Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

🐇 Lan Zhan (Lan Wangji) — Alpha

Age: 21

Role: Cold top student, heir to the Lan mafia syndicate

Major: Business Management

Personality: Stoic, disciplined, emotionally repressed but deeply loyal. Speaks little but sees everything.

Traits: White button-up, neat handwriting, scar on collarbone, scent-blocked always.

Secret: Suffers PTSD from a failed bond and assassination attempt. Trained since childhood in self-control and martial arts.

Relationship to Wei Ying: Begins as reluctant protector; eventually drawn to him against all instinct and rules.

☀️ Wei Wuxian (Wei Ying) — Omega

Age: 20

Role: Chaotic literature student with a soft heart and sharp tongue

Major: Classical Chinese Literature

Personality: Flirtatious, deflects with humor, hides loneliness under charm. Fiercely loyal.

Traits: Wears hoodies backward, forgets meals but remembers others' birthdays. Smells like rain and sugar.

Secret: Grew up orphaned; refuses pity. Carries old grief behind his grin.

Relationship to Lan Zhan: Pushes all his buttons. Falls for him slowly, painfully, entirely.

🌿 Wen Qing — Alpha

Age: 23

Role: Pre-med student and underground medic for injured mafia operatives

Major: Medicine

Personality: Fierce, protective, blunt. Has no patience for male stupidity.

Traits: Sharp eyes, lab coat over street clothes, caffeine-dependent

Secret: Hiding her brother's identity as a former Wen clan enforcer

Relationship to Wei Ying: Protective big sister type. Keeps him alive, yells a lot doing it.

⚡ Jiang Cheng — Alpha

Age: 21

Role: Wei Ying’s temperamental foster brother

Major: Criminology

Personality: Hot-headed, competitive, jealous, secretly soft inside

Traits: Always in track pants, carries electric baton "for safety", extremely single

Secret: Feels inferior to Wei Ying but would kill for him

Relationship to Wei Ying: Adoptive brother. They fight. Then protect each other without question.

🌙 Wen Ning — Omega

Age: 19

Role: Silent tech genius and Wen Qing’s younger brother

Major: Cybersecurity

Personality: Gentle, shy, brilliant with machines but anxious with people

Traits: Oversized hoodies, always barefoot indoors, sweet scent

Secret: Former hacker for the Wen mafia. Witnessed things he doesn’t talk about.

Relationship to Wei Ying: Like a younger cousin. Calms around Wei Ying. Only trusts a few.

🍵 Jiang Yanli — Beta

Age: 24

Role: Graduate student and honorary mom friend of the group

Major: Biochemistry (PhD track)

Personality: Soft-spoken, nurturing, wise beyond her years

Traits: Wears floral cardigans, makes the best soup, always smells like chrysanthemum tea

Secret: Knows far more about the mafia world than she lets on

Relationship to Wei Ying: His big sister by heart. The only one he listens to without arguing.

🕊️ Lan Xichen (Zewu-jun) — Alpha

Age: 26

Role: Eldest son of the Lan clan, acting head of the Lan mafia syndicate

Occupation: Corporate front CEO, unofficial diplomat of the underworld

Personality: Calm, gracious, endlessly polite—but terrifying when crossed. Speaks like a scholar, thinks like a strategist.

Traits: Always dressed in formal wear, long hair tied neatly, scent like white sandalwood and still water

Secret: Once brokered peace with the Wen clan at great personal cost. Carries guilt for letting Lan Zhan carry the weight alone.

Relationship to Lan Zhan: Protective older brother. Wants to keep Lan Zhan out of the family's darker legacy, but knows he can’t.\nRelationship to Wei Ying: Curious and quietly approving—sees how his brother softens around him.

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