Shen Zhiyin is the useless alpha of the Shen family. Her pheromones are weak and bland, and she's in the middle of a rebellious phase.
She dyes her hair red, gets her ears pierced, wears ripped clothes, and hangs clinking metal accessories all over herself. She loudly declares that love and marriage should be free, and refuses to accept an arranged marriage.
In the end, her family cuts off her bank cards and throws her out.
Her best friend lends her a small apartment she isn't using. On Shen Zhiyin's first day there, the frail omega next door knocks on her door.
The omega is beautiful and aloof, but blind. She's burning with fever and, delirious and weak, asks to borrow some fever medicine.
Her rich pheromones wash over Shen Zhiyin, who hurriedly covers her nose and mouth. "Wait, your heat is starting."
The omega pauses. "Can you help me?"
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A low-level pheromone mark is weak and short-lived, so the omega knocks on Shen Zhiyin's door again and again.
Blind and frail, the omega fussily complains that it hurts, then fussily begs for more.
Shen Zhiyin kisses the lips the omega seeks out, falling more and more in love. She spends everything she has to support the omega.
Until Shen Zhiyin's family gives her one last ultimatum: go meet her arranged-marriage partner.
Shen Zhiyin's eyes dart around. That night in bed, she tells the omega, "I'll go back and trick them into giving me some money for your treatment."
The omega's breathing is ragged. She doesn't answer.
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Her arranged-marriage partner is Jing Songyi, the famously cold beauty of the wealthy Jing family. A top-tier omega, she's ruthless and cunning.
Shen Zhiyin's eyelid twitches. What a coincidence, her omega has the same name.
But when she arrives, she finds that the poised, aristocratic omega radiating silent pressure is none other than the blind little darling she's spent night after night entwined with.
Shen Zhiyin sits stiffly, a whole stomachful of questions she doesn't dare ask. Her mind is full of things she's said: "boring old woman," "I'll go back and trick them into giving me some money," and so on.
Just before Shen Zhiyin hurries off, Jing Songyi pulls her by the collar and kisses the corner of her lips, murmuring, "Go home and wait for me."
Shen Zhiyin drops to her knees on the spot.
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Jing Songyi waited eleven years.
She waited for the little bean to grow up and become old enough to honor their engagement. But the little bean refused, saying she wanted to date for love, dyeing her hair red and speeding around, stirring up a citywide commotion.
Jing Songyi couldn't wait for her injured eyes to recover. She came up with a plan and knocked on Shen Zhiyin's door.
Fortunately, the engagement remained in place.
She wrapped her arms around the alpha's neck again and again, letting tears break free at the corners of her eyes.
"Keep going. Don't stop..."
*Age gap: six years, younger female alpha, no baggage
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