Chapter 1

“… The youngest son of the Tongfamily is an omega. I heard that he has a very good personality. Although he’sa little younger, he’s very sensible. Mom thinks that he’s very suitable foryou.”

Lin Yue Hua specially called Zhuo Xiang Ming over, after leading the conversationfor a long time, she finally got to the main point: “You’re not gettingany younger. Other moms wouldn’t manage you, but you can’t stay married to yourjob forever, right?”

How many years had passed from studying to graduation to work, hismother had really never meddled in his personal life, Zhuo Xiang Ming paused,then asked, “Are you really worried that I’ll get married too late, or do youjust want me to marry someone from the Tong family?”

Themother and son were always very straightforward, Lin Yue Hua didn’t beat aroundthe bush: “You need to marry someone from the Tong family, but I’m alsoworried about you being unmarried. If you marry Tong Yan, I won’t have to worryabout both problems.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming’s father, Zhuo Zheng De, was fascinated by art, businesshad never entered his heart. In his generation, he was the only alpha and theonly male, so in the end, he reluctantly took over the family business. Aftermarrying Lin Yue Hua at the age of twenty-five, he left all the household managementto Lin Yue Hua. He’d already cast aside all thoughts of business.

TheZhuo family focuses on industry, but Zhuo Xiang Ming has always been interestedin securities. After graduating, he started his own business. So honestlyspeaking, he knew no more about the situation at home than researchers who onlylooked at financial magazines.

“Is it necessary to get married?” Ignoring whether or not hedisliked it, Zhuo Xiang Ming just didn’t think it was necessary. “If there’s aproblem with capital, I can…”

“It’s not a shortage of money.” Lin Yue Hua frowned slightly. “There’snothing wrong at home, just … Have you read the renovation documents concerningYong Xin Plaza and Longshan Creek?”

ZhuoXiang Ming didn’t care about industry, but he still paid attention to these typesof news: “I saw it … Are you planning to team up with the Tong family to winthat project?”

Notto mention the size of Longshan Creek, just Yong Xin Plaza, which was locatedbetween two commercial streets, occupied almost a quarter of the city’s mostcentral land. High value wasn’t a sufficient enough description for it.

Ifthe two businesses ate it, the complexity of the intertwined interests would bevisible to the naked eye.

Financialgroups frequently use marriage to consolidate cooperation. When you grew up insuch a family, it was impossible to not be aware that such a thing could happen,this kind of thing wasn’t strange.

And that’s just what this marriage would be about. As long as the two maintaineda superficial marriage relationship during the cooperation, the shareholders wouldfeel assured, and once the shareholders felt assured, the CEOs would feelconfident.

Zhuo Xiang Ming had no plans to get married in the near future. In fact,he didn’t even know which end of the world the marriage partner existed in.Since Lin Yue Hua brought this up, he didn’t hesitate much, saying briefly:“Alright, I accept.”

Even though Zhuo Xiang Ming agreed, Lin YueHua didn’t let out a sigh of relief.

“There’s one more thing Mom has to discuss with you …” She grippedthe red tea cup she was holding, this subject was a bit difficult to bring up.

Evenwhen ordering her own son to get married, she hadn’t felt embarrassed, Zhuo XiangMing said, “Speak.”

“Well … listen to mom, the Tong family’s son is eighteen years oldthis year. He’s in senior high school, this semester, he just rose to third …”

“I know this, get to the point.”

Lin Yue Hua said in a low voice, “He … he’s not in good health. You know, Mrs. Tong left early. Although there’s a father and an older brother in the family, they’re all male, and the brother is a beta. They didn’t know how to take good care of an omega … I heard that he was injured during his first estrus. He took a year off from his studies, and now he has to wear an isolation patch when he leaves the house.”

Lin Yue Hua spoke vaguely, but Zhuo XiangMing was an alpha who had been receiving education about AO biology since thefirst day of school. He immediately understood: “Pheromone stressdisorder?”

LinYue Hua nodded.

This was a relatively common disease among omega. Generally speaking, itwas easy to obtain, and easy to treat.

Omega were inherently delicate and needed protection. If they weren’ttaken cared of during estrus, especially during the first estrus, they may becomemore sensitive to alpha pheromone later in life-they weren’t easily aroused, andthey felt physical pain throughout their bodies.

However,most omega naturally recovered after recuperating. Only a few developed moreserious cases, recuperating was no good, and the drugs to treat the sex gland wereno good. They could only wait until they got married and were marked by theirown alpha, then they would slowly heal with the comfort of their mate’s pheromone.

In general, this was also the best way to minimize harm to the omega’s body.

TongYan’s condition required a leave from school, moreover, it still hadn’t healedyet, most probably, even his estrus was chaotic- “You mean, I have to mark him?”

Lin Yue Hua said hurriedly “No, no, wouldmom force you to do something like that?”

Aftera pause, Lin Yue Hua continued, “It’s not as serious as you think. It’s just that,currently, life is very inconvenient for him. The Tong family asks that, if youagree to the marriage, could you move Tong Yan into your house afterwards? Firstly,it’ll keep the paparazzi from saying that you guys separated as soon as you gotmarried. Secondly, you’re an older alpha, if he spends some time with you, TongYan might get better.”

Evenafter saying this, Lin Yue Hua didn’t make Zhuo Xiang Ming feel any more receptive.

The marriage he agreed to was a by the definition partnership. Go to theCivil Affairs office, obtain a certificate, cooperate with the wedding ceremony,and finalize the start of the relationship before the media and the government.

But the situation was obviously not as simple as he’d imagined. Takinghome a barely legally adult omega wasn’t the same as adopting a pet cat or buyinga housekeeping robot. When pheromones were involved, no matter how big the heartwas, no AO in the world would think that this was a trivial matter.

