You Should Marry Your Childhood Friend

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[Stuffy, Proper Teacher Top & Handsome, Easygoing CEO Bottom]

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Yu Bieyi is carefree and independent, with a stunningly beautiful face that has been attracting admirers wherever he goes since childhood.

As he approaches thirty, his family becomes increasingly insistent that he get married. With no other choice, Yu Bieyi turns to his equally unmarried childhood friend and proposes that they pretend to be a couple.

They hit it off and register their marriage. Yu Bieyi assumes Duan Qian is straight, so he behaves with utter abandon.

Today he gives him a kiss, tomorrow he calls him hubby, and after waking up, he even whistles and praises him: "Hey, looking pretty lively."

But there are plenty of things Yu Bieyi is slow to catch on to.

For instance, this marriage isn't entirely for show.

For instance, someone who seems stern and proper is actually a jealous old vinegar jar.

And for instance, after suppressing himself for so long, this vinegar jar seems to have developed... some psychological issues.

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After dragging him home from a party, Duan Qian takes off his glasses. His gaze is sharp and pained. "Yu Bieyi, do you really love smiling at everyone else that much?"

"Why can't you give me what you give them first?"

"I'm the one who knew you first."

Later...

The drawer in the guest room is yanked open, and a pile of colorful things tumbles out.

Duan Qian kisses him, clearly hinting at something. "Sweetheart, are they better at it, or am I?"

Unable to take it anymore, Yu Bieyi angrily bites the bedsheet. "You really are a pervert!"

Getting jealous over friends is one thing.

But now... he's even jealous of the toys?

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one romance | both are each other's only partner | both are each other's first love | repressed & uninhibited

2. The top has had a crush on him for years and is severely sexually repressed. The bottom is a social butterfly, but only talks a big game.

3. A sweet marriage-first, love-later story, childhood friends to lovers.

4. Same-sex marriage is legal. Same setting as My Spouse Turned Out to Be a Clingy Sweetheart.

Check out my upcoming novel, After the Divorce, I Married the Wealthy Top Alpha

[Beautiful, Frail Omega Who Keeps Wanting to Destroy Himself & Cool on the Outside, Devoted to His Wife, Steady Big-Dog Alpha]

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Before he turned nineteen, Zhuang Qi was a beta.

Like all betas, his scent was faint, and apart from his pretty face, he was ordinary in every way.

When he was nineteen, he unexpectedly presented as an omega.

His biological father brought him back to the family home and demanded that he take the place of his beloved younger son in an arranged marriage to the increasingly impoverished Liang family.

It was a failure of a marriage from the start.

For three years, the omega wife received no pheromone comfort from his alpha husband.

After his career returned to its peak, Liang Fei tossed a divorce agreement in front of Zhuang Qi. His reason for the divorce was that after three years, Zhuang Qi had failed to give him a child. The Liang family had no need for such a defective omega.

His reproductive tract had not yet recovered and still ached with a dull soreness. Zhuang Qi held his lower abdomen and calmly signed his name, then returned alone to the little house where he had started out.

The Omega Protection Association came to collect his biological information and said they would match him with a new husband.

But Zhuang Qi didn't care.

Because he had decided to die.

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On the day he chose how to end his life, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the little house.

The visitor was an alpha with striking, handsome features. Zhuang Qi recognized his face.

He vaguely remembered that at some banquet, even his arrogant ex-husband had acted cautiously and bowed and scraped in front of this alpha.

Before he died, Zhuang Qi wanted to be as polite as possible. "Sir, may I ask what brings you here?"

The alpha looked serious and handed him an agreement. "Mr. Zhuang Qi, would you be willing to marry me?"

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Yan Youchuan is the most powerful and wealthy top alpha in Haishi. His pheromone level is astonishingly high.

He holds an exalted position and seems to have it all, but he is actually afflicted with a gland disability and tormented by pheromone surges, always just one step away from madness.

One day, a pheromone compatibility report is delivered to him.

The report shows that an omega is 100% compatible with his pheromones and can calm his surges. The only drawback is that this omega has already received a permanent mark and has just gotten divorced.

None of that is a problem.

As he watches the frail, beautiful omega sign the agreement, Yan Youchuan feels something unfamiliar and wondrous.

At their first meeting, he decides that Zhuang Qi is very brave. Other omegas tremble when they see him, but Zhuang Qi remains as calm as still water, making him feel at ease.

After they marry, he does spend some time being infatuated like a lovesick young man.

After all, his wife is so gentle and considerate that he becomes his captive without realizing it, even his pheromones falling under his influence.

Until... he finally sees the self-destruction and brokenness beneath that gentle exterior.

From then on, every night the alpha has to hold his omega tightly to fall asleep.

He doesn't ask for love, but repeats the same words:

"Zhuang Qi, never leave me... I beg you."

[Extra Scene]

A top alpha from a wealthy family married a defective, twice-married omega without a word, and one who couldn't bear children, no less. This was the unspoken gossip among Haishi's upper class.

They mocked Yan Youchuan for lowering himself, watching coldly as they waited to see when the omega would be thrown out.

But they waited and waited, and all they saw was the once-prosperous Liang and Zhuang families crumble. As for that twice-married omega, he went back to school and started a company after getting married, and on top of it all, he got pregnant.

Wait... weren't they saying he couldn't have children?

All in all, Yan Youchuan is a considerate husband, though he occasionally has some hard-to-admit kinks. Taking advantage of his wife's shyness and gentle nature, Yan Youchuan has always had a very good time.

After the pregnancy, he becomes even more brazen and goes further and further.

At last, Zhuang Qi can't take it anymore.

Blushing furiously, the omega trembles as he holds back a mouthful of saliva. His nape and belly are covered in kiss marks. Cradling his belly, he scolds, "Yan Youchuan, g-get out!"

Theme: Love never changes