The day Chi Yu presented as an omega, he got his wish and married Gu Xu, whom he had secretly loved for three years, even if their marriage was arranged for the sake of an alliance.
He knew about Gu Xu's rumored affairs.
He knew Gu Xu was still waiting for his first love.
He knew Gu Xu didn't like him.
But now that they were married, he still wanted to make the relationship work.
For two years after the wedding, Chi Yu humbly pleaded for Gu Xu's love, hoping that when they were intimate at night, Gu Xu might look at him for just one more second. But Gu Xu never spared him the slightest attention.
Even so, Gu Xu still flung divorce papers in front of him. The reason: after two years of marriage, Chi Yu had failed to give him a child.
But Chi Yu knew Gu Xu's first love had returned.
The claim that they had been childless for two years was just an excuse to turn the public's attention and blame toward him.
Chi Yu endured the wrenching pain in his heart and signed his name with a trembling hand.
*
Back at the Chi family home, Chi Yu had yet to recover from his heartbreak when his father handed him another marriage contract.
The Chu family of City A was even more prestigious than the Gu family, and Chu Xuan was notorious for his ruthless reputation.
The news of their engagement sent all of City A into an uproar.
While outsiders wondered why the Chu family would accept an omega who had already been married once, Chi Yu was more worried about what lay ahead.
After all, Chu Xuan was a man who meant what he said, acted with ruthless decisiveness, and tolerated no flaws.
*
Though Chu Xuan was a top-tier alpha, he suffered from pheromone dysregulation.
Few people knew about it, and the hospital had been searching for a way to alleviate his condition.
He first saw Chi Yu at the wedding banquet between the Gu and Chi families. In that fleeting glance, all he learned was that Chi Yu was a refined and gentle omega.
Later, the hospital entered Chi Yu's pheromone data into its database, and it unexpectedly matched with Chu Xuan's. At the time, Chu Xuan was suffering terribly from his pheromone dysregulation.
Not long after, news of Chi Yu's divorce broke. Chu Xuan immediately had someone tell the Chi family that his pheromones were a perfect, one-hundred-percent match for Chi Yu's. The Chi family took the bait, just as he expected.
Before the wedding, Chu Xuan thought that as long as Chi Yu bore him a child and cooperated with the hospital's treatment to develop an inhibitor that could alleviate his pheromone dysregulation, he would compensate Chi Yu generously. If Chi Yu wanted a divorce, he would set him free.
Later, Chi Yu did bear him a child, and he asked for a divorce.
But Chu Xuan seemed to go mad. He locked Chi Yu between his arms, his eyes red as he begged in a low voice, "Xiao Yu, please don't divorce me, okay?"
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The prominent families of City A all said Chi Yu was a vain omega who had severed ties with the Gu family after marrying into the Chu family. They waited to see when the Chi family's omega, known for clinging to the powerful, would be thrown out.
But a year passed, and Chi Yu was still Mrs. Chu.
Two years passed, and news broke that Chi Yu was pregnant.
Three years passed, and word spread that the Chu family had restructured its shares, leaving Chi Yu and Chu Xuan with equal stakes.
Chu Xuan held Chi Yu close and gently rubbed his lower back. "Honey, we've got a baby, and I've given you money too. So stop thinking about divorce, okay?"
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