Seven years ago, Chu Ren was carrying out a secret mission in the Empire when he picked up a child from the Lower City, where the air reeked of rotting garbage.
The boy was skin and bones, frail and slight, with dark eyes full of wary hostility.
When the mission was complete, Chu Ren left the Empire, never to see him again.
Seven years later, the boy had grown tall and become the Federal Military Academy's most outstanding star, a champion in two fields.
Dressed in the crisp uniform of the president's guard, he stood before Chu Ren with his head bowed respectfully.
When he looked up, his handsome face was lit by startlingly bright dark eyes, fixed on Chu Ren as he spoke each word carefully.
"It doesn't matter if you're married. I can be your lover."
*
Jiang Yu had always been looking for someone.
An unremarkable Alpha, with an ordinary face and common pheromones that would disappear into a crowd.
Only his pair of keen, icy eyes seemed utterly out of place on that bland face.
Over the course of four years, Jiang Yu had even searched the most desolate, remote star systems, but found nothing.
Jiang Yu thought:
Perhaps that person was already dead. An ordinary Alpha without an exceptional rank could be crushed as easily as a speck of dust amid the chaos of war in this vast star system.
He thought so, but still refused to give up.
*
He had two reasons for going to the Federation:
To find that person.
And to support the Empire's covert mission by carrying out the final decapitation strike.
That day at the Federal Military Academy, Jiang Yu stood far below the stage, looking up into the blinding midday sun. There he saw a man in black and gold formalwear, his handsome face enough to make anyone lose themselves.
Golden eyes, cold and bright, beyond reach.
Those around him called him the youngest president in the Federation's history.
*
Thump.
In a daze, Jiang Yu heard the long-silent heart in his chest give a heavy beat.
The Federal President, an SSS-rank Alpha gong x the Empire's S-rank Alpha spy shou
Two powerful Alphas
Steady, austere older gong x obsessive, possessive younger shou
The gong has a fiance through a political marriage. Both gong and shou are sexually inexperienced, and each is the other's first.
Here for some deliciously over-the-top angst, lol.
Theme: I don't care about my good name in this life