Exactly how much influence pheromone plays in the lives of AO has not beendetermined yet, but it was definitely not an exaggeration to say that it couldsometimes determine life and death.

The traditional concept was abandoned as early as 800 years ago, now, itwas not only omega that could be affected by alpha pheromone. It was also afact that after the bonding, the alpha’s desires increased exponentially, and theyregarded their omega as larger than life.

Pheromone was AO’s most private phenomenon. It could be beautiful, butit could also be dangerous. Zhuo Xiang Ming, who had gone through a period ofirritability and impulsiveness during puberty, knew this all too well. So, evenif Tong Yan only needed a little bit of natural alpha pheromone to soothe him,he couldn’t easily agree.

“It doesn’t help to ask me about this, what did they say?”Zhuo Xiang Ming asked, cautious.

“Thisis what Mr. Tong mentioned, if he didn’t tell us, we wouldn’t even know aboutthis problem.”

“I’m asking about the boy …”

Lin Yue Hua: “Tong Yan.”

“I’m asking about Tong Yan, what did he say?” Zhuo Xiang Ming asked,“Suddenly making him live with a strange alpha, did he agree?”

Lin Yue Hua: “What can he say? The child is only eighteen, when hisfather takes charge like this, he can only be obedient.”

Lin Yue Hua continued, “This disorderisn’t a big deal, after all, his physical body isn’t affected, he should stillbe healthy and active, but it is very inconvenient. Tong Yan is still young, heobviously doesn’t want to get married so soon, but his condition makes it difficultto just leave the house, he can’t even go into crowded places. He can’t always livelike this, right?”

“Isn’tMr. Tong an alpha?”

Lin Yue Hua gave him a glance. In fact, as soon as the words left hismouth, Zhuo Xiang Ming also realized that he had asked a stupid question.

Pheromone was basically sexuality. How could a father comfort his ownson?

ZhuoXiang Ming understood.

Although there were many marriages nowadays, every family greatly treasuredtheir omega children. Just look at his own pampered younger brother at home. Itwas very unusual for an omega to be married off at eighteen.

The Tong family should be feeling very distressed over Tong Yan’s illness,the chance for the two families to team up to do this project, and Lin Yue Hua’splotting, lead to the current situation.

Whenall was said and done, someone with a family background like Tong Yan doesn’tneed to worry about a temporary marking or marriage. Currently, the markremoval surgery was very mature, after they divorced, Tong Yan’s search for anew mate wouldn’t be affected.

But this was speaking theoretically, Zhuo Xiang Ming still couldn’t immediatelyaccept it. On the one hand, Tong Yan was really too young, on the other hand,Zhuo Xiang Ming himself wasn’t very willing.

Hewas almost thirty, although he hadn’t completely rejected society, the UntouchableFlower, the star of the School of Finance during his time, has never even held anomega’s hand.

Lin Yue Hua: “Don’t overvalue yourself, someone with Tong Tong’s looksis worthy enough to make you release a little pheromone.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming didn’t get angry, only taking note of Lin Yue Hua’s slipup. In a moment of inattentiveness, she’d affectionately called him “TongTong”.

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Have you seen this Tong Yan?”

Lin Yue Hua didn’t beat around the bush, the satisfaction in her eyes notat all faked: “I just met him last weekend. The child has violin lessonsin the morning. I came with his father in advance, Tong Tong took a car byhimself. Violin on his back, he apologized to me as soon as he entered thedoor, saying, ‘I’m sorry, Auntie, I’m late’.”

“He’sso sensible and obedient, plus he’s really good looking … Mom has never seensuch a beautiful child.”

After bluntly speaking about Tong Yan, Lin YueHua smiled from ear to ear, then she suddenly sighed: “What a pity, such agood child was raised without a mother, to suffer this kind of sin …”

“…”

“But he’s truly well-behaved, and really sensible. He’ll spend mostof his time in school after he moves in, he won’t cause you trouble, you canrest assured.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming didn’t inquire any further. How else could he soothe TongYan, besides hugging and kissing? If he asked, not only would he not get a reliableanswer, he might also be laughed at for being a young chicken, wizard, andnaive.

Why should he humiliate himself, Zhuo Xiang Ming said in his heart,embarrassed.

Also,Zhuo Xiang Ming knew his mother, Lin Yue Hua has always done things openly, ifshe said one, she meant one, nothing was false. When all was said and done, shewas really satisfied with Tong Yan, and that’s the main reason why she chose topull him into this marriage. The other benefits were just used to help promoteit.

Assoon as Zhuo Xiang Ming nodded, he didn’t need to worry about what came after.

In order to allow Tong Yan to move into Zhuo Xiang Ming’s apartmentbefore school started, the two elders planned, and the lively wedding was held atthe end of August. The words ” Wedding of the Century ” filled thepages of the major newspapers and magazines. All the media were discussing thismagnificent wedding, never stingy with their blessings. Who would’ve guessedthat the husbands to be had met each other for the first time just before thewedding, soon after, they said ‘I do’ before the priest.

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T/N:

I’m finally getting a taste of the differentwriting styles of these authors. ABO’s writing was easy to understand. FOD wasokay to understand, although the author loves to repeat certain words and phrases(peach blossom eyes, anyone?) DFC is okay to understand, but it requires you toremember the context, cause the author doesn’t repeat shit.

This one is 70% easy to understand, 30% wtfare you saying. The author uses unusual words and phrases, and they really confusethe sentences. With that said, I’ll be doing a lot of guessing in this story,so please point out any conflicts.