"Battle-worn Soldier King Top × Mad Beauty Poison Ivy Bottom"
[He returns, having tread through mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the apocalypse, all to tame this bloodstained rose.]
When Xiang Jun opened his eyes, he was kneeling at the feet of the Qiao family's heiress, with warm foot-washing water splashed across his face.
"A useless piece of trash should crawl like a dog." His fiancee kicked over the basin, her crystal nail digging into his scarred brow.
Everyone said Xiang Jun was the Qiao family's most disastrous marriage match:
His mother-in-law cursed him as a lowly commoner.
His father-in-law sneered, "Special forces? You're nothing but the Qiao family's guard dog."
That was until the spacecraft of alien invaders appeared above the city.
Monsters ripped open the throats of nobles, while Xiang Jun twisted the spine of a mutated beast with his bare hands. Blood dripped along the grooves of his combat boots. Everywhere he went, mountains of corpses and seas of blood were left behind.
The people who had once bullied him crawled on their knees, clutching at his pant leg. Xiang Jun crushed their fingers. "Who's the dog now?"
But when he turned around, a young man threw himself into his arms.
Qiao Ye, the Qiao family's illegitimate son, was covered in blood. Beneath his white shirt, he hid a knife he'd just used to slit someone's throat.
The most sinister and cruel villain in the book tilted his face up and brushed his bloodied lips against Xiang Jun's Adam's apple. "Brother-in-law, the look in your eyes when you kill... it's so beautiful."
[Content warnings]
★ The mad beauty bottom's many-layered schemes:
He kisses his beloved in front of the whole family.
He's a puppy who keeps coming back after being abandoned by his beloved time and again.
When Xiang Jun's powers run wild, he straddles his waist. "Kill me, or... kill me."
★ The top is pure walking testosterone:
His abdominal muscles are sharply defined beneath his military bandages.
He can hoist the lovesick villain over his shoulder with one arm.
When the truth behind the apocalypse is revealed, Qiao Ye smiles with dazzling, wicked charm. "Actually, I could destroy the world with a single thought. But my brother-in-law taught me..."
He licks the blood from the corner of Xiang Jun's mouth. "If you make a mess, you have to clean it up yourself."
[Reading guide]
1. Brother-in-law romance. The bottom has a twisted crush on the top and a possessive streak.
2. The top was a straight man of steel before and after he transmigrated, but the mad beauty forces him to bend.
3. Both leads have supernatural abilities. The bottom has mental-control powers and a mutated fire ability.
Theme: Growth and love
