After the Unhinged Top Alpha Was Taken In by a Handsome Older Brother

[Playing the fool to catch the tiger] [The bottom secretly pines] [The top lowers his head] [Pretending at first, then falling for real]

#A beautiful AX who charges into a relationship claiming revenge, only to fall so hard he becomes a lovesick fool, paired with a handsome A who acts carefree and unserious but is actually calculating on eight hundred levels. Straight, but doting on his younger brother.#

Ding Ye's life began with a violent father, a gambling dad, a debt-ridden family, and a sickly body.

There were two things he hated most in life: owing money and the people who lent it.

When Shen Zhiyi met Ding Ye, the boy, covered in bruises, stumbled into his arms.

He looked pitiful, but neither cried nor made a fuss.

He was soft and cute, with a pair of big, dark eyes that gazed up at Shen Zhiyi, sparkling like those of a startled fawn.

Shen Zhiyi hated troublesome people and troublesome situations most of all. But to everyone's surprise, he took Ding Ye home and told his men, "He presented as an omega too early. Omegas are physically weak, so he needs to be looked after properly."

Everyone was flabbergasted. Had their young master been possessed or something?

In public, people praised them as "brothers who got along like a house on fire." In private, they both had their own agendas.

Ding Ye knew Shen Zhiyi wanted a well-behaved, obedient little brother, so he played along.

Then one night, he caught his nominal older brother hunched over, his beautiful face half buried in Ding Ye's coat, the corners of his eyes red...

That was when he realized Shen Zhiyi had feelings for him too.

But later, Shen Zhiyi used a matchmaking party as an excuse to host a ball.

At the dance, groups of omegas gathered around Shen Zhiyi. He looked so happy, so handsome.

Ding Ye stared at him and drank a glass of spiked liquor.

After their reckless night together, Shen Zhiyi avoided him even more.

But no matter how much he tried to run away, he couldn't lie to his own body.

Talking about getting married...

"Can you even fuck anyone else?"

The pheromones of two incompatible alphas collided, and their bodies reacted to the instinctive rejection.

Nausea, stinging pain, and hostility were all swallowed in a kiss that was almost a bite.

The pheromone pressure during a vicious alpha's rut was immense, leaving Shen Zhiyi's gland red and swollen.

Ding Ye tore off the suppressor patch. The gland he'd coveted for so long was frighteningly hot. He slowly rubbed around it, his desire growing harder to resist.

What if he bit down...

"I'm your brother." Shen Zhiyi tried to sound firm, but his voice lacked conviction. "Don't do this."

"Brother?" Ding Ye couldn't help laughing. "You secretly use my coat, let me catch you kissing someone else, and during my rut, you take the initiative to... climb on top of me."

He gently gripped Shen Zhiyi's neck and forced him to look up. "Is that something a brother would do?"

Shen Zhiyi guiltily turned away. "It was all an accident."

"An accident?"

Ding Ye's gaze dropped. Raising an eyebrow, he asked, "And you getting hard right now, brother, is that an accident too?"

He thought Shen Zhiyi was the only gift heaven had ever given him.

(Note: The gong pursues revenge early on and will take some concrete actions, but it's not a big deal.

1. Younger gong, ten-year age gap, no blood or legal relationship. Before adulthood, they have a sponsor-and-beneficiary relationship.

2. The gong is a virgin; the shou has kissed someone else.

3. Vicious alpha: unstable, prolonged ruts with extremely powerful pheromones, irregular heats, and pheromone addiction syndrome.

4. This is a fictional world with an imaginary setting.

Check out my other ongoing campus romance, Love After Falling for My Alpha Rival (please, please add it to your favorites 🥹).

Blurb: Jiang Yi hates Lu Huaizhi, completely and utterly.

Lu Huaizhi is handsome and comes from a good family. Most importantly, he was supposed to be Jiang Yi's childhood betrothed, but he presented as an alpha.

He presented earlier, he's an elite, and he fell for the same omega Jiang Yi likes.

So childhood friends became rivals, and they started competing with each other in every way.

Then, in the first semester of their senior year of high school, everything changed.

One day, Lu Huaizhi went into rut unexpectedly. He hadn't taken suppressants or gone looking for an omega.

He grabbed Jiang Yi as he walked by and pulled him inside. "Let me bite you."

Jiang Yi's eyes widened. "Dude, look carefully! I'm not an omega!"

"...I know. You're Jiang Yi."

After saying that, Lu Huaizhi pulled down Jiang Yi's collar and bit his gland.

Then he even gave it a little lick and commented, "So cool."

Jiang Yi: "You think you can just do whatever you want?!"

Afterward, Lu Huaizhi was diagnosed with pheromone dysregulation syndrome. His ruts lasted a long time and came at unpredictable intervals, with full-body pain during each episode.

Worst of all, he was allergic to most omega pheromones.

The doctor suggested that he try spending time with an alpha whose pheromones he was less averse to.

Jiang Yi was delighted. He waited for Lu Huaizhi to come crying to him.

But Lu Huaizhi would rather be in so much pain he couldn't get out of bed than come looking for him.

Jiang Yi couldn't take it anymore. He dragged Lu Huaizhi out of bed and said, "Fine, bite me. I must have owed you in a past life."

Lu Huaizhi smiled faintly. "Thanks."

Jiang Yi's heart skipped a beat.

He thought, I'm doomed.

After being bitten, Jiang Yi asked curiously, "What's it like to mark someone?"

Lu Huaizhi replied indifferently, "Try it with an omega."

Suddenly, Jiang Yi felt a surge of annoyance and grabbed Lu Huaizhi.

"Let me bite you once, and I'll do anything you ask."

"How about moving up fifty places in the next exam?"

Jiang Yi gritted his teeth and agreed.

From then on, Jiang Yi knew he'd fallen for someone else, once and for all.

What's it like to have a crush on your rival? Agonizing, but sweet beneath the pain.

He wanted to confess, but love without material comforts is just a pile of sand, and young love always ends with regrets.

Jiang Yi thought they'd never speak again, because their parting had been truly ugly.

Unexpectedly, at their class reunion eight years later, the successful Lu Huaizhi appeared before Jiang Yi, who had nothing to his name, a ring on his finger.

Lu Huaizhi looked at the hundreds of suppressants in Jiang Yi's room and laughed in exasperation. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

Jiang Yi replied coolly, "Mr. Lu, what does that have to do with you?"

Lu Huaizhi was left speechless.

He didn't know how to comfort people, so he simply exposed his gland and asked hopefully, "Do you want to bite it?"

Jiang Yi: "...Who taught you that?"

They hadn't seen each other in years, and now Lu Huaizhi knew how to flirt, and was disturbingly good at it.

[Once a sunny, brave top student and pride of the heavens, he falls after being traumatized, paired with a steadfast, good student A who holds it in until he finally snaps later in the story]

(Peppermint X Lily of the Valley)

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