After My Fiancé Second-Differentiated

New upcoming story: "Mismatched Colors." Blurb at the end.

----Story blurb----

[Tea-scented, two-faced, weepy, delicate beauty top x good-natured, MAX-combat-power, dignified and aloof bottom]

1.

Jian Xiu, an Omega professor in the literature department at Central University, is talented, beautiful as a peach blossom, gentle, thoughtful, and from a prestigious family. One glance from him can steal a person's soul. He tops Central University's list of Omegas most wanted as spouses.

Unfortunately, he is already spoken for. Word has it Professor Jian has a childhood betrothed: a top-tier Alpha, highly compatible with him, from a family his own has known for generations. They were childhood friends, and their bond is deep.

Yeah, right!

A proper arranged-marriage partner should be as good as nonexistent when not needed, with neither party interfering in the other's life. On that point, Professor Jian and his betrothed are both absolute paragons.

Professor Jian smiles. It would be even better if his betrothed really didn't exist.

One day, Professor Jian undergoes a second differentiation and becomes an Alpha. Before he can rejoice and raise the banner against feudal, arranged marriage, someone tells him, "Um, your betrothed has undergone a second differentiation too..."

And they just had to become an Omega!!!

2.

Why do other people's first meetings with their betrothed happen at restaurant dances, while his has to happen outside a hospital restroom? Why do other couples get flowers and wine, while he gets caught in a riot?

And why is this Omega, firing a gun and blasting the rioters, so...

So, so beautiful...

Jian Xiu: Hello, may I ask your name?

Wei Qi: ?

Before differentiation:

Jian Xiu: "I oppose feudal autocracy! I believe in free love!"

After differentiation:

Jian Xiu: "Actually, it's nice when everything is already arranged."

Before differentiation:

Jian Xiu: "I'm going to stay single forever."

After differentiation:

Jian Xiu: "Hello. Let's get married."

Wei Qi: ???

3.

The pheromone compatibility between him and the person he likes is one hundred percent. They were betrothed as children, underwent their second differentiation at the same time, and met by chance several times. It's practically fate. They're made for each other.

Jian Xiu: "Oh, Colonel, look, we've run into each other again! What a coincidence!"

Wei Qi: "I have reason to suspect that Professor Jian is following me and attempting to illegally obtain classified information."

Jian Xiu: "..."

Does having designs on you count?!

Jian Xiu, teary-eyed: "Sob, sob, Colonel, I fell down. I need a kiss from you to get back up!"

Guided by a soldier's duty to care for the people, Wei Qi silently carries him off, silently applies medicine, and silently reassures him, "Bear with it. It won't hurt."

Jian Xiu: "...!"

Professor Jian, who believes in learning through practice, seems to have found the key!

4.

Wei Qi is an S-class Alpha with a prominent position and a powerful mental sea, a senior officer stationed at the military's border. His daily routine is eating, sleeping, writing reports, beating up Zerg, beating up space pirates, then eating and sleeping again...

His days are full of fighting, but otherwise ordinary.

After his second differentiation, he is sent straight from the border to Central Military Academy, back to square one. He also runs into his betrothed, who has undergone a second differentiation as well. Well, he really is beautiful.

Now he's an Alpha beauty, prettier than an Omega.

Colonel Wei's notes: Very good at acting cute, and loves to cry.

And so Colonel Wei's life becomes eating, sleeping, writing lesson plans, beating up students, beating up coworkers, and then eating--

Wait, no!

He also has to comfort crybabies, drama queens, and green-tea types...

Then it's back to eating, sleeping, and living an ordinary life saving the world.

"I am the Alpha, I am the Omega.

I am the beginning, I am the end.

I am the start, I am the conclusion."

