If Only I'd Known Flirting Around After Marriage Would Get Me...

[This book will switch to a paid model on Wednesday, August 30. The paid chapters will be 28-40. If you've already read them, please don't buy them again. There'll be a 10,000-word update when it goes paid~] Qiao Xu, a famously beautiful and bratty young master in Yanshi, grew up doted on by his siblings. His life's ambition is to be a useless rich kid. But then Qiao Xu suddenly awakens to the truth and realizes he's just a passerby cannon-fodder character in a modern danmei romance. The protagonist couple are the only ABO pair in the modern world, made for each other and able to soothe one another. Meanwhile, a project the Qiao family has just invested one billion yuan in gets dragged down after their business partner offends the protagonists. The family ends up buried under several billion in debt, and everyone abandons them. Even beautiful, bratty Qiao Xu is snatched away by a pervert and kept as a caged songbird. Awakening to the truth won't make the Qiao family take back its one-billion-yuan investment. Qiao Xu: Well, crap. Luckily, Qiao Xu has a bright idea. He's going to end up as someone's kept pet anyway. Since the protagonist top, Sheng Ran, is the one who ruins the project, Qiao Xu can just make Sheng Ran his and live worry-free from then on! So Qiao Xu takes the initiative and proposes to Sheng Ran in front of everyone. On their wedding night, Qiao Xu catches the scent of Sheng Ran's pheromones. Why do they smell like coffee? To stay alive, Qiao Xu has no choice but to pull out every trick in the book and start seducing him! He succeeds in seducing him, at least. But Qiao Xu is a bit of a handful as a useless little guy. In their ABO world, a rut lasts a whole week. He can't handle it. He can't take it. He wants to run. Damn it! He can't get away! . Sheng Ran has lived more than half his life with misfortune befalling everyone who gets close to him. His family's hereditary mental illness could flare up at any moment, and he is a ticking time bomb. He sees himself as a bringer of bad luck and shuts himself off from the world, surrendering to his increasingly violent moods. Until one afternoon, when the famously beautiful, bratty young master stands before him and smiles with a blink of his eyes. There is no love in his gaze, but it shines brightly. "Sheng Ran, I want to marry you!" He doesn't suffer from chronic insomnia after getting close to Sheng Ran, nor does he break down from mental exhaustion. And Sheng Ran finally releases his pent-up fury, his mind growing stable at last. Much, much later, after he has thoroughly made his little wife his, Sheng Ran finally learns the truth behind his violent nature from someone else. He also sees the medicine that was "supposed to be his." But Sheng Ran found his one and only antidote long ago. [Here's a recommendation for my upcoming neighboring book, After the Sickly Beauty Picks Up a Mad Dog: Sickly Qi Wen finds a filthy stray dog in a dark alley. The dog has a tragic past and no one to care for him. He fights like a madman, yet carefully protects a flower in his hands. Qi Wen can barely look after himself, yet finds himself wanting to raise a stray dog. He raises the maddest stray dog until he gradually starts to look human. The ill-tempered dog obediently kneels to help Qi Wen put on his shoes, and carefully carries him on his back whenever he can't walk. Qi Wen turns the mad dog everyone avoids into the most loyal and most devoted dog by his side. The first time Guan Cheng sees Qi Wen, he's surrounded by a crowd. With a disgusted look, he presses one finger to his ear, openly rejecting the noise around him. His features are as lovely and delicate as a doll's. Guan Cheng thinks he probably won't have anything to do with Young Master Qi in his entire life. Then, on a stormy day, he's beaten by a crowd and left lying in a pool of blood, and he sees that young master again. Qi Wen stands with the tip of his shoe on the corner of a brick, looking down at him with disdain, yet offers him a hand. Guan Cheng has always thought that the sickly young master was up to no good. But after the young master's kindness continues for long enough, Guan Cheng, rotting in the mud, starts to yearn for the moon. In his dreams, the stray dog hopes the young master will let him kiss and hold him, and that he will be the only one in his eyes. The mad dog will eventually bite its master, but the master lets him.] Theme: Love should be mutual, with both people overcoming difficulties together, not being trapped by the constraints of their nature and ending up in a cage.