Rose in the Forbidden Zone

Enigma x Beta The day Su Zhi learned that his newly confirmed partner was an Enigma, he failed to recognize the danger it meant. - The research institute suddenly went on break, so Su Zhi took an experimental sample to the remote city of Z to clear his head. There, he met a mysterious alpha and fell in love before he knew what was happening. His alpha boyfriend was tall and handsome, with a commanding, aloof appearance that made him seem difficult to get along with at first. In reality, he was reserved and gentlemanly, steady and dependable. Even during intimate moments, he would only kiss Su Zhi's fingertips with restraint, stopping after the lightest taste. He was so emotionally stable, it hardly seemed alpha-like. After two months of dating, Su Zhi's stereotypical view of alphas had changed. Su Zhi: “I don't think alphas are as irrational as people say.” That was until Su Zhi learned by chance that his partner wasn't an alpha at all, but an Enigma whose pheromones were even more dominant and violent than an alpha's. - Enigmas are alphas who undergo a second differentiation. They rank above all other genders, and suffer from pheromone disorders even more extreme and uncontrollable than those of alphas. According to classified official statistics, 90% of Enigmas have committed violent acts against their partners during pheromone episodes, including coercion, imprisonment, and sexual abuse. Su Zhi closed the file, hesitating as he tried to pull his hand free. “Without a mark, pheromone imbalance can easily happen.” The towering Enigma tightened his grip around Su Zhi's pale wrist and pressed a cool kiss to it. Lowering his eyes to hide their deep, dark intensity, he rasped, “...It won't.” Su Zhi couldn't smell the pheromones filling the room, already so out of control and distorted that they were more terrifying than a pheromone storm. Like a beast whose hunger could never be sated, they greedily stained every inch of skin. They wanted to cage him. A tyrant who barely manages to wear a human mask in front of his partner, and doesn't wear it very well x a gentle, slow-witted little rose An insanely possessive ghostly top x a naturally airheaded, aloof-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside beauty bottom One-on-one, sweet romance, ExB, no change to Omega, no children, no marking An alternate-universe spin-off of the canary arc in After the Tragic-Novel Protagonist Turns Into a Slacker! A standalone world and story, so you don't need to have read the other book. A writing-comeback story, not very long, updated depending on the author's health. - Please add my upcoming story to your favorites: The Villain Can't Figure It Out Either Blurb: In his previous life, Wen Zhou designed his marriage to Xie Linxi, the master of Changlu Manor, to get revenge. But in the end, his plan failed, and he died on the eve of his revenge. Xie Linxi suffered from a serious illness and had trouble walking. Gentle and detached, he had long lived in seclusion on the mountain, ignoring the affairs of the mortal world. Perhaps he also didn't know how cruel people could be, because he was easily deceived and used by Wen Zhou. Wen Zhou felt guilty about it. Reborn, Wen Zhou didn't want to make the same mistakes and harm both himself and others again. He asked Xie Linxi for a divorce. - This world is a book. Its arrogant, heaven-favored protagonist rises from humble beginnings, crushing cannon fodder, beating villains, and ultimately cultivating the Dao until he becomes ruler of the Five Provinces. A transmigrator looked at the script in his hands, then at the situation around him, and fell into deep thought. Wait, why was Wen Zhou, who was only cannon fodder in the original book, suddenly rubbing the arrogant protagonist's face in the dirt? And why was the villain who only appeared in the original book's background introduction, the master of Changlu Manor, so different from the way the book described him? His gentle, frail, refined-gentleman persona was merely a front. The cold, bloody indifference with which he regarded all living things as ants made the transmigrator feel as if he'd narrowly escaped death countless times. He lived in constant terror, struggling to survive. Perhaps the only person in all of Changlu Manor who truly believed Xie Linxi was harmless was his wife, Wen Zhou. The transmigrator wasn't the only one who couldn't figure things out. Xie Linxi, the former background-character villain, was confused too. He couldn't understand why, after being reborn and sweeping away every eyesore, his once-innocent, gentle, and obedient wife wanted a divorce. Xie Linxi dragged out the transmigrator who had been secretly hiding under his nose for ages. On his face was an unconcealed indifference mixed with the amusement of a man toying with his prey. Beneath his handsome features, his voice was clear and smooth, yet it sounded like a demon crawling back from hell. “Tell me, why is that?” The transmigrator: “...” Help! He knew there really was a ghost!!! - Wen Zhou died on a silent, moonlit snowy night. It was the first snowfall he'd ever seen on Changlu Mountain. He'd thought he'd lived only for revenge, but in his final moments, what flashed through his mind wasn't the hatred that had tormented him for half his life. It was Xie Linxi, sitting in his wheelchair, worn down by illness, smiling gently as he kissed Wen Zhou's trembling eyelids and softly promised to take him to the mountaintop to see the snow after the Frost's Descent solar term. Wen Zhou closed his eyes. He didn't see that after he died that night, the blood of his enemies spread across the ground, staining the pure white snow crimson. Afterward, the snow never stopped falling on Changlu Mountain, burying its peak beneath a permanent blanket of snow. The master of Changlu Manor came into the world, and Xie Linxi's name as a demon among men spread far and wide. Everyone fled from wherever he went. He traveled across all five provinces but could never find Wen Zhou again. A seemingly frail, gentle gentleman who is actually a sadistic, controlling madman top x an ordinary man, the strongest in the world, who seems aloof but is actually a little slow-witted bottom tips: - The top really is seriously ill, but he's not weak. He's a powerful cultivator and the strongest in the whole story. When he walks upright, he's a six-foot-two, brawny miner. He only pretended to be weak to deceive his wife, and the bottom was the only person in the whole world who truly believed him (. - A crazy bastard of a top, completely unhinged. Losing his wife made his already unstable mental state even worse. After being reborn, he's likely to force the bottom into a relationship. - Both are reborn, but the top remembers his past life later than the bottom. Theme: Love gives people courage.