After Marrying a Cool, Teasing Omega

[Gorgeous beauty x loyal puppy, dog-training romance, marriage first and love afterward]

[Mostly from the top's point of view at first, then mainly from the bottom's point of view later and before the rebirth]

Yu Yinghan, the highly respected deputy commander, is getting married.

His spouse-to-be is five years younger, the son of the Minister of Finance, and Wen Qi, a notorious playboy alpha in the Alliance.

The news sends the Alliance into an uproar. Everyone is asking: Why is Deputy Marshal Yu marrying down? When are they going to get divorced?

Wen Qi is just as eager for the divorce.

This marriage has made him a laughingstock in his social circle.

Everyone knows he's married a stern disciplinarian, and everything from meals and sleep to combat training has to happen under Deputy Marshal Yu's watchful eye. He can't come in even one second after the ten o'clock curfew. Being made to kneel on a keyboard is routine, and even sleeping in earns him a beating.

Friend: “You can put up with that? Have you ever thought about getting a divorce?”

Wen Qi grits his teeth. “I dream about it!”

“Do you dare bring it up with him?”

“Why wouldn't I? I'll do it as soon as I get home!”

But the next morning, he wakes up and turns to see the usually cool and stern omega suffering through heat, curled up beneath the blankets and trembling slightly, his collar revealing a shoulder and neck glistening with a thin sheen of sweat.

Wen Qi's Adam's apple bobs. “I want…”

The omega looks up with tear-filled eyes and asks softly, “Want what?”

Wen Qi answers without thinking, “I want… to do it again.”

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Wen Qi thinks there's something strange about Yu Yinghan. He seems to hate him, yet keeps staring at him in a daze, as if looking through his face at someone else.

Before long, Wen Qi realizes he's a stand-in, and he gets furious.

Damn it! It would be bad enough if Yu Yinghan treated him like a dog.

He even turned him into a stand-in dog!

But he doesn't dare say a word. With the one-year marriage Yu Yinghan promised nearing its end, all he can do is become more obedient, get better at what he does, and work hard to make Yu Yinghan feel even better in bed.

Until one day, he accidentally finds six letters Yu Yinghan has hidden in his desk. The first was written six years ago, and the last on their wedding day.

The first line reads: [Once again, I have become your wife…]

The letters are addressed to him.

He turns around in a daze. Yu Yinghan lifts his tie with the tip of his pen, winds it around the pen, and draws him close.

“You've kept me waiting too long, baby.”

Reader's notes:

1. Both are each other's first. The bottom is reborn, and in both lives the top is his good puppy. He loves him so much.

2. The worldbuilding and plot are a little more involved than in my previous stories. There is a side couple, but they don't get much page time. Any parts that seem unreasonable, such as the bottom's attitude toward the top early on, will be explained later.

3. Pregnancy comes later in the main story; the extras include pregnancy and childbirth.

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[Gentle, controlling, fatherly top x sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, spoiled and dramatic bottom]

Qin Shixian has always thought his ex-husband was the most easygoing person in the world.

Even knowing that Qin had run away from an arranged marriage and deliberately married a poor guy to get back at his parents, Shen Jiming calmly accepted his proposal. He fulfilled his marital duties as Qin requested, cared for him like a little baby, and finally accepted Qin's heartless departure without saying a word.

The day after leaving Shen Jiming, Qin was already missing him.

But he forced himself not to reach out first.

He grumbled to himself: Why didn't Shen Jiming try to stop him? Why had he called him baby and fed him fruit the day before, then calmly accepted his impulsive departure the next day? Didn't he say he loved him more than anything?!

He waited and waited for Shen Jiming to call, but the call never came. He decided to forget this dirt-poor man.

Three years later.

One day, his agent puts him on a variety show. As luck would have it, filming takes place near Shen Jiming's tea plantation.

The moment he gets out of the car, he sees a familiar figure walking toward him.

He turns his face away and pretends not to know him.

He swears he won't say a word to Shen Jiming for the entire shoot. They'll act like strangers.

But a few days later, he accidentally sprains his ankle. Before he can even cry out in pain, Shen Jiming has already scooped him up in his arms…

He asks in a muffled voice, “Why are you staying here?”

Shen Jiming carries him to the bed, his voice as gentle as ever. “Because I miss you so much, baby.”

After the show airs, news that Qin Shixian is divorced spreads like wildfire. The internet is flooded with talk of “a poor guy marrying into a rich family,” making Qin furious.

Just as he's about to release a statement, the online discussion suddenly dies down.

A video interview on a financial news channel has caught everyone's attention.

It's strange: why does the newly unveiled head of the Shen Group, appearing in public for the first time since a family inheritance battle… look exactly like Qin Shixian's ex-husband?

Qin Shixian looks at his ex-husband in astonishment. Only then does he realize that Shen Jiming seems a little different from the man he knew three years ago.

Premise: Love can heal anything