A Sudden Calamity

Mu Qiulang has always disliked his name. It sounds like the kind of name you'd give one of those rich young heirs in a romance drama. But he's not one of them. He's just an utterly ordinary man in this world. His grades, opportunities, and family background were all mediocre from elementary school onward. Apart from not being particularly bad-looking, he had nothing much to offer. After finally working his way up from a junior clerk to an assistant manager, he got carried away by his promotion and raise, took out a loan, and bought himself a little car. Then disaster struck on the very first day he picked it up. Whether it was his poor driving or bad luck, after his BYD hit a Porsche, the police determined that he was at fault. The tall, handsome man was named Shi Feihong, a name that sounded like it belonged to some great hero setting out to roam the martial world. And a hero he was: faced with compensation worth millions, he said to Mu Qiulang, "If you agree to be my lover, I can drop the charges and settle this privately." Be a man's lover? Mu Qiulang couldn't make sense of it. But there was no way he could come up with that million or so, so what else could he do? He had to agree for now and figure something out later.

That's how feelings grow over time. Mu Qiulang never thought he'd fall in love with that man because of their bargain, and even less that the man had initially treated him as a stand-in for someone else. When the real one returned, it was time for Mu Qiulang to leave. Unrequited love is exhausting, so it was time to let go…

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