The Overworked Beta and the Paranoid Alpha

Wen En was a top-tier corporate drone beta and a covert agent.

With his handsome, elegant mixed-race features, he worked diligently every day, never complaining and never slacking. His superiors and coworkers all thought highly of him.

But nobody expected him to get together with the most controversial man in the world.

An alpha named Romeo Solstice.

A wealthy art dealer and the dream man of every ABO.

Six-foot-three, with blond hair and blue eyes and a sculpted, muscular physique. He looked as if the beautiful, melancholy lead of an art-house film had stepped into real life. Wherever he went, he never let anyone get close.

After that, Wen En became everyone's target.

People said Wen En had used a love spell on Romeo. How else could Romeo have fallen for him?

Wen En sneered when he heard that. Only he knew that he and Romeo were just putting on an act.

As the strongest agent in the organization, Wen En needed to extract information from Romeo.

The best way was to play the part of a devoted, lovesick beta.

Romeo was more than happy to play along, since it kept all those admirers at bay.

But the longer they kept it up, the more Wen En felt something was off.

For instance, all the ordinary work clothes in his wardrobe had been replaced with Romeo's expensive suits.

For instance, the bed in his room kept breaking, leaving him no choice but to share Romeo's bed.

For instance, every morning Wen En woke up with aching hips and weak legs, as if he'd done hours of cardio.

After a while, Wen En couldn't take it anymore. He was even drowsy at work.

As a no-nonsense workhorse who valued efficiency above all, Wen En decided to stop pretending. If the soft approach didn't work, he'd go in hard.

That day, when the two of them were supposed to have a date, Wen En appeared in Romeo's view wearing a police uniform.

"You're under arrest! Don't move!"

Watching the beta pull out handcuffs, Romeo smiled slyly, dodged his attack, and cuffed him to the table.

"Darling, let's get back to our date."

With that, Romeo bit down on the back of the beta's neck.

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Like the villains in every movie and TV show, Romeo had a miserable childhood. His father never loved him, and he was left to run wild, earning a notorious reputation.

He had a first love, the last bit of light in his heart when he was young.

He once thought he'd never see his first love again, until that person returned to his side in an unexpected way.

This time, their relationship grew complicated.

His first love no longer remembered Romeo, but Romeo never forgot him, even when his first love treated him like an enemy.

Romeo lowered his head and looked at Wen En, cuffed tightly and unable to move.

Now the problem was that Romeo had presented as an alpha, while his first love, Mr. Wen En, was a beta.

That meant that even if Romeo marked Wen En, the pheromones on Wen En's body would disappear completely before long.

He wouldn't be like an omega, belonging to Romeo forever.

"It doesn't matter."

Romeo lowered his head and murmured in the beta's ear:

"I'll make you belong to me forever."

Rational, strong-willed, cool beta bottom × borderline-personality, obsessive, love-brained alpha top

Content warnings:

One-on-one, happy ending, both are each other's first

Faux space sci-fi, ABO, handsome top and strong bottom. The plot draws inspiration from Western spy action movies.

The author has chaotic, all-over-the-place tastes.

Other content warnings to be added

A little promo for the new story "Hold It In, the Beagle Eats First"

[Wild, unruly, domineering demon cultivator bottom × outwardly composed but inwardly dark and unhinged sword cultivator top]

[Beagle-trains-its-owner story]

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Wei Ruxian

The top demon cultivator in the cultivation world, and the strongest cultivator in the Ghost Path.

Don't let the character "virtuous" in his name fool you. He's vicious to the core.

Murder, arson, robbery, and theft: he did every evil under the sun.

Wei Ruxian had a sworn enemy:

Yan Wenqing, the top sword cultivator of the righteous path.

Their powers were evenly matched, and after years of fighting, neither had won.

Furious, Wei Ruxian decided to go into seclusion and cultivate. He never expected that this retreat would make him lose control of his cultivation and trigger a nine-thunder heavenly tribulation.

Wei Ruxian thought he would be reduced to ashes, but unexpectedly, he survived.

Though the way he survived wasn't exactly dignified...

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Yan Wenqing stood by the stream, practicing with his sword.

Nearby, a big-eared, black, white, and brown donkey (or dog) brayed: "Wer! Wer~ wer~ wer~ wer!"

Yan Wenqing: "Could you shut up? You're driving me crazy. :-P"

Dog: "Wer, wer, wer, wer, "

Yan Wenqing: "...I've raised a rotten dog!"

Dog: "Wer! Werwerwer!"

Wei Ruxian, reborn as a beagle, thought:

Just you wait. Even if I've turned into a dog, I still won't let you off! (#‵′)

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Content warnings:

One-on-one, happy ending, primarily a cultivation and immortal-xianxia setting

More to be added

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