Lure a Rugged Man into Being My Top

[Flirty, Sultry Beauty & Dad-Type, Abstinent Tough Guy]

Jiang Yi has a secret sketchbook.

It is filled with drawings of Ji Linshou, all imagined by Jiang Yi, and with very little clothing on him.

On many sleepless nights, Jiang Yi needs the sketchbook to help him drift off, almost as if he is addicted.

But in reality, he has never had any real interaction with Ji Linshou.

Everything changed the day Ji Linshou followed a friend into Jiang Yi's hair salon.

The man wore a black T-shirt, tall and long-legged, with a lean, muscular build.

Even standing there silently and properly, he radiated powerful masculinity.

Jiang Yi's eyes burned as he watched. His legs went weak, his waist ached, and his heart pounded.

A thought he had buried deep for years resurfaced at last: he wanted to sleep with him.

But as a water sign, Jiang Yi's words never match his heart. He is awkward and stubborn.

Even though he thinks of Ji Linshou every night before bed, and goes weak in the knees and restless whenever he pictures Ji Linshou's body, when they meet in person, he only acts nonchalant, baiting and luring him in little by little.

Accidental bodily contact, an intimate item dropped by chance, and gentle, constant companionship: every one of them is bait.

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Ji Linshou is a handsome man with a house, a car, and savings, whose every move exudes mature charm.

Yet after thirty-two years, he has never experienced love. No one would believe it if he told them.

Everyone around him assumes his birth family must have wounded him deeply, making him shun marriage and children as if they were poisonous snakes and scorpions, and leaving him uninterested in romance.

Even Ji Linshou himself believes this is the case.

But when Jiang Yi wanders into his sight, he finally understands what it means to be attracted to someone both physically and emotionally.

His gaze keeps clinging to Jiang Yi. His nose and mouth remember Jiang Yi's scent, and his fingertips yearn for the warmth of Jiang Yi's skin...

By the time he realizes what is happening, that tiny spark has already become a raging fire, crackling through his whole heart.

The old house has caught fire, and the flames are spreading across the plain.

Jiang Yi: All-around stylist, skilled in makeup, styling, and photography

Ji Linshou: Shareholder in a supermarket chain, a traveling peddler who likes driving into the mountains in his spare time

A slow-paced farming romance. There will be pregnancy and childbirth later on, so readers who enjoy that can check out the main story.

No one in this story is intersex. The author has no medical knowledge, so the childbirth is all thanks to medical miracles and made-up science. The setting is fictional.

Sorry for changing the premise. I can't write the previous one for now.

The cover background image is from teacher Xiao Hong Shu o.o.

Coming soon: The Top Gifter Saving the Fallen Is a Straight-Ahead Straight Man

Su Yu is a cash-strapped high school senior.

When he hears that someone he hates is making money online as a suggestive streamer, he condemns them out loud, but cannot help thinking about streaming himself.

But he is shy and embarrassed. He wants to make money but cannot bring himself to show his face. For the first few days of streaming, he keeps his face off-camera, showing only his body in an oversized boyfriend-style shirt.

After several days, he has barely earned anything, but has received a mountain of lewd private messages.

Su Yu is about to give up when a comment scrolls across the screen.

[Shen Li: Are you a student? Students should focus on their studies instead of doing this sort of thing.]

Thinking he is quitting anyway, Su Yu throws caution to the wind and says, "I am a student, but I need money. This is the only way I can earn it."

[Shen Li: If I send you gifts, can you dress properly and focus on your studies?]

Who wouldn't want to earn money honestly?

Su Yu answers without hesitation: "Sure. Send me a Carnival, and I'll study hard for you."

A few seconds later.

A scrolling banner crosses the top of Su Yu's stream: "Shen Li sent a Carnival in Little Su Is Feeling Gloomy Again's livestream!"

--

With Shen Li's support as his top gifter, Su Yu no longer has to worry about money. He works hard at his studies and gets into one of China's top universities.

