You Can Pick Up a Wild Man by the Roadside

A new novel, So Much Money, How Could I Ever Spend It All?, is coming soon. Feel free to let it build up a backlog of chapters!

Quirky and carefree + eight hundred clever schemes + a seductive, foxlike top

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Straight-A workaholic + strict upbringing + proper on the outside, wild on the inside + noble-born bottom

As the old saying goes: Never pick up a wild man by the roadside. If you do, you'll regret it!

Young people, beware of picking up a great demon king!

He Tinglan: Sorry, I'm the great demon king.

The serious blurb:

He Tinglan is a carefree mountain bandit king who happens to find an injured man.

The man says his name is Yu Wenjia, a wealthy young master being hunted by his enemies.

He Tinglan carefully tends to Yu Wenjia as he recovers, and somewhere along the way, he falls for him.

But before the two can enjoy their time together for long, Yu Wenjia says something has happened at home and he has to leave for a year.

He Tinglan: Oh, all right. Goodbye!

Who would have thought that a year later, the imperial army would surround He Tinglan's mountain stronghold?

The general roars, "You bandit! Surrender to the imperial court at once!"

He Tinglan narrows his eyes and looks down at the other man.

Wait, that person standing beside the general looks so familiar...

Yu Wenjia?

No, he should be called Fu Yan now, the eldest young master of the Fu family, one of the four great clans of the capital!

He Tinglan (furious): So you were the traitor who led them here!

Fu Yan (earnestly): Come back to the capital with me!

He Tinglan: Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

But some time later...

He Tinglan: It's only the capital. Fine, I'll go!

To investigate the truth behind his mother's and master's deaths, He Tinglan arrives in the treacherous capital.

But the moment he steps through the city gates, the whole capital is in an uproar.

Powerful official A (kindly): Good child, you've suffered for so many years. Come stay at my residence.

Powerful official B (sinisterly): You should stay with me. This is your home.

Powerful official C (terrified): You're her son? Have you come to claim my life?!

The emperor: Ahem, if you want to, the imperial palace isn't out of the question...

He Tinglan: Hold it!

Can't I just set up on my own?

The rules of the noble clans are so exhausting. There's morning and evening attendance, and "don't talk while eating or sleep while talking". What a pain!

It's much more comfortable in my own little courtyard!

Open this novel and you'll find:

1. Strong x strong + equal height + no size difference = a perfectly matched couple

2. A bad fox leads a good student astray, and they never turn back from their shameless ways

3. No wonder they looked like someone from the past: it turns out they're the child of someone from the past

Each is the other's first love. One-on-one, both physically and emotionally. Sweet romance, happy ending.

P.S. The top is merely foxlike. He's human, not an actual fox spirit!

Reader comments are open. Everyone is welcome to discuss things politely.

Blurb for the next novel~

So Much Money, How Could I Ever Spend It All?

Maneki-neko x God of Wealth (not really)

Quirky-brained overseas-returnee top who wants to strive for success x Buddhist-minded, rich-to-the-point-of-being-bothered bottom who just wants to lie flat

Repost this bottom and you'll receive a huge windfall.

Repost this top and your money will reproduce and make even more money~

Bottom's perspective:

Liang Chuo unexpectedly inherits a vast fortune.

He's troubled: How am I supposed to spend all this money?

As a rich second-generation heir whose material desires are fainter than plain water, Liang Chuo just wants to eat, drink, and wait to die. He can't even be bothered to go shopping.

So a friend gives him an idea:

"You could start a company. Offer employees high salaries and top-tier benefits, no overtime and a five-day workweek. Help job seekers everywhere and build up some good karma for yourself."

Liang Chuo: That's a great idea. Money should be spent on something meaningful. That's what I'll do!

The company gets up and running quickly. Liang Chuo is delighted. After getting everything arranged, he turns on his heel and goes on vacation.

Liang Chuo: Being a hands-off boss is the best! It doesn't matter if the company goes under. It's all just for fun~

A year later, he returns from a trip around the world.

Liang Chuo: Let's see if my company went under.

Instead, under the management of one of its managers, the company has made a fortune.

Lin Zhuxi: Hello, Mr. Liang. Our profit this year was 500 million...

Liang Chuo: Haha, now I'm really in trouble. I was already worrying about how to spend 500 million, and now it's turned into a billion. I'll never spend it all!

Top's perspective:

Lin Zhuxi is an overseas student who has just returned to the country.

A graduate of a top program at an Ivy League school, he had imagined that he would earn a million a year as soon as he came home, making all the effort and money spent on six years of undergraduate and graduate studies worthwhile.

But he keeps hitting dead ends in his job search.

In short, the people he's interested in aren't interested in him, and the ones interested in him aren't his type.

Lin Zhuxi says he's not ready to take off his scholar's robe:

The high-paying jobs demand endless overtime until you're sick of it, while the ones with no overtime and weekends off pay peanuts.

Then one day, while browsing a recruitment app, Lin Zhuxi finds a newly established company.

The company looks incredibly slapdash, but then again...

Monthly salary of 50,000 to 80,000, eighteen months' pay per year, six types of social insurance and two housing funds, 25 days of annual leave, 30 days of paid sick leave, 8,000 a month in housing allowance, weekends off, ten-to-five workdays, and no overtime.

Lin Zhuxi: A deal like this exists? Are they going to trick me into going to Southeast Asia?

After asking a friend to investigate the company's background, Lin Zhuxi is reassured.

Oh, turns out a rich second-generation heir has so much money he doesn't know what to do with it.

This is the one!

After joining the company, Lin Zhuxi discovers that they really weren't lying. The benefits are unbelievably good. He works for one hour a day and spends the rest of his time slacking off.

On the contrary, Lin Zhuxi is the first one who can't sit still.

Lin Zhuxi: This won't do. If this keeps up, I'll be spoiled rotten. Young people need to get plenty of experience and keep improving themselves!

He's going to lead the whole company, along with their rarely seen but astonishingly lazy boss, as they build a glorious business empire together!

Take note:

An adult fairy tale. Just enjoy the ride!

This novel is fictional. In real life, money doesn't fall from the sky, so stay alert.

May everyone have more little money than they can ever spend~

Theme: What goes around comes around