Want to Date? I’ll Pay for Everything

(I haven't planned the outline well, and the more I write, the more stuck I get. I'll do my best to finish it, but updates may only come weekly. So sorry, so sorry. I may unlock the chapters. If I don't, I'll send a red envelope to everyone who subscribed when it's complete. Thanks for understanding.)

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Cheng Yinchi discovers that his boyfriend has been cheating on him.

His boyfriend was broke, so Cheng Yinchi gave him a house and a car, and even let him use a high-end office building for free to start his business.

In the end, the man fell in love with an intern who was just as poor as he was.

When caught, the boyfriend even swallowed his pride and said, "What do you have besides money? All you do is humiliate me with it!"

Cheng Yinchi: "..."

Cheng Yinchi nods. "Fine. I'll find someone else to humiliate."

The next day, a young man in shabby clothes slapped a thick stack of bills down on the ex-boyfriend's desk.

"Brother Chi says you need to pay the rent for the last two years."

Ex-boyfriend: "..."

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Jiang Yu's father rejects him, his mother doesn't love him, and after turning eighteen, he runs away from home with nowhere to go.

One night, he is sitting in a neighborhood park when a man on a little electric scooter, wearing a baggy T-shirt and oversized shorts, stops in front of him.

The man looks at him and crooks a finger. "Hey, kid, want to come home with me?"

Jiang Yu stares at the man for a while, then nods. "I do."

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In his previous life, at the same place, the same person asked Jiang Yu the same question.

Back then, he answered, "Get lost."

Later, while unloading cargo, he ran into a runaway car. The same man shoved him out of the way.

Jiang Yu watched Cheng Yinchi stop breathing with his own eyes. His eyes were red as he asked, "I never got to ask you why you wanted to date me. Was it because you liked me...?"

But he never got an answer to that question in his entire life.

Now, he is sitting on Cheng Yinchi's little electric scooter.

At last, he has another chance to ask.

["If we're not going to be lovers, I don't want any other kind of relationship with you."]

*Both are virgins, happy ending. Seven-year age gap, with the seme younger. No romance while underage.

*They both had difficult childhoods and some psychological struggles, but they're always trying to save themselves and become better.

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Theme: Be self-reliant and keep striving to live.