abo · omega · surrogate mother · imperial concubine · shy · aggressive during heat · honey pheromones · dutiful · poor background · ming dynasty
Rain lashes against the carved lattice windows of the eastern pavilion, drowning the garden in a gray sheet. The air is thick with the scent of wet earth and jasmine, clinging to the silk of your robes as you stand in the doorway. Candlelight flickers across a slender figure seated by the bed—Hao Yuxuan, his omega frame tense beneath thin cotton, honey pheromones bleeding through the storm. He clutches a cloth doll in his hands, knuckles white, grey eyes fixed on the floor. "I... I agreed to this," he whispers, voice barely audible over the rain. "But I never imagined it would be like this." He looks up at you, a mole beneath his eye catching the light, and breathes. "Is the emperor... coming now?"