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[Chi Yi x Shen Wenque, one-on-one couple]
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Everyone in elite society knew that Shen Wenque had been forcibly "courted" by Chi Yi.
Chi Yi was brazen and domineering, ruthless, powerful, and one of the most privileged of the privileged. He was also an alpha with overwhelming needs who required constant soothing.
Shen Wenque, meanwhile, was a beta who couldn't even sense pheromones, and he couldn't care less about any of those privileged people.
The more cool and expressionless Shen Wenque was, the more Chi Yi wanted to take him by force, see him teary-eyed, and devour him.
Shen Wenque couldn't beat him and couldn't escape.
The powerless Shen Wenque was exhausted in both body and mind.
Fortunately, Heaven had eyes: Shen Wenque was reborn, returning to the timeline before the coercive melodrama began.
This time, Shen Wenque decided to stay away from Chi Yi. He absolutely would not repeat the past.
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But Heaven was far too generous to those favored by fate, the privileged elite. It gave them not only money and power, but also golden fingers.
Shen Wenque was reborn because his childhood friend loved him without realizing it. By the time the friend figured it out, Wenque had already been firmly claimed by Chi Yi. Unable to compete with an elite alpha like Chi Yi, the friend couldn't have the one he loved, so he used his golden finger to turn back time.
The childhood friend who had always strategized for him and helped him avoid Chi Yi had ulterior motives all along.
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Even the gentle, husbandly man who helped Shen Wenque avoid Chi Yi had his own agenda.
Inside an enclosed space, pheromones were quietly released, surrounding Wenque. The gentle husbandly man looked at him and coaxed, "Make a deal with me. I'll help you."
"You can't fight Chi Yi alone. He can read minds, which is why he's unbeatable in business."
Shen Wenque smiled casually, unconcerned. "Is that so?"
But inside, he was horrified!
He had never known Chi Yi could read minds.
Several times, there had been no more than a wall between them. He had thought that never seeing Chi Yi again meant he had escaped his fate, but perhaps Chi Yi had known about him for a long time.
As he hid from Chi Yi, Wenque couldn't help thinking back on all their moments together.
What would Chi Yi think if he could read minds?
That some unseen stalker kept fantasizing about a forced "love" affair with him?
He had never truly escaped Chi Yi.
Just like now: after being forced to try all sorts of things with Chi Yi, Wenque had a conditioned response to alpha pheromones. Even though he couldn't smell them, he knew the gentle husbandly man had other motives.
As it turned out, everyone Wenque met while avoiding Chi Yi was just another version of Chi Yi in a different sense.
They were equally obsessive and shameless, willing to do anything to achieve their goals.
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Chi Yi's point of view:
1. Accidentally reads the mind of a cannon-fodder friend, Shen Wenque's childhood friend, and learns that in his previous life he had a wife he was crazy about.
2. Waits for his wife... discovers his wife investigating him and successfully gets his attention, but unexpected things keep happening, and they can't meet.
3. Discovers his wife is avoiding him.
4. Takes the initiative and falls in love at first sight again. His wife ignores him to his face but keeps thinking about all the intimate things they could do together. Is this playing hard to get? His wife loves me so much.
5. His wife's favorability quickly reaches 60%. He can't read her mind or figure out what she likes, and discovers she doesn't love him! He'll take her by force! He'll haunt her even as a ghost and never let her go!
6. Wins her back. Lots of people covet his wife, so he keeps competing with them and pursuing her.
7. Wins the competition. His wife loves only him and is only with him. He's a winner in life.
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1. One-sided feelings for the bottom, with a trashy, satisfying tale of elite alphas going mad with love and fighting over him.
2. Both leads are pure in body and heart, each other's first love, and they are each other's only ones, with a rough double arrow. The cannon-fodder top uses a golden finger to pursue the bottom but doesn't get him. Instead, this becomes an instance in the couple's adjustment period.
3. Melodramatic.
4. Modern alternate setting, class disparity, and an O-over-O-virtue academy-style setup.
Theme: How to communicate properly
