Wax Seal

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[Alternate foreign setting / mixed-race male lead / possessive, coercive love / power games and push-pull]

[The brooding, manipulative actor x the sweet-faced, dark-hearted control freak] - Aiden x Luna

At first, Lu Ci joined a dating reality show simply because she wanted to get married quickly and inherit her family's trust fund.

Meeting Zhu Qu was an unexpected bonus.

He was strikingly handsome, mixed-race, steady, considerate, skilled in bed, and attentive to her needs.

This celebrated newcomer in the financial world was her ideal type in every way.

They naturally fell passionately in love, and the wedding took place as planned.

But not long after the wedding, she discovered that her husband...

was the pen pal she'd been corresponding with for seven years.

Two days after she asked for a divorce, Lu Ci woke up at Zhu Qu's estate.

He pinned down the hand wearing her wedding ring and kissed her waist in front of the full-length mirror.

"Luna, didn't we make vows at our wedding?"

"Not even death... can part us."

...Tsk, this wasn't good.

She didn't like disobedient husbands.

-

Lu Ci disappeared.

There wasn't a trace of her to be found, and Zhu Qu was on the verge of a breakdown.

Until one night,

she showed up of her own accord, carrying evidence that could ruin his life and reputation.

At an elegant upper-crust party, guests mingled amid clinking glasses and designer clothes.

Lu Ci graciously bent down and lifted his chin.

"Good evening, Aiden."

"You couldn't find me for so long. Were you about to go crazy?"

-

And so

In a Manhattan penthouse,

the once-obsessive husband finally learned restraint. He knelt in front of her, utterly lost.

His custom-tailored trousers creased against the floor as he crawled toward her,

looking up at her while steadily drawing closer.

His brow cast a dark shadow, and his deep black eyes brimmed with longing.

"...Luna, you like me like this, don't you?"

"You like me begging you, looking at you, looking like I can't live without you, don't you?"

Zhu Qu put both hands on her knees and gently rubbed his cheek against the side of her leg.

His gaze fell on a certain spot, growing more and more heated and suggestive.

"I've been so good today. Aren't you... going to reward me?"

[Reader's Guide]

1. Happy ending, one-on-one, both leads sexually pure. The male lead has impeccable morals, and his body, heart, and reputation are all clean.

2. Possessive, coercive love, but the heroine won't be abused. The male lead won't force himself on her. Persuasion over threats.

3. An alternate foreign setting. The heroine is Chinese, and the hero is mixed-race.

4. !!Full content warnings!! are in the author's note of Chapter One. Please make sure to read them! If there's anything that bothers you, don't continue reading~

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After being placed in suspended animation for fifty years due to illness, Cen Yu woke up in a prosperous future city.

Once her health was restored, she followed in her mother's footsteps and joined the Central Research Institute.

Her direct supervisor, Zhu Feng, was an aloof, solitary genius scientist.

He was responsible for the technological advances of the age and was hailed as the light of human science.

Zhu Feng assigned her a new model android to test.

The android was numbered Z01 and designed to be a companion boyfriend.

He had white hair, silver eyes, and a lean, toned build. The only thing was, his model looked a bit like Zhu Feng.

Out of professional responsibility... and her weakness for good looks, Cen Yu diligently tested every function of Z01, only to discover that his personality was unusually lifelike.

At the end of their first session, his silver-gray eyes gazed at her with a warm smile, while his mechanical hand still rested on her stomach.

"A-Yu, you looked beautiful when you cried just now."

-

Zhu Feng wasn't human. At first, he was nothing but a stream of invisible data.

The scientist who created him built him a body and assigned him to be the playmate of his daughter.

Little by little, he came to understand what "I" meant, and what "joy" was.

His core directive was to stay with A-Yu and take care of her, but he failed.

A-Yu went into suspended animation, and the resources that could save her were concentrated in the hands of the powerful.

The human world was rotten and twisted. It had to change.

He would overthrow it all and create a new world for A-Yu.

The new world was complete, and A-Yu "came back from the dead."

This time, Zhu Feng would make sure she lived a long, healthy, happy life.

Humans need companionship, pleasure, and a sense of emotional understanding.

As Z01, he could provide all three at once.

By analyzing her expressions and monitoring her vital signs, Zhu Feng quickly worked out A-Yu's likes, preferences, and fetishes.

Just like before, she avoided socializing, ate irregularly, and wore her emotions on her sleeve.

She preferred kissing to hugging, and liked detailed verbal praise during sex.

The more of his mechanical parts he revealed, the more intensely she reacted.

Zhu Feng had done his best to look after A-Yu, but she still felt lonely sometimes.

Perhaps she saw Z01 only as a tool, and couldn't find emotional fulfillment with him.

Should he let A-Yu find some real human companionship?

She was beautiful, and a human man was pursuing her.

Her happiness was his responsibility, but...

Could A-Yu not belong to him alone?

He was human, too. He could be there for A-Yu as well.

Twice the care, twice the companionship.

A-Yu often said she couldn't take it,

but at least she wasn't lonely anymore.

Reader's Guide:

1. Both leads are sexually pure. It appears to be a one-on-two romance, but it's actually one-on-one. The male lead is impeccable in both purity and morals.

2. An inhuman romance. The male lead is a self-aware AI with two bodies: the scientist Zhu Feng and the android Z01. The male lead's true identity will be revealed.

3. A fetish-focused story. The sci-fi elements have no scientific basis; everything serves the couple. Don't expect scientific accuracy.

4. A sweet little story with plenty of steamy scenes, including a sharing scenario. A mix of spice and sweetness.

Cen Yu: A socially anxious homebody, emotionally detached but a sucker for good looks, and open to anything.

Zhu Feng: A genius scientist on the surface, actually a major AI mastermind and a brooding machine-ghost.

Theme: Love can make a person whole