Given to a Powerful Minister by My Stepbrother [Ancient ABO]

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◆ A gorgeous, aloof villainous beauty and the bad dogs who covet him

◆ Historical danmei ABO | False siblings | Younger brother steals elder brother's wife | B transformed into O | Love and hate

Everyone knew Yu Qingzhou and his stepbrother did not get along.

While their mother was alive, they were brothers brought together halfway through life. After she died, Yu Qingzhou, still in mourning, knocked on his stepbrother's courtyard door and became his husband.

It was a clear night. Yu Qingzhou stood beneath the moonlight, yet his beauty outshone the moon. The young man, deep in his rut, had dark eyes, as if he meant to devour his stepbrother, who was four years younger than him.

As a top-tier Alpha, he relied on Yu Qingzhou to get him through every rut from then on.

Even though Yu Qingzhou was merely an ordinary Beta with no pheromones.

With bite marks all over the back of his neck and his stepbrother's domineering but short-lived pheromones clinging to him, Yu Qingzhou got his wish and entered the finest academy in the kingdom. Soon, at an academy that admitted only Alphas, he claimed first place. He excelled in all six gentlemanly arts, trampling his Alpha classmates underfoot.

The Alphas hated him and resented him,

but they loved him too.

They loved him like his stepbrother's intense, fleeting pheromones.

At the academy, his stepbrother, four years his senior, pretended not to notice him. Yu Qingzhou couldn't care less.

He cared only about the power and status within reach, things ordinary Betas could never touch and only Alphas were allowed to possess

Just as Yu Qingzhou thought those things were within reach, his stepbrother personally dragged him down from his altar, broke his wings, and turned around to offer him to a powerful minister who held sway over the entire court.

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Everyone lamented Yu Qingzhou's unfortunate fate: bullied by his stepbrother, then abandoned by him.

Little did they know that when Yu Qingzhou met the minister who shook the court and was rumored to slaughter people without mercy that night, he merely called out softly

"Teacher?"

[Reading Guide]

★ Unlimited in-line comments are enabled. The blurb was screenshotted and saved on April 28, 2025.

★ Historical ABO: Alpha = Tianqian, Beta = Yongchang, Omega = Diqian; rut = Ganlin period, heat = Yulu period, pheromones = Xinxian

★ The protagonist, Yu Qingzhou, is a Beta, an aloof, stunning beauty with villainous tendencies. He's ruthless to others and even harsher on himself, and he's ambitious and determined to climb higher. Many characters have unrequited feelings for him, so expect an intense love rivalry. The bad dogs and rejected suitors will compete among themselves.

★ Since things have come this far, why not guess which male lead will win the most favor?

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1️⃣ The Brooding Pariah Got Mouth-to-Mouthed by the Chief Disciple! 🩵✨

◆ Brooding, universally disliked bottom & arrogant, all-powerful top disciple

◆ Love-and-hate fiction | Human cauldron | Dark, angsty melodrama | Status gap | Bittersweet

Before my mother died, she told me that only by gritting my teeth and standing tall could I avoid being crushed by this world.

She also said I had a rare dual spirit root, something she had never seen before, and that I was sure to join the greatest sect of the age, study under a Mahayana Venerable, and become the peerless chief disciple who looked down on the world.

Climb higher, Chaozhou, she said. Climb higher, and never stop!

I listened.

I gave it everything I had, swinging my sword fifty thousand times every day until I was battered and bloody. After ten years, I finally reached the starting point everyone else was born at.

As a menial disciple.

I wasn't qualified to compete for the position of chief disciple or meet a Mahayana Venerable. Even the dual spirit root I had once been so proud of turned out to be a completely unremarkable fourfold spirit root.

The chief disciple, Dao Tan, was as radiant as the moon, a prodigy entirely beyond my reach.

The distance between us was probably greater than the distance between an ant in the sect and him.

My fellow disciples said I was a mad dog who did nothing but practice swordsmanship, a filthy thing who deluded himself into thinking he could crawl into the inner sect. They said I had a coquettish, bewitching face, and wondered whether I was a spy sent by the demons to beguile people's hearts.

They laughed at me, cursed me, and humiliated me, as if I weren't a person just like them.

Perhaps even my chance to advance as an outer sect disciple came from flattering the chief disciple and selling him a smile.

"..."

That night, after seeing those words, I expressionlessly used a method I'd just learned to forward every one of those so-called "Dao Discussion Records."

[Chaozhou]: "Dao Discussion Records"

[Chaozhou]: @Dao Tan, this month's meals came to 183 low-grade spirit stones, and the takeout packing fee is 94 spirit stones. Since you taught me to use the water mirror and we're roommates, I'll give you a 30% discount.

[Chaozhou]: When does the chief disciple plan to settle the above charges? [/smile]

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2️⃣ I Only Have You, My Husband 🧡💫

Land a rich sucker from a big city, get rich, and make something of myself.

That was the new goal Xiao Qiao set after failing to get into vocational school.

Xiao Qiao was the dumbest kid in his class. He hadn't expected to get into high school, but he never imagined he'd fail to qualify for vocational school either. What could a brain that dumb possibly do?

One sleepless night, Xiao Qiao looked at himself in the mirror and had an epiphany:

Go make it in a big city.

Someone my age and good-looking shouldn't be stuck here.

So he approached the task with all the determination of someone cramming for an exam. He studied the map through a magnifying glass again and again, carefully choosing the big city where he wanted to make his fortune.

Then, full of enthusiasm, he circled a small county town 500 kilometers away from that big city.

"I'll settle here first and save up for the trip."

"Then I'll soar to success!"

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However, less than a week after arriving in the county town, a man* him.

Right there in an alley.

He didn't even know who the man was.

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[A bird that dreamed of spreading its wings and soaring high was held in the mire of the mundane by an infatuated gaze]

[Again and again, until they were both drenched]

Small-town fiction / Set in the 2010s / Coercion / Size difference

A wild, untamed but obsessive top, a good guy on the surface who actually leaves his wife thoroughly ravished VS a poor, sweet, dumb little beauty who gets played into a human cup

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3️⃣ Falling for My Wife Isn't the Little Omega's Fault 💙🎀

Lin Zhiyu, an Omega, is currently providing pheromone comfort to an Alpha in critical condition.

The Alpha's wife is present the entire time.

His wife is a Beta with no pheromones. She can only watch from the side, quietly holding her husband's hand.

Every time Lin Zhiyu releases his strawberry-milk-scented pheromones to soothe the Alpha, he feels guilty.

He makes little snacks for the wife, brings him strawberry milk that smells just like his pheromones, and helps take care of the funeral after the Alpha dies.

And when his heat unexpectedly hits, he asks the wife to come to his rental apartment and offers himself up in the wife's bed.

▎A gorgeous Beta × a pretty little Omega; a gentle piano virtuoso × a comfort Omega with strawberry-milk-scented pheromones

▎The Beta and his late husband never had sex

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Finally, a kiss for you for reading this far! Mwah!

Theme: Heaven, earth, sovereign, and father; brothers should care for one another.