Shadow Lover

[Rugged, wild beta lover × beautiful, frail omega widower]

Blurb:

After her vicious, deranged husband died, Tan Shutong had nowhere to go.

A frail omega who could barely take care of himself, he was regarded as a jinx by his wealthy in-laws. Even pregnant, he was thrown out into the pouring rain.

Clutching his belly, covered in bruises and soaked to the skin, he made his way into an old slum and knocked on a dangerously rickety door streaked with rust.

When it opened, Tan Shutong looked at the dark-skinned, rugged man standing in the shadows and begged for help.

"Brother Yong, could you let me stay for one night?"

"I don't have a cent, but I can let you sleep with me as payment."

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Perhaps it wasn't the right time, but the day Li Yongshan fell in love with Tan Shutong was his husband's funeral.

From a distance, Li Yongshan saw the beautiful little widower crying in front of the grave.

Rain trickled down his hair and slender neck. His delicate face was as translucent and fragile as a magnolia petal.

His eyes were wet and red at the corners, heartbreakingly lovely.

Even though he was a beta who couldn't smell other people's pheromones, he was immediately drawn in, like a wild animal.

On that same rainy day, the little widower knocked on his door again, begging for help without the slightest idea of the danger he was in.

"Brother Yong, please. Just don't hurt the baby. You can do whatever you want with me."

A powerful sense of guilt battered his reason, and Li Yongshan swallowed hard.

His whole figure was swallowed by the darkness, like a silent shadow.

"Come in."

"Take your clothes off."

[Reading Guide]

① 1v1 happy ending, the bottom isn't a virgin, short story, taboo romance, angsty and toxic vibes.

② The short-lived ex-husband is well and truly dead. He won't interfere with the couple's relationship, and the bottom never loved him.

③ We're all here to read fiction. Enjoy what you like, but don't take it seriously or apply it to real life.

④ Cheating is shameful. The characters' values in this story do not represent the author's.

[Coming Next]

The upcoming monthly subscription story in my collection is The Countdown to a Confession in a Suicide Note. Free during serialization. Please add it to your favorites!

Blurb:

When Si Wang was a rich playboy who spent money like water, countless people loved him, and he had loved countless people in turn.

Perhaps because he'd spent too long chasing romance, karma caught up with him at twenty-eight. Along with his family's financial ruin came a cancer diagnosis: he had less than three months to live.

Si Wang thought carefully. He didn't seem to have any regrets in life.

A fortune, luxury cars, and peerless beauties... He'd enjoyed all the pleasures the world had to offer. He'd lived enough.

So he began writing his will in peace.

Then he wrote down a name he should have forgotten long ago.

And a cheesy confession poem, like one written by an awkward teenage boy.

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The impeccable, saintly top student Zhou Huaisheng had one stain on his record during his school years.

He'd been relentlessly pursued by a frivolous playboy who couldn't be bothered to study, until the whole school knew about it.

Ten years later, the person he'd avoided like the plague became a patient in his medical career, signing a consent form to discontinue treatment.

Still a delinquent, still wearing that flippant smile, treating his life like a joke.

Still as irritating as ever.

Zhou Huaisheng gazed at him with a stern, penetrating look.

"Starting today, I'm your attending physician."

"If you want me to accept your confession, then fight to stay alive, Si Wang."

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With death drawing ever closer, Si Wang decided to see Zhou Huaisheng one last time.

To see the finest, most upright boy he'd held in his heart.

To say goodbye to the first love of his youth, a love that had come to nothing and left him full of regret.

Zhou Huaisheng × Si Wang

Stoic, stern doctor top × hedonistic, flirtatious playboy bottom

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Theme: Strive to become stronger.