After Picking Up the Rival Boss, It Smells Really Good

[Complete!! My next book, Playing A, is also complete. Rebel army captain gong × scheming city lord shou, double-A age gap romance, Smith couple. I’m begging for your support!]

There were two things Qin Gou found hardest to talk about in his life.

One was being kidnapped as a child and losing his core, leaving him without a mental sea and branded a useless cripple by his family.

The other was having the white moonlight he treasured stolen from him, then being exiled to a remote island amid everyone’s jeers.

As it happened, both things were connected to the same person:

Lu Lian, head of the Uralos Group and the true power behind the city of Perat.

So when Qin Gou unexpectedly found him on that remote island, he didn’t think he’d show any mercy.

But when he saw forbidden tears welling in Lu Lian’s normally calm, cold gray eyes, Qin Gou: “...”

Why was the hand gripping Lu Lian’s throat suddenly losing its strength...?

Until one day, the buried past came to light and their calm facade could no longer hold. Qin Gou couldn’t help pinning Lu Lian down and demanding, “Did you really take my core?”

Lu Lian pointed to his own chest. His cool gray eyes still gazed at Qin Gou as he spoke with mad, cruel intensity. “It’s right here. Go ahead and try to dig it out with your own hands.”

In a way, Ye Wan could be considered a winner in life.

For the past twenty years, he had enjoyed the protection of the Qin family’s young master, Qin Gou. Later, he even managed to attach himself to Lu Lian, a man with power to spare.

Of course, that was before the plane carrying Lu Lian crashed.

Since Lu Lian returned, he had been inexplicably distant.

You can’t hang yourself from a single tree. Qin Gou, who had made a forceful return from Gorgona Island, might be a good option too.

With water dripping from his hair and his clothes damp from the lingering mist, Ye Wan arranged his face into a pitiful, heart-melting expression and rushed into Qin Gou’s room, calling sweetly, “Brother A Gou.”

Instead, he saw the aloof, composed man of high standing sitting on Qin Gou, and the two rivals sharing an intensely passionate kiss.

Ye Wan’s jaw dropped.

Pairing: Qin Gou × Lu Lian. The seemingly carefree, secretly formidable gong who goes completely wild when provoked × the powerful, usually aloof and distant shou who goes quietly mad. Younger gong.

Reading Guide

① 1v1, both powerful, both insanely strong. They’re both head over heels for each other.

② A futuristic fantasy setting with many original elements, and a strong focus on the romance.

③ A mix of angst and sweetness, with plenty of melodrama, but my two boys must get a happy ending.

Enjoy reading!

My next book, What Should I Do After Feeling Up My Boyfriend’s Friend?, is finished! A sweet unrequited-love story where they’re rivals in their careers, but not in love.

Pairing: Xie Yan × Chu Shixian. A straight-laced, career-minded, highly cultivated gong with a scheming facade × a cold, proud, decisive major general shou who secretly has a crush on him.

Blurb: Xie Yan: Bro, you smell so good. Bro, we didn’t do anything yesterday, did we?

Chu Shixian wiped the split corner of his lip. “If I say we didn’t, will you believe me?”

Xie Yan: “...”

Xie Yan was born to be a star.

The only son of the Xie family, one of the Empire’s five great houses, and the treasured grandson whom Xie Fu regarded as his sole heir. He had an illustrious family, striking looks, exceptional abilities, and was a high-quality Alpha with an S-level designation. As soon as he entered the Interstellar Military Academy, he became the center of attention, surrounded by admirers.

His biggest problem in life was probably that his pheromones were unstable. In short, they were too aggressive.

To solve the problem, the Xie family matched him with a little Omega boyfriend with a compatibility rating of 95 percent, and told him to keep the boy by his side.

Xie Yan did.

But during a field exercise, Xie Yan overused his mental power rescuing the little burden, bringing on his rut early.

While on night watch, his pheromones surged again and his vision blurred. Without thinking, he grabbed the hand of the Omega boyfriend beside him. His boyfriend didn’t pull away.

Xie Yan felt perfectly justified in groping him all over.

Hmm, round where he should be round, perky where he should be perky. He just felt a little firmer than expected.

No matter. That made him even more resilient.

Until his hand reached the thing between his “boyfriend’s” legs, which was about the same size as his own...

His “boyfriend” spoke, not sweet and soft at all, but cool and aloof. “Have you finished touching me?”

Xie Yan replied calmly, “More or less.”

The other S-level Alpha on their team, Chu Shixian, whom the Omega boyfriend had invited along, asked, “Then can you let go?”

The scent of rain-soaked wood still hung in the air, and the little Omega boyfriend who should have been standing night watch with them was nowhere to be seen. If an S-level Alpha’s pheromones went out of control, every Omega on the team would suffer. Xie Yan said calmly, “I’m afraid not yet.”

Xie Yan had once been the star of the heavens, but overnight he fell from his pedestal. His little Omega boyfriend turned out to be the real young master of the Xie family, and had only approached him to reclaim his identity.

They broke up, he paid his debts, and Xie Yan left the Xie family as if nothing had happened.

Everyone waited to see him make a fool of himself. Instead, they watched his rank leap past Xie Fu’s, while his sweet little Omega begged him to get back together. Xie Yan, still piloting his mecha, picked him up with a mechanical arm and tossed him away.

Xie Yan: Thanks for asking. If I can’t be born into a powerful family, I’ll become one myself.

His biggest problem lately had become negotiations with the Federation’s sworn enemy, General Chu.

Though “sworn enemy” might be pushing it. When Xie Yan was kicked out of the Xie family, Chu Shixian had offered up all the money he had on him, 250 yuan and 18 cents, insisting he would support him.

But with the fate of two nations at stake, Xie Yan still prepared himself for Major General Chu to demand an exorbitant price during the peace talks.

As expected, the negotiations went badly. After three days and three nights, they still couldn’t reach an agreement.

When talking didn’t work, they turned to fighting. On the fourth night of negotiations, the two came to blows.

In the end, they rolled onto the floor, with Xie Yan pinning Chu Shixian down and holding a knife to the major general’s throat.

Chu Shixian’s plasma gun was aimed at Xie Yan’s heart.

Xie Yan pressed down slightly, the blade breaking Chu Shixian’s cool, pale skin and drawing a bright red bead of blood. “Tell me your trump card. What is it you really want?”

The cold, proud Major General Chu didn’t seem to care about the blade or the blood at his throat. He furrowed his brow, his expression unreadable. “You touched me before.”

Xie Yan didn’t move a muscle. He looked at Chu Shixian at his leisure. “So?”

Chu Shixian curled his lips and pressed the barrel of his gun to Xie Yan’s chest, his finger beginning to squeeze the trigger. “Let me touch you back.”

Super-straight Xie Yan: “?”

A sweet story about a secret crush, where the highly intelligent, emotionally perceptive, career-minded gong simply can’t tell that Major General Chu likes him.

(P.S. “Straight” means that Xiao Xie doesn’t realize Xiao Shi likes him because the possibility of an Alpha-Alpha relationship never occurred to him. It doesn’t mean he’s emotionally clueless or has stereotypically straight-man tastes.)

Enjoy reading!

Theme: Break down the old order and build an equal interstellar society together.