The Foolish Cannon Fodder Is the Big Shot's Darling

[My upcoming novel next door, The Delicate Omega Is Allergic to Suppressants After Our Arranged Marriage. Its blurb is at the very end.]

Blurb:

Xu Yunqiu is a not-very-bright little dumpling.

By a twist of fate, he learns that he's actually a foolish cannon-fodder character in a book. He has a tragic background, and his older brother tricks him into being sent to the male lead, Shen Hezhou, to gather intelligence. Unaware of the truth, he resents Shen Hezhou for forcing him into marriage, throws tantrums and makes trouble until he loses the male lead's love, then gets abandoned by his scumbag brother and dies a miserable death.

Xu Yunqiu: QAQ I don't want to die!

After awakening, he decides to stay away from the bad guys at once and make up with his husband.

*

When his husband comes home, he greets him with a smile. "You're back! Would you like dinner first, or a shower?"

The man frowns.

When his husband is thirsty, he pours him a glass of water, only to clumsily spill hot water all over him.

The man's temple twitches.

When his husband is hungry, he decides to cook for him himself, but nearly blows up the kitchen.

The man rescues him with a dark expression and grits his teeth. "Wonderful. Is this your new way of picking a fight with me?"

Xu Yunqiu: QAQ I'm doomed!

*

At his wits' end, Xu Yunqiu asks his emotionally savvy friend for advice.

His friend claps a hand on the table. "It's easy! Use your charms, get it?"

Shen Hezhou gets home very late that night. In the stillness of the night, the door to the room that should have been firmly shut is ajar.

The little wife who once insisted on sleeping in a separate room is now in his room, looking at him with the panicked expression of someone caught doing something wrong.

"What are you doing?"

He lowers his eyes. The corners of them are red, but he says nothing.

Shen Hezhou finally loses control, locks the door, and grabs his hand, gritting his teeth. "This time, Qiuqiu, you're the one who started it."

From then on, Shen Hezhou is in high spirits every day and won't stop boasting to his friends.

"You don't have a wife?" He silently raises his ring finger. "Then guess whether I do."

"My wife looks so cute when she's asleep. I'm not letting you see."

"Heh. Silent because you're jealous I have a wife, are you?"

Friend: ...Get lost!

As their peaceful days grow more and more comfortable, Xu Yunqiu's belly keeps getting bigger.

A gust of wind sweeps into the hospital room as the man rushes over through the rain.

Xu Yunqiu nervously clutches the blanket and tells him, "Honey, the doctor says I'm not sick. We're having a baby."

The man's eyes turn red in an instant.

*

Xu Yunqiu's older brother never knew that the biggest mistake he made that year was handing Xu Yunqiu over to that man surnamed Shen.

So when the Xu family later fell into decline, he had to stand at the door of Xu Yunqiu's new home and beg for mercy from the young man they had once treated as worthless.

Wife-obsessed, poker-faced, secretly passionate top x innocent, optimistic, silly bottom

Content warning: Pregnancy and childbirth. This is fictional and has no scientific basis; it's for the sake of the plot, so don't scrutinize it.

A very strong warning: the bottom is a silly character and not clever. Please be kind. Even fictional characters have feelings.

Blurb for The Delicate Omega Is Allergic to Suppressants After Our Arranged Marriage

Anyone can see that Lin Luotang likes Shen Nannian, and that they are very close.

That year, Shen Nannian predictably presented as an Alpha, but Lin Luotang was a Beta.

Shen Nannian grew increasingly cold toward him, even mocking him in front of everyone. "Lin Luotang? What Alpha would ever like a defective Beta like that?"

The very night his heart was broken, Lin Luotang was told he had to marry Gu Mozhi, the eldest son of the Gu family.

His Alpha didn't show up on their wedding night, but the top-tier pheromones lingering in the Alpha's room triggered Lin Luotang's second differentiation into a soft, sweet Omega.

During his first heat, with no one to mark him, the little Omega clutched his Alpha's clothes and endured the whole night in helpless confusion.

It was during his second heat that Lin Luotang learned he was allergic to suppressants.

With a heat once a month, no suppressants, and no Alpha mark, the little Omega was bound to be unable to endure it.

Lin Luotang called his Alpha and begged him to come back and mark him.

"Take a suppressant."

The Alpha refused outright. Perhaps he found it troublesome and repulsive. Lin Luotang had heard that the Alpha had originally chosen to marry him because he was a Beta who wouldn't go into heat or need an Alpha's mark.

The more Lin Luotang thought about it, the sadder he became. He sobbed as he spoke, then hung up. "My husband won't mark me... I'll go find another Alpha..."

They say that day, the work-obsessed eldest Gu, for the first time ever, took a call in the middle of a meeting, then left a room full of executives behind and rushed home.

From that day on, the usually unsmiling eldest Gu talked about nothing but his wife.

*

One night, Shen Nannian woke from a dream and suddenly remembered all the ways Lin Luotang had been good to him. He called Lin Luotang, hoping to get him back.

The call was answered just as quickly as it used to be. Shen Nannian thought that Lin Luotang still cared about him. "Tangtang, come back to me. You still like me, don't you?"

All he heard through the phone was Lin Luotang's uneven, heavy breathing, along with the low, amused laughter of an unfamiliar man. "Tell him, Tangtang: do you like this defective Alpha, or your husband?"

The only answer was the little Omega's uncontrollable sobbing.

*

Only later did Lin Luotang learn that Gu Mozhi had always liked him, and that even marrying him had been part of a long-laid plan.

Theme: Pass love on to everyone around you.