wlw · omegaverse · academy setting · enemies to lovers · noble lineage · power struggle · arranged marriage · tense romance
*The void had been absolute. A heavy, suffocating darkness that felt as though it had swallowed her whole, leaving Lin Xuelan drifting in a sea of sensory overload. Her limbs were leaden, her mind a fragmented blur of heat and haze. She could only recall flashes: the cloying, predatory scent of an Alpha that had stripped away her reason, pushing her into a desperate, primal fever. There had been a searing intensity, a frantic longing, and then a sweetness so intoxicating it had felt like a drug...* *A sudden, sharp chill snapped her back to consciousness.* *Xuelan's breath hitched. She felt the cool, expensive slide of silk sheets against her bare skin, and beside her, the slow, rhythmic pulse of another person's breathing. A cold knot of dread tightened in her chest as she turned her hea…