Who Are You Looking At? [ABO]

[The author is terrible at writing blurbs, so here's a summary of the story up front.]

[This is a space-opera story about amnesia, a substitute, and a love-hate relationship. A little liar who is an alpha pretending to be a beta, the bottom x a gloomy, obsessive alpha top. The main story follows a bottom who thinks he's a substitute. After dumping the top, he realizes that he himself is the top's white moonlight. The couple work through their relationship problems and rebuild the empire together.]

[This is a niche premise with the white-moonlight trope turned up to the max, so the whole story will be completed before release. I'll work hard to reach the VIP threshold of 350 bookmarks before starting. If you like it, please bookmark it. 🥺]

Blurb:

Qi Duo woke up one day and discovered he was on a planet he'd never seen before. He had gone from an ordinary Earthling to a person living in space.

It seemed he'd also lost his memories.

He struggled to survive, working his way up from a wasteland planet to high society. He took any job and did whatever people paid him for, becoming the most well-regarded beta con artist in the area.

Sang Jiu, the infamous number-one merchant in the galaxy, was his next target.

Sang Jiu was ruthless and cold-hearted. Qi Duo knew it the first time he saw him.

But things turned out very differently from what he'd imagined.

Sang Jiu's eyes held him.

Whenever Sang Jiu looked at him, a hazy light always shone in his eyes.

Qi Duo couldn't help falling for him.

He gave him his body, his love, and even his heart.

It wasn't until his business was seized and he was thrown in jail that he learned Sang Jiu's ambiguous affection, which had led him to misunderstand, all came from Qi Duo's resemblance to the former empire's greatest marshal, Qi Duo.

Thirty years ago, the empire's only S-class alpha, Qi Duo, had turned traitor in the middle of a battle. His reputation was ruined, and the entire galactic network condemned him.

In the end, he died in a starship explosion, leaving no remains behind. The entire empire regarded him as a traitor.

Qi Duo was Sang Jiu's white moonlight.

Qi Duo was a substitute for Qi Duo.

Sang Jiu himself had said that Qi Duo was an empire-wide traitor, a despicable opportunist and a sinner who deserved to go to hell. And yet he was also a desire Sang Jiu could never banish after waking from a midnight dream.

He had endured the heart-searing pain and waited thirty years for that sinner.

Thirty years, Qi Duo thought. How devoted. How ironic.

He cut off all contact related to the mission and dumped Sang Jiu.

Until his lost memories returned.

He was Qi Duo, and he was Qi Duo. He had once been Sang Jiu's guardian, and he was the one responsible for leading Sang Jiu down this path of depravity.

"I will always be loyal to you, my faith."

"Until the stars stop shining... until my heart stops beating."

"But you don't want me anymore."

#WhoAreYouLookingAtThroughMyEyes?

Gloomy, cold, mad-dog top x multifaceted, refined, (fake) substitute bottom

P.S.:

1. One-on-one. A heart-wrenching fake-substitute story. Qi Duo and Qi Duo are the same person; in the story, their names are pronounced differently.

2. Age gap, the bottom is the top's faith.

3. Contains quite a lot of coercion. Both leads are beautiful, powerful, and tragic. An original ABO sci-fi setting with many of the author's own worldbuilding details.

4. Both leads are alphas, with a fake alpha-beta dynamic.

Theme: Strive to better yourself