I'm Poor, I Just Pretend Not to Be

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Shi Chuyang's family owns eight apartment buildings. After graduation, he didn't want to work 996, so he lived off the rent. He assigned his tenants payment dates from the 1st to the 30th, and every morning the sound of money coming in woke him up.

One day, while taking out the trash, he ran into a prospective tenant coming to view an apartment. The guy was tall and handsome, and when he smiled he looked like a puppy. Everything about him hit Shi Chuyang right in the heart. The only problem was that he was dirt poor and dressed in rags.

Overcome by lust, Shi Chuyang, a natural-born gay man who had been single for years, did something he'd never done before. He brought the guy home and slapped a stack of cash down in front of him.

“I'll give you fifty thousand a month. You satisfy all my requests, got it?”

The man stared at the strange items in the wardrobe: ?

He got it. He did as he was told. Shi Chuyang cried.

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Wen Yi was born into a wealthy family. Still young, he was worth hundreds of billions. Rumor had it that at eighteen, he drove his own mother insane and sent his relatives to prison.

People described him as cold to his own family and ruthless in business. Their advice was to stay as far away from him as possible.

One day, Wen Yi had arranged to discuss a deal with someone. After his car was wrecked in a rear-end collision, leaving him looking thoroughly disheveled, someone slapped a stack of cash down in front of him.

A stack of

cash...

Business mogul Wen Yi was dumbfounded.

Later, people saw the supposedly heartless Wen Yi gently holding an umbrella over the person beside him in the rain, not caring that half his own body was exposed to the downpour.

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Only after learning the true identity of the man beside him did Shi Chuyang realize how recklessly he'd behaved. He hurriedly packed his things, intending to run off and stay in one of his other buildings, but he was caught halfway there.

The man tied his hands with a necktie. His eyes gleamed behind his glasses. “A Chu, we agreed that you'd pay me and I'd provide the service. Why did you run away?”

Note: There will be a later groveling-and-redemption arc. At heart, this is a warm and sweet little romance. If you like it, please add it to your collection! It will probably update six days a week, with one day off.

Coming soon: “Rival, How Did You Become My Uncle?!” See my author page.

Qin Shinian was a CEO, if you wanted to put it nicely. Put less nicely, he was a high-level wage slave. He went to bed later than a dog and got up earlier than a chicken. He went to banquets just to network, never ate his fill when dining with people, and forced himself to get up and jog in the dead of winter to maintain his image.

In the end, he died on his way to another 996 workday for his company.

Now he had two pieces of news.

The bad news was that after dying, he was reborn in a stranger's body. This body belonged to a good-for-nothing who couldn't do anything right and hadn't even finished his bachelor's degree.

The good news was that the man had the same name as him and was an orphan who'd inherited a massive fortune. There were 200 million in his bank account. He could lie flat, retire early, and live out his days as a carefree loafer. He'd never have to be a wage slave again.

On his first day of retirement, Qin Shinian drank, went clubbing, raced cars, and hired male models.

On his third day, Qin Shinian was reported for illegal transactions and hauled into the station. The person who came to bail him out looked very familiar.

Qin Shinian's inner thoughts: Holy crap.

Zhou Muyang had been Qin Shinian's lifelong rival and childhood friend in his previous life. At school, Qin was second on the list of campus heartthrobs, while Zhou was first. Qin went to a top-tier university, while Zhou went to Tsinghua or Peking University. Qin became a CEO, while Zhou inherited the family business and became its chairman. Zhou had always outshone him.

Now Qin was stuck at the police station, watching Zhou Muyang come to bail him out.

Qin Shinian: ???

What was going on? In this new life, had he become his former rival's eldest nephew, albeit an adopted one?

On the Nth day of retirement, Qin Shinian stood outside Zhou Muyang's bedroom in his pajamas and called out very obediently, “Hello, Uncle Zhou.”

Then he watched helplessly as the man grabbed the back of his pajamas and dragged him into the bedroom with a smile in his eyes. “Good boy.”

A genuine layabout, fake workaholic bottom VS a genuine workaholic, fake layabout elite top.

A longtime secret crush finally comes true.

P.S. There is no adoption or blood relation of any kind. The top knew the original owner's father, which is why he's called Uncle.

Theme: Never give up on love.