After the Devoted Bottom's Heart Dies

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Upcoming: "Your Brother Doesn't Want You Anymore" and "A Low-Quality Soother Got Pregnant and Faked His Death to Escape"

1.

Qi Xu had been brothers with Si Jingheng for five years, and had loved him for just as long.

On the day they graduated from college, Qi Xu finally worked up the courage to confess to Si Jingheng. He planned to go abroad if he was rejected.

Si Jingheng's eyes gave nothing away. He pulled Qi Xu into his arms, raised an eyebrow, and smiled. "Want to give it a try?"

Thinking his sincerity had won Si Jingheng over, Qi Xu happily said yes.

A few years later, at a birthday party, Qi Xu found an invitation his friend had dropped. The name on it stung his eyes.

It was an invitation to Si Jingheng's engagement party. Si Jingheng, who had held him in bed that very morning and promised him a gift, was about to get engaged.

That night, Qi Xu showed up out of the blue. He asked Si Jingheng, "Were you only trying to humiliate me from the start?"

Si Jingheng gave a soft laugh. "What else? Weren't you the one who insisted on loving me? Did you actually think I'd marry a man?"

Qi Xu took two steps back, smiling as warmly as ever. "All right. I wish you both a lifetime of happiness and many children."

Not long afterward, Qi Xu disappeared.

2.

Word spread that the eldest young master of the Si family had suddenly gone mad and was searching the world for a man.

He was even groveling at the man's feet, doing anything to make him stay.

Outside the Qi family home, the towering man begged through choked sobs:

"Please, could you love me one more time?"

Reading guide:

1. A scum gong and a devoted shou. One-on-one, happy ending, no switching partners. This is pure old-school groveling-and-regret romance.

2. If you want to curse out the gong, don't curse the author. I'll be secretly wiping away tears in the middle of the night.

3. Thanks to all the lovely readers supporting the official version. If you read pirated copies and came back to leave warnings, don't blame me for cursing you out.

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"Your Brother Doesn't Want You Anymore"

Gu Yunzhi was an orphan. The only person who helped him from time to time was the older man next door. But their good fortune didn't last. When Gu Yunzhi was eighteen, his neighbor suddenly died of a heart attack. His last words to Gu Yunzhi were a request to take care of his son.

Newly eighteen, Gu Yunzhi took the will and went to a villa, where he met a beautiful boy who was only eight years old.

Gu Yunzhi crouched down. "Remember, I'm your big brother."

Having finally found family, Gu Yunzhi spoiled Xi Huan rotten. If Xi Huan wanted the stars, Gu Yunzhi would build a ladder and pluck them from the sky.

On the day of Xi Huan's coming-of-age ceremony, Gu Yunzhi heard him say, "Brother, I want you."

Gu Yunzhi agreed as if possessed.

And so their relationship continued for six whole years.

*

Gu Yunzhi had watched him grow from a mischievous boy into a rising business tycoon.

He thought Xi Huan truly loved him, until he heard the news of Xi Huan's marriage on TV.

And until he found the risqué photos of himself locked away in Xi Huan's safe.

Gu Yunzhi confronted Xi Huan with the newspaper.

All he got in reply was a careless, "Gu Yunzhi, you should know your place."

"So what?" Gu Yunzhi flung a stack of photos at Xi Huan's face.

Xi Huan sneered. "Don't think I don't know. You're in love with my dad, aren't you? Keep your filthy thoughts to yourself. Do you know how disgusting it is to sleep with you every single time? If you don't want to be ruined, get out of the company."

It turned out Xi Huan had only resented him for usurping his place.

All these years, Gu Yunzhi had been fooling himself.

*

Once he accepted what he was to Xi Huan, Gu Yunzhi left without a trace.

Not long afterward, he heard another piece of news.

Standing in front of a television, Xi Huan looked dejected. "I told you, there's someone I love very much. But he doesn't love me anymore."

The next day, Gu Yunzhi found Xi Huan at his door, looking like a stray dog. "Yunzhi, I miss you so much. I mean it this time."

"But I don't want to mean it anymore."

Xi Huan's evolution:

At eight, his brother hit him. He cried.

At sixteen, his brother hit him. He got angry.

At twenty-four, his brother hit him. He got hard.

"A Low-Quality Soother Got Pregnant and Faked His Death to Escape"

Yun Qi was the most inconspicuous low-quality omega on the Tail Star. Ever since he was a child, he'd dreamed of one day seeing the empire's strongest general, the S-rank alpha Lu Guiluan.

When the new policy was introduced, Yun Qi never imagined he'd become Lu Guiluan's pheromone soother.

At the time, Lu Guiluan had suffered severe injuries and fallen from his pedestal.

Accustomed to being above everyone else, Lu Guiluan looked down on Yun Qi. But Yun Qi still saw him as the lifelong pursuit of his dreams, doing his utmost to soothe him. Even when Lu Guiluan bit him until there wasn't a single uninjured spot on his body, Yun Qi endured it.

Then one day, Yun Qi found out he was unexpectedly pregnant. By then, Lu Guiluan had fully recovered his abilities.

He heard Lu Guiluan say, "How could a lowlife from Tail Star ever qualify to be my omega?"

They had agreed from the beginning: Yun Qi mustn't fall in love with Lu Guiluan, and he mustn't get pregnant. He had broken their agreement, so he had to leave.

But he hadn't expected Lu Guiluan to discover his secret. Unable to run any farther, Yun Qi could only turn and plunge into the sea of stars.

-

Later, Lu Guiluan once again became one of the empire's most prominent figures, but everyone said he was close to death.

An alpha who refused all omega pheromone therapy and whose mental powers were running wild had only one fate: death.

In a later battle, the mythical man used up the last of his mental power and fell into the abyss, covered in blood.

He found the person he had longed for day and night.

But he heard Yun Qi say, "Sorry, I don't know you."

Theme: Cherish the person in front of you.