Humiliating the Unattainable Flower 1
"Does that feel good?"
"Does it feel good now?"
"Since you think making you drink is humiliating you, how about I offer you a toast myself?"
A heavy bang was followed by a muffled grunt. Cold red wine splashed all over the young man before him, leaving him utterly disheveled.
Gu Xiao elegantly drew back his long leg and sat down again on the golden-thread nanmu sofa.
His red-soled leather shoes were untouched by even a speck of dust.
He looked up, his shimmering peach-blossom eyes seemingly still holding a smile.
They were eyes at once full of affection and utterly heartless.
His long lashes curled upward, and his slightly upturned eyes carried a breathtaking sense of oppression when he looked at others.
"What, am I supposed to look up to speak to you?"
With a thud, the person before him was forced to his knees.
Now it was the other man's turn to look up at him.
Those eyes were filled with defiance. Crimson wine had made a complete mess of his meticulously styled curls.
Wine and blood trickled down his brows and eyes, indistinguishable from each other.
It was a very beautiful face.
Though he was a young man, his face had the beauty of a hibiscus blossom, a face that could drive most people wild.
But not the man who had smashed a bottle of red wine against his forehead.
A raging fire burned inside Lu Keyan. His head hurt, and his knees hurt even more.
The feeling of being humiliated sent his adrenaline surging.
The person seated above him, forcing him to kneel, was this academy's "king," the leader of F4, Gu Xiao.
Lu Keyan watched as Gu Xiao raised his leg and tipped up his chin with a leather shoe.
"You really do have a decent face. No wonder those old bastards were willing to let you attend for free." Gu Xiao gave a derisive laugh. "Well? Is this the face you used to seduce them?"
The dazzling crystal chandelier shone so brightly that Lu Keyan could barely open his eyes.
He caught a faint fragrance: the cool scent of red wine, and a barely perceptible trace of iris.
Lu Keyan knew that Gu Xiao's pheromones smelled of iris.
As an alpha with SS-rank mental power, Gu Xiao possessed supreme authority within this academy.
But no one knew that he, Lu Keyan, the Lu Family's illegitimate son, was an alpha with SSS-rank mental power.
As far as everyone was concerned, he was merely an ordinary, impoverished beta living on scholarships and financial aid.
Gu Xiao treated Lu Keyan's fury as an appetizer.
Yet Gu Xiao's interest dwindled further and further.
So much for an alpha with SSS-rank mental power.
The fifty or sixty guests gathered in the room were all watching Lu Keyan with gleeful malice.
These people were all followers of Gu Xiao, the leader of F4.
Two other members of F4 stood silently beside Gu Xiao.
But Gu Xiao found it boring.
Far too boring.
Since Lu Keyan had the ability to resist, why did he obediently act like a dog?
Watching him prostrate at his feet, Gu Xiao found it utterly dull.
It had been a week since he arrived in this strange ABO world.
Gu Xiao had readily accepted the fact that he had been reborn.
Though this world was strange, and was even the world of a novel.
It was not without its interesting aspects.
Humiliating this unattainable flower before him, for instance, was somewhat entertaining.
This was a world within a book where both morality and law were weak, and the entire world revolved around this strictly hierarchical aristocratic academy.
And he, Gu Xiao, stood at the top of this aristocratic academy, the leader of F4, someone everyone followed with frenzied devotion.
Gu Xiao had assumed he was the male lead of a wish-fulfillment novel. With a setup like this, how could he possibly not be the male lead?
As it turned out, he really wasn't.
Gu Xiao had yet to meet the beautiful, universally adored omega who could supposedly turn his soul upside down and make him willingly abandon his vast fortune to be together.
He was merely one of the male leads in this novel about a universally adored character.
What a joke. How could he, Gu Xiao, possibly give up an entire garden for one person?
Gu Xiao looked at Lu Keyan, whose proud bones remained unbowed even on his knees. He had thought that, as one of the male leads, the man would have some ability.
Instead, Lu Keyan had disappointed him terribly.
"Get out."
Gu Xiao kicked Lu Keyan hard, but before he could draw back his long leg, Lu Keyan suddenly caught his ankle.
Now this was a little interesting.
Gu Xiao watched him with amusement. "What are you trying to do?"
"Young Master Gu." There was a measure of restraint in Lu Keyan's eyes, but his tone was exceedingly humble. "Your shoe is dirty. Let me wipe it clean for you."
Gu Xiao's ankle was truly slender. He could encircle it with just one hand.
Lu Keyan lowered his eyes, his gaze dark. As he moved closer, the fragrance of iris grew stronger.
So. Very. Fragrant~
Content warnings: wish fulfillment, shou protagonist, formulaic, no side CPs. Every character who appears secretly covets the protagonist. No romantic ambiguity between gongs; extreme shou stans, enter at your own risk. Note: the protagonist is 186 cm tall! (Entirely hand-typed, so there may be a few typos. Please excuse them.)
For readers who like to mommy the protagonist. The protagonist isn't the strongest at first, and there will be plots involving surveillance and drugging. These dumplings were wrapped just for that little saucer of "mommying" vinegar. There are only two or three such plots; later, the protagonist is the strongest.
This story's only protagonist: Gu Xiao.