1.
Guan Luxiao was an unregistered person, simple-minded and slow to react. He struggled to survive in the Shadow Zone with a child he'd found.
They were so poor they had to sleep squeezed together, but little Guan Heng felt safe.
Later, on a summer night, he woke to suppressed, breathy sounds. Turning his head, he saw a patch of flushed skin.
The person beside him was trembling, curled up in the damp, sweet scent of sweat.
Guan Heng hurried to find a doctor, but Guan Luxiao pulled out a dose of suppressants.
"...I'm not sick. I'm actually an Omega."
After that, they slept in separate beds, but Guan Heng could hardly sleep.
2.
At fifteen, Guan Heng differentiated as a top-tier Alpha. On that very same day, his adoptive father was in a car accident and died from his injuries.
Afterward, he went to military school, fought on the battlefield, and entered high society's game. Everyone respected him, but he found life utterly boring.
Until one night at a banquet, Guan Heng saw a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
It looked exactly the same, but the person stood high above him, cold and noble, his bearing completely unlike that of his gentle, clumsy adoptive father.
Someone beside him murmured.
"Who's that?"
"Huo Danyi, the Huo family's deputy patriarch who returned a few years ago. Beautiful, and just as skilled at getting things done. If you're looking to marry into a family, he's a good choice."
He didn't recognize him at all.
3.
An accident left them drugged and trapped together.
Huo Danyi knew he was done for.
Even if he could keep it secret afterward, he was an Omega. Other than marrying this young, handsome major general, he had no way out.
He tried to stay calm, but under the drug's effects, his pheromones spilled out of his control.
The scent was sweet, intoxicating, and achingly familiar.
The Alpha's towering figure loomed over him. He pressed the tip of his nose against the underdeveloped gland at the back of Huo Danyi's neck. His breath was scorching as he slowly rubbed it, leaving it damp.
Huo Danyi's whole body went limp. Struggling to breathe through the overwhelming pleasure, he still tried to seriously discuss an exchange of benefits, but the next moment his voice broke into a different pitch.
"Remember my scent first," the young man said coldly.
4.
On their wedding night, Huo Danyi said with rational restraint that this was only a political marriage.
So even after they lost control for a whole night, without a barrier between them, and the haughty beauty wept, they still did not kiss.
The next morning, Guan Heng got up, coolly buttoned his uniform, and went to the military headquarters. Huo Danyi pressed his lips together and went to work, pretending not to care.
*
Before | Introverted, ambitious adopted son x silly, kind, caring father figure
After | Cold, world-weary, scheming top x aloof, composed beauty bottom
1. Both are each other's only partners. No ship reversal, no disruptive comments. They love each other very much.
2. Not a typical melodrama. The top will deliberately call the bottom "Mother." Read with caution if that's a trigger.
3. The top recognizes him again very quickly. He is sulking and deliberately acting cold, but only for a little while.
*Three volumes in all: the first covers the adopted-son period, the second their reunion and political marriage, and the third what happens after their memories return.
[No putting the bottom down to praise the top, or putting the top down to praise the bottom.]
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