Married, but Still Strangers

Coming soon: The Campus Cat's Protector and Became a Powerful Man's Amnesiac Canary. Their blurbs are below. Thanks for adding them to your reading lists!

After a month of marriage, Zhuang Yan still hadn't met his alpha spouse, Yue Lu.

It was an arranged marriage, each party getting something out of it. Yue Lu's mother had specifically found Zhuang Yan, an omega with a 100% pheromone match for Yue Lu, to bear him a child.

Zhuang Yan had something to gain too. He needed the Yue family's influence to find out the truth behind his older brother's death and avenge him.

But Yue Lu already had someone he loved. After repeatedly refusing the marriage to no avail, he ran away, leaving Zhuang Yan alone to face the guests filling the hall.

Yet a month later, at a dessert shop, Yue Lu spotted Zhuang Yan and immediately rushed over.

He fixed his hair in the shop window. He was wearing sportswear and had just finished playing badminton, the faint scent of his pheromones lingering around him.

He even sat down across from Zhuang Yan and struck up a conversation, then exchanged contact information with him.

Zhuang Yan: Is this right? Did you lose your memory? I'm the person you ran away from marrying. Aren't you supposed to be avoiding me? Why are you coming over to me?

Even so, Zhuang Yan kept a smile on his face in front of Yue Lu.

As long as he could achieve his goal, that was enough. Yue Lu's thoughts didn't matter.

*

The baby was conceived, but the A involved went overseas and couldn't be reached.

Zhuang Yan, the O involved, was left holding the divorce papers Yue Lu had left behind, bewildered in the wind.

But there was no helping it. The baby still had to be born.

Without an alpha's pheromones, an omega's pregnancy was extremely difficult. Zhuang Yan had no choice but to ask an alpha friend he was close to for help.

During one prenatal checkup, Zhuang Yan was feeling so uncomfortable that he was leaning against his friend's shoulder when a powerful hand suddenly yanked him upright.

Zhuang Yan opened his eyes and met Yue Lu's wounded, angry gaze. “You're carrying my baby, yet you're leaning against another alpha?”

*

Yue Lu had fallen for someone named Zhuang Yan. When they were children, Zhuang Yan had saved him. They met again as adults, and Yue Lu fell in love at first sight.

That's why he ran away from the wedding. He had nearly died abroad, all so he could be with Zhuang Yan openly and legitimately.

Who could have guessed that the person he'd been supposed to marry all along was Zhuang Yan, and that they now even had a child?

Coming soon: The Campus Cat's Protector

Chu Su used to have a happy family and an older brother who grew up with him and got into all sorts of trouble. But he died in an accident. To get home, he had to bind himself to a System and complete missions. On his last mission, the System turned him into a chubby little cat on a university campus.

Little cat Chu Su lifted his chubby paw and tried to catch his swishing tail. He asked the System in disbelief, “Haha... Do I really have to turn into a kitten?”

His mission target this time was Yi Ming, a loner who rarely spoke, had the highest GPA year after year, and was praised to the skies by the president of the school's stray animal protection society.

A loner, huh? Watch this kitten launch a break-in-style conquest of you! Nothing can stop him from getting home!

Good news: As a cat, he can ignore the rules of human society.

Bad news: Yi Ming hates small animals, especially cats.

After yet another attempt to get noticed was ignored, the kitten version of Chu Su transformed into an extra-determined beagle:

When Yi Ming slept, he sang.

When Yi Ming drank water, he knocked over the cup.

When Yi Ming walked, he cosplayed as a roadblock.

When Yi Ming showered, he scratched at the door from outside, then saw... Oh dear, don't look if you're a gentleman.

In the end, persistence paid off, and Yi Ming adopted Chu Su before the holidays.

For some reason, though, Yi Ming's home felt strangely familiar, as if Chu Su had arranged it himself.

*

Yi Ming's parents both died when he was very young. He grew up in Chu Su's home and emerged from his grief with Chu Su and Chu Su's parents by his side. But while saving a stray cat, Chu Su was stabbed by a crazed cat abuser and left in a vegetative state.

Of course he was a jinx. He'd brought misfortune to his parents, and now he'd brought it to Chu Su, too...

He moved out of the home where he'd lived for more than ten years. He could no longer interact with Chu Su's parents as he had before. Time and again, he wondered:

Why did fate have to take away the happiness he'd worked so hard to find?

Why hadn't he been with Chu Su that day?

Why hadn't he been the one to die?

That's right, if he had died, his parents would have been safe and Chu Su wouldn't have been hurt.

Until one day, Yi Ming realized that a little orange cat was following him everywhere. No matter where he went, the cat followed, and no matter how he chased it away, it wouldn't leave.

The cat kept bringing Chu Su to mind for some inexplicable reason.

On an ordinary day, the little cat suddenly went pop and turned into a blonde boy. That blond kid had the exact same face as Chu Su.

Of course. He'd been off his medication for too long and was hallucinating. Otherwise, how could he possibly see a cat turn into Chu Su?

Little cat Chu Su wiggled his two crispy-corner-like ears, trying to brainwash Yi Ming. “You're dreaming. You're dreaming...”

*

When Chu Su learned that Yi Ming had been trapped in a hotel by his grandfather, who disliked him, he immediately decided to launch the “Yi Ming Rescue Plan” and save him from his evil grandfather's clutches.

With the System's help, Chu Su reached Yi Ming's room without a hitch and tried to give him the antidote.

But Yi Ming somehow found the strength to shove Chu Su away. He punched through the window, then used a shard of glass to cut his scarred wrist. He slumped against the wall, completely drained, and murmured, “Xiao Bei, save me. Please, save me...”

Chu Su's heart skipped a beat. His voice trembled as he asked Yi Ming, who was slowly coming to his senses, “How do you know that name?”

At that moment, all the memories the System had sealed away came flooding back into Chu Su's mind.

Became a Powerful Man's Amnesiac Canary

Yu Zhi woke up after finishing his college entrance exams and discovered that he'd arrived five years in the future and been in a car accident. After asking around, he learned that he'd become the kept canary of a powerful man named Yan He, and the most unruly canary of them all.

Powerful men always had a beloved one from their youth whom they couldn't have. Yan He was no exception. In fact, Yu Zhi's car accident had happened because he'd tried to bring back Yan He, who was on his way to meet his beloved.

What a joke. He was a top student at N University, with a family that loved him and both parents alive. Why should he be anyone's canary? He was out!

Oh, wow. The powerful man had given him a car, a house, and 1.5 million a month in spending money?

Sorry, boss, I was a little loud. I'll do my job as your canary with all due diligence. Even if you get a room with your beloved and ask me to bring you condoms, I'll do it.

But why had the beloved invited him on a road trip? Was he trying to put him in his place? And why had the powerful man shown up at their destination too? Could he have become part of their little game? Was the boss really going to make him bring them condoms?

It turned out the beloved wasn't the powerful man's beloved. Yu Zhi was!

It turned out the person the beloved liked was Yu Zhi, too!

This is complicated, but whatever. As long as I get paid.

*

Yan He had never liked anyone this much before.

That person was Yu Zhi, his junior at school.

The internet said that if you liked someone, you should give them money and resources.

So Yan He followed the internet's advice and gave Yu Zhi a house, money, and a job.

As expected, Yu Zhi loved him even more.

But one day, Yan He discovered that Yu Zhi was actually trying to set him up with his romantic rival.

Yan He and his rival stared at each other. “Did we do something wrong?”

Yan He: Where are all the helpful netizens? The person I like thinks my rival and I are a couple. What should I do? Five million yuan reward. Waiting online. It's urgent.

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