A pure, inexperienced college student × a seductive, flirtatious wealthy mom
Bai Xin is a poor student who has just presented as an Alpha.
She has a childhood best friend, Lin Wanxing, the heiress of the Lin family. Lin Wanxing presented as an Omega, and they say her pheromones smell like sweet roses. All the Alphas at school have gone crazy over her.
But Lin Wanxing only likes her, and Bai Xin doesn't like Lin Wanxing.
Because she can't smell her pheromones.
Until one night, Lin Wanxing calls her over to her house and, eyes red, pours her a glass of wine.
"Xin Xin, help me... I'm about to go into heat."
Bai Xin's mind goes blank.
As she stumbles out of the room, she crashes into another woman's arms.
The woman is wearing a silk nightgown, her long hair loose, her eyes languid. Her pheromones smell like ripe peaches.
The scent wraps around Bai Xin like a net.
"Little girl, did you walk into the wrong room?"
The woman looks down at her, a teasing glint in her eyes.
Bai Xin wants to apologize and leave, but the pull of the woman's pheromones is like a tidal wave.
By the time she comes to her senses, she's already in bed.
The woman lies beneath her, a deep bite mark on her neck, the scent of peaches filling the room.
Bai Xin has fully marked an Omega.
And the woman looks... much older than her.
Afterward, the woman gives her a bank card.
"Three hundred thousand a month. You come whenever I call."
Bai Xin is stunned. "Are you keeping me?"
The woman leans against the headboard and ties her robe at a leisurely pace, her voice languid.
"What, you don't want to?"
Bai Xin watches the woman come out of the bathroom, her damp hair falling over her shoulders. The bite mark on her neck hasn't faded, and she exudes a lazy sensuality, satisfied and at ease.
...She wants to.
From then on, Bai Xin becomes the woman's regular partner.
The woman's name is Ling Rou. She lives in a villa halfway up a hill, has a driver take her everywhere, and even a random watch on her wrist costs a year's worth of Bai Xin's living expenses.
Ling Rou treats her so well, far beyond what one would expect from a sugar mommy.
She gives Bai Xin a whole roomful of Damask roses for her birthday, sends her driver to pick Bai Xin up from school during exam week, and takes her to stay at the villa for several days when her roommates ostracize her.
Bai Xin thinks she's found the best sugar mommy in the world.
Until one day, she runs into Lin Wanxing at Ling Rou's villa.
"Xin Xin? What are you doing here?"
Lin Wanxing stands at the entrance to the living room, looking shocked.
Bai Xin is even more shocked.
She looks at Lin Wanxing, then at Ling Rou, who's just come downstairs in her loungewear.
Ling Rou looks perfectly calm, with a faint, casual smile.
"Let me introduce you," Ling Rou says. "This is my wife's daughter, Lin Wanxing."
Bai Xin's mind explodes.
Her best friend's... own mother?
The woman she'd slept with countless times, who paid her and left countless bite marks on her...
Was her best friend's mother, a married woman, with a daughter...
Bai Xin avoids Ling Rou for half a month.
She doesn't answer calls or messages, and even skips class.
Until one night, the villa door is kicked open.
Ling Rou stands in the doorway in high heels, looking down at Bai Xin, curled up on the sofa.
"Done hiding?"
Bai Xin shrinks back. "I... I didn't know you were Wanxing's..."
"Mother?" Ling Rou walks closer, bends down, and lifts Bai Xin's chin with a finger. "Now you know. Are you trying to run?"
Ling Rou's pheromones begin to spread again, the peach scent so sweet it's cloying, making Bai Xin weak all over.
"I... I should explain things to Wanxing..."
"Too late." Ling Rou lowers her head and whispers in Bai Xin's ear, "She already knows."
"Did you think," Ling Rou murmurs suggestively, biting her earlobe, "an S-class Omega could be marked by a newly presented little Alpha?"
"Hmm? Little girl?"
Later, Bai Xin learns that Ling Rou had put the drug in her drink that night herself.
She'd had her eye on this little Alpha who kept appearing in her daughter's friend group for a long time.
Inexperienced, innocent, and with pheromones that smelled unbelievably good.
She'd waited a long time for her prey to fall into her arms of its own accord.
"So you've been plotting against me all along?" Bai Xin's eyes redden with anger.
Ling Rou pulls her into her arms and gently pats her back.
"Mm. I've been plotting for a long time."
"Ever since the day you appeared in Wanxing's friend group."
(Reader's guide)
Both leads are each other's only partner. One-on-one romance, happy ending.
The love interest is her best friend's stepmother, with no blood relation.
Theme: Love and justice