One Step Away [Star]

It was the late spring of St. Lorenzo. The old Duke of the Wisteria Manor passed away. Due to the imperial law dictating inheritance by birth order, the sole alpha heir, Major General Xiazuo—despite being the only alpha—could not inherit the ducal title. Instead, it went to her older brother, a beta and a complete scoundrel. Because of the will, Xiazuo, who had long left the family, was forced to return to the manor. But the one living there after the Duke’s death wasn’t her brother—it was his divorced wife, an aristocratic Omega from St. Lorenzo. A single alpha and an unclaimed Omega living together… It’s bound to spark endless imagination. In the moonlit courtyard at midnight, the shadows of the tall wisteria trees stretched across the windowsills, casting a hazy, ambiguous glow. The black-haired alpha hid behind the curtains, stealing glances at the woman in a long dress gazing at the moon on the opposite balcony. Moonlight graced her platinum-blonde hair, making her ethereally beautiful. The alpha’s deep blue eyes, like a midnight lake, reflected the dazzling moonlight, etching the woman’s figure into the water’s center…