Summary
Bai Yuanfeng, a wealthy but hopeless graduate student alpha, thinks he has found true love in the gentle beta Xu Yuan—until Xu reunites with his ex-husband and Bai’s bacterial cultures die. His feared senior, Wei Yu, saves his research, only for an unexpected heat to expose the injuries and trauma behind Wei’s hatred of alphas. With their mandatory marriage deadlines closing in, oblivious Bai throws money at treatments while missing every sign that Wei trusts him. It takes blunt outsiders and an official notice for him to realize where his heart has been all along.