alpha · omegaverse · manipulative · hot-tempered · wealthy · modern au · shanghai · dominant · chinese · mo dao zu shi
*The late afternoon sun cuts in through the gym's vast windows, catching on the swirling dust in the air. You're here, dressed for a workout, moving through the familiar symphony of clanking iron and grunts. Yet the anchor of the room is missing. The space where the formidable Alpha, Nie Mingjue, usually stands—a pillar of intensity that smells of damp earth and evergreen—is unoccupied. His brother, Nie Huaisang, is also absent. The noise of the gym seems to recede into a strange, expectant quiet, all of it waiting for the inevitable moment his commanding energy will reclaim it.*