After One of the Top Alpha Twins Turned Into an Idiot

[An outwardly abstinent but actually unhinged alpha gong 1 / a foolish but very affectionate, extraordinarily energetic alpha gong 2 x a sincere beta shou who's a bit of a miser]

The Ling twins are the Federation's most famous elite Alpha duo.

The elder brother, Ling Mingzhi, is cool-headed, restrained, and perfectly abstinent. His younger brother, Ling Mingqi, is carefree, brash, passionate, and flamboyant.

The twins seem to differ only in physical strength: in every other way, Ling Mingzhi is superior to Ling Mingqi. Yet he has one fatal flaw: pheromone dysregulation. During his vulnerable period, he may be reverse-marked and become obsessively possessive of the person who marks him, unable to accept anyone else.

For this reason, Ling Mingqi is actually more popular, with scandalous rumors about how he can "pamper someone until they can't get out of bed."

Hearing these rumors, Chen Yanshi smiled faintly behind Ling Mingqi, who had started yawning after reading just two pages of a report.

As an ordinary beta, the only reason he had stood out among so many elite alphas and become Ling Mingqi's special assistant was that he had no shame. And there was no secret to having no shame: the money just had to be good enough.

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Ling Mingqi depended on Chen Yanshi completely, and in return gave him the very best material comforts.

If Ling Mingqi liked a car, he'd casually buy one for Chen Yanshi, so there'd be a spare after he crashed his own. He'd casually buy Chen Yanshi a luxury penthouse in the city center, so that when he wanted to run away from home, he could hide at Chen Yanshi's place and his parents wouldn't find him.

After giving Chen Yanshi a car and a house, Ling Mingqi gradually felt it wasn't much different from being married. But after he vehemently rejected the omega partner his parents had arranged for him, Chen Yanshi disappeared.

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Even after hiding away in a remote little town under an assumed name, Chen Yanshi still hadn't recovered from the shock. At the engagement party Ling Mingqi had disrupted, he had somehow ended up in bed with Ling Mingzhi.

And bitten the back of Ling Mingzhi's neck.

I'm done for, he thought.

The Ling family had protected Ling Mingzhi so thoroughly for years, but you never could guard against a thief in your own home. He'd ruined decades of effort with one bite.

Chen Yanshi was so worried that the Ling family would send people to drag him back and beat him to death that when he saw Young Master Ling by the roadside, he almost had a heart attack.

But wait. Had Young Master Ling become an idiot?

Though he wanted to leave him there, Young Master Ling's intelligence had regressed to that of a ten-year-old child, and he was crouched by the roadside looking so pitiful he might starve to death.

Unable to bear it, Chen Yanshi took him home.

The Ling twins looked nearly identical, except for a light brown mole below the waist that Ling Mingzhi had and Ling Mingqi didn't.

Curious about which one had become an idiot, Chen Yanshi sneaked a glance down while helping Young Master Ling bathe, only to get caught.

"Brother, are you looking at this?" Ling Mingqi gave a little shake to the thing that had nearly made Chen Yanshi develop a fear of enormous objects. "Since you've seen mine, can I see yours?"

Claiming he was just trying to teach him some basic biology, Chen Yanshi's relationship with Ling Mingqi quickly spiraled out of control.

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One day after work, before he even got through the door, Chen Yanshi suddenly smelled a rich, intoxicating fragrance.

It was the scent of pheromones, but how could he, a beta, smell...

Before he could think it through, Chen Yanshi's hands were pinned to the wall. The tall, breathtakingly handsome Alpha leaned down gracefully and gave him a light kiss on the lips. "This game of hide-and-seek has gone on long enough."

Beside them, Ling Mingqi, who was supposed to be at school, excitedly described the past six months he had spent with Chen Yanshi. "Big brother sleeps with me every night..."

As Ling Mingqi's story grew more and more explicit, Chen Yanshi closed his eyes, inexplicably feeling as if he had cheated. Ling Mingzhi murmured hotly in his ear, "Do you think I'm jealous of him?"

He bit Chen Yanshi's earlobe, now gently, now hard. "Not at all. After all, on so many nights, I was the one in your bed."

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