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There were so, so many red flags.
"Are you a virgin?"
I should have followed the instinct to get away.
"I could tell from your writing, the sex scenes are trash."
"Oh... Well, you know... the people online liked it..."
"Online people are not the public my publishing house caters to."
"...Right."
"Although it gave me a headache, your work is salvageable."
"Thanks god!"
(Shit, I didn't mean to say that out loud, I'm really hanging at the end of the rope here...)
"It is but a draft, one shouldn't be too harsh with it. We might be able to do something decent after you rewrite it twice."
"Twice?!"
"That's to the very least. You cannot pick apart your first try, select what stays, what goes and make it good at once. Don't worry, though, we will help you."
"You're gonna... assign an agent to me or something?"
(Will I get paid?)
"Your entry isn't good enough for us to guarantee you a stable income. Usually, I would send the person away to work it out on their own but I have decided to give you a chance. I will personally assist you."
(Wow, the director himself...?)
"You've got that kind of time?"
"I do, when I get curious, and the person I dedicate myself to better make it worth it."
(Gulp)
"I couldn't help but notice that the address you indicated refers to an internet coffee."
(Woops.)
"No home to go back to, right? And you're so young, barely eighteen. You've got potential, so I will help you out and you can pay me back later once you've had your success."
(That sounds kind of crazy.)
"We will go get your belongings and I will lend you the guest room of me and my partner's house."
(Holy shit! I should... I should refuse but I... I don't want to keep on living like this...)
The 'partner' turned out to be a man called Luo Binghe. What was peculiar about him was that he was an alpha, like Shen Yuan. I had heard about this kind of atypical couple but it was the first time I could see one for myself. Luo Binghe did not seem to like me and was apparently not part of the decision to invite me into their home.
"Gege... What is the meaning of this? Who is this... omega?"
"Binghe will let me explain everything to him later."
"...Alright, as gege desires, of course..."
(I've never seen an alpha act like this, so submissive, and I certainly never wrote it either!)
Anyway, that's how I ended up like this...
Oh, well, if you must know in details then there is a bit more of hell paradise to recall too...
Shen Yuan was the harshest proof-reader I had ever met, no internet troll could own up to him. We did not pick apart my novel like he said we would, he simply tore it to pieces.
But I couldn't say anything.
When no one was home, I snooped. Of course I snooped.
Everything was normal.
There was a place I was told not to go. Of course I did not go!
I actually really tripped my way in there.
Everything was weird.
Their basement was filled with bedding, 'creative' devices and more strange things.
(So that's how two alpha mate...)(😳)
In plain sight, on a shelf, the titles of books mentioned the process of 'bitching'.
Ancient and wicked.
(Bitching an alpha into an omega is a legend! But, it seems that they tried it?)
"Did they... succeed?"
"We did not."
Of course, I was caught.
And I finally got to discover Shen Yuan's true intentions toward me...
Now, I could have refused... I guess... But I... I really want to become a writer.
And they want a child.