My Love Rival Keeps Pretending to Be Sweet

Please add these upcoming novels to your reading list: A Polite Scoundrel of a Tenant Is Still "Treating His Illness" Today and Mr. Zhou, Your Pheromones Are Making My Glands Go Out of Control (Blurb below)

He Yuran suddenly realized that a love rival had appeared out of nowhere beside the straight guy he'd been pursuing for a month, just as he was about to win his crush's affection: Jiang Yubai.

He had the face of a textbook innocent high school boy, and followed He Yuran's crush around all day, calling him "Teacher Xiao Pei" with unmistakable familiarity.

Even more provocatively:

He interrupted whenever He Yuran spoke to his crush.

He followed whenever He Yuran walked his crush home.

Then, after pulling a stunt, he put on a wounded expression: "You won't be mad at me for acting like this, Brother Ran?"

He glared through gritted teeth at his rival's pure, innocent face. "The one thing I hate most in this life is a scheming boy!"

But then he noticed something was off. When this love rival was around him, his whole demeanor changed.

After Jiang Yubai unexpectedly had to stay the night, He Yuran tossed him a cute teddy bear pajama set that his ex had left behind.

His ex was 175 centimeters tall; Jiang Yubai was 185. He Yuran looked at Jiang Yubai's cold face, like someone had just swindled him out of eight million yuan, paired with the childishly cute teddy bear pajamas. He struggled not to laugh. "Sorry, they're my ex's. Make do."

Jiang Yubai (holding up the teddy bear pajamas): "So this is your type?"

He Yuran (shrugging): "Who doesn't like cute boys?"

Jiang Yubai: "I don't."

He Yuran rolled his eyes. Who asked you?

The next second, Jiang Yubai, with his innocent-looking face: "I like someone sexier." (Stares.)

"..." He Yuran.

Then why are you staring at me...

And does my crush know you're like this around other people?!

What a two-faced schemer! Quit pretending to be well-behaved!

He Yuran thought this would be the ultimate battle over a rival in love. Then one day, after drinking too much together, they ended up kissing.

He Yuran (panicking): "You already like someone."

Jiang Yubai (trying not to laugh): "Then why did you kiss me?"

He Yuran (feeling more and more guilty): "I'm sorry."

Kissing your love rival is wrong, but... what if I want to do it again...

A younger, scheming, black-bellied top who pretends to be obedient x a wild, hilarious bottom who's convinced he's the top.

They aren't each other's first. The bottom has an ex, but! Before meeting the main top, he'd only ever been a top himself! (Does that count as being half a virgin... just kidding.)

The following are upcoming-novel blurbs:

During the plum rain season, a cool, handsome man who seems to have grown up drinking dew moves in across the hall. He's a dentist in a white coat, cold-faced and cold-hearted. Rang Chen isn't very interested.

But he notices that his mother seems to be coming home more often. She doesn't head to her precious son's room, though. Instead, she goes across the hall to fuss over the handsome neighbor, even slyly asking him personal questions about the guy.

Alarm bells go off in Rang Chen's head. Knowing his mother's habit of going for men both young and old...

Is this guy about to become my stepdad?

On a typhoon night, Rang Chen notices that this "potential stepdad" has left his window open. He kindly goes over to help, but through a gap in the curtains, accidentally witnesses a night of passion.

Instead of thinking about what he just saw, he should be figuring out how to explain to his mother that she's got her eye on a young gay man.

One day, his friends rope him into a game of truth or dare at the gay bar across the street, and he unexpectedly runs into the cool neighbor flirting with a pretty twink.

"By the waterlands grow angelica and orchids." His gold-rimmed glasses slide down to the tip of his nose as Lu Suiyi runs a finger over the other man's Adam's apple. "Shall we go to my place and finish the next line?"

Rang Chen spills his drink all over the floor...

The next day, he catches Lu Suiyi for the fourth time vomiting into the sink, a white neck still marked with last night's love bites.

Rang Chen frowns instinctively, but Lu Suiyi only smiles at him. "Is it that disgusting? You seemed pretty engrossed that night."

"..."

Unable to deny it, Rang Chen gets straight to the point. "If you like men, stop accepting my mother's kindness."

Lu Suiyi looks at him calmly. "Does your mother like me that much?"

Rang Chen wrinkles his nose, feeling the despair of watching someone he dislikes living a good life. "Who around here doesn't like you?"

Put on a white coat and you act like a person, take it off and you...

Speaking of taking it off... that night...

Damn it, what am I thinking?

