A Fake Contract, a Real Redemption

[Scheming, wolfish top x silly beauty bottom | Six-year age gap | HE | Sweet, mutually doting romance]

Content warnings first:

1. They dote on each other, with the top leaning toward spoiling the bottom. The bottom is a genuine silly beauty (not stupid, just soft-hearted).

2. Both the top and bottom have had first loves, but nothing physical happened. The top has childhood trauma. In the end, his heart and body belong to the bottom, who is his one and only exception and salvation.

On the day of his thirtieth birthday, Ji Lin decides to die.

His adoptive family has wrung every bit of value from him and abandoned him. His nominal younger brother is obsessed with him in a twisted, possessive way, and his scumbag ex has swindled him out of all his savings from the past ten years.

If this is what life is, then so be it.

Before dying, he wants to experience the fabled pleasures of a night in paradise. With the little money he has left, he walks into the most expensive gay bar in the city.

Because he's a sucker for a handsome face, he turns down every man who hits on him and drinks himself into a stupor alone. But just as his consciousness starts to fade, someone forcibly drags him toward a hotel.

"Sir, your companion doesn't seem to be willing. Let go, or I'll call the police."

A cool, clear voice rings out.

Ji Lin's eyes are bleary with drink. All he can see is the man's sharp jawline and expensive suit.

Alcohol has burned away his good sense, and his instinctive weakness for handsome men takes over. He grabs the man's arm. "I-I'll buy a night with you! How much?"

The man watches him in silence for a moment, then really does take him to a hotel suite.

A chaotic night.

Ji Lin wakes up with a hangover and flees in fright, telling himself it was all just an absurd dream.

But he doesn't get far.

Within half a day, the terrifyingly imposing man has caught him and brought him back.

Ji Lin even faints right into his arms from sheer exhaustion.

When he wakes up again, the man has somehow become his boyfriend under a contract.

Only later does Ji Lin learn that when he grabbed at random that night while drunk...

he'd grabbed a scheming wolfdog who, once he gets his claws into someone, never lets go, and who plans to drag him back to his den and claim him completely...

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