How Could My Brother Not Recognize Me?

As a key member of the company’s R&D department, beta Ding Ruo was forced to take leave after smashing an alpha with connections in the gland with a wine bottle.

While dealing with the lawsuit between himself and that alpha, he might as well consider changing jobs.

After all, he had gotten into a full-on fight with a connected alpha at a company-wide event. Ding Ruo doubted the company would keep a troublemaker like him around.

But just a week into his leave, Ding Ruo was called back to the office.

He heard the company had parachuted in a new alpha executive, the chairman’s son and a powerful nepo hire. The alpha Ding Ruo had beaten up was this executive’s great-uncle.

When he returned to the office, Ding Ruo also picked up a cardboard box for packing his things and leaving.

They’d gone out of their way to summon him back while he was on leave. Surely it was just to avenge the executive’s uncle, and remind a mere employee like him to remember his place and who owned the company.

On his first day at the company, Wu Yi asked Ding Ruo to speak with him alone.

Their conversation lasted all afternoon. Ding Ruo’s coworkers, who were close to him, grew increasingly anxious, deeply worried about his situation.

Who would have guessed that in the newly furnished office, the alpha would be kneeling on the floor, eyes red with hurt?

The beta lying on the sofa had long since fallen asleep.

The alpha, whose knees had gone numb from kneeling, finally murmured softly after a long while.

“Gege, how could you not recognize me?”

*

Ding Ruo realized his new boss seemed to have it in for him.

On his very first day, he left him waiting in the office to put him in his place. And on top of that, he always gave Ding Ruo the dirty and exhausting work first.

He even made him drive when he went home to visit his family.

Shyly, Wu Yi led Ding Ruo, covered in his pheromones, to his father. “Ruoruo, this is my dad.”

Ding Ruo had been forced to work on a statutory holiday. He rolled his eyes internally, but kept a polite smile on his face. “Hello, Chairman! It must be exhausting to handle company matters even when you’re supposed to be resting. Please let me know if you have any work instructions. I’ll do my best to serve the company!”

Wu Yi: This isn’t right! The internet said meeting the parents wasn’t supposed to go like this!

Ding Ruo: He’s been provoking me this whole time!

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PS: 1v1, both leads are each other’s only partner, A/B/O, no B-to-O transformation plot and no children.

Theme: Love is something you have to pursue for yourself.