A period of upheaval sent the interstellar political landscape into turmoil. The Chu family collapsed overnight, burdened with countless accusations. Chu Xingyu's parents, older brother, and relatives were arrested and exiled. Only Chu Xingyu, who happened to enter his differentiation period at that time, escaped that fate.
But the result of his differentiation was one his parents and brother would never have wanted to see. He had differentiated as an Omega.
Countless people reached out to offer this beautiful, haughty Omega their "charity."
"Come with me and submit to me, and I'll save you."
They knew that without his family's protection, Chu Xingyu would eventually be plucked from the branch, and that they could slowly strip him of every last thorn.
Even Lu Guize, who had always been at odds with Chu Xingyu, was among them.
When a house falls, everyone kicks it. People laughed, saying that even Lu Guize, whose status and standing had once been far beneath Chu Xingyu's, could now trample him and humiliate him.
Falling into the hands of one of these people and becoming someone's caged bird seemed to be Chu Xingyu's inevitable fate.
While everyone waited to see who would win him, Chu Xingyu suddenly disappeared just after his differentiation period ended.
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Several years later, Chu Xingyu suddenly returned, with a new identity and an inseparable best friend.
Back in his hometown, Chu Xingyu devoted himself to overturning the charges against his family and rescuing his parents, brother, and relatives. In the process, he repeatedly clashed with his nemesis, Lu Guize.
Gradually, Chu Xingyu began to find his nemesis strange. Wasn't Lu Guize supposed to sabotage him? Why did Lu Guize vote in his favor? Why did he help him make connections? Why did he remember that he was allergic to alcohol...
Maybe I misunderstood him. He's actually a good person.
That's what Chu Xingyu thought.
As they spent more time together, Chu Xingyu and Lu Guize gradually grew closer.
When Chu Xingyu decided to introduce his former nemesis to his best friend, he was surprised to find that the two never seemed to be available at the same time. One of them would always have something to do, or the other couldn't make it.
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Then one day, Lu Guize mistakenly thought Chu Xingyu had fallen for someone else. After getting drunk, the people around him called Chu Xingyu using the contact at the top of his list.
Chu Xingyu took the drunkard home, listening to him ramble the whole way. In his drunken blunder, Lu Guize let slip many things that only Chu Xingyu and his best friend were supposed to know.
Chu Xingyu called his best friend, only to hear a faint buzzing from Lu Guize's pocket.
There was another communicator inside.
At that moment, Lu Guize's cover was blown. Only then did Chu Xingyu realize that his best friend and his nemesis had been the same person all along.
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Handsome top and beautiful bottom, both strong, both devoted exclusively to each other
The story may be revised before it officially begins.
2025.6.6
Theme: Waiting for flowers to bloom after hardship
