?

Honestly, what a bold and frivolous kid.

Pei Lang's foxlike eyes turned as he thought: What if my childhood friend found out his little brother was calling everyone hubby? What would he do?

To save his friend's little brother from going astray, Pei Lang decided to risk it all, bait the trap with himself, leap into danger, and offer himself up...

Three months later.

The rescue plan failed, and Pei Lang lost his heart.

*

How can you casually toy with someone's feelings? I guess I'll have to give the kid a proper lesson, Pei Lang thought earnestly.

Reader's guide:

1. A fun-loving, versatile receiving partner × a refined, depraved, smiling-tiger pursuing partner.

2. One-on-one, both leads are sexually inexperienced.

3. I'll add more if I think of anything.

Theme: Online dating is risky, so make sure you get a good look at the other person's face!