After Falling for My Cousin’s Handsome Sidekick

[Love-at-First-Sight, Big-Dog Energy Top × Pretty Bottom Who Only Has Eyes for Money]

Blurb:

Lu Ming and Jian Zhiyu first met at the biggest bar and club in Beijing. Jian Zhiyu followed cautiously behind his rich playboy cousin’s entourage, blinking his clear, curious eyes.

The private room was crowded and noisy, but Lu Ming spotted him at first sight.

Jian Zhiyu…

The first thing Jian Zhiyu noticed was the starry ceiling in the private room.

He knew at a glance that thing must have cost a fortune.

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Jian Zhiyu had been poor his whole life. He’d worked countless part-time jobs and, despite not having graduated yet, already had more than a decade of work experience.

Recently, he’d found a new part-time gig.

Word was, if you became a lackey in the entourage of the school’s famous playboy, you could follow him around to parties and clubs and make at least four figures a month.

At least four figures.

Jian Zhiyu couldn’t even imagine how much the most successful lackey could make in a month.

Jian Zhiyu, who drank free egg soup in the cafeteria every day, put on his most “playboy” outfit, ripped jeans, and went to apply.

…

The interview went very well. But as the young master’s lackey, Jian Zhiyu couldn’t drink, smoke, or fight, and he sometimes even laughed while trying to flatter people.

In his first month on the job, he didn’t make a single cent.

Just as he was wondering whether to quit and go back to working at a milk tea shop, the young master finally gave him his first assignment

Be the young master’s cousin’s boyfriend for a day.

The performance fee was 800 yuan.

Jian Zhiyu felt like he was back in business.

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The young master’s cousin was named Lu Ming. He was handsome, generous, and drove a car with a starry ceiling. The only problem was that he had far too many admirers, so Jian Zhiyu often had to fend them off.

Jian Zhiyu was gorgeous. All he had to do was stand there, with his slender waist and long legs, rosy lips and pearly teeth, wrap himself around Lu Ming’s arm, and sweetly call him “Hubby.” Even the most persistent admirers would wither away.

His performance fee went from 800 yuan to 8,000 yuan each time, and Jian Zhiyu called him “Hubby” with complete sincerity every time.

Everyone thought Jian Zhiyu was madly in love with Lu Ming, but only Lu Ming knew the truth: Jian Zhiyu didn’t love him. He only loved his money.

The one who was truly madly in love was Lu Ming.

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At a party, Jian Zhiyu got an urgent request from Lu Ming.

After rescuing a drunk Lu Ming, Jian Zhiyu complained as he supported him, “Hubby, you’re so heavy.”

The next second, Lu Ming, barely conscious, pinned him down on the back seat of the car. “Wifey?”

While on the job, Jian Zhiyu was utterly professional. “It’s me, Hubby.”

Lu Ming relaxed and started tearing Jian Zhiyu’s clothes open.

Jian Zhiyu: “???”

Jian Zhiyu: “Who the hell drugged my husband?!”

…

Though he’d nearly slept with his pretend husband, Jian Zhiyu remained perfectly calm. Pointing at the hickey on his neck, he said, “Even though I call you Hubby, this costs extra!”

Lu Ming looked thoughtful. “Costs extra?”

After that, every time Lu Ming booked him, kissing and cuddling became add-ons.

Jian Zhiyu: “This doesn’t seem right.”

[“Lu Ming” transferred 52,000 yuan to you]

Jian Zhiyu: “All right, then.”

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Jian Zhiyu had thought his working relationship with Lu Ming would last until Lu Ming found a partner and walked down the aisle.

That was until, on another night out with the young master, Jian Zhiyu got drunk after one drink and slept like a log on the private room sofa.

In a daze, he heard the young master talking on the phone.

Then Lu Ming arrived and took Jian Zhiyu back to his car.

The moment the car door closed, the man pinned Jian Zhiyu down on the back seat again and kissed him, gripping his chin.

The car was silent except for the wet sounds of Jian Zhiyu’s kisses and Lu Ming’s low murmur, as he fought to keep his desire in check. “Wifey, why are you so naughty, going out drinking behind your husband’s back…”

Jian Zhiyu, who was already sober, didn’t dare make a sound.

Can someone tell him what to do when his client sneaks kisses outside of their booked hours? Aaaaaah!!!

#Of course, he’ll marry him#

#We were never meant to meet, but money made it happen#

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The Young Master’s Little Side Story:

As a famous playboy at Beijing University, the young master had the biggest entourage of lackeys around. They were either good at drinking, tough in a fight, or smooth-talking enough to keep him happy.

Only the newest recruit, Jian Zhiyu, got drunk just from smelling alcohol, could be crushed by one punch, and couldn’t even flatter anyone properly.

Once a year, the entourage held a cull, eliminating the lowest performers. Jian Zhiyu ranked dead last.

