Rong Luqing died full of regret.

He had trusted sweet words and gentle smiles, and in doing so, destroyed the one person who had stood silently by his side.

When he opened his eyes again, he was fifteen, just before the Wangfu selection, where he must choose his future consort.

Once, he followed his heart.
This time, he will follow his eyes.

The capital buzzes with rumors.
Noble families circle like wolves.
A quiet foreign prince enters the imperial academy with cold eyes and a distant heart.
A gentle young noble smiles as if he holds no blade.

Rong Luqing watches.
He remembers.
He waits.

But fate does not simply bend because he wishes it to.
The threads of conspiracy run far deeper than he ever imagined.

He has only three years to change the ending he once lived and the person he hopes to save may not be willing to be saved at all.

I wanted to write a omegaverse set in ancient china but calling them alpha, beta, omega was weird because what the hell. So went to some of my drafts of back in 2020 and found out very old terms that used to be used in chinese fics for omegaverse. It's a bit outdated so you cannot find it in these fics right now but I will use it because again suddenly hearing greek alphabets in ancient chinese setting is bonkers. 


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