Ning Yun is a top-tier Omega, gorgeous and well-proportioned. He thought the only time he'd ever gotten burned was when he stumbled over his nemesis, Chi Y Nian, at eighteen.
As it turns out, six years later, his fiance, Fu Zhouyi, trips him up far more spectacularly.
On the eve of his wedding, Ning Yun receives a WeChat message from Chi Y Nian:
[Young Master Ning, I've got something interesting for you to see.]
[Image: Fu Zhouyi passionately kissing a man in an underground parking garage.]
Ning Yun stares at the photo for a long time before finally realizing that people can't change their nature. Some are born dogs who can't stop eating shit, like Fu Zhouyi, and like Chi Y Nian.
A weasel wishing a chicken happy New Year: there's no good intent behind it.
He sneers and replies: [Say what you mean. Stop pretending to be a good guy.]
Chi Y Nian: [Consider marrying me.]
Ning Yun: ...?
*
Chi Y Nian and Ning Yun grew up together, but they never got along. Their rivalry only got worse after they presented at sixteen.
Ning Yun mocked Chi Y Nian for being arrogant. His brain had been pickled in the worst traits of an Alpha, and he was a pain in the neck.
Chi Y Nian laughed at Ning Yun for being blind, saying his eyes were as good as useless and he might as well donate them.
Then, at their graduation party when they were eighteen, an unexpected heat left Ning Yun's mind foggy and his legs weak. His glands burned and throbbed, and he couldn't think straight.
He stumbled outside and abruptly crashed into an embrace scented with sandalwood.
It was Chi Y Nian.
Chi Y Nian's gaze darkened as his eyes swept over Ning Yun's glands. His voice was slightly hoarse. "Need some help, Young Master Ning?"
Ning Yun pulled him over impatiently and leaned the back of his neck toward him. "Hurry up."
The next day, after the temporary marking, Chi Y Nian learned that Ning Yun had gone abroad to study.
With the lingering scent of gardenias at the tip of his nose, Chi Y Nian smiled coldly.
You'd better never come back.
*
After Ning Yun returned from abroad, Chi Y Nian hadn't even had time to seek him out when he received a wedding invitation: Ning Yun and Fu Zhouyi's.
Looking at the cigarette butts and liquor bottles scattered across the floor, Chi Y Nian laughed bitterly and tore up the invitation.
A week later, while meeting friends, Chi Y Nian unexpectedly saw Fu Zhouyi and an unfamiliar Omega being intimate in an underground parking garage.
At that moment, Chi Y Nian knew with absolute certainty: the little gardenia he'd longed for over the past six years...
Was his.
Reader's Guide:
● Includes some classic melodramatic tropes.
● Unrequited love becomes mutual.
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