Excessive Admiration

New novel, Marked by My Archrival After a Second Differentiation, is now out!

Upcoming novel, My Target Turned the Tables and Pursued Me, coming soon. Please add it to your reading list!

Blurb

It had been less than six months since Chu Ran's mother died of cancer when his father brought home a woman and her son.

The woman had no relationship with his father, and neither did the boy named He Zhen.

They shared no blood ties, no marriage, and no affair.

The first time Chu Ran saw He Zhen, the boy had a head of unruly blond hair and two gleaming earrings, sitting inside a car. He refused point-blank to call Chu Ran his brother, and told everyone, "You're not my brother!"

He Zhen was an outsider who didn't get along with him, but Chu Ran put their differences aside and helped him during a fight, protecting him from behind with all the air of an older brother. Then one day, in the middle of a fight, Chu Ran noticed a yellow wig suddenly appear in He Zhen's hand.

He turned around.

Behind him stood He Zhen, his black hair smooth and soft. Framed by those dark locks, his usually world-weary eyes looked all the more innocent.

The first time they met, He Zhen told everyone present, "He's not my brother."

Later, when Chu Ran came to school to take him home, He Zhen gazed into his eyes and asked, "Are you my brother or my boyfriend now? If you're my brother, you have no right to boss me around. If you're my boyfriend, I'll go home with you without a fuss."

P.S. They are eight years apart, and the older brother has already started working.

They are not each other's first.

Younger seme!

Marked by My Archrival After a Second Differentiation

Confronted with the marks covering his body and the pheromones filling the room, Liang Que kicked Shang Songjin, who was sleeping beside him, right out of bed.

Liang Que: "I'm a beta, and you still went for me?"

Shang Songjin: "You weren't saying that last night."

Remembering what had happened the night before, Liang Que grabbed the bedside lamp and hurled it at Shang Songjin.

Shang Songjin: "That lamp cost 5,500 yuan."

Liang Que, about to throw something else: ...

Shang Songjin: "But the hotel belongs to my family. I can give you a discount. Two hundred and fifty."

In the end, Shang Songjin gave Liang Que a zero-percent discount, and Liang Que beat Shang Songjin until he had broken bones.

Liang Que and Shang Songjin had been famous rivals since elementary school.

Competing over their height and grades was an everyday occurrence.

Now that they'd ended up in the same bed, Liang Que desperately tried to convince himself to stop competing.

But when he got his test results from the hospital, he saw that the letter O was boldly marked in the box that should have said beta.

"Your case is rather unusual. I'm sure your middle-school biology teacher explained this to you. It's called a second differentiation. Excessive exposure to pheromones can reveal your true classification."

"Your test results show that you've been marked, which is why you're experiencing these symptoms."

Once someone who has undergone a second differentiation is marked, the only way to undo the bond is to have their gland removed. There is no normal way to separate them.

Short-tempered Liang Que: "I'll have it removed."

Shang Songjin pleaded, "Even if you're an omega after a second differentiation, you should know how much damage removing your gland can do to your body, right?"

"Why not stay with me instead? You even said I was great last time."

Liang Que: ...

After agreeing to stay with Shang Songjin, Liang Que, burning up with another heat, mumbled, "So you weren't lying. Your rut back then was real."

Shang Songjin guiltily remembered his teenage days, when he secretly ran himself ragged to raise his body temperature and pretend to be in a rut, all so he could get a hug from Liang Que.

Who could have guessed that a heat could really come once a week?

A short-tempered but soft-hearted receiver who only flies into a rage at the seme × a cold, aloof seme to everyone else, but shamelessly flirts with the receiver

1. Lots of original setting details.

2. No one was forced that night. They both wanted it.

3. I wrote it because it seemed fun. More to come~

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Theme: As long as you keep facing the sun, a flower will bloom for you one day