Best Offer

After six years together, Lin Nian learns through his boyfriend's social media post that the man is getting engaged. After breaking up and blocking him everywhere, Lin Nian decides to shut off his heart and love no more. The key is hanging on the door, high enough for someone 190 centimeters tall to reach. From then on, he'll flirt without getting attached. But his obsession with hygiene means he can't spend every night partying, so he'll just find a young college guy who's good in bed.

Han Yu is a college sophomore and a swimmer, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and a handsome face. After trying him out, Lin Nian gives him a perfect ten. He hopes they can maintain a steady, exclusive physical relationship, but as a working professional, he really has no time for romance. After careful consideration, Lin Nian decides to use his money to get what he wants. "I'll keep you. Is fifty thousand a month enough?"

Han Yu: "That's enough!"

Lin Nian enjoys the pleasures of keeping a young wolfdog, until he discovers that the assistant to the president of Han Yu's overseas parent company calls him "young master."

Lin Nian's vision goes black. Han Yu takes his hand. "You're a professional manager for someone either way. Come be my professional manager instead. Sign this marriage application, and I'll give you half my shares as compensation."

Lin Nian: "Get away from me! You're an heir to a family fortune, and you were still taking fifty thousand a month from me? Who was keeping whom?"

The blurb is from the bottom's perspective. From the top's perspective, it's more like: A beautiful man falls in love with me at first sight and wants to sleep with me? He wants a long-term relationship? And he wants to pay me?! What kind of heavenly being has descended upon me? Thank you, thank you. It would be rude to say no.

There is a kept-lover trope, but not much of it. The focus is on them saving each other and finding direction and meaning together. The bottom is six years older than the top.

Theme: Believe in love.