The Stingy CEO and His Money-Guzzling Lover

Yun Pu awakened to the fact that he was the young master of the Yun family, a character in a book whose family was destined to go bankrupt. He knew nothing about the original plot.

Raised in luxury, he couldn't bear living in poverty. On the eve of the bankruptcy, Yun Pu threw a fit and begged his family to marry him off to the rapidly rising Lu family.

His husband, Lu Jingchen, had built his fortune from nothing and was worth hundreds of billions, but was stingy. In their three years of marriage, Yun Pu often saw him wearing shirts until the collars were frayed, eating day-old bread for breakfast, and flying economy on business trips.

Still, whenever Yun Pu said he wanted to buy something luxurious or hinted with a look, Lu Jingchen would silently pull out his card and pay.

Hmph. As long as he kept paying his share at home, life was just about bearable.

Then a dream brought the plot back to Yun Pu. He was actually the beautiful but useless cannon-fodder gold-digger in the book! And his frugal husband was the male lead, who was about to meet his true love, the love interest, decide Yun Pu spent too much, and insist on divorcing him.

Fine, let's get divorced!!

Yun Pu knew he wasn't someone to mess with. Before the divorce, he was going to fleece Lu Jingchen for a hefty sum, as compensation for the mental and physical toll of the past three years.

"Honey, buy me a big diamond ring~"

"Mr. Lu, buy me a private jet."

"Lu Jingchen, buy me an island."

Yun Pu maxed out Lu Jingchen's three black cards, bid on an antique manor, and had diamonds set into a yacht...

Lu Jingchen had spent a lot of money on him penny by penny, and had never thought of getting it back from Yun Pu. He had always held back in bed, afraid his little wife would get scared. That is, until he accidentally discovered a drafted divorce agreement hidden in Yun Pu's drawer.

That night, Yun Pu was pinned against the floor-to-ceiling window and interrogated again and again: "Are you still getting a divorce?"

Bullied until he was squealing, Yun Pu went from "I didn't enjoy your contribution to the household this time, so I'm divorcing you!" to a little kitten who seemed to be played with in the palm of Lu Jingchen's hand: "I'm not divorcing you, honey. Waaaah, I'm not divorcing you..."

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Lu Jingchen first met Yun Pu on a rainy night.

Back then, he was a poor kid taking on other people's debts. A luxury car speeding by splashed dirty water all over him. He hated the rich, and all kinds of vicious curses flashed through his mind. But when the car window rolled down and he saw a porcelain-white, innocent face, every thought vanished.

The pampered young master tossed an umbrella and some change out the window. "Here, it's raining so hard. Get home early, okay?"

His voice was clear and sweet.

Lu Jingchen clutched the umbrella and change.

He remembered it for seven years.

Later, at banquets, influential people from every field would always comfort Lu Jingchen. "The young master of the Yun family can do nothing but spend money. You'll have your hands full marrying a little gold-digger."

"You've lost big with this marriage."

Lu Jingchen only smiled without a word. He had been frugal all his life and fought his way out of the dirt so he could stand by Yun Pu openly and raise this little gold-digger without a care in the world.

He was clearly the one who'd come out ahead.

ISTJ x ESFP

Reader's Guide and Content Warnings:

1. Fictional setting, same-sex marriage is legal, and people can marry at 18.

2. At the start, the male lead is 28 and the love interest is 21, a 7-year age gap.

3. A spoiled, fussy wife as the love interest.

Blurb dated January 14, 2026

Theme: You have to seize opportunities for yourself