My crush wants to be my sugar daddy.

Chapter 142 Old Jiang, let's take the CEO route.

I'm getting carried away again.

Although Shen Lian and Cui Dong often tease Jiang Haochen about his "true love," they actually always respect whatever Jiang Haochen decides.

Take Xie Lingzhou for example. When Jiang Haochen was pursuing Xie Lingzhou, they didn't really think much of him. But because of Jiang Haochen, they gave him a lot of help, both in public and in private.

Shen Lian: "Since you've already thought it through, what's there to hesitate about? Just go for it."

Cui Dong chuckled and said, "You're afraid you won't be able to catch up, aren't you?"

Jiang Haochen glanced at Cui Dong with a frustrated expression, but did not refute him.

Shen Lian immediately became interested: "How so?"

Cui Dong: "Chi Yuan agreed to Lao Jiang's arrangement because he was forced into a corner at the time, and it was a choice he had no choice but to make after weighing the pros and cons. Before, under someone like Chang Lei, he only received a guaranteed salary of five thousand yuan a month, and he was tortured terribly, but he still endured it for two years without giving in. That shows how much he hates unspoken rules."

Shen Lian frowned: "Chang Lei?"

Cui Dong: "He's a pimp in the industry, the really despicable kind. The reason Chi Yuan got involved with Lao Jiang was because this guy drugged him, allowing Lao Jiang to take advantage of him. Given Chi Yuan's personality, if it weren't for that incident, he probably wouldn't have agreed to Lao Jiang's offer to keep him as a mistress."

Shen Lian had never met Chi Yuan and was unfamiliar with Chi Yuan's personality, so he looked at Jiang Haochen with some disbelief: "Really?"

Jiang Haochen didn't want to admit it, but what Cui Dong said was true: "He was ready to retire from the entertainment industry at that time."

Before proposing to be his sugar daddy, he approached Chi Yuan several times and hinted at it several times, but Chi Yuan remained unmoved. He even boasted to him that he had a guaranteed monthly salary of five thousand.

Shen Lian, however, found this unreasonable: "If that's the case, why did he ultimately accept your arrangement to be his mistress?"

Cui Dong: "It's for my dream. There are still quite a few people in this industry who genuinely love acting."

Cui Dong is a businessman, but he has to admit that many of those who initially entered the industry came with dreams in their hearts. They loved acting and singing. It's just that as they stayed in the industry longer and became involved with more and more interests, they gradually forgot their original intentions. Or perhaps they never forgot them at all, but the scales of dreams and interests simply tipped in their favor.

Those artists who reach the top must have passion in their hearts.

Cui Dong: "Someone like Chi Yuan, whose crush is a straight man, is left with only dreams. That's when Lao Jiang appears, rich, handsome, and resourceful. Plus, they've already slept together, so there's no point in being coy, and he just agrees."

With each word Cui Dong spoke, Jiang Haochen's face darkened further. Although Chi Yuan had said that he was willing that night, would Chi Yuan really have been willing if he hadn't been drugged?

Things he had never considered or even cared about before became important and sensitive after he fell in love with Chi Yuan.

Shen Lian roughly understood: "So, the current situation is that Chi Yuan's relationship with you, his sugar daddy, is purely based on mutual benefit. He's just waiting for the contract to expire so he can end the sugar daddy relationship. But you, his sugar daddy, have fallen for him and want to pursue him, but you're afraid that if you make the relationship clear, he'll terminate the contract early, and you won't even have the right to sleep with him properly..."

Jiang Haochen looked up at Shen Lian and said, "Could you please not describe me in such a filthy way?"

Shen Lian raised an eyebrow: "What, you don't want to sleep?"

Jiang Haochen didn't refute; he did indeed want to sleep with her. When you like someone, of course you'd want to sleep with them. But what he feared even more was…

"I'm afraid that if I terminate the contract early and things fall apart, I won't even have a chance to pursue him. I don't want to be too direct with him before I'm sure of his attitude..."

Shen Lian frowned: "If he was really forced into being kept, it's indeed difficult to handle. These kinds of people are the most contradictory. On one hand, they sell themselves for profit, but on the other hand, they weren't really willing to do it in the first place. In the end, they successfully climbed the social ladder using the resources you provided, but then they turn around and blame you for taking advantage of their vulnerability and forcing them. It's incredibly annoying."

Shen Lian had met someone like that before, but he wasn't as foolish as Jiang Haochen to fall for a mistress he'd hired. He didn't care whether the other person was willing or not; he just wanted to have his fun.

Jiang Haochen hadn't considered this possibility before. Now, hearing Shen Lian's words, he realized that Chi Yuan might not have been willing either, but rather acting solely because of the contract...

"No, it won't happen." Jiang Haochen thought about all the little things he had done with Chi Yuan.

The boy's response to him was indulgence and cooperation without ever refusing, even in the most shameful positions, he tried his best to cater to his state. He was certain that even if Chi Yuan didn't like him, he would never have such a resentful feeling.

"He probably doesn't dislike me."

He was unwilling to accept that Chi Yuan only liked sleeping with him. But he was also afraid that if he made it clear, Chi Yuan wouldn't even want to sleep with him anymore.

Cui Dong poured drinks for the two of them and casually added, "Since he doesn't dislike you, that makes things simple. If you don't want to be direct, then pursue him in a way that's not direct."

Jiang Haochen said disdainfully, "Stop giving me bad advice."

Cui Dong was displeased: "Damn it, who do you think you are? I don't understand pure love, but I have much more experience with sugar daddies and mistresses than you do."

Jiang Haochen was truly at a loss: "Alright, then you tell me."

Cui Dong began by recounting his own experience: "Many of the mistresses I kept fell in love with me... Why are you rolling your eyes? I'm telling the truth."

Jiang Haochen said impatiently, "Get to the point."

Cui Dong said with some smugness, "They like me, but they don't dare to say it. They're afraid that if they do, I'll immediately end the sugar daddy relationship. So they'll test me after the contract expires. They'll continue to contact me even without a contract."

Jiang Haochen seemed to be deep in thought.

Cui Dong: "Although your contract with Chi Yuan is about to expire, Chi Yuan's contract with Tianyu still has three years left, so there will be many more opportunities for contact. From now on, treat him like your boyfriend and take the ambiguous route. When the contract expires, continue the ambiguous relationship and see his reaction. If Chi Yuan tacitly accepts your actions, then he basically has feelings for you too."

Jiang Haochen thought it was some brilliant idea: "That's what I did, but it seems to have backfired. If I don't contact him, he completely ignores me."

Cui Dong asked curiously, "How did you do it?"

Jiang Haochen immediately recounted how he had treated Chi Yuan with respect and equality over the past two weeks, concluding, "I want to be his boyfriend, but I'm also used to the convenience that being his sugar daddy brings me."

Shen Lian didn't understand: "Why do you want to give him equality and respect? Your relationship was never equal from the start."

Jiang Haochen: "I..."

Shen Lian: "I know what you mean. You think that people who truly love each other should be equal, but in his mind, you are his sugar daddy. You used to support him, and that won't change no matter how much you like him. You want to like the person you once supported. He feels the same way; he wants to like the person who once supported him. The method of pursuing someone equally is not suitable for your relationship."

Cui Dong laughed maniacally: "Old Jiang, don't let your domineering CEO persona go to waste."

Looking at his two old friends, Jiang Haochen suddenly felt as if he had been enlightened.

If he wants to boil a frog slowly, he has to first pen the frog up.

He cannot explicitly state the relationship, but he can assert his sovereignty.