[Guiding, paternal Enigma top × soft, sweet, well-behaved beauty bottom. Please add to your library!]
Wen Qiao'an had had a crush on his childhood friend for years, from high school through college, quietly staying by his side the whole time.
His childhood friend was an alpha with excellent grades and a wealthy family, while he was just an unremarkable beta, so he didn't even dare confess.
He thought this secret love would end without ever going anywhere, until his childhood friend was dumped by another Omega yet again and called him to a bar to drink his sorrows away.
The lights were dim, and alcohol clouded his reason. In a daze, Wen Qiao'an found himself pinned to the wall by the wrist, kissed until he trembled.
Wen Qiao'an was surprised and thrilled, but also anxious. He didn't stop the man's advances. He only asked cautiously, "So... do you like me now?"
The man's movements paused. The hand around his waist tightened, and he ordered:
"Open your mouth."
-
After their passionate night together, Wen Qiao'an thought his dream had come true. When he woke up the next day, though, he felt as if the sky had fallen.
First, the man he'd slept with wasn't his childhood friend.
Second... the man was his childhood friend's own older brother?!!
His older brother was named Pei Yanchu. He had started a business from scratch at a young age and become a legend known throughout City A. He'd been successful for years, and no one had ever heard of him having an affair. But now he'd spent the night with Wen Qiao'an.
The more the little beta thought about it, the more frightened he became. So before Pei Yanchu could offer him hush money, he ran up to him and said, "Mr. Pei, I won't tell anyone what happened last night. Please don't tell Si An either, okay?"
Pei Yanchu raised an eyebrow. "You like him?"
Wen Qiao'an exclaimed, "How could you tell?!"
Pei Yanchu laughed. "I guessed."
-
Pei Yanchu was an Enigma. Ordinary pheromones did nothing to calm him, but he had fallen for one little beta.
The little beta was just like his name: gentle and slow-paced, with a reserved personality. When he was in pain in bed, he didn't even dare cry. He just looked at Pei Yanchu with wide, pitiful eyes.
The little beta was very thin, too. Pei Yanchu guessed that no one had ever taken good care of him, and he hadn't taken good care of himself either. His legs were so slender he could encircle one with a single hand. That wouldn't do.
The little beta was also foolish. After years of secretly loving his younger brother without getting anywhere, he still kept throwing himself into it, only to have his heart broken again and again, crying so pitifully.
Normally, Pei Yanchu would have tried to stop his younger brother. But this time, he didn't. Every time Wen Qiao'an got his heart broken, Pei Yanchu could use the opportunity to get closer to him, one step at a time.
Then, without making a fuss, he became the only safe harbor Wen Qiao'an could turn to after his foolish younger brother hurt him.
He would listen as Wen Qiao'an cried and poured out his heart, soothe him to sleep, then little by little possess him completely, inside and out, over and over.
Until both his body and soul were covered in Pei Yanchu's scent, never to be washed away.
-
When his childhood friend finally wanted Wen Qiao'an back, he unexpectedly came upon this scene.
His older brother, forever above everyone else and forever dismissive of anyone who tried to court him, was holding his good friend tenderly in his arms.
The man's hand gripped the back of Wen Qiao'an's slender neck with possessive force as he bent down to kiss him deeply.
And the beta from his memories, the one who only ever shied away from him in embarrassment, was now tilting his head back, fingers weakly curled into the front of his brother's expensive shirt, letting him do as he pleased.
In his panic, his childhood friend belatedly realized how despicable his own intentions were. He looked up and met Pei Yanchu's unfathomable gaze.
The man pulled the person in his arms even closer, his broad body completely blocking his view. Then he leisurely ran his thumb over the corner of his mouth, as if savoring something.
"Brother... you two..."
His childhood friend's voice trembled.
The Enigma's calm gaze swept over his younger brother's deathly pale face.
"He's mine now."
"You should learn to understand where you stand, little brother."
[Reader's guide]
1. Guiding, paternal Enigma top × soft, sweet, well-behaved beauty bottom. The bottom isn't insecure.
2. Sex first, love later. Both leads are each other's first. The bottom initially has a crush on the top's younger brother, while the top secretly loves the bottom. No children. Pure sweetness and doting on the wife.
3. The childhood friend pursues the one who got away, but fails spectacularly. His ashes are scattered, that kind of failure. He's purely a plot device.
Theme: For each other, we can all become better versions of ourselves.