The Cool, Aloof Beta Everyone Covets

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Blurb:

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Shen Qingji is a beta office worker, but he's been dating an Omega boyfriend for five years.

Everyone says that, aside from his secondary sex, Shen Qingji is the perfect lover.

Even Shen Qingji's boyfriend thinks he's deeply in love with him.

That is, until Shen Qingji finds out his Omega boyfriend is engaged, and to an Alpha, no less.

He breaks up with him decisively, without the slightest hesitation. His behavior is nothing like the impression he gives others.

After the breakup, a friend request arrives on Shen Qingji's WeChat.

The note says: [Big Brother.]

Looking at the request, Shen Qingji recognizes the sender.

It's his ex-boyfriend's younger brother.

Shen Qingji remembers him because the younger brother once drank from a wineglass Shen Qingji had used.

And because of the way he looked at Shen Qingji: sticky and viscous, like a snake.

Feverish. Frenzied.

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Qi Huaiye has a crush on the ex-boyfriend of the man he calls his cousin.

Ever since Qi Huaiye had his first wet dream at fifteen, it was Shen Qingji's face he saw in his dreams.

From that day on, Qi Huaiye watched Shen Qingji from the shadows.

Qi Huaiye discovers that Shen Qingji isn't what he seems.

When a fellow beta at work touches his hand, Shen Qingji walks into the bathroom with a polite smile and washes his hands in cold water until the back of his pale hand turns red.

When that so-called cousin kisses Shen Qingji on the cheek, Shen Qingji makes an excuse to go to the public restroom, takes out a tissue, wets it, and rubs at the place that was just kissed.

But Qi Huaiye likes Shen Qingji even more.

So Qi Huaiye puts on the act of a sweet, well-behaved younger boy and adds Shen Qingji on WeChat.

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After agreeing to give dating Qi Huaiye a try, Shen Qingji realizes that the Alpha has liked him for a long time.

At Qi Huaiye's home, he finds a lot of photos. Most are from his university days, but one is a photo of him on his high school's honor roll.

Before he can question Qi Huaiye after seeing through the Alpha's mask, the Alpha pulls him into an embrace. "Big Brother, you can bite my gland."

1. Please don't read this as a reflection of reality.

2. This is a sweet, pure romance wrapped in an unusual kink.

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Coming soon: Do Your Crown Princes Just Pick Up Wives Off the Street?

A guileless, stuttering, well-behaved bottom x a controlling, extremely doting-on-his-younger-brother top

Spotlight: [Fake Incest]

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Xie Yulan was born insensitive and stuttered when he spoke. As the youngest prince, he was naturally unloved after his mother was sent to the Cold Palace.

But when Xie Yulan was ten, he managed to win the favor of the legitimate prince, Xie Linyuan.

Xie Linyuan was gentle as jade and treated Xie Yulan exceptionally well, practically wanting to cradle him in his palm.

And so Xie Yulan spent nine years wanting for nothing.

All the palace maids and eunuchs knew that the eldest prince, Xie Linyuan, doted especially on that little fool with the stutter.

Whenever he went out of the palace, the eldest prince always brought sweet cakes back for the little stutterer.

Whenever that happened, Xie Yulan would run into the eldest prince's arms, bite into a sweet cake, and hold it to Xie Linyuan's lips, saying without a shred of etiquette, "E-Elder Brother, you... you eat some too."

Whenever the maids saw the way the eldest prince looked at Xie Yulan, as if he wanted to devour him, they were frightened for the boy.

But Xie Yulan never noticed a thing.

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Later, a sudden upheaval rocked the palace, and Xie Yulan was exposed as a civet cat that had taken the place of the prince. He wasn't the emperor's son at all.

Looking at the real prince standing before him, the one who should have had Xie Yulan's life,

Even someone as slow as Xie Yulan knew it was time to pack up and get out.

But the only person he couldn't bear to leave was Xie Linyuan.

So he put all the things Xie Linyuan had given him over the past nine years into a little bundle, hugged it close, and left the palace where he'd spent nineteen years.

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Xie Yulan returned to his old home. His biological parents had died young, and he was the only one in the household.

Having been pampered since the age of ten, Xie Yulan had long forgotten what it felt like to struggle.

But he found work to support himself.

That evening, Xie Yulan came home exhausted and saw Xie Linyuan sitting beside the bed in his bedroom.

The little knickknacks Xie Yulan had brought with him were neatly laid out beside the man. Hearing Xie Yulan return, Xie Linyuan turned his head and softly called, "Come here."

The moment he saw Xie Linyuan, Xie Yulan was overwhelmed with grievances. As soon as he walked over, the man pulled him into his arms.

Before Xie Yulan could tell him how much he'd missed him, Xie Linyuan clasped a hand around his lower back. His voice was no longer gentle and indulgent. "If you love your elder brother so much, why did you leave?"

The possessiveness buried deep in his bones erupted the moment he saw Xie Yulan.

"Come back to the princes' residence with your elder brother. I'll take care of you for the rest of your life. Wouldn't that be nice?"

Theme: True love arrives.