Song Yu is a Beta, honest and dependable, the kind of well-behaved student teachers adore. Because his family is in debt, he has to give up on college and work to earn money.
To make ends meet, he takes a job providing voice comfort: he offers soothing calls to Omegas who are lonely and in heat without an Alpha to calm them.
One day, he gets a request for an in-person voice comfort session.
The client is offering too much money, so Song Yu agrees.
In a grand villa, he frowns at the suggestive passages in the reading material, but reads them aloud with professional dedication.
Under the dim light, through a gap in the gauze curtain, he can see a pair of enticing, fair legs beneath the client's silk bathrobe. The person's breathing grows heavier and heavier.
The rising tide of desire stirs Song Yu's heart, too.
He knows he's not good enough for the other person, so he decides to stop seeing him once he's earned enough to pay off his debts.
Unexpectedly, a drunken night entangles them, and Song Yu runs away in the middle of the night, too ashamed even to take the money.
Three months later, the Huo family of the capital finds him and brings him home to reclaim his place in the family. They hold a coming-of-age celebration for him and invite the influential head of the Qin family, one of the capital's most powerful families.
Everyone knows that the head of the Qin family is a top Alpha: cool, detached, restrained, and so aloof that he keeps everyone at arm's length.
Song Yu is even more careful to be respectful and proper around him.
But why does this man keep putting his hands on him?
Qin Li was born into one of the most powerful families, where his relatives are obsessed with having an Alpha heir. Forced to hide his Omega identity, he presents himself as an Alpha.
He is always aloof and composed in public, meticulous in everything he does. To relieve the increasingly intense cravings of his Omega instincts, he secretly downloads an app that provides comfort to Omegas.
After choosing someone to comfort him, he opens the voice sample recommended by the app. A low, magnetic male voice suddenly fills his ears, tender and lingering.
The desire he'd suppressed for years surges out in an instant, like a flood bursting through a dam.
Qin Li can't wait to meet this person and have him provide voice comfort for him alone.
Bonus scene:
In the lounge at a banquet, Song Yu is cornered on the sofa by the head of the Qin family. The cool, aloof man sits right down on his lap.
Song Yu, perfectly proper, says, "I'm impotent."
The head of the Qin family sneers, takes his hand, and pulls it down to his own swollen belly.
"Then how did you leave me like this that night?"
Theme: Even in darkness, grow toward the sun.