But as time goes by, Su Yu soon finds himself facing a new problem.

He has fallen in love with his top gifter, Shen Li, a completely straight man.

--

Shen Li is an honest man who works hauling bricks at a construction site.

One day, a coworker catches him watching a livestream while eating a steamed bun. Worried he might be swindled out of his money and feelings, the coworker cannot help warning him: "Streamers are all fake and insincere. The moment you stop sending gifts, their feelings disappear. Don't get carried away and blow all your hard-earned money!"

Shen Li smiles. "That won't happen. I know what I'm doing. The streamer I watch is a boy. He's a good student, but his family is poor, and he's in his final year of high school. This is a crucial time for him, so I send him a few small gifts to help with living expenses. That's all."

To convince his coworker, Shen Li even turns his phone around to show him the screen, looking proud.

"Look how seriously he does his homework."

Seeing the fair-skinned boy with delicate features on the screen, his coworker nods. But afterward, he can't help feeling that something about it seems a little strange.

Coming soon: I Love My Streamer @Jiang Zhouxing

The summer after the college entrance exams, happy puppy Jiang Zhouxing boldly ventured onto a livestreaming platform and became a streamer.

At first, Jiang Zhouxing thought of himself as an entertainment streamer, so he worked hard to put on a show every day: wearing a red Wangzai outfit, putting on smoky eye makeup that would make any mother want to smack him, and tirelessly doing the flower-hand dance on stream.

Then he earned himself an endless string of punishments.

Things took a turn one day when Jiang Zhouxing was punished by having his face painted. The System deemed it bizarre and vulgar, so to avoid being banned, he had no choice but to take off his makeup on the spot.

Unexpectedly, he sat down in front of the computer bare-faced and wound up gaining plenty of loyal fans and gifts.

In a post-stream interview, viewers said: You should have told us you had such a sweet, innocent puppy face! If you looked at me with those big, bright, round puppy eyes and asked for a gift, could I really say no?

Watching the endless gift effects on the screen, Jiang Zhouxing slowly formed a giant question mark. Wasn't he supposed to be more popular with makeup on? Why were the people in his stream so strange? They didn't like him with makeup and insisted on seeing his bare face!

--

As the chairman of a publicly listed company, Qi Huairang handles projects worth tens of millions every day.

He never expected that one day he would be stumped by a small-time streamer.

The streamer is his younger sister's favorite.

Before she moved into her dorm, his sister begged him over and over to protect her favorite streamer.

Qi Huairang doesn't watch livestreams, but to put his sister at ease, he agreed and entered the stream right on time that evening.

Then he watched helplessly as the little streamer he was supposed to protect got beaten black and blue, looking utterly miserable.

At the time, Qi Huairang did want to save him.

But his sister's account didn't have enough funds available. Even if he sent every last bit of it, it wouldn't have helped.

Why didn't he use his own money?

Qi Huairang: Sorry, a businessman has no obligation to take a loss.

We keep business and family separate. Helping his sister for free is already the greatest concession he can make for family.

Qi Huairang firmly believes that all the misery in livestreams is just a ploy to squeeze money out of viewers. As a seasoned businessman who has weathered every kind of storm, he will never fall for it.

Then, the next day.

Seeing the deficit in his sister's account, Qi Huairang, a compulsive perfectionist trying to save face by falsifying the books, starts searching: How can I top up livestream coins for a friend's account?

After completing the transaction, Qi Huairang swears to heaven that he will never act impulsively again or spend his sister's livestream coins in advance.

One week later.

A blank new account named "User007" enters Jiang Zhouxing's livestream and sends a flurry of the platform's most expensive gifts.

One month later.

In response to flirtatious private messages from other streamers, "User007" promptly deletes and blocks them, then adds this to his profile: I love my streamer @Jiang Zhouxing.

Clever, adorable, happy puppy VS straight-thinking older CEO

Theme: Live happily and charge forward