Everyday Entanglements with Twin Brothers

[Showbiz, with a K-pop flavor.] [New novel: The All-Alpha Boy Group's Shared Ex has launched. Find it on my author page ·v·] Yu Chu has been a mysterious and flawless idol for five years, with immense popularity and all eyes on him. Fans: You're right, but #Yu Chu of Solstice is the one and only top, no qualifiers needed#. His perfect-idol image is so deeply ingrained that no one would guess he's dating Xie Zhixing, the eldest son of his company's chairman. He plays the perfect partner in front of Xie Zhixing, too. Xie Zhixing has no idea that Yu Chu only likes him for his money. On New Year's Day, Yu Chu wraps his arms around Xie Zhixing from behind as usual. But Xie Zhixing asks, “Can't you even recognize your own boyfriend?” Yu Chu realizes he's mistaken the person in front of him. This isn't Xie Zhixing, but his twin brother. The twins look exactly alike, and even have similar tastes. - Xie Zhixing knows Yu Chu likes money. He has plenty of it, so he considers Yu Chu's love of money an advantage. He simply hands Yu Chu his black card. Yu Chu is adorable when he's being money-hungry, too. One day, instead of a purchase notification, Xie Zhixing gets a breakup message. Yu Chu says he's alone by the sea and wants to break up. - One day after the breakup, Xie Zhixing sees a trending topic. Yu Chu holding hands by the sea. On the day Yu Chu asked to break up, someone spotted him by the sea with Xie Zhixing, the eldest son of the Xie Group. Xie Zhixing demands, “Why were you with Xie Zhiyuan?” He never saw Yu Chu that day, so the person holding hands with him could only have been Xie Zhiyuan. “I lied to you,” Yu Chu replies coolly. “I don't care which of the two of you I keep company with anyway. It's all the same to me.” Before they broke up, Yu Chu got Xie Zhixing to plant a tree with him on their phones, calling it the fruit of their love. Xie Zhiyuan got one too. Yu Chu used the same line when he had him plant a tree. For a long time after the breakup, Yu Chu never checked on either tree. When he happened to remember them, he was surprised to find they were both doing just fine. The brothers had watered them every single day without fail. Yu Chu thought to himself: Maybe I should give them both an annual tree-planting award. He casually watered both trees. Just then, he received a message from each of them: You planted a tree with Xie Zhiyuan/Xie Zhixing too? TIPS: 1. The shou is a gorgeous idol and skilled liar, a top-tier ACE with top popularity, already very successful from the start. The story uses a traditional, conservative idol setup: he won't act in dramas. 2. The true gong is the older brother. Both twins are virgins. 3. The entertainment industry setting is closer to real-life K-pop, but don't map it onto real life. Idols dating isn't a good thing in real life, either... The characters have no connection to real people. Comments bringing real people into it will be deleted. Please don't be a killjoy, okay? Okay. I may not check the comments promptly after the story is finished, so if you see comments mentioning real people, feel free to report them for being a killjoy. 4. The anonymous forum posts aren't necessary to enjoy the main story. 5. The main characters were first conceived on 2023.2.2 (which should have been before the concept of sixth-generation idols became widely used). 6. This isn't a wish-fulfillment story. Other characters have one-sided crushes on the protagonist, so please stop reading if you can't accept that. [CONTENT WARNINGS!!!!] Idol romance, feminization of male characters, the shou having other relationships after breaking up with the true gong, hostile fanbase disputes, boy-band fanservice, and twin brothers who fight fiercely over the protagonist. [The first draft of the blurb and outline was written on 2023.8.20 and has been screenshotted.] Coming Soon: The All-Alpha Boy Group's Shared Ex Blurb: A five-member boy group, but four ex-boyfriends. Shi Mingzhi has had everything go his way since birth: a wealthy family, good looks, and excellent grades. He's the complete package of a winner in life. His only flaw is that he's an idiot when it comes to love. A gaming friend pursues him while they're playing. He dates him. A fellow trainee at his company pursues him. He dates him. After transferring to a major company, just as he's about to debut, Shi Mingzhi discovers that his four cold, unfinished love affairs have turned into four passionate teammates. * The one small mercy is that all of Shi Mingzhi's ex-boyfriends think they're his only ex. To keep the group at peace, Shi Mingzhi privately approaches each of them and gets them to keep quiet, at a small cost. His ex-boyfriends secretly relish the arrangement, convinced they're getting special treatment. Because of that connection, whenever these four Alphas go into heat, they secretly seek out Shi Mingzhi and ask the softhearted him to help them get through it. Shi Mingzhi took a secondary-sex test a long time ago and knows he's most likely a late-blooming Beta. For the sake of the group's harmony, he secretly meets each teammate alone on different days, acting as a human suppressor for them. Although Shi Mingzhi himself has no idea why he, a Beta, can calm down his teammates when they're in heat. * Shi Mingzhi's good luck strikes again. One workday before their debut, paparazzi staking out the area near the company photograph him. The photo turns out beautifully. He's just taken off his mask, showing his handsome profile, his two signature beauty marks, and the corners of his eyes and the tip of his nose, slightly red from the cold winter wind. By the time Shi Mingzhi himself finds out, he's already famous because of the photo. Well, maybe fame is simply written in his destiny. He hasn't even debuted, and he's already gone viral. Anonymous message boards buzz with discussion. [There he goes, keeping this crappy company alive again.] [Isn't that the top student at our school? When did he become a trainee?] [He doesn't look like an Alpha. Is he a teammate or the group's wife?] [He looks like the Crown Prince's chosen Crown Princess.] As it turns out, Shi Mingzhi really is always lucky. After the group officially debuts, their numbers are astonishing, and Shi Mingzhi effortlessly secures the position of the group's top member. But then an unexpected development follows. Shi Mingzhi finally differentiates, but turns out to be an Omega. Shi Mingzhi figures that if he managed to keep his four ex-boyfriends a secret, he can surely keep being an Omega a secret too. Still full of confidence, Shi Mingzhi has no idea his teammates will discover that he's an Omega. And one day in the future, the four of them will corner him in a room and demand, all at once, “What are you to them?” TIPS: 1. The shou seems aloof and untouchable, but is actually an idiot about love. The gongs are his teammates from a boy group (four of them). All the gongs are virgins. The story uses a traditional, conservative idol setup: they're idols from beginning to end, and none of them will become actors. 2. The entertainment industry setting is closer to real-life K-pop, but don't map it onto real people. Let's keep it fictional. 3. Includes, among other things, dating within the group, brothers turning against each other, feminization, cross-dressing, hate-stanning, excessive doting, fanbase disputes, and vicious forum posts. Check the warnings for yourself. Coming Soon on My Author Page: Rising to Idol Heights with the Help of a Fansite Photographer; Your Girlfriend Might Be a Man Completed novels: After Quitting the Idol Life, I Became a Virtual Streamer; After the Breakup, His Suitors Began to Make Their Move Theme: Have the courage to pursue who you are.