How Many Good Brothers Do You Have?

[Pre-release: "But I'm Just a Beta." Blurb at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection~]

Blurb:

Lin Chi is a hopeless sucker for good looks.

Ever since he was little, he's always been trailing after the best-looking older boys.

Buying them meals, walking them home: if there was something they didn't need an older brother for, there was nothing Lin Chi couldn't do.

Until he met Lu Lingqiu, the best-looking person he'd ever seen in his life.

Just one distant glimpse of him at the start of college was enough to make Lin Chi, a hopeless sucker for good looks, fall for him completely.

From then on, Lin Chi got into fights for him, brought him drinks, and came up with a different cheesy pickup line every day.

Even knowing that Lu Lingqiu was only dating him for his money,

Lin Chi still followed him around calling him "Big Brother" and fawning over him for four years.

Only after they graduated and Lu Lingqiu moved overseas did Lin Chi finally shake off the relationship and move on.

He redirected all the energy he'd once devoted to Lu Lingqiu toward the other people around him.

*

As the campus heartthrob, Lu Lingqiu had received countless confessions over the years, but he'd only ever dated once, in college.

A first love who had eyes only for him, and who had made him immensely satisfied.

A master of seduction, Lu Lingqiu put a little leash around Lin Chi's neck from the very first day they met.

When he thought he'd pulled too hard, he'd slacken it. When Lin Chi seemed distracted, he'd tighten the reins a little.

Even the timing of Lin Chi's confession was entirely under his control.

It wasn't until after graduation, when Lu Lingqiu had to go abroad on short notice, that he suddenly realized how many people Lin Chi had around him.

He was only one of Lin Chi's many good older brothers.

Furious, Lu Lingqiu flew back that very night, grabbed Lin Chi by the tie, and hauled the little puppy who was buying someone else a drink straight home.

"I've really underestimated you all these years, Lin Chi. Just how many good older brothers do you have besides me?"

A seductive, aloof-on-the-outside, tsundere-on-the-inside top X a seemingly flirtatious but actually clueless bottom

A big-shot CEO forced into the entertainment industry X the owner of an entertainment company

Pre-release: "But I'm Just a Beta"

Ji Yi is an utterly ordinary Beta.

He grew up following the same old routine in a poverty-stricken slum, and his life stayed that way as he grew older.

The only highlight of his life was getting into a top university that normally only admitted the elite. This earned him envious looks from everyone, and made him a highly educated wage slave working 996 hours, always one misstep away from unemployment.

And ever since childhood, the thing he heard most often was: "What a shame he's only a Beta..."

Ji Yi thought his life would keep trudging along in the same uneventful way forever.

Then one day, freshly fired from his job, he unexpectedly found an exceptionally tall, burly Omega on his way home.

Pitying him for enduring bullying and discrimination because of his physique, Ji Yi, despite already struggling after losing his job, was still willing to take on another job to support him.

He even specially asked another Omega student in the same situation as himself to help the poor kid work through his feelings.

But who could have guessed...

As Ji Yi cared for him, the perfectly good Omega somehow turned into an oppressive, top-tier Alpha.

The once thoughtful and well-behaved little brother also transformed overnight into the terrifying second young master of the Qin family.

*

Many of the people who had once mocked Ji Yi suddenly became incredibly envious.

But Ji Yi, who had only agreed to his confession a few days earlier, could only say...

"Given the situation, no matter how you look at it, you should find a more compatible Omega instead of someone as ordinary and so much older than you as me, a Beta."

Then he left Qin Shuo, in the middle of his heat cycle, and ran away in a panic.

But even so, he still couldn't escape the other's grasp.

*

A year later, Ji Yi only wants to find an ordinary job, but somehow ends up as a CEO's assistant. One day, in a hotel room, he suddenly finds himself pinned against the wall by a boss he's never met.

He wants to struggle in panic, but then hears an unusually familiar voice behind him.

"I should've known you'd run away in the end, no matter how hard I tried to keep up the act. The first time you brought me home, I should've locked you to this bed just like I am now."

"You used to complain that I was an Alpha, but wasn't the sweet student who helped you escape also an Alpha? You always say I deceived you, but did he really not deceive you?"

"Big Brother, my heat is coming again. Are you ready this time?"

[An unhinged Alpha top who's part green tea and part white lotus X a Beta office worker who's a clueless magnet for admirers]

Reader's Guide:

1. A straightforward Alpha/Beta romance. There will be no later plot where someone turns into an Omega.

2. Both are virgins. Happy ending.

Theme: Love should be spoken aloud.