You Just Have to Keep Cuddling Up to Me

[A short, sweet story. I'm still working out the outline~]

Yu Xi is a hot-tempered, faceless streamer in the gaming community.

His streams are entertaining, but he has a terrible temper. He's clashed with several showy alpha streamers and picked up plenty of haters.

His fans watch his streams and gleefully distance themselves from him: Fly high, little fish! If anything happens, you're on your own!

Yu Xi: ...Enough already. These haters check in to my stream every day. Did they get a job here or something? :)

Everyone says he's the most stereotypical hotheaded beta guy imaginable.

Until Shark Live's Streamer Night, when a gorgeous young man with long, curled lashes and delicate, doll-like features enters. Wearing a blank expression, he lowers his eyes to avoid the cameras and takes the seat marked with his ID.

Who's this little streamer?!

The audience, blown away by how adorable and beautiful he is, frantically takes screenshots, then glances at his ID...

Wait, you said you're who?!

*

Qu Mo is a streamer on the Shark platform with tens of millions of followers, a top alpha with a powerful need for control. He has no scandals, no rumors, and no bad habits. The only controversy he's ever had was a minor disagreement over a game with a small streamer on the platform.

That led to the little streamer getting mobbed online. Qu Mo once tried to drop into his stream to clear things up, only to hear him say, "Oh, I just hate arrogant, overbearing alphas. So what?"

Arrogant, overbearing alpha Qu Mo: ...

Between setting the record straight and making a compromise, it seemed the little streamer had chosen the path that would bring the most traffic.

Qu Mo scoffed and left it alone.

Until he met Yu Xi in person.

No one knew that Qu Mo had a severe obsessive disorder and was addicted to cuteness.

Qu Mo kept himself in check for a long time, managing not to reveal anything. But by chance, they met again that night. The little omega's rare condition flared up. He shook off someone bothering him and, struggling to hold himself back, crashed into Qu Mo's arms. Fierce yet pleading, he said, "H-help me."

*

Later, Yu Xi was pinned in front of a cold mirror, listening to Qu Mo ask in a low, rhythmic, restrained voice, again and again, "Why won't you act cute for me? ...There's nothing wrong with only acting cute for me, is there?"

Yu Xi was too broken to speak. If you keep doing this, how am I supposed to act cute only for you?!

1. Sex first, love later; the more they do it, the more they fall in love. Alpha top and omega bottom. Both have issues: one has omega pheromone dysregulation, and the other has an obsessive disorder and skin hunger.

2. Adorable, short-tempered bottom x controlling top with a cute obsession and a slightly playboyish look, but who's actually completely devoted to his wife.

3. A short story written to fill a gap, also known as A Bowl of Love, Extra Sweet.

Theme: After going through a thousand sails, we must still hold on to justice and ideals.