I'm Cute, Please Give Me Money

#I'm so cute. What's wrong with being bad at cooking?! QAQ

***The pitiful, adorable bottom who often poisons himself with his cooking x the super-handsome South American top whose cooking is delicious both in and out of bed

Lu Yu is the pampered young master of the Lu family. For the first eighteen years of his life, he lived in comfort and luxury, having everything his way.

Those good days lasted until the year he was sent abroad to study.

Just as Lu Yu was about to start his lavish life as an international student at an American university, he was told that the Lu family had gone bankrupt.

In an instant, his allowance dried up, his family stopped answering his calls, and all the rich friends who used to flatter him ghosted him. Lu Yu's life plummeted straight from heaven to rock bottom.

Lu Yu wiped away his tears. To pay his exorbitant tuition, he started working part-time and sold every designer item he could part with.

Unable to afford fancy meals, Lu Yu tried learning to cook for himself in his luxurious apartment, now stripped bare, and ended up making poisonous food to eat. It was a miserable existence. Meanwhile, the delinquent teenager next door was throwing a huge orgy. Lu Yu, eating his poisonous food: “...”

The former rich kid Lu Yu, eyes brimming with tears: I hate you spoiled rich kids! QAQ

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One day, something went wrong while Lu Yu was cooking. Thick smoke billowed from the pot, giving off a strange burnt smell that drifted through the vents into his neighbor's apartment.

At the sight of the faint smoke, Carlos Santoro's dark green eyes narrowed, and his handsome face turned cold.

“Doidinho...”

(Portuguese: little crazy person)

Drugs, sex... That East Asian baby face really had no sense of self-preservation.

He'd had enough.

Carlos was about to call the police. Before that, he knocked hard on the baby-faced neighbor's door.

Unexpectedly, the door opened almost at once.

Lu Yu had actually been planning to go find him too. With tears in his eyes, his voice breaking, he asked in halting, clumsy English, frightened and helpless: “Dear neighbor, can you help me? My pot is smoking... I don't know how to deal with it.”

Carlos frowned. A pot?

He looked inside. Smoke was billowing from the kitchen, and Lu Yu's luxurious apartment was completely empty, bare as a pauper's.

Carlos fell silent.

At the same time, a succession of loud, high-pitched cries came from the neighboring apartment.

Lu Yu blinked, and the tears suspended in his eyes rolled down pitifully. He said softly, “Also, if you can, could you ask them to keep it down?”

Carlos: “...”

So he wasn't a little crazy person. He was a little poor thing.

After asking around, Lu Yu learned that his tall, handsome neighbor seemed to be a famous professional boxer.

Rumor had it that he had a terrible temper and could throw a punch with over 400 pounds of force.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say Carlos could knead and squeeze Lu Yu like a stress ball.

But Lu Yu thought he was a good person, and very rich.

He also seemed bad at taking care of himself.

Desperate and completely out of options, Lu Yu gathered his courage and offered his services. His voice trembled slightly. “Handsome sir, thank you for helping me last time. Would you be interested in hiring a housekeeper? I'm much, much better at cooking now...”

Carlos narrowed his green eyes, then suddenly smiled. “I am a little hungry.”

The man opened the door, his tall frame completely enveloping the slender young man. His voice was low and husky. “Come in.”

Such an adorable, baby-faced sweetheart.

Reading Guide:

① The top is a gorgeous South American man from Brazil. His native language is Portuguese, but the author isn't a professional, so please be gentle with your criticism Q_Q

② Both are virgins, with a size difference.

③ The pitiful, adorable bottom who often poisons himself with his cooking x the super-handsome top whose cooking is delicious both in and out of bed.

④ The bottom looks incredibly cute to the top. The guy is often so charmed he loses his mind, but he likes to act cool and has a cold face with a lewd streak.

⑤ The title is a little corny. I might change it later > <

[Blurb dated 2025.12.05]

※ The original was an empty upcoming-work page that I'd left up for ages without writing a blurb. I really couldn't find any inspiration for the original idea, so I replaced it with a new one. Sumimasen... or2

Theme: Young people have no utopia. With the heart set on distant horizons, the future will grow bright.