[One heroine and four male leads, a reverse harem with a beloved heroine: a female Beta and four male Alphas.]
Lin Shannai is an excellent private tutor.
But the students she teaches always fall in love with her.
Even after she becomes someone else's wife.
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Marriage and romance are not the same thing, and Lin Shannai knows it well. Romance requires love, while marriage only requires compatibility.
She met her ex-husband through a matchmaking arrangement. Lin Shannai wasn't particularly fond of him, but she accepted his proposal.
As an ordinary, overworked 25-year-old female Beta, he seemed like the best choice available to her at the time.
After they married, Lin Shannai finally understood why this handsome male Alpha from an A9 family had been unable to find a wife.
Her ex-husband was outrageously well-endowed, and his appetite was insatiable.
Lin Shannai was busy with work during the day and had to satisfy his every desire at night. Her eyes were red from crying every day.
An incompatible marriage can't last, and Lin Shannai soon divorced him.
After the divorce, Lin Shannai moved to another city. A friend introduced her to a fabulously wealthy family, where she became a private tutor for their children.
The atmosphere in the household was very strange.
There were only two young masters in the family, a pair of Alpha brothers who were deeply at odds.
One had perfect grades and an early admission to the First Military Academy. He had an outstanding record, refined manners, and striking looks, but his temperament was dark and eccentric, and he was extreme and quick to anger.
The other had abysmal grades and always gave way to his older brother. He was meek and ingratiating, seemingly frail and quiet, gentle and shy, and he was blind.
Lin Shannai worked diligently, only learning the truth later.
The hot-tempered one was the fake young master, raised in the wealthy household for nineteen years and carefully groomed as its heir.
The gentle, shy one was the real young master, who had been left to fend for himself, suffered endless hardship and abuse, and lost his sight as a result.
The wealthy family had raised both children, yet did nothing to address their psychological problems.
Lin Shannai was a kind, softhearted woman who cared deeply for both boys. Before she knew it, her concern had gone too far.
After the two boys, both in heat, took turns marking her, Lin Shannai panicked.
She had done something terrible. She had completely failed as a teacher!
She regretted it bitterly, but neither boy was willing to let her go.
The effects of her ex-husband's influence still lingered, and Lin Shannai was seduced time and again, losing herself in pleasure and feeling even more ashamed when she came to her senses.
In the end, the head of the household found out.
Consumed with regret, Lin Shannai resigned of her own accord and obediently followed the family's instructions. She assumed a false identity and moved far away to the borderlands.
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After faking her death, Lin Shannai was proposed to once again.
She married an Alpha officer. He worked for the Ministry of State Security and had been to war, yet he had delicate, beautiful features and shoulder-length hair. If not for his crisp military uniform, he would have looked more like an actor.
Her new husband was cold-tempered and busy with work, and didn't seem to like her much, but he was especially fond of her scent.
A Beta's pheromones can't be detected by Alphas or Omegas, but her husband had a strange illness that allowed him to smell her pheromones.
Her husband gave her a safe and comfortable life. In return, Lin Shannai often used her pheromones to soothe him. Gradually, she discovered that he had a passionate side too, one that only came out when they were alone together at night.
Three years later, Lin Shannai returned to the capital with her husband after his transfer. At a banquet, she ran into the students she had once taught.
After losing Lin Shannai, both young masters had gone mad that very year.
The gentle, shy boy had become a sweet-on-the-outside, vicious-on-the-inside snake, while the hot-tempered one had become a bloodthirsty madman.
Even though Lin Shannai was now married, neither student was willing to let her go.
Her ex-husband came to see her and produced their divorce papers from years ago. The signature line was still blank, and he claimed that he was Lin Shannai's legal husband.
Her current husband, now the one being cheated on, grew dark-faced as well.
Lin Shannai was at her wit's end.
What on earth was going on?!
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[In this novel, you'll find: an experienced woman teaching a virgin man; an excellent, seemingly perfect fake young master who becomes an unloved stray dog overnight, grows neurotic, and develops terrifying possessiveness toward the heroine; a pitiful blind young master who gets so anxious during his first heat that he cries, but can't get it in; a cold military officer with delicate, beautiful looks who falls in love with the heroine after marrying her first; and Alphas who suffer because they can't permanently mark the heroine since she's a Beta. Wait for the delightfully vulgar kinks 😋]
The heroine is low-energy, with the helpless tolerance and slight weariness of an overworked office worker. Even when reality keeps beating her down, she remains gentle and kind. No matter how wildly the male Alphas fight over her, she just focuses on managing her sweet, simple life, sighing from the sidelines, "Please stop fighting..."
Reading guide:
1. A delicious reverse harem, with everyone ending up together.
2. An alternate modern ABO setting with a touch of futuristic flavor, but no interstellar elements.
3. All male leads are virgins.
4. The ex-husband's family is worth more than A9. They didn't actually meet through a matchmaking arrangement: he deliberately set it up and gave her the accurate figures, knowing she'd be scared off and no longer dare to marry him.
5. The blind young master's eyesight will recover later.
Theme: Love means giving.