Dr. Sun, You're Crossing the Line

[Upcoming road-trip novel, I Picked Up a Rich Young Master, please add it to your reading list] Jiang Shixiao took on several jobs to make money. By day, he was a corporate drone selling pharmaceuticals, carrying coffee and desserts to hospitals. By night, he became the owner of an adult novelty shop, delivering all kinds of toys to hotels. Then a vice squad raided the place. It was the first time in his life Jiang Shixiao had ever been taken to the police station. Before he could even explain himself, he twisted his ankle at the entrance. A man appeared just in time. Handsome and aloof, he looked serious as he bent down to treat the injury. Jiang Shixiao grinned. “Thanks, I...” Sun Zhixu looked up. “This is illegal. Don’t think you can use this to escape punishment.” Jiang Shixiao stopped grinning. The man added coldly, “The sea of suffering has no shore. Turn back while you still can.” Jiang Shixiao: “...Oh, is that so? Thanks.” He hadn’t exactly gone into that line of work. A week later, Jiang Shixiao moved into a new apartment. The price was right, the location was great. The only awkward part was that his landlord was Sun Zhixu, who had a very strange misconception about him. - The new tenant downstairs gave Sun Zhixu quite a headache. After quietly observing him for a week, he decided to help Jiang Shixiao mend his ways. He went over under the pretext of inspecting the apartment, only to be stunned by the pile of adult novelties. He decided to try a different approach. He started recommending respectable jobs and cooking meals for him. Jiang Shixiao turned down the jobs he suggested, but he loved Sun Zhixu’s cooking. Sometimes Sun Zhixu vaguely felt as if he had taken in a stray cat. The cat ate his food and drank his water, and occasionally, in a rare show of conscience, brought him a gift. But it still ran off all the time, and whenever Sun Zhixu tried to patiently talk some sense into it, it looked awkward and just wanted to avoid the issue. Feeling rather frustrated, Sun Zhixu went out of town on a medical aid mission. He had barely gotten out of the car when the project coordinator enthusiastically took Jiang Shixiao’s hand and introduced him. “This is a pharmaceutical representative from Nuokang. We have him to thank for donating the medical supplies for this mission.” Sun Zhixu: “...” Sun Zhixu met Jiang Shixiao’s astonished gaze. Ah... What was this??? Then he remembered all the patient advice he’d given him. Sun Zhixu’s vision went black. Now he wanted to avoid the issue, too. Bonus scene 1 One day. Sun Zhixu opened the bedside drawer and said in a low voice, “There are thirteen toys we haven’t tried yet. Which one do you want to use today?” Jiang Shixiao shouted, “Weren’t you the one who said this stuff was indecent?!” Reader’s guide: 1. Two strong leads, happy ending, sweet romance, seven-year age gap, the pursuer dotes on the one pursued. 2. Fatherly, controlling pursuer x sunny pursued. The pursuer is old-fashioned and possessive; the pursued is clever, handsome, and level-headed. 3. A misunderstanding about their jobs, silly and sweet romance. 4. There’s a career storyline, but I made it all up, so don’t take it as representative of real life. 5. Not suitable for readers who are very particular about relationship dynamics. Read with caution. Blurb for the road-trip novel, I Picked Up a Rich Young Master After being laid off, Cheng Yang completely gave up on life. He’d been sleeping in a tent for three months. One night, he was startled by a handsome guy who suddenly appeared in a pavilion. The handsome guy had the lost, pleading look of a puppy, staring at an empty instant-noodle cup and swallowing hard. “Hey, want some bread?” Cheng Yang took out the last half-bag of bread crusts and offered them to him. “What’s this called?” The handsome guy took a bite of the crust. “It’s pretty good.” “Bread crusts, man!” “Have you ever had Starbucks?” The guy shook his head. “Surely you’ve had Mixue Ice Cream and Tea?” He shook his head again. Cheng Yang looked at him sympathetically. Who could have imagined someone had it even worse than he did? And the handsome guy wasn’t just broke, he had no common sense either. Every day, Cheng Yang had to explain things to him: why a grilled sausage cost three yuan each or five yuan for two, and why you had to eat KFC on Thursdays... To take this hopeless layabout on the road with him, Cheng Yang had no choice but to pick up more odd jobs. When he found out the guy had never even been to a movie theater, he felt so sorry for him that he took on another job. At last, the day came when he’d saved enough money. Cheng Yang excitedly waved his phone. “We’re staying in a hotel tonight!” The handsome guy tilted his head. “You want to stay in a hotel?” “??? Don’t you? Who do you think I’ve been doing this for?!” The handsome guy looked confused, then suddenly understood, and finally pulled out his phone to make a call. Before long, several Bentleys came speeding over. The butler and chauffeur bent forward together and called out, “Young master.” Cheng Yang looked at his bank balance and let out a soul-wrenching cry: “I worked from dawn till dusk to save a few hundred yuan to take care of you, and your car costs millions???” The handsome guy took his hand and nodded seriously. “From now on, I’ll take care of you. Everything I have is yours.” Much later, the butler complained to Cheng Yang, “Didn’t you notice the young master was wearing a custom Armani suit and a Patek Philippe watch?” Cheng Yang stared at his own sports watch, which had cost him a fortune: 99 yuan with free shipping, and fell into deep thought. Had he really made fun of that Patek Philippe, saying it couldn’t count steps or measure heart rate? (Though it could buy tens of thousands of his sports watches.) - Theme: Instead of avoiding problems, face them head-on.