Jiang Xiu, male, alpha, born into wealth, with a rough life.
His mother died when he was nine. At fifteen, his father threw him into the family business to serve as a whetstone for his older half-brother. At nineteen, the hereditary illness he got from his mother flared up, and he was sent abroad to fend for himself. At twenty-three, his condition worsened, so he returned home for treatment. He scraped by until he was twenty-six, when his family packed him off into an arranged marriage.
The reason was simple. The heir to an old-money aristocratic family was getting older, and the restless desires innate to an enigma were pushing him to the brink of losing control. He needed a clean-cut partner with a respectable background who could endure an enigma's insatiable demands, and the Jiang family wanted to hitch their wagon to his star.
Jiang Xiu's father made the decision, but his older brother, who had once comforted and protected him as a child, and his younger brother, whom he had raised himself, both stood by and watched, accepting that he was headed for what amounted to a death sentence.
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On the first night with Ji RANCHUAN, they kept the lights off all night. Jiang Xiu didn't even see what his nominal "fiance" looked like.
Ji RANCHUAN said that in a relationship like theirs, it was more convenient if they couldn't see each other's faces.
Jiang Xiu deeply agreed, but he also found it laughable. He laughed at the enigma, tormented and ruled by physical desire like an animal, and at himself, pinned beneath an enigma and taken at will.
Back then, he never would have imagined that a pair of bedfellows forced together for their families' interests and their own primal desires could one day become "lovers" in the conventional sense.
An enigma top with awful values who badly needs to be put in his place, and gets exactly that × a low-energy, beautiful alpha bottom who takes everything in stride because he might drop dead at any moment
Theme: Stay kind and cherish life.
