Do We Still Have to Do Our Duties as a Married Couple in a Marriage of Convenience?

Li Can is a beta with a D-level citizen ranking, and a stubborn, aloof personality. Aside from his beautiful face, neither his personality nor his family circumstances make him particularly likable. He lives with relatives in terrible conditions, so when Zhou Hengyu, a powerful alpha, proposes a marriage of convenience, Li Can readily agrees. Li Can needs Zhou Hengyu’s influence, while Zhou Hengyu needs a useless spouse who will make it easy to get a divorce. Li Can knows perfectly well that it’s a fake marriage, and diligently plays along with the agreement, going on dates with Zhou Hengyu and putting on an act. This young, handsome alpha seems to need them to put on a show of being in love, and often takes him out. But Li Can knows it's all fake, because in private the alpha has never laid a hand on him. Fortunately, Zhou Hengyu isn't as cold and frightening as the rumors claim. He's polite and considerate to Li Can, even gentle. Li Can dutifully plays the loving spouse and waits for their agreement to end so they can divorce. Then Zhou Hengyu is injured in a battle. His mental sea goes into turmoil, and he needs to be soothed. The mental sea of an S-rank alpha can only be calmed by their true mate. Li Can knows that being brought to Zhou Hengyu will be useless. Their marriage is fake, Zhou Hengyu has no interest in him at all, and he even keeps his shirt buttoned to the very top whenever they're together. There's no way he can treat Zhou Hengyu. But as soon as he reaches the door, before he can think it through, powerful, chaotic mental energy sweeps him inside. The alpha's potent, terrifyingly intense pheromones of desire crawl over every inch of Li Can's snow-white skin. Overwhelming longing and kisses fall upon him. Li Can pushes him away. “We’re not really mates. Kissing me won’t help.” Zhou Hengyu kisses the pale tip of his foot. Like a wolf catching the scent of meat, he speaks in a frighteningly low voice: “We are.” The door stays shut for three days, until Li Can’s voice is hoarse from crying. Three days later, facing the alpha whose mental sea has been calmed, Li Can asks in a daze, “I’d like to confirm the scope of our obligations under the marriage agreement.” The alpha replies, “Agreement? We’re really married, baby.” Li Can: ? * Zhou Hengyu used their marriage of convenience as an excuse to satisfy the possessiveness he had kept hidden for years. But Li Can eventually discovers this dark, secret love. In the closet are photos of Li Can from his boyhood to adulthood, the jersey he wore at a sports meet, the handkerchief he used... Zhou Hengyu looms over the shocked beta and kisses his slender, pale collarbone. “Let’s do it again.” Reader notice: 1. 1V1, happy ending, both leads are each other's first and only. 2. The top is a little obsessive, but only toward the bottom. He is cold, dangerous, and restrained toward others, and a gentleman with the bottom, but secretly wants him desperately. 3. Fake gentleman top × cool, stubborn, but pure-hearted bottom Theme: I will choose you, without hesitation