I Fell for My Online Dating Partner, and He's a Real-Life Heartthrob!

Wei Qingyu recently started dating a ridiculously rich second-generation heir he met online.

He came from a single-parent family and had never felt the warmth of both parents growing up. He was starved for love and short on money. By chance, while playing a browser game, he met a rich kid who had an incredible amount of money and was a year younger than him, just starting college this year.

Because Wei Qingyu had a nice voice and was skilled at the game, he met this "rich kid" who was generous with his money while running dungeons together.

After they'd played together for a while, the rich kid confessed to him. Once Wei Qingyu realized the other guy might be loaded, he immediately said yes. So, for the second half of his sophomore year, Wei Qingyu had no worries about food or clothes, and designer clothes kept arriving as gifts. His roommates all thought he was being kept. Then winter break came, and Wei Qingyu went back to his hometown for New Year. While they were gaming, the chickens and geese his grandmother raised kept making strange noises. His rich boyfriend asked in a rather odd tone, "What's that noise over there?"

Wei Qingyu: "..."

Wei Qingyu: "Oh, it's some kids outside watching cartoons. It's nothing. Why don't we stop voice chatting for now? It's a little noisy."

Even after they stopped voice chatting, his boyfriend was still generous, wanting to send all kinds of gifts and even order milk tea for him like usual.

Oh no... Wei Qingyu thought. He'd have to go into the county seat to pick it up! Near tears, he tried to stop him at every turn. After being turned down again and again, his sweet boyfriend finally couldn't hold back: "Can we only voice chat when you're back at school? What am I supposed to do if I miss you... Where do you live? I want to come see you."

Wei Qingyu: "...!!"

Oh no, oh no. Seeing that he couldn't keep hiding the truth, Wei Qingyu immediately took a very alluring photo and sent it over. "Baby, here's a picture of my legs. Just hang in there a little longer!"

He managed to fool the other guy for the moment, but a week later, when he returned to school, his boyfriend said, "I can't hold back anymore. Tell me where you are. Can we meet in person?"

No! Wei Qingyu really had no idea how to escape after accepting so many gifts. He spent every day frowning in worry.

After a voice chat with his boyfriend one day, he couldn't help complaining to his roommate: "Oh, what am I supposed to do? This rich kid who's generous with his money insists on meeting me in person. I only want to date for money, not for love, sob sob sob."

Before he'd finished complaining, his roommate suddenly reminded him, "You haven't turned off your game mic, and he hasn't left yet..."

Wei Qingyu: "?"

It's over. He's dead.

A minute later, his boyfriend sent him a message on WeChat: "Meet me in person, and I'll give you 200,000 a month."

He thought about it briefly and, without any backbone, gave in.

But on the night they met, Wei Qingyu saw that his boyfriend was incredibly handsome. He was privately congratulating himself on having a rich and handsome boyfriend when the other guy looked at him and said softly, "So you were playing with my feelings, huh? Fine. Let's see if I can make you cry tonight."

Wei Qingyu: So this is the price of being dazzled by money... But why does it feel so good?!

★Content Warnings★:

1. The top is rich and falls in love at first sight. The bottom likes money at first, but later genuinely falls in love with the top.

2. There are some online gaming and livestreaming scenes, but not many.

3. Some of the story takes place in the countryside, but not much. The bottom isn't very good at speaking his hometown dialect.

4. Both are pure in body and heart. The top is obsessed with the bottom and rather aloof toward everyone else, applying a double standard. Don't read if that's not your thing.

5. "Real young master" means the top is a genuine heir to a wealthy family, not that this is a switched-at-birth trope.

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"The Cold-Faced Streamer Gets Pampered"

Leng Yanxi is a poor little thing.

At just twenty years old, he has a seriously ill mother who needs expensive medical treatment. He works all kinds of jobs and travels everywhere trying to earn money. Although he has a pretty face, he's so thin there's not an ounce of meat on him. His looks accidentally make him popular online. He works at a shop during the day, then goes home and livestreams until two in the morning. But life is so hard that his face always looks sad, so he always appears cold and distant.

Even so, he still barely makes ends meet. Quite a few viewers became fans because of his looks and his sad circumstances, and his livestreaming finally started earning him some money.

Then one day, a kind person appeared in Leng Yanxi's livestream room. Without a word, they showered him with tens of thousands' worth of gifts and sent him a private message asking to meet in person to discuss something.

For the money, Leng Yanxi didn't think much of it and went to meet them in person. The man who showed up was handsome and imposing, clearly a big shot.

But he got straight to the point. "I've looked into your situation. I can solve all your problems, but... I need you to marry me. I'll pay for everything and get your mother treated, but you have to marry me."

Well... It didn't seem like a bad deal. He was handsome, so he'd be better than some old geezer in his fifties!

Leng Yanxi agreed. Although he was forced to quit all his jobs, he still kept livestreaming every night.

But the viewers who'd watched him at first gradually noticed something was off. This streamer used to stay online until two, but lately he logged off around ten every night. It seemed like he had no interest in making money anymore!

And he'd switched from gaming streams to mukbangs. His skinny little body slowly started eating all kinds of delicious food, and his formerly unhappy face had become a smile.

The viewers realized: Someone was keeping him, and keeping him very well.

Leng Yanxi was even spotted multiple times at high-end banquets, where everyone else chatted and laughed while he hid in a corner eating pastries. A powerful, nonchalant man was always at his side.

The viewers came to a sudden realization: The streamer was being kept?! They'd felt so sorry for him before, and now he'd fallen into depravity for money...

But then a big shot publicly debunked the rumor across every platform: No one's keeping him. We're legally married. I'll take care of my own wife.

Theme: Don't fear hardship, and don't fear the future.