1.
Xie Xuan had a secret.
He had once disguised himself as a girl and schemed to seduce Xie Mingzhan, who was four years older than him.
He pretended to be a sweet little Omega in an online romance.
But the day before they were supposed to meet in person, a drug threw his pheromones into disarray, and he suddenly presented.
And he presented as the one thing Xie Mingzhan hated most: an Alpha.
2.
Running away is shameful, but it works.
Xie Mingzhan knew he was a coward through and through.
He thought that if he ran far enough, he could suppress the feelings spreading inside him and kill them before they took root.
Until one day, he came home and found a familiar skirt beneath Xie Xuan's bed.
A crumpled heap, dust-stained, with little flowers scattered across its pure white hem. A faint scent of lime that wouldn't go away.
The obsession he'd been unable to let go of for years surged like a tide in an instant, beyond all hope of being held back.
3.
On New Year's Eve, Xie Xuan brought home an out-of-town friend who had been left behind.
But the one who opened the door was Xie Mingzhan, who had claimed he was too busy with work to come home that year.
"...Your new boyfriend?"
Separated from the living room by just one wall, Xie Xuan was cornered by the man in a cramped space. A chill crawled up his spine, sending prickles of shivers across his skin.
Xie Mingzhan stared intently at him, his thumb pressing lightly against the back of Xie Xuan's neck. His gaze fell on the faint bite mark.
"Does he understand you? Does he know what you like?"
The fingers lingering against him paused. The man's face was shrouded in a deep shadow, his expression impossible to read.
Yet his cool voice carried a cruel malice.
"Does he know you like seducing your own brother?"
[Everything decays, the sun falls... I only want the moon that first shone for me.]
"I hate him more deeply than I love him. How should I define this? Is it love, sought and denied despite years of devotion, or a bone-deep hatred turned into an obsession by desire?"
Cold, restrained, dark adopted son x rebellious, spoiled young master who pretends to be obedient
Agarwood x Lemon Tequila
Reader's Guide:
1. The leads are not related by blood and are not on the same household register. They live under the same roof, and their shared surname is a coincidence.
2. One-on-one, both are virgins, older seme, happy ending. They are each other's first love.
3. Traditional Alpha/Omega dynamics. The seme is an Alpha pretending to be a Beta; the uke has problematic pheromones and seems like an Alpha but is actually an Omega. All the original worldbuilding is in service of this couple.
4. Regular daily updates. I'm slowly getting back into writing. Welcome aboard!
Theme: Never give up in the face of hardship. Build a brighter future together, one step at a time.
