He’s Really Expensive

★ Long-Planned Scheme | Neighborly Romance | Wolf-and-Rabbit Game | The Cold-Hearted Fall in Love

● Tone-Deaf Small-Town Airhead Beauty x Scumbag, Charming, Scheming City Professor

After her eighth application to sing another song was rejected, Lu Mi went off the air in a gloomy mood, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan. She called a late-night advice hotline on her grandmother's battered radio, crying and sweating all over.

"Hmm?"

At the other end of the line, a man's low, magnetic voice crackled through the static, lazy and alluring. "Take your time, little girl."

Lu Mi immediately burst into tears. "I wish I were you! With a voice that nice, people must request songs from you every day, sob!"

Then her fans wouldn't be telling her to shut up and just look pretty, either.

The man chuckled, his voice slightly muffled at the other end.

"Requesting a song from me might be a little expensive."

1/

When Lu Mi moved to the big city to chase her dreams, she stayed with a distant relative in a high-end neighborhood she had never seen before. The neighbor's music room was right next to her tiny bedroom, and every day at the same time, the faint sound of piano music drifted through the wall.

Unable to resist the temptation, she finally worked up the courage to knock on the door across the hall.

A man came out, leaning lazily against the door. His voice was casual and strangely familiar. "What is it?"

Lu Mi quickly glanced at him.

The man before her had stunning features and looked down at her from above. Every inch of him radiated wealth and refinement.

Lu Mi pointed at the grand piano behind him and asked cautiously, "Would you be willing to be my private tutor?"

His reply was, "Little girl, my private lessons are expensive, too."

2/

Later, through her hard work, Lu Mi made it onto a talent-show stage. Her original song, "How Much," even brought an amused smile to the face of a major figure in the music world, who had seemed bored and unimpressed throughout the judges' panel.

The smile from the big shot sent the little livestream singer to the top of the trending charts. The judges lit up for her for the first time, and the whole internet was shocked.

Discussion threads about it were everywhere online:

"Oh my god, that big shot is unbelievably gorgeous! The veins on his wrist are killing me!"

"That's Chu Yanxi! The youngest professor in the piano department at the Capital Conservatory of Music, with so many awards he's lost count. He became principal of an international orchestra at twenty-three. Even if I started working from the day I was born, I could never be that amazing!"

"Holy crap, look! Lu Mi really had the guts to turn off the light for the big shot mentor she was paired with?"

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A corner backstage.

Chu Yanxi blocked her way, slowly circling his fingertip around her throat. His eyes were full of undisguised desire, and his words were as bewitching as they were dangerous. "You chose someone else instead of me?"

Lu Mi protested, aggrieved. "Because... you're really expensive."

The next instant, a warm, wet sensation drew a shriek from her.

The man's lips glistened as he spoke, his voice slightly hoarse. "Choose me. I'll do it for free."

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