Pretending to Be Poor? Getting Rich!

[Please add my upcoming comedy, When a Player Meets a Straight Guy, to your reading list!]

Synopsis

Zong Bai transmigrated into a book, becoming a nobody so obscure he couldn't even get a gig a hundred miles from the city.

The day he went to the supermarket to grab some discount vegetables with the last 559.69 yuan in his pocket, he came home with a young man in tow.

He'd hoped to make a little money, but who would've thought the guy was even poorer than him?!

He shamelessly ate and slept for free, lazing around every day more than a retiree who'd spent three years hanging out in the park.

Zong Bai finally couldn't take it anymore. He grabbed a pillow and hurled it at Pei Yansong, who was lounging by the window.

“Aren't you a stockbroker? Where's your money? Where is it? How can you be this poor??”

Pei Yansong lied through his teeth without batting an eye. “Because I'm extravagant and vain. I have a mortgage and a car loan, and I love getting carried away at bars and announcing that tonight's tab is on me.”

Zong Bai: “...Nice.”

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But Zong Bai noticed that after meeting Pei Yansong, his career seemed to open up for no reason.

The director who'd once looked down on him started speaking to him gently. His sharp-tongued boss became friendly and handed him a script, asking which role he wanted. Even his usually stone-faced agent seemed to be smiling at him a little more often??

Later, a popular dating reality show came knocking. Four men and four women would be sent to an uninhabited island, with no limits on who they could pair up with. Zong Bai glanced over the details, and his eyes immediately lit up.

But on the day filming began, Zong Bai stared in horror and pointed at the man whose name wasn't on the list, yet whose face was so familiar he could piece it together even if it had been ground to dust.

“Who did you say that was? Say it again?”

The normally composed director was so excited he could barely hold the microphone, his voice shaking as if he were bungee jumping. “Pei Yansong. Started out in venture capital, one of China's top investors, founding partner of YS Capital, shareholder in dozens of publicly listed companies...”

Zong Bai: The world's gone insane.

Pei Yansong: Faced with the choice between revealing his identity and watching his wife film a dating show with other people, he chose to appear in person. Besides, the island was his, and the rooms were well soundproofed.

A nobody x an investor

A comedy

----------Here is the upcoming novel's synopsis----------

When a Player Meets a Straight Guy

Xie Yi was a famous player at X University. His WeChat contacts filled every letter from A to Z without a single gap.

Give him a few keywords and his friends could find the perfect match for them.

He had so many examples that it was hard to miss.

He'd passed through a thousand flower beds without a leaf sticking to him. He flirted but never slept with anyone, and loved watching people get swept up in the ambiguity.

Even so, one person after another lined up to be fish in his pond, just for the chance to exchange a few words with him now and then.

Then one day, he received a friend request: “I hear you're good at raising fish? What a coincidence, so am I. I'd like to challenge you.”

Xie Yi sneered. What a low-class pickup line.

But his fingers were quick to accept the request and type: “How do you want to challenge me?”

The other person sent an address: “XXX Aquaculture Farm.”

Xie Yi: ?

Xie Yi rode the bus for two hours, then walked for half an hour under the blazing 30-degree sun to get there.

He looked up at the stainless-steel sign overhead and thought this player must be on a whole other level. The guy had successfully roused his competitive spirit.

Then he looked down and saw a handsome man in a straw hat, smiling like a lovable idiot.

“Over here are Furu carp, over there are channel catfish, and there's sea cucumber in the pond farther away.”

Shen Xinyue introduced them as they walked. “They're all hard to raise, but I've done pretty well.”

Then he turned to Xie Yi. “Show me the fish you raise.”

Xie Yi: “...”

Xie Yi turned and left with the more than three thousand digital fish on his phone.

**

Later, Shen Xinyue clung to Xie Yi and wailed, “Can you stop raising other people and just raise me?”

Xie Yi raised an eyebrow. “You want to live off me?”

Shen Xinyue: “No, I want to be the fish you raise.”

Xie Yi: “...”

You idiot. If you don't know how to confess, just keep your damn mouth shut!

Straight until he falls for a man

A pure-hearted straight-guy top x a fiery beauty bottom

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