Second to last: “I’m safe, then.”

The young master wiped his face. With every eye on him, he pointed at

The second-to-last lackey.

The top performer in the entourage was horrified. “Boss, Jian Zhiyu is in last place!”

The young master: “I know.”

Top performer: “Then kick him out!”

The young master: “I know, but I don’t dare.”

Top performer: “Why not?”

The young master: “Because…”

He wiped his face again.

“Because he’s my cousin’s wife.”

★Piracy protection: 80% ratio, 72-hour delay. This notice is hereby given.

Reader’s Guide:

① Pretty bottom who only has eyes for money × big-dog-energy top who fell in love at first sight. As per genre convention, monogamous and devoted, one-on-one.

② The bottom really loves money. The bottom really loves money. The bottom really loves money.

③ A fluffy, plot-light romance, mostly focused on the two of them falling in love. The top calls him things like “Baby” and “Wifey.”

④ Extreme possessive fans, please stay away. Extreme possessive fans, please stay away.

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Blurb:

As an ordinary beta, Yu Yan had parents who didn’t care for him. To pay off his student loans after graduation, he’d tried all sorts of part-time jobs.

During the food-delivery price war, Yu Yan shook milk tea at an overworked shop swamped with orders. At a bar that only needed night-shift staff, he slept four hours a day and worked as a server. He even took a weekend gig feeding cats through a secondhand marketplace, only to be harassed by people who mistook him for an omega…

After working himself to the bone for a pittance, Yu Yan reached a conclusion

It’s better to sell your body than to toil like an ox or a horse.

The shady industries pay faster.

So Yu Yan made a decision that went against everything his ancestors stood for.

He bought a mystery pack of nine skirts for 50 yuan on a shopping app and started doing faceless, suggestive cross-dressing livestreams as a side gig. The week’s top tipper could get a custom photo of his legs.

Dancing the stiffest suggestive routine imaginable, Yu Yan earned the highest paycheck of his part-time career.

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Livestreaming made Yu Yan’s life a lot easier, but why had his Alpha roommate, who usually treated him like he wasn’t there, suddenly started sneaking glances at him all the time?

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Huo Chengjun was the only son of A City’s richest man, a top-tier 3S Alpha. Handsome, wealthy, and generous, he would have been the ideal partner for every omega on campus if it weren’t for his absolutely terrible attitude.

Despite having all those advantages, Huo Chengjun had never once given his beta roommate a proper look.

That is, until summer arrived and everyone around him started wearing shorts. Even his beta roommate, who normally wore the same two pairs of long pants in rotation, had spent money on a new pair of shorts.

Huo Chengjun clutched the photo of his beloved streamer’s legs, which he’d rubbed countless times, and stared at his roommate’s long, pale legs in the sunlight. There was a tiny mole in the crook of his knee, just like in the photo. His fury surged.

He’d only just found out that the sweet omega streamer he’d been showering with dozens of virtual gifts every day was actually a man.

Not only that, he was the beta roommate Huo Chengjun had looked down on all along.

Humiliated after being fooled for nearly half a year, Huo Chengjun flew into a rage. He decided to get revenge on Yu Yan.

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Yu Yan had been sleeping especially well lately. The reason was that his Alpha roommate gave him a cup of sleep-aid milk every day, saying he didn’t want it himself.

Yu Yan had only ever seen a pricey brand like this on his phone, so he drank every drop.

But every morning when he woke up, he found suggestive, handprint-like marks on different parts of his body.

It was as if, while he slept, someone had spent a long time kneading and measuring him by hand.

But he and Huo Chengjun were the only two people in their dorm.

Finally, one day, Yu Yan gathered the courage to ask Huo Chengjun, “Lately, these strange marks keep appearing on my body. While I’ve been asleep, have you…”

Huo Chengjun snapped, humiliated and furious. “You’re just a beta. What could I possibly do to you?! You’re so full of yourself!”

Yu Yan thought that made sense.

But why were the marks even more obvious the next morning?

…

By chance, Yu Yan found the photos he’d sent to his top tipper in Huo Chengjun’s drawer, along with a box of specially formulated sleep medication.

Without a word, he closed the drawer, deactivated his livestream account, deleted Huo Chengjun’s and his top tipper’s contact details, and moved out of the dorm.

Facing the empty dorm room, Huo Chengjun, who’d been arrogant for over twenty years, panicked for the first time.

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In the days he couldn’t find Yu Yan, Huo Chengjun often thought that if Yu Yan had been an omega, then after all those nights when Huo Chengjun had bitten his glands, he’d have developed an unbreakable dependence on Huo Chengjun’s pheromones.

He wouldn’t have been able to escape or leave him.

But Yu Yan was a free beta. He had no glands and could never smell Huo Chengjun’s pheromones.

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Reader’s Guide:

1. Stalkerish but foul-mouthed, short-tempered top × sensitive, unloved, gloomy bottom

2. As per genre convention, monogamous and devoted, one-on-one

Blurb:

Shen Mingxi dreamed that he was the spoiled, villainous fake young master in a story about a real and fake young master. The story’s main couple consisted of the real young master, who had been separated from the Shen family, and Shen Mingxi’s overpowered, domineering fiance.

As the foil to the real young master, Shen Mingxi threw his money and power around and acted like a bully. The real young master, by contrast, was steadfast and beloved by everyone.

In the original story, after the real young master was welcomed back by his parents, the whole family doted on him, including Shen Mingxi’s fiance.

Jealous, Shen Mingxi refused to return to his birth parents and embarked on a spree of outrageous misbehavior. In the end, everyone despised him, and he died of depression.

That was the ridiculous life of Shen Mingxi, who had grown up with a silver spoon in his mouth.

After waking up, he watched events from the dream come true one by one. Shen Mingxi knew he couldn’t change the story’s direction, so he could only try to change the ending for his minor character as much as possible.

Before the real young master came home, Shen Mingxi gave up his extravagant spending habits.

He stopped buying luxury goods, stopped going to parties, stopped pursuing his fiance, and saved every bit of money he had.

On the day the real young master was brought home, everyone expected the spoiled fake young master to make a scene. But to their surprise, Shen Mingxi didn’t resist at all. He wheeled out the suitcase he’d packed in advance and left the Shen family home.

His birth parents were poor. His father worked on a construction site, and his mother sold boxed lunches outside the site.

Going from a huge villa to a tiny apartment of less than 30 square meters left Shen Mingxi devastated.

Learning that he also had a fiance who did physical labor on a construction site left him even more devastated.

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Chen Mu was strong and muscular. Every summer vacation, he went to the construction site to help carry bricks and contribute to his family’s expenses.

Chen Mu had a fiance. He was fair and refined, but looked down on Chen Mu.

Recently, the wealthy Shen family had taken the fiance back, and he’d come back with a new fiance.

The new fiance had a face as beautiful as a celestial maiden, with rosy lips and pearly teeth, and a delicate, frail build. Like his former fiance, he looked down on Chen Mu.

The first time the new fiance met Chen Mu, he welcomed him with a slap.

Chen Mu had thick skin and the slap didn’t hurt,

but it smelled so good.

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After moving in with his birth parents, Shen Mingxi discovered that Chen Mu went to the same school as him and was his upperclassman.

To win him over, Chen Mu saved him a seat at school, brought him lunch, and carried his bag after class. He was so attentive that he reminded Shen Mingxi of the little stray dog by the construction site that lit up whenever it saw him.

As they spent time together, Shen Mingxi discovered that this “little stray dog” had just as much business sense as the domineering protagonist.

They were all people, so why was Shen Mingxi born to be the real young master’s foil? Why did he have to be used as a stepping-stone for everyone to praise the real young master, even though he’d done nothing wrong?

With the fire of a villain burning in his heart, Shen Mingxi steeled himself and handed Chen Mu the bank card containing all his savings.

Covering his eyes to hide his reluctance, Shen Mingxi said, “The PIN is three eights and three sixes. Take it, quick, before I change my mind.”

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On the day the real young master and Shen Mingxi switched back, the real young master knew that this rose, nurtured with money, would probably wilt within days once it was transplanted to the place where it had grown up.

Then the Shen family’s investments failed, and they teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. The real young master and Shen’s parents went around begging everyone they could for investment.

At a party, they finally approached the new wealthy magnate of Hai City.

Only then did the real young master realize that the magnate surrounded by admirers was none other than his former fiance, the man he’d once looked down on for carrying bricks at a construction site.

And Shen Mingxi, whom he’d thought was destined to fade into obscurity, was nestled in Chen Mu’s arms, just as spoiled as ever.

The rose hadn’t wilted. It had blossomed even more beautifully.

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After the party, on the way home.

Chen Mu thought about Shen Mingxi’s former fiance, the domineering main character. He wasn’t as tall as Chen Mu, was fairer than him, and was pretty handsome too.

Most importantly, Shen Mingxi used to like that fiance a lot.

Chen Mu looked away. “Your former fiance kept looking at you at the party.”

Chen Mu looked away again. “Your former fiance seemed pretty handsome, too.”

Chen Mu looked away yet again. “Did you see him?”

Shen Mingxi: “What are you mumbling about? Have you been working out your chest again? Let me feel.”

Chen Mu, puffing out his chest proudly: “Yeah.”

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Reader’s Guide:

1. Rough-and-ready top × spoiled, demanding bottom. The top is a self-conscious, mother-hen type.

2. Contrasting skin tones and builds.

3. The bottom is always well looked after wherever he goes. He only enjoys the good things, never the hardship.

4. Monogamous and devoted, one-on-one.

Theme: Hard work, dedication, and professionalism can help you achieve your goals.