In their eighth year of marriage,
no one still thought Xu Shu and Lou Ze were a good match,
except, of course, for their perfectly compatible pheromones.
Xu Shu was an ordinary omega.
The most extraordinary thing that had happened to her in her entire life was that her pheromone compatibility with Lou Ze, the Empire's general, was 100%.
Lou Ze had been injured on the battlefield and urgently needed pheromones to soothe him.
Xu Shu became his legal partner in name only.
On countless nights when her pheromones controlled her, she could hardly tell whether she loved him or was simply under their influence.
But she knew one thing for certain: Lou Ze did not love her.
Whenever he bit into the gland at her neck, his eyes looked like those of a beast in the dark.
After a riot,
Xu Shu's pheromones unexpectedly became imbalanced.
She lost the reason she'd originally had for staying by Lou Ze's side.
She felt it was only right to leave him, and could finally be free to live an ordinary life in peace.
After leaving the capital,
Xu Shu's life was calm and uneventful. But on the occasional nights when her pheromones became unbalanced, she would think of the bite marks Lou Ze had left on her gland.
One night, when she returned home,
the room was pitch-black. The oppressive presence of a top-tier Alpha spread through the entire space.
Someone walked slowly toward her through the darkness.
Xu Shu smelled the familiar scent of battlefield smoke in his pheromones, but she no longer felt a thing.
Jasmine x Gunpowder Smoke
Theme: The will is master of the mind.
