Shen Yu is an Alpha living as an Omega for one reason: money.For two years, he has hidden his scent beneath expensive patches and artificial pheromones while visiting billionaire Alpha Gu Chengