The Beauty O Everyone Fights Over

Xiang Shuyu has had a poor sense of smell since childhood. He can sense an alpha's pheromones, but has trouble distinguishing their scents.

As he grew older, his mother wanted to climb higher in society, so she urged Xiang Shuyu to seduce Duan Yue, the young master of the Duan family, an alpha whose pheromones smelled of tuberose.

Xiang Shuyu pursued Duan Yue with great care. At a banquet, he offered him a drink but didn't dare say another word. He even asked another young master to invite him along on a vacation with Duan Yue at a country estate, but still didn't dare approach him. Yet after all that effort, he finally made it in front of Duan Yue and said he wanted to be with him.

"You want to be my boyfriend?" the alpha said with a smile. "Sure. Call me hubby."

Held in his arms, Xiang Shuyu blushed and whispered, "Hubby."

Duan Lin was an accident.

The day he and Duan Yue fought over breaking up, Xiang Shuyu was in low spirits. That evening, his friends got him drunk at a banquet. He was in heat, burning up and disoriented, when someone carried him home.

Familiar pheromones filled the air. Xiang Shuyu clung to the alpha and murmured, "Hubby."

The next morning, he woke to a mess. Sobbing, Xiang Shuyu told Duan Lin that jasmine and tuberose smelled alike, and he'd simply mistaken him for someone else.

"But Duan Yue never marked you," Duan Lin said coolly. "You've already broken up. I'm the one who marked you now."

"There, don't cry." Duan Lin reached out to wipe away his tears. "I'll take responsibility. I'll marry you, but you have to cut things off with Duan Yue for good."

Xiang Shuyu didn't want anyone to take responsibility for him. He just wanted to break up.

But Duan Yue didn't want to break up, much less watch Duan Lin openly pursue his ex-boyfriend.

He'd always had everything his younger brother had. There was no reason he should have to give up the person he loved.

The brothers' fights were childish, but Xiang Shuyu was always the one left suffering.

Late at night, someone would sneak into his bed, hold him while releasing pheromones, and kiss the back of his neck before asking, "Who am I?"

Xiang Shuyu couldn't tell faces apart, or pheromones, and he always guessed wrong.

Every wrong guess brought a storm of caresses and kisses, followed by the demand, "Which one do you want more, me or him?"

Xiang Shuyu wanted neither of them. Duan Yue's emotional manipulation, Duan Lin's possessiveness, and their rivalry and covetousness were suffocating him.

After his mother died, he felt free. One sunny afternoon, he left them with the words, "Stop bothering me," and disappeared without a trace.

Xiang Shuyu was free for two years.

Then, at a celebration banquet, one careless mistake led him to drink something spiked.

Dazed and stumbling toward his room, he was suddenly grabbed from behind. A hand clamped over his mouth to stifle his cries, and he was dragged inside.

Familiar pheromones filled the room. A scorching palm stroked his neck, and a strong arm circled his waist, winding around him like countless vines.

Kisses fell thick and fast. Xiang Shuyu struggled in vain, hearing only the other person say, "I've changed everything you didn't like about me. Can you forgive me and stay with me?"

Xiang Shuyu's vision blurred. Swaying, he pointed at the person in front of him and asked, "Who are you...?"

The person silently bit his Adam's apple. "Take a guess."

Xiang Shuyu guessed wrong again, and the consequences were severe.

After two years apart, both of his ex-boyfriends seemed to have gone insane.

A rotten, spoiled, childish older brother who loves playing games / a calculating, aloof younger brother with a dominant streak VS a softhearted, guileless, shameless beauty who makes a perfect wife

Reader's Guide

1. Both love interests are virgins, but neither is very nice at first. Feel free to criticize their behavior, but don't insult the protagonist or the author.

2. His mother has emotionally manipulated him for years, so he's softhearted at first. He grows later on, and his rebellious phase comes late, but it does come. He's a little naturally shameless.

3. Both love interests get dumped.

4. There are two or three other minor love interests. They're virgins too, but nothing happens with them.

5. They never sleep with anyone simultaneously. There is no sharing-a-bed scenario. The relationships are sequential one-on-one, in keeping with Jinjiang rules.

6. A tale of love and hate. It gets extremely melodramatic later, and the protagonist's revenge is somewhat cruel.

7. There is a false pregnancy plotline during his relationship with the second Duan brother.

8. To be added.

Theme: Live well and stay positive.