Can a Cool Straight Guy Have a Love Triangle Too?

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[This is a story about two outstanding young men from powerful families who grew up together as childhood friends. They both fall for the shou, turn against each other and fight over him in front of a crowd of rich second-generation heirs. Unexpectedly, the heirs are drawn to him too and start hunting him, only to be hunted down by their prey!]

Xie Lan has a handsome face with sharp features, cool and aloof. Handsome and smart, he thought he had the protagonist's script and was destined to become a domineering CEO.

Who could have imagined that one accident would make him a domineering CEO's... "man"?

Even worse, while being held by the CEO, he ran into his high school's "ex-girlfriend"...

Chen Ling.

His "ex-girlfriend" was now a strict, celibate, law-abiding chief inspector with great power in his hands.

What Xie Lan hadn't expected was that Chen Ling knew the CEO. They had even been childhood friends who'd grown up together in the same pair of pants...

So Xie Lan and Chen Ling tacitly pretended not to know each other.

What surprised him even more was that Chen Ling appeared on the balcony of the CEO's room.

They were on the tenth floor!

Xie Lan was horrified and urged him, "Hurry up and go. If he finds us, we're both done for!"

Chen Ling showed no sign of fear. Instead, a faint smile, almost innocent, spread across his face. He leaned close to Xie Lan's ear and whispered hoarsely, "Would it be more exciting if you called me hubby right now?"

Xie Lan turned away. "Who are you?!"

The words were like a basin of ice water. Chen Ling just stared at Xie Lan, stunned. A few seconds later, the corners of his mouth curled up even higher.

Just then, the door clicked open. He was back.

Xie Lan's scalp prickled, and he hurriedly covered Chen Ling's mouth.

"Xie Lan? Why didn't you close the balcony door before going to sleep? Isn't it noisy?" The CEO's voice was thick with drink. "Oh, right... tomorrow... hic... if it doesn't rain... let's go hiking... Hmm? Why aren't you saying anything?"

Xie Lan had just managed to answer, "I'm here"...

When, without warning!

A cool, soft mouth, carrying an irresistible force, pressed hard against his lips!

And behind him, approaching footsteps rang out...

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Chen Ling, scion of royalty, an unrivaled prodigy, the universally adored unattainable ideal among the second-generation heirs, a flower perched atop a sacred peak.

He was cold and celibate, seated high on the throne of power. Plenty of people followed and admired him, but after picking and choosing, he realized that toying with people's hearts was utterly boring.

Then, in his second year of high school, a strange creature came down from the mountains, mistook him for a woman, and declared with an earnest, passionate, deadpan expression that he would protect him. The affection in his eyes shone brilliantly.

This little thing was rather interesting.

Chen Ling thought he had found a pastime to keep him entertained during his dull school days. He never expected to fall for him too.

He fell in love, and just when the other man loved him most and was willing to die for him, he turned around without hesitation and abandoned him.

When they met again, his childhood friend had become Xie Lan's sugar daddy, greeting Chen Ling with an arm around Xie Lan's waist.

Chen Ling went mad.

The man who had always strictly followed the rules and held himself to rigid discipline climbed onto his childhood friend's balcony, hid in his closet, lurked in the changing room, and even slept in his bed. He used every tactic he'd once looked down on with contempt...

But after exhausting every scheme and playing every card, even carving a bloody path through a crowd of rich heirs, he was still only one step away from tearing out his heart and laying it before Xie Lan. All he got in return was this:

"Chen Ling, stop pestering me. This isn't your fate."

He loved Xie Lan.

He was madly in love.

He loved him desperately.

He loved him so much that he knelt on the ground and looked up, begging for love: "Xie Lan, please be gentle with me."

*A story about an unattainable flower coming down from his pedestal and being trained into a dog

*The gong pretends to be delicate at first, then turns into a dark, obsessive ghost of a man

*An unhinged, scheming, competitive green-tea gong x a high-IQ, ruthless, cold, straight-man shou

*Chen Ling x Xie Lan. Beautiful gong, handsome shou. Everyone's dream x everyone's dream

*A massive multi-gong battle for the shou, a real battlefield where people can die

*Set in a fictional world. Don't read too much into it. A niche, dark, realistic story, not sweet, not a typical wish-fulfillment novel. Everyone is evil, and everyone is smart

*Slow burn. Chapters 1-30 set things up and build tension. The first major conflict peaks after chapter 30, then things get intense all the way through

F1 Gets Railed at the Elite Academy

As the Empire's top Alpha, the most formidable F1 among the elite academy's F4, he was born on a golden throne. Handsome as a god, Miu Lin Asmodeus had stood at the top of the pyramid, looking down on the world, from the day he was born.

As a typical straight man in an ABO world, just like generations of his family before him, his genes were hardwired to love only female omegas. He thought his life would follow the usual idol-drama formula: a domineering hero falls for a strong, poor little white flower.

He never imagined that a rat from the gutter would upend all his plans.

This rat had the pink hair and pink eyes typical of an omega, but was actually a tall, strapping Alpha. He relied on his passable looks to play the part of a miserable, insecure victim and win everyone's sympathy.

Yet Miu Lin saw through his perfect disguise at first glance and caught the gloomy, foul stench clinging to him. He could fool a little white flower into acting as his champion and convince everyone he was the victim, but he couldn't fool Miu Lin's keen senses as a top Alpha.

He despised this pink-haired, pink-eyed monster and began targeting him, bullying and isolating him, and attacking him without provocation...

Until a carefully planned scheme left him completely marked by the other man, sending him tumbling from the clouds into the mud.

The F3 he had once considered brothers began to look at him differently, and countless Alphas started seeing him as prey.

Consumed by boundless hatred, Miu Lin lay low, convinced the nightmare had ended when his own blade pierced the other's heart.

But he came back.

Wearing a prince's insignia and carrying a marriage contract, he smiled as he crushed the life Miu Lin had just rebuilt.

"Marry me," Ze Yi leaned down, fingertips stroking the nape of his neck, "or I'll make the entire Empire die for you."

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Ze Yi had no parents. When he was eight, the young Asmodeus heir pulled him from the rubble of an orphanage.

"When I grow up, I'll come marry you."

He remembered those words for ten years and got into Miu Lin's academy, only to see Miu Lin look at him with disgust. "A gutter rat like you thinks you're worthy?"

Ze Yi wiped away his tears and smiled.

He swore to take brutal revenge on this scumbag!

He laid out a grand scheme, setting an inescapable trap that left Miu Lin crippled. He fulfilled their childhood promise and became his bride.

But his bride repaid him with a sword and a death sentence.

When he returned, Ze Yi seized power in the imperial family and personally signed the order for their political marriage.

"This time," he gently wiped the blood from the corner of Miu Lin's mouth, "I'll make you walk into the cage willingly and never leave."

Reader's Guide

*1v1, equally matched, Alpha-Alpha romance, popular shou, no System, no rebirth, a genuine native of this world

*The lovers have a grudge; lots of shou-focused depiction (please avoid if that's not your thing)

*An aloof, straight-man shou who is a domineering hero x a deceptively innocent, calculating, ruthless gong

*Includes nonhuman elements

Theme: Only by standing up to power can you survive against all odds