One Piece: I'm Destined to Be the Son-in-Law King! - Chapter 173: Beauty Awaits Those Who Can Endure Loneliness

{R18}{mature content}Lucian had always lived in the shadows of roaring engines and blazing lights. A scentless omegawith grease-stained hands and a mind sharp enough to fix any bike, he built dreams for others, because omegas weren’t allowed to race. Not in a world ruled by alphas and their pheromones.But when Lucian’s boyfriend betrays him with another omega, everything falls apart. Heartbroken yet defiant, he vows to reclaim his pride at THE REAGENTS the biggest racing event of the year, even if he can’t ride. The only problem? He needs an alpha to represent his work on the track.Enter Hunter, his estranged stepbrother, a dominant alpha who once swore he’d never go near an omega, let alone help one. Cold, confident, and dangerously alluring, Hunter makes an unexpected offer:“I’ll be your rider.”Then comes Ethan, the ex who let him down when Lucian needed him most now desperate for a second chance. Two powerful alphas, one scentless omega, and a storm of pride, regret, and desire that could burn hotter than any engine.

Word went around that no one that had ever knocked on the esteemed Eleazar family’s doors seeking shelter were turned away.Fleeing the prince of Lustris no less, Arabella Sterling held out hope that those weren’t mere rumors as she crossed the border over to Umbraria, home to all creatures of the night. A land where noble blood like hers was a highly coveted delicacy.As such, she wasn’t turned away, but since the Eleazars ran no charity, Arabella was compelled to become the sole blood provider to the heir of the family in exchange for safety.Though never, in a million years, did she imagine that what had started as a simple trade off, could morph into a swirl of tangled passion when the cold and stoic vampire she served showed interest in the young woman beyond the crimson nectar coursing her veins.

The technology fanatic Huo Tian from the future world died because of a research accident and transmigrated into the body of a fake rich daughter from a wealthy family.

Before the real daughter of the family came back, she was the treasure of the family, and everyone treated her like a princess. After the real daughter returned, her status plummeted, and they treated her as an outsider.

Living in a wealthy family that valued blood relations the most, Huo Tian, an unrelated outsider, was given a hard time. Everyone hated and despised her. Leaving behind a letter of severance, Huo Tian left the Huo Family on her own accord without any lingering reluctance for her once luxurious life.

She started a new life with the original Huo Tian’s biological mother and uncle, who had been abandoned by the Huo Family’s real rich daughter. She started a business from scratch.

With her understanding of the future world and her grasp of futuristic technology, Huo Tian quickly became famous in the business circle and established a research company that was renowned throughout the country. All the researches from her company were ten years more advanced than everywhere else in the world. With every research published, the whole world would be taken aback and impressed by how miraculous it was.

As time passed, Huo Tian became increasingly successful. Just as she was getting used to being called a fake rich daughter, the secret that her biological mother hid was out of the bag—Huo Tian’s biological father was the head of the noblest and the most powerful wealthy family at an international level, the Xi Family.

Compared to the Xi Family, the Huo Family was nothing but insignificant. The fake rich daughter in everyone’s eyes and the joke among the wealthy circle suddenly became a real rich daughter of the most influential family. Moreover, the head of the Xi Family seemed to be spoiling his long-lost daughter to the heavens...