Exquisite Banquet [GB]

GB novel, female Alpha and male Omega, nine-year age gap, male pregnancy. Possessive, career-driven beauty of an Alpha × reserved, elegant, celibate businessman Omega The Lin family has a special constitution. They are a legendary Alpha family known for producing top-quality Alphas. Their differentiation has two stages: the initial stage and the stable stage. When Lin Kuoxue was eighteen, she had just entered the initial stage. But disaster struck her family, and at her grandfather’s bedside, she met Mr. Xi, who was twenty-seven. Her grandfather asked him to look after Lin Kuoxue until the Alpha entered the stable stage. Then someone from the Lin family would come for her. Mr. Xi agreed. After her grandfather’s funeral, Lin Kuoxue stayed at Mr. Xi’s home for a while. She didn’t know his name, so she could only call him that. Mr. Xi had a poem hidden in his eyes, one she couldn’t understand. The Creator had given him just the right degree of warmth and approachability. But with Lin Kuoxue, that warmth became a friendly yet distant social boundary. She had always assumed Mr. Xi was an Alpha, too. Alphas in the initial stage often experience periodic surges and fluctuations in their pheromones, like a frenzied, restless beast. Whenever it happened, everyone kept their distance from her. Only Mr. Xi would hold her in his arms. That day, Lin Kuoxue was transitioning from the initial stage to the stable stage, the most agonizing time in an Alpha’s life. Without thinking, she ran to Mr. Xi’s bed and clung to him without restraint. She was focused only on easing her own suffering, unaware that Mr. Xi was trembling the whole time. On the third day after Lin Kuoxue officially entered the stable stage, she overheard Mr. Xi calling the Lin family. Soon, someone from the Lin family came to take her back to their home base in Country Y. For those few days, she deliberately refused to say a word to him. She hated that he was so eager to push her away. Before she left, she turned to look at him and said as if making a solemn vow, “I’ll come back.” Mr. Xi smiled with delight, like a child who’d just been given candy. Her heart pounded wildly. Why did he have to smile like that just as she was leaving? It was torture. The family’s home base commanded immense wealth and resources in Country Y, and it had plenty of Alphas. But she was destined to become the best of them all, an S-class Alpha who would hold the Lin family’s fate in her hands. On her twenty-third birthday, just after Lin Kuoxue had fought her way onto the Lin family board of directors, she walked out of the company and saw a familiar figure standing in the snow. Her heart stopped for a moment. Then, for the first time, the Alpha’s rut hit her. It felt as if time had stopped, but in reality, a whole week had passed. For that entire week, she held him tightly, her arms wrapped around him, barely leaving his side. She couldn’t understand why she felt such intense emotions for Mr. Xi, who was also an Alpha. She used every ounce of her strength to suppress and restrain herself, nearly making herself sick with the effort. And then he went back to his country as soon as her rut was over. Lin Kuoxue was driven nearly mad with fury. She threw herself into her career, frightening the Lin family badly. Two more years passed. At last, Lin Kuoxue could no longer bear missing him. If she kept longing for him like this, she would either go mad or die from the strain. She decided to go back and claim him. As soon as she returned, she saw Mr. Xi in his room, injecting himself with suppressants and an Alpha pheromone synthesis agent. “You’re an Omega?” Her face was as dark and grim as a newly unearthed bronze artifact. Mr. Xi nodded. This time, Lin Kuoxue really did go mad. Afterward, the Xi family’s butler nearly called the police. His master hadn’t left his room for a whole month. Theme: Happiness can only be won through a hard-fought struggle.