Content warning: Standard ABO interstellar federation setting. Beta gong, Alpha shou, unrequited love. The Alpha's pheromones smell of amber. (I feel so sorry for Li Li, who can't smell anything at all. My personal headcanon is that he can smell Xu Xu when their feelings are especially intense.)
He was a Beta who crawled out of hell.
Unable to smell pheromones, he became obsessed with finding a ray of light for seventeen years.
He was a top Alpha above the clouds,
with a deep, ancient amber scent. One casual act of kindness became someone's salvation for life.
[One]
As they made love again and again, tears rolled down Chi Li's face. He murmured the name he had called out countless times in his dreams. "Xu Xu, I love you, Xu Xu... Don't leave me."
This time, his Xu Xu answered him. "Li Li, I love you too."
Si Shixu didn't think there was anything wrong with an Alpha wanting to be protected. He relished the feeling of being cherished. As passion peaked, he smiled sweetly. "Hubby, will you bite my gland?"
PS: Both chaste, older man, happy ending, mutual salvation.
This is the full-length version of Seventeen Years Trapped in the Light. I haven't planned out the details of the career plot yet, so I wrote a shorter version focusing on the romance. I'm really into Alpha shou. I'm hoping to build up my favorites first, because writing in isolation is so painful. But I don't want to leave unfinished stories lying around, so I'll only start this after I finish my current serial.
Theme: Wherever the embers fall, there lies the way home
