The Straight-Laced CEO Becomes a Sickly Beauty

[7w new free extra chapters, including childbirth]

Wen Zexi, head of the Wen family, had always been decisive and domineering, and the younger members he disciplined treated the young family head with utmost respect.

That changed when he was twenty-five. A car accident shattered his pride, turning him from a handsome, broad-shouldered young man into a frail beauty with an injured spine who couldn't engage in strenuous exercise.

His abs were gone, and he needed someone to look after him in everything.

Worse, the people around him, who had always treated him with respect and kept a proper distance, started crossing the line in front of him.

His schedule, diet, even how long he spent bathing were strictly controlled.

The one who was toughest on him was Lu Jiaxing, the fake young master who had been switched with him at the hospital and lived in the Wen family for twelve years in his place.

Wen Zexi had always crushed him without mercy. Ever since he fell ill, the famous star Lu had flown back from out of town to look after him, and started saying all sorts of nonsense to his face.

For example: "Bro, I think you being sick and lying in bed makes you way more obedient than when you used to glare at everyone..."

"Tsk, tsk, bro, look at you. You don't even have the strength to yell at me now..."

"Bro, hey, good boy. Lift your chin and I'll tie your napkin..."

Wen Zexi was both annoyed and furious at this attitude. He was used to being respected. Even before the Wen family took him back, he had been his parents' pride and a self-disciplined academic star. No one had ever dared tease him so disrespectfully.

His heart pounded in his chest, so he simply buried his head in the blankets and pretended not to hear.

"Oh? Is big bro blushing...?"

Blushing my ass!

Wen Zexi was furious with embarrassment.

*

Things changed on their birthday.

There was no one else at home that day, and it was also the tenth anniversary of the day they had acknowledged each other as brothers. In the ambiguous atmosphere of classical music, something happened.

Lu Jiaxing only remembered that the moon was unusually bright that night. The moon he'd gazed at for years, radiant as frost and snow, had finally shone down on him.

He didn't come to his senses until he heard his brother sobbing softly. He hurriedly carried the man, who had developed a low fever, to the hospital.

After that, he never saw Wen Zexi again.

After waking up, his brother never told anyone why he'd developed a fever.

But he immediately bought a ticket out of town for a business trip and paid Lu Jiaxing 2N+1 as compensation, saying they should part on good terms.

*

Wen Zexi had simply felt he couldn't face the fake young master he'd treated as a little brother since childhood, so he ran off to another city.

After taking a day to rest, he was still struggling to sort out his tangled feelings. Sitting alone beneath the hotel, Wen Zexi heard someone's voice.

He had already blocked the man everywhere online, and he was in the middle of a flare-up, his mind barely clear. He thought he was hearing things in a daze, as if in a dream.

"How are you feeling today, baby? Are you hurting?"

"Mm, I feel awful."

"Why? Do you miss me?"

"Mm." Wen Zexi murmured softly. A tear slipped from the corner of his eye, and he rasped, "I miss you."

"...Okay, Xixi, don't panic, don't cry. I'll come find you, okay, baby? Where are you right now? Tell me where you are."

Wait, would someone in a dream ask for a location?

Wen Zexi jolted awake and wiped his face in alarm.

This time, he was awake, and he heard Lu Jiaxing's voice clearly.

"...Come on, Xixi, where are you? I'll come find you right away."

A stunning beauty who's disciplined and physically frail, but still formidable whenever he's not having a flare-up

Vs

A rebellious, completely crazy puppy who only listens to his big brother

Lu has had a crush on Wen since his teens. He was probably so thoroughly put in his place by his brother when they were young that he never dared make his feelings too obvious. But once they grew up and his brother fell ill, becoming a little vulnerable, he seized the chance to pursue him.

Tan Chu has always been terribly unlucky.

Even though he's the young master of the Tan family, his parents left him at an orphanage for seventeen years. Even though he was an excellent student, his family never liked him. His biological father despised him for being a defective Omega, his mother preferred her adopted son Tan Yu's gentle, well-behaved nature, and his older brother even called him a liar, insisting that an outstanding Enigma like Tan Yu could never have forced a mark on him.

Tan Chu had been so happy when he was first brought back to the family. Now he was exhausted.

His health had never been good. After the F4, who took their cues from Tan Yu, inexplicably targeted him at school, his father, frustrated by his business troubles, tore into him. Tan Chu's pheromone dysregulation flared up, and he spent a night entangled with a strange "Alpha."

Then he had a strange dream.

...It turned out he was the disposable foil in a harem novel, and outside the world, as fragile as a bubble, countless comments refreshed and scrolled before his eyes.

[Tan Yu is absolutely gorgeous]

[When will the real young master finally die? Skip ahead to the part where Yu Yu gets turned into an Omega by an Enigma]

[Useless defective O, hurry up and leave]

Tan Chu... Tan Chu, lying on the big bed, thought about the comments he'd seen, then laughed, suddenly feeling enlightened.

*

He started growing some flowers and plants, and seriously focused on recuperating and painting.

He decided to treat himself better from now on, so he promptly hired the Alpha he'd spent that night with.

One meter ninety, strong and quiet, always there when called, never asking nosy questions, with an excellent service attitude.

One time, a relative caught them together and scolded him for fooling around, saying it would lower his value in a future arranged marriage.

Without saying a word, he took the money and left the family home. He bought a tiny house and settled his obedient little wolfdog inside, as if hiding him away in a golden mansion.

He ordered him to check in every half hour.

The comments in his dreams gradually changed, too:

[What the hell happened to the plot?]

[Why is Yu Yu going crazy because Tan Chu was marked? Is this really my sweet baby Tan Yu?]

[Haha, your baby likes Tan Chu.]

[What did that pitiful painter do wrong? He's in terrible health. Tan Yu has been causing trouble the whole time]

*

Later, his art exhibition opened successfully;

The F4 clique wrote long apology posts about him on the forum;

Tan Yu gripped his arm, his eyes slightly red, and asked, "Tell me, who marked you?"

The family's business kept declining, and his father begged and coaxed him into meeting the Mr. Xie who had specifically asked to see him.

Tan Chu looked at the so-called Mr. Xie and fell silent.

Wasn't this his always-available, incredibly attentive little wolfdog boyfriend???

Dressed to the nines, Xie Zhuo maintained his usual cool demeanor. Under the round table, however, he hooked a black leather boot around Tan Chu's leg and rubbed it affectionately as he said:

"Chu Chu and I really should get married as soon as possible."

Tan Chu can't see the comments all the time. He only occasionally sees them in dreams.

Guiding, fatherly Enigma x gentle painter Omega

Mutual firsts, 1v1

After Awakening, the Sickly One Everyone Hated

Theme: Believe in yourself