Lin Ran is a beta and the mascot of the Imperial Army's medical corps.
With a smile hailed as “the sweetest, most healing smile in the entire galaxy,” he has ranked first on the “medic wounded soldiers most want to see” list for three years running.
Shen Que is a 3S-class Alpha and the commander-in-chief of the Silverglow Fleet.
His record of military honors is thicker than the star charts, and his reputation reaches from the Imperial capital to the Zerg's lair.
His adjutants privately bet that he'll have only two expressions for his entire life: a cold face, and an even colder one.
*
Until one day, after the military intranet system was upgraded, Lin Ran added his childhood friend Lu Gao.
Lin Ran's eyes lit up. What a joy to find an old friend in a foreign land!
From then on, he and his childhood friend chatted every night. His username was Don't Want to Work Today Either:
“Do you know how unreasonable your boss is? I was stitching up wounds until three in the morning yesterday, and at six this morning he made the whole ship do drills? Seriously, what is that about?”
Lu Gao: “?”
“Does he think betas don't need sleep? How does an Alpha like that even find an Omega? By pheromone kidnapping?”
Lu Gao: “...”
“Forget it. I can't explain it to Alphas like you.”
Lin Ran thought his childhood friend had changed. He was way too calm. Back then, he used to be even more of a chatterbox than Lin Ran. Maybe being Shen Que's personal guard had worn away all his emotions.
*
Until the night of the fleet's victory banquet.
After two drinks, he was red-faced and curled up in a corner when his childhood friend appeared. The man was so excited he grabbed Lin Ran and nearly jumped up and down.
Dude, why are you so different? You weren't like this last night.
“Ranran, let's exchange our internal contact IDs.”
But don't we chat every night? Lin Ran stared, then opened the profile.
Lu Gao stared too. “Ranran, when did you add the commander?”
Lin Ran's smile froze on his face as his mind replayed the outrageous things he'd said over the past 30 days:
“Is Shen Que out of his mind?”
“Shen Que is too much!”
“How can Shen Que be so good at tormenting people? I curse him to never find a wife.”
“But his waist really is narrow, tsk... He looks like a fine gentleman, what a shame about that perfect body.”
And now, the broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted, long-legged, handsome commander, aloof and high above everyone else, was walking toward him with a cold expression.
Lin Ran: “...Could I still apply for a transfer to a medical station on some desolate border planet?”
Bonus scene:
Shen Que stepped forward, trapping him between himself and the observation window overlooking the stars.
“Medic Lin,” the Alpha said in a low voice that only the two of them could hear,
“Earlier, when you said Shen Que's Adam's apple looked good enough to bite, were you giving medical advice? Would you like to try it yourself?”
Lin Ran: ...
Sweetheart on the outside, irritable corporate drone on the inside receiver x cold-faced, scheming black-sesame-tangyuan commander
Both each other's first love, mutually devoted, one-on-one, happy ending
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