The Pretty Country Boy Is Everyone's Favorite

After getting into college at eighteen, Yu Xi was sent to live with the Pei family, an old friend of his mother's. The Pei household was lavish, but it wasn't entirely unfamiliar to him. He had spent two summer and winter vacations there as a child, making many good friends. But times had changed. Yu Xi understood the gap between their statuses all too well, and assumed there was no chance of becoming friends again. To his surprise, after spending time with them... he realized they hadn't forgotten him at all. They were just as kind to him as before. There was just one thing... After so long, his good friends seemed to have changed quite a bit. For example, the adventurous ringleader who used to pull him into a cramped cabinet asked, “Want to do something more exciting and more pleasurable than when we were kids?” For example, the gentle older brother who used to be as soft-spoken as a stream knelt before him, pleading, “Step hard right here, big brother begs you.” And then there was the gloomy, timid tagalong who coaxed him into his room: “A-Actually, my body is pretty good too...” His good friends even got into several fierce fights over his attention, turning red in the face and making a huge commotion. Thankfully, the friend he had admired most as a child was still just as outstanding as ever, head and shoulders above everyone else, always in the lead and dazzling as the sun in the sky. Until one day, Yu Xi went to his house, stumbled into a secret room, and was horrified by the collection inside. He turned around and was caught red-handed. “Don't be afraid.” The other man held his hand tightly and guided him through every item in the collection. “This... is something you threw away and I picked back up. Since Xi Xi doesn't want it anymore, it's okay if I keep it, right? And this scarf is the one you forgot to take home last time. I smell it every day... Look, I saw this dress in a shop window the other day. It's so cute, and I knew it would suit you perfectly, so I bought it...” “I collected all of this for you. Do you like it?” “Why are you crying? I'm sorry. When you cry, I can't help myself... It'll be over soon. I didn't mean to scare you.” “Don't rush. We have plenty of time. Let's take it slow and try them on one by one, okay?” * A beautiful, universally adored bottom, with many people harboring one-sided crushes on him. The true love interest is the most calculating and patient one of them all. [Not your typical everyone-loves-the-protagonist story. The protagonist is treated badly early on, so read with caution.] Coming soon ↓ "Married to an A-Monster After My Engagement Was Broken" [A sweet-tempered but slightly willful beta wife × a gloomy, obsessive monster who is completely devoted to his wife] Plenty of people in their circles coveted the Luo family's young master, Luo Xibai. He was so beautiful that he seemed proud and unyielding as frost, noble and refined as an immortal. Everyone thought he would present as a high-level Omega, but he turned out to be the most ordinary kind of Beta. Luo Xibai's circumstances took a sudden turn for the worse. His father's mistress moved into the family home, his illegitimate younger brother mocked him for having fallen so far, and his once-ardent fiance hastily broke off their engagement, publicly declaring that a Beta with nothing but good looks was worthless. Just as the Luo family was planning to marry him off for whatever little benefit they could get, the all-powerful head of the Wen family, a man everyone feared, came to propose and chose Luo Xibai as his wife. - Luo Xibai had heard of the Wen family head: cold-blooded and unpredictable, suffering from pheromone dysregulation, a terrifying and powerful Alpha monster... He had only traded one wolf's den for another. Luo Xibai decided to make the best of it. If things came to it, they could always go down together. To his surprise, the man was different from the rumors... He was cold and merciless, yet tucked Luo Xibai in and patted his back to sleep in the middle of the night. He was taciturn, yet kept a detailed record in his notebook of all the little things Luo Xibai liked and disliked, the foods he avoided, and his habits. He was moody, yet indulged Luo Xibai's repeated deliberate tests and accepted all his unreasonable demands and fussy whims. After a while, Luo Xibai was no longer afraid of his husband and gradually came to feel at home with the Wen family. It was just that... strange things kept happening there. The feeling of being tightly wrapped around by something in his sleep every night, mysterious “mosquito bites” appearing all over his body, and a sticky, feverish gaze following him everywhere... It was a little bothersome, but he could just about put up with it. Until one late night, he broke one of the Wen family's taboos and was dragged by countless tentacles into a cage in the basement. Then he finally understood. His husband really was a monster wearing the skin of a gentleman, and he really would swallow Luo Xibai whole. - Almost everyone in their circles assumed that Luo Xibai was living a miserable married life with the Wen family, trapped with nowhere to turn. At a certain banquet, everyone, from the mother and son who had risen to power in the Luo family to the Gu family, who had once been engaged to him, eagerly anticipated seeing the former untouchable beauty broken and cast into the mud. Who could have expected that the moment he appeared, eyes brimming with tears and utterly spoiled, he would slap the dreaded head of the Wen family and even order him to get lost? The room fell deathly silent. Everyone feared the monster Alpha's fury would spill over onto them. But they watched as the Alpha dropped to one knee and humbly took Luo Xibai's hand, guiding it to his other cheek as he coaxed him: “Xi Xi, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have made you angry. How about hitting me a couple more times to make yourself feel better?” - Who could have guessed that every night, Luo Xibai would be forced to endure the monster's so-called “pheromone dysregulation,” sacrificing himself to satisfy his husband's bottomless lust and craving? Tentacles wound around him, slowly prying open his curled-up body. Passionate, frenzied declarations of love brushed his ear with hot, damp breaths. “I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you... You're my wife, my beloved, my savior, my everything...” “Why are you trying to run? Being bound together is our fate. Even if we die, we'll be entwined for all eternity.” “I'm sorry... I can't control myself. It wants to get close to you, to enter you. It just likes you. Baby, could you lift your legs? My tentacles will behave. They won't hurt you, baby...” Thesis: True love has nothing to do with differences in status