--From the Book of Revelation

Warnings! Very important, very important, very important:

1. The top is weak!!! Don't have expectations of him that you shouldn't! Aaaaa! He's a green-tea type, a crybaby, and a drama queen (though I really don't think he's weak), doted on by the bottom. He's not the usual strong-top type. (He's simply good at research.) He does resort to coercion later, but even then he's crying while he does it. He accounts for 80% of the crying scenes and 50% of the lovestruck behavior.

2. The main plot really is about saving the world. The plot and romance are about 50-50? Probably. One-on-one romance.

3. Ensemble cast! Ensemble cast! Ensemble cast! Lots of supporting characters!!!

4. Lots of supporting characters means lots of side stories and POVs, and some characters will definitely have questionable values.

5. Gugu likes worldbuilding with self-consistent logic, so some parts are based on extensive biology research, along with a bunch of original worldbuilding. References are listed in the author's notes.

6. Gugu is very chatty. If you don't want to read Gugu's rambling, you can just block it (heart~)

----Upcoming story blurb: "Mismatched Colors"----

[Artistic little fairy top with a lovesick, quirky, rather inhumanly innocent way of thinking]

[Street-smart, selectively gentle, free-spirited, mature working-class bottom]

Zhan Qinglai sleeps with Pei Jiangzhi, the man he's had a crush on for six years, and finally gets him.

They're not dating. They're bedmates.

After years of secretly loving someone who barely knows he exists, Zhan Qinglai finally catches Pei's attention because his eyes and brows resemble the moonlight in Pei Young Master's painting.

First love is right there for the taking. He'd be a fool not to sleep with him.

Zhan Qinglai says, "Let's do it!"

Three years later, Zhan Qinglai lets go of his fixation, packs his things, and heads back to his hometown, leaving behind the city and the man he loved.

At that moment, Pei Jiangzhi tugs at his clothes, eyes brimming with tears. "Can we please not break up?"

Zhan Qinglai: "Huh?"

Wait, what? Were we dating?

Zhan Qinglai thinks the young Pei fairy has gone a little crazy lately. Their pure bedmate relationship is a thing of the past.

The young master used to be rich and carefree, devoted to art, and never said a word about Zhan Qinglai's job. Now he has suddenly taken a liking to the working life, and his desk is right next to Zhan Qinglai's.

They used to eat after sex. Now they go on dates, then have sex, talk about the stars and the moon and the meaning of life, and meet each other's families.

At last, Zhan Qinglai makes a snap decision and runs back to his hometown. In less than a week, he sees the young master, newly descended to the mortal world, moving into the house across the street.

When Zhan Qinglai needs to work, Pei Jiangzhi throws money and people at the problem. When Zhan Qinglai needs rest, Pei Jiangzhi shelters him from the wind and rain. When Zhan Qinglai wants the stars, Pei Jiangzhi plucks them down and throws in the moon too.

"Zhan Qinglai, don't look back. This time, I'll chase after you."

Pei Jiangzhi once caught a fleeting glimpse of Zhan Qinglai with his eyes lowered, and fell for him on the spot. He kept him in his heart, became famous overnight with a painting of Zhan Qinglai called "Lotus with Downcast Eyes," and confessed his feelings after realizing what they were.

Three years of a love as deep as the sea, three years of a life between heaven and earth. Just when the young master thought he could be happy with Zhan Qinglai forever...

Zhan Qinglai suddenly says, "Let's end this. I don't want to be your bedmate anymore."

Pei Jiangzhi: "?!!!"

Wait, what? Weren't we dating?!

Mutual pining, each other's idealized love.

The top and bottom are both hopeless disasters. A melodramatic, slightly bittersweet and sweet romance.

The bottom falls first. For the first six years, the top really doesn't see him that way.

Welcome to this ridiculous tale of mutual pining turning into a you-run-I-chase, a long pursuit to win back a lover, a broken relationship mended, and a moonlight substitute who turns out to be his own replacement.

The breakup is only the beginning of truly facing their love for each other.

He paints without noticing the years go by, and wealth means no more to him than floating clouds.

Theme: Every living thing lives toward its death.