After Being Forced to Marry My Archrival

[Sunny, Tough, Sociable Golden Retriever Alpha & Cool, Elegant Dessert-Loving Persian Cat Omega]

The Empire Academy has produced two prominent figures this year.

Xie Xingsu, an omega and model student in the Command Department, is cool and beautiful, a master strategist who earned perfect scores in every subject. Hailed as a born commander, he is secretly the leader of the rebel army.

Cheng Yuyun, an alpha and top student in the Combat Department, is powerful, easygoing, and friendly, with a large following. He also excelled on an assignment off campus and was recruited by the military before graduation.

Yet the two are widely known as sworn enemies.

They fell out at the start of term and have been at each other's throats ever since, openly and secretly competing for four years. Their respective departments, Command and Combat, have also come to despise each other.

Then, just after graduation, their compatibility results came in, and the two promptly received a marriage certificate.

Xie Xingsu and Cheng Yuyun can't stand each other. They tacitly agree to stay out of each other's way and treat one another with icy courtesy.

But when word of their discord on campus reaches the Matching Bureau, it sends a mediator and draws up a plan to bring them together.

1. Discussing their ideal types.

Cheng Yuyun lavishes praise on his first love, hoping to make his nemesis back down.

Xie Xingsu, usually so composed and calm, unconsciously curls his fingers, their tips trembling slightly.

Why does this sound more and more like the persona he once used in the City That Never Sleeps?

2. Going out together.

The weather is scorching, and Xie Xingsu, who can't handle the sun, is already dazed after walking outside for a little while.

Cheng Yuyun turns to buy an iced milk tea. He lets Xie Xingsu snatch the plastic bag holding it, but says, "The milk tea is mine!"

3. Life Simulator.

In the virtual world, the two switch identities.

Xie Xingsu is the military's supreme authority, while Cheng Yuyun becomes the rebel leader, reduced to a prisoner.

In the dim light, the desperate prisoner succeeds in a surprise attack and kisses him forcefully.

*

Cheng Yuyun has always known that Xie Xingsu is hiding a secret.

Kept outside that secret, he has never earned the trust it would take for Xie Xingsu to open up to him.

Until, as his nemesis's legal spouse in name only, he is taken to a locked room.

There he is told that Xie Xingsu is part of the rebel army, and he must mark him completely to set everything right again.

The price of refusing is losing his status as a husband, with no excuse left to get close to him.

At that moment, the man who has always been as cool and self-possessed as the moon hanging high in the sky is sinking into an endless abyss.

He leans against the wall, his long black hair spilling over his face and neck.

A deep red flush colors the corners of his eyes, lending him a breathtaking, inexplicable allure.

But that allure vanishes in an instant beneath his cool, clear voice.

"Mark me. That's an order."

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The next novel I'll be starting is Rewinding to My Nemesis's Youth. Here's the blurb. If it sounds like your thing, please give it a star~

[Strong, Protective German Shepherd Type & Cool, Catlike Tragic Beauty]

Si Le is a genius boy with no parents, a cool, quiet demeanor, and one problem after another.

His current goal is to get through high school without incident and make it into college. But he never expected the people around him to start acting strangely...

A murderous presence lurks in the shadows, repeatedly trying to kill him.

This includes, but isn't limited to, sending people to stalk and ambush him, persuading classmates to shun him, and luring villains to his door.

By a twist of fate, he finally figures it out:

He's the ultimate villainous scientist in a horror mystery novel.

He appears in the second half of the story and, with top-tier looks, top-tier intelligence, and a ruthless nature, wins an enormous fan following and drives the perfectly compatible male and female leads to the brink of a breakup.

Si Le hesitates. "The villain... is me?"

And to make matters worse,

Everyone has been reborn except him.

Faced with reborn people harboring ill intent, Si Le promptly calls the police. One by one, he sends them all off to prison.

Now and then, someone gets so annoying that dark thoughts begin to grow in his heart. But when he reaches into his pocket...

The spot where he'd kept a weapon is filled with candy instead. His next-door neighbor, who is also his nemesis in the book, is responsible!

Si Le thinks that nemeses really are the most annoying creatures in the world!

Especially a nemesis with memories of two lifetimes who knows exactly what he likes.

*

Xiang Xun's life went smoothly until he met Si Le, his nemesis in his previous life:

A genius scientist, cunning as a demon and sharp as a blade, who committed crime after crime and plunged the whole world into chaos.

The biggest regret of his life was giving up a chance to die alongside his nemesis.

Given another chance, he decides to make up for it.

But why is his heinous, ruthless nemesis now a poor little thing beset by troubles?

With his strong moral compass and firm principles, he has no choice but to abandon the idea and try to raise his young nemesis into a law-abiding citizen.

And so,

When his nemesis gets caught up in a police case, he goes to bail him out in the middle of the night;

When his nemesis shows the first signs of turning evil, he seizes the moment to feed him candy;

When his nemesis stays home and can't be bothered to go out, he drags him out to watch a red-themed movie...

Xiang Xun gets better and better at raising a kid, and thinks that their pure hatred has gained a little warmth from spending every day together.

Then that night, he dreams that his grown-up nemesis kisses him of his own accord.

Their breaths mingle, and the air fills with the heady scent of red wine...

He wakes up in a fright.

C-can feelings between nemeses change into something else?

Theme: Love can overcome prejudice and barriers