On the seventh day after her husband's death in the line of duty, Xi Ting was sent to the auction block.
The moon he had once admired from afar, a dream he could never reach, was now a prize for the highest bidder.
Those admirers who had once been rejected and could only watch him from a distance finally tore off their disguises, their chance to claim him at last within reach.
The most powerful Alphas were all there--
Countless gazes pinned him in place, burning with greed and absolute certainty of possession.
Xi Ting knew that unless he chose one of them as his protector immediately,
their desires, repressed for years, would devour him on the spot.
Trembling, he pointed to the one who seemed gentlest, the one who promised to treat him with respect.
But on their wedding night, his husband mysteriously "disappeared."
He had no choice but to choose again.
His second husband, a powerful man of high rank, died in an accident. His third husband vanished in a rainstorm...
It seemed his husbands were all destined to die young.
Yet powerful men continued to come, one after another, gambling everything for the chance to briefly possess this moon that had once seemed forever out of reach.
Until one snowy night, the bedroom door swung open without a sound.
His first husband, who should have long since turned to ashes, stood in the shadows, his body cold with the night air. Xi Ting couldn't tell whether he was human or ghost.
His icy fingertips brushed the tear still wet on Xi Ting's cheek.
"I've been dead for so long..."
"Baby, how many times have they forced you to remarry?"
And in the darkness, the husbands who had "died" or "disappeared" slowly emerged, their eyes burning.
"Darling..."
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The blurb might sound a little dark, but this is actually a sweet story. It probably won't be very long: just a few dogs fighting over their wife.
Theme: A beautiful woman is worth dying for.
