"The Softhearted A Who Became a Reserved Beauty's Kept Partner, modern-day story"
[ABO / 1v1 / Happy Ending / Childbirth / No Side Pairings]
At twenty-five, Gu Yingxi was an elite member of one of the country's top special operations units. After leaving the service, she opened a security company specializing in clients with so much money that their personal safety was at risk.
As one of the country's mere 0.01% of SSS-class Alphas, she had never even held an Omega's hand at twenty-five. She had never dated anyone, much to her mother's worry.
After her mother nagged her for years, Gu decided she should tell her blind date she wasn't ready to get married just yet.
But when she arrived at their agreed meeting place and saw the cool beauty resting her chin in her hand, gazing casually out the window, Gu Yingxi immediately forgot all the lines she'd prepared to turn her down.
She calmly introduced herself: "Hello, I'm Gu Yingxi."
In truth, her heart was racing wildly, as if hundreds of thousands of deer were stampeding around in her chest at once.
She wasn't stupid. She knew this was the first time she'd ever fallen for anyone in her twenty-five years of life.
Later, she went home with the beautiful Omega. Gu Yingxi thought she'd done a good job hiding her feelings, but she had no idea she'd given herself away long ago.
Until the cool, breathtakingly beautiful Omega opened her lips and said softly, "I thought you meant it when you flooded me with your pheromones the whole way here."
Gu Yingxi was speechless. The Omega asked in a clear, gentle voice, "Didn't you?"
In her twenty-six years of life, Ning Changle had experienced two unexpected encounters.
The first happened when she was twenty-three, when she met a silly little fool who was willing to risk her life to protect someone she'd only just met.
She had thought she would never fall for an Alpha so easily, but in that moment she had to admit that when a hero-saving-a-beauty scenario happened to her, it was hard to resist a meeting that felt fated.
Later, the little fool disappeared without a trace. Ning Changle tried every possible means to find her, but couldn't. She thought she would never see her again.
She swore she'd never let herself fall for anyone so easily again.
The second unexpected encounter happened when she was twenty-six.
As the head of the Ning family, the leading corporation in the Southern Military District, she was young and accomplished, yet still couldn't escape her elders' pressure to marry.
Under her mother's threat that if she didn't go meet her blind date, she'd have them tie the person straight to her bed, Ning Changle gave in and went.
She thought, I've heard she's a pure-hearted younger girl who has never dated anyone. I'll just figure out a way to turn her down.
But when she turned to see who had arrived, the person greeted her with a polite smile. Those doe eyes still couldn't hide her feelings, and Ning Changle saw the surprise, attraction, and unfamiliarity in them at a glance.
She smiled and said, "Hello, I'm Ning Changle."
They shook hands, then let go at once.
But Ning Changle's heart was already in disarray.
It was her. It had to be. But why didn't the fool recognize her at all?
She even flooded Ning Changle with that familiar scent the whole way there, just as she had when they first met. Whenever she was by Ning Changle's side, she couldn't help making camellias bloom one after another, as if she wanted to wrap Ning Changle up completely and keep anyone else from claiming her.
This time, she would never allow the little Alpha named Gu Yingxi to disappear from her world again.
Theme: The best relationships are built on mutual encouragement and growing together