[Archrivals + Married First, Fall in Love Later + Both Unmasking Themselves: I Cheated on Myself, 1v1, ABO]
There was one unsolved mystery in the Capital Star System:
Between Shen Qinglan, head of the Firmament Research Institute, and Jiang Xuan, commander of District One, which of these ten-year archrivals would kill the other first?
But before they could find out who would win, the two suddenly announced their marriage.
At the wedding, the newlyweds stood facing each other, smiling as they exchanged rings while stabbing the other to death a hundred times over in their minds.
If they hadn't been forced into it, why would they ever have agreed to an arranged marriage?
Yet no matter how unwilling they were, they were still forced to share a bed on their wedding night. On top of that, they were made to take medication to bring on their heat and rut early.
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"There is no way I'm helping him through his heat."
At the training ground, the formidable, cold Alpha tore off his sweat-soaked training shirt and sneered at his adjutant. "Let Shen Qinglan endure it on his own."
Meanwhile, at the research institute, Shen Qinglan adjusted his goggles over his lab coat.
"Rut?"
He chuckled at his assistant and set down the booklet in his hand: A Detailed Guide to the Legal Inheritance Process When Your Spouse Dies.
"Dead people don't go into rut."
Assistant: ...
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The assistant was stunned. The assistant was silent. The assistant also realized that Director Shen might be cheating.
The object of his affections was an Alpha on the Star Network whom he had never met in person.
"Contact the Star Network administrators and change my account's marital status to unmarried," Shen Qinglan ordered.
He didn't want that person to know he'd been forced into an arranged marriage.
That person would never blame him, but he would surely worry about him.
Once he got divorced or widowed, he could be with the person he loved again, with a clean slate.
Jiang Xuan, meanwhile, was tormented day and night by guilt.
He had an Omega he would give his heart and soul for. They had met on the Star Network. They had never seen each other's faces, but their hearts were already connected.
He had deceived his darling and didn't dare admit he was married.
He was scum! He deserved to spend the rest of his life on his knees, making amends! He would forever owe his darling a grand gesture of remorse!
His darling suddenly messaged him: "That bastard I told you about last time has me a little worried. I'm afraid he'll break in and put me in danger."
"Don't worry." Jiang Xuan immediately sent him a security plan, as devious as it was heavily armed.
Even he himself couldn't withstand this level of firepower.
"Set things up like this, and he'll never make it out alive."
Later, when Jiang Xuan broke into the Firmament Research Institute: ...
Could someone tell him why this security setup looked so familiar?!
(1v1, happy ending, a chaotic, melodramatic little romance)
Coming next: First-Rate Madman
Lu Heng had always known perfectly well that Yu Lanzhang was a poisonous beauty.
He was a first-rate madman, a second-rate disobedient subordinate, a third-rate dangerous plaything, and... the most lowbrow kind of lover.
But Lu Heng still couldn't help being drawn to him.
And it wasn't enough to be drawn to him once. Again and again, Lu Heng became completely infatuated, losing himself in a haze.
The first time, Lu Heng was young and in love. He thought he'd found the love of his life, only for Yu Lanzhang to use him and forget him, abandoning him without even saying goodbye.
The second time, Lu Heng was careful to guard himself against that wicked beauty. But one careless moment was all it took for him to be swindled out of his money and his virtue, then stabbed in the heart and nearly killed.
The third time, Lu Heng was transferred and became Yu Lanzhang's direct superior.
He thought all he felt now was hatred and disgust. He would keep his distance and maintain a cold, professional relationship with him.
But when that man collapsed, covered in blood, outside Lu Heng's door on a rainy night, Lu Heng still lost his heart all over again.
From then on, he was doomed.
A reserved, pure-hearted, devoted, upright puppy of a man × a stunning, ruthless, dark-hearted, tragic, beloved madman
(1v1, younger top, happy ending)
Theme: True courage is daring to piece together a broken soul