"Is that so?" Lu Suiyi says. "Do you like me too?"

Rang Chen squirms as if maggots were crawling all over him. "Are you sick or something?!"

"I am sick." Lu Suiyi smiles. "That night you caught me, I was treating it."

What a load of nonsense! Like hell I believe you...

Until he accidentally finds a medical report that fell off Lu Suiyi's desk.

Who knew you had a disease that makes you obsessed with, uh, that?!

It's the most terrifying disease in the world!

Rang Chen turns around. Lu Suiyi is leaning against the doorframe, holding up two fingers. "Little landlord, voyeurism is an illness too."

One day, Lu Suiyi tells him, "To treat this illness, I need to make myself vomit and create a sense of disgust. It'll gradually get better."

Rang Chen scratches the love bite on his neck. "Will you end up disgusted with me too?"

"..."

They agreed to give each other what they wanted, and Lu Suiyi keeps his promise. Apart from "treating his illness," he absolutely refuses to get any closer to the little landlord.

But nobody can escape the law of falling for it...

Rang Chen grins. "Baby, this is the greatest illness in the world."

"???"

Lu Suiyi lies flat and closes his eyes. The doctor never said it was contagious...

A tsundere, prickly top who's actually a devoted puppy x a cold beauty who's actually a refined scoundrel and a madman

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In high school, Sang Yu was an unremarkable beta, free to live his life in an ABO world without standing out. Then he unexpectedly presented as an omega at the birthday party of his secret crush, Zhou Chuxian.

He doesn't remember who took him to the hospital. He only remembers that because he presented so late, he became a defective Grade B omega. Just how defective? Most alpha pheromones had no effect on him.

Sang Yu said, "Grade B? I'm practically SSS grade!"

But his good fortune didn't last. At twenty-five, with a successful career, he received a medical report from the hospital.

Sang Yu: "I'm so young, and my glands are... aging prematurely?"

Doctor: "A Grade B omega's glands have a very low level of responsiveness. During heat, they need alpha pheromones to activate them. If an omega goes a long time without going into heat, premature aging is hard to avoid."

Sang Yu: "Will I die?"

Doctor: "No."

Sang Yu: "Then let them age."

He was successful, confident, and outstanding. How could an alpha become a shackle holding him back? He didn't care for one.

But his parents wouldn't accept that. They urgently pushed him to go on dates and find a man.

Sang Yu was used to getting straight to the point. "I'm a Grade B omega. Most alpha pheromones have no effect on me, so I'm not much different from a beta. And I don't plan to have children."

He lifted his head, confident he'd made his point, only to see the person he'd secretly loved for years sitting across from him, listening quietly.

Wait, who? His high school crush, Zhou Chuxian?

He was about to run when Zhou Chuxian spoke even more succinctly. "Zhou Chuxian, male, S-grade alpha, twenty-six, no plans to have children. Here's my full resume. If everything looks good, we can sign the agreement."

Sang Yu: "????"

He was certain Zhou Chuxian didn't remember him. Otherwise, he must be crazy!

Sang Yu thought this would be a marriage of mutual respect and courtesy, so he followed the rules in their agreement very seriously, not daring to cross a single line.

Until one day, Zhou Chuxian found his medical report. Sang Yu watched as Zhou Chuxian removed his suppressor patch for the first time in front of him. "Sang Yu, want to try?"

Sang Yu: "Clause... clause six of our marriage agreement says we can't release pheromones in front of each other without permission."

Zhou Chuxian, calm-faced: "Clause ten says either party can amend the agreement at any time, as long as both agree."

Sang Yu: "..."

A month after the wedding, he went to the hospital for a follow-up.

The doctor exclaimed, "Oh my, "

Sang Yu: "What's wrong? Have my glands aged prematurely?"

The doctor gave him a thumbs-up. "Your glands have won their comeback match."

Sang Yu: "Huh?"

Well, well. It seemed Zhou Chuxian's pheromones really did work on him. Did that mean he'd start having heats from now on? Just thinking about it sounded like a hassle...

He went home looking dejected. Following the doctor's instructions, Zhou Chuxian removed his suppressor patch again. A few minutes later, Sang Yu was blushing, his heart racing.

"...Mr. Zhou, tone it down. Your pheromones are making my glands go out of control again."

A cold, taciturn, secretly flirtatious man x an easily embarrassed little ray of sunshine (I'll add more details once I've thought them through)

Theme: Everyone has the ability to love and be loved. You and I both deserve love.