/Dual protagonists, pregnancy, and a beta who presents as an omega
Xiang Yu is mute.
Ever since his mother was driven to her death by the mistress who brazenly came to their home to confront her, he has lived a frail, sickly existence in a corner of the Xiang household. And being a beta has only made his father dislike him more.
He looked forward to coming of age so he could escape his family, but instead, his stepmother's son forcibly dragged him to a club and made him drink spiked alcohol.
He was surrounded by villains on all sides.
With nowhere left to turn, he stumbled into the arms of a stranger.
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Later, when the Xiang family fell into a debt crisis, they actually offered Xiang Yu up as payment.
The Cheng family was powerful and influential, and its sole heir, Cheng Shenzhi, was an exceptional Alpha with a pheromone disorder. No omega could withstand his excessively high pheromone levels. He was notoriously ruthless and deeply calculating.
No one had any faith in this farcical marriage. Everyone said the Cheng family was marrying a beta just so they could use him to blow off steam.
Xiang Yu thought so too.
He cautiously tried to keep his secret, hoping to conceal the fact that he had been unfaithful before the wedding. But to his surprise, his belly began to swell day by day.
And more frightening still, even though he was a beta, he gradually began to smell his husband's pheromones, which enveloped him in an intense, possessive cage...
The doctor told him he had presented as an omega with a one-hundred-percent match to his husband.
But he was unmistakably carrying someone else's child.
Panicking, he wanted to confess, but his newly healed voice betrayed him, his words catching in his throat.
Cheng Shenzhi, however, scooped him up without a word and laced their fingers together, his voice low and deep.
“Yuyu,” Cheng Shenzhi asked, “can you recognize me now?”
Bonus scene:
When Xiang Yu had only just regained the ability to speak, certain circumstances left him able to say only one word: “Hold.”
Fortunately, Mr. Cheng knew him extremely well and could read a hundred different meanings into that one word.
...Except at night.
“Hmm? Baby?” The Alpha's voice was a little hoarse as the arm around his waist tightened. “Is this how you want me to hold you?”
Xiang Yu: ...
Of! Course! Not!
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Here's a preview of an upcoming story! It has a space-opera setting, with a human top and a mermaid bottom.
“What Should I Do When My Brother and Boyfriend Are Following Different Scripts?”
The bottom woke up.
On the day he came of age, his newly awakened power of precognition showed him ten years into the future.
In a distant human star system, an unprecedented tyrant was coming into being!
He was now as weak as an ant and bullied at will, but in the not-too-distant future, he would grow rapidly, killing his father, mother, older brother, older sister, younger brother, and younger sister along the way!
Then he would believe the rumor that mermaid blood could cure every illness. In order to cure his mental instability, he would brazenly launch an attack on the Mermaid Empire, killing every human and mermaid in his path!
The bottom stared in terror. After much hesitation, he packed a small bundle and decided to personally cure the younger version of the tyrant, nipping everything in the bud!
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The top woke up.
The moment he accidentally ran his sword through his older half-brother's heart, he saw a book.
The book said the Mermaid Empire harbored sinister intentions. After he seized the throne by murdering his own family, they would send him a beautiful mermaid, who would use her charms to make him utterly besotted. Then she would turn on him, destroy his mental sea with her song, and leave him a complete invalid, until he finally took his own life in agony.
The little mermaid would then carry his child far away, never once looking back.
The top sized up the mermaid standing before him with a bundle in hand, his gaze settling on the other's lower abdomen.
He gave a cold smile.
Hah. That's it?
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The older brother woke up.
After dealing with a pollution incident in the outer sea, a strange voice appeared in his head.
[Your younger brother is clever, handsome, adorable, and kind. Everyone likes him.]
The older brother nodded, calm and elegant.
That's right, he's my little brother. What about it?
[Your younger brother has enough admirers to circle the imperial capital, but the adorable little mermaid has no interest in them. His rejected admirers are frustrated and helpless.]
The older brother picked up his teacup, hiding the smile at the corner of his mouth.
That's right, he's my little brother. What about it?
[However, the little mermaid has been troubled by something lately.]
[That is: what should a frail, helpless, pitiful little fish do when the human emperor abducts him and forces him into a relationship?]
Older brother: ?
Wait a second?
Where's my... knife?
Theme: Stay true to yourself and keep moving along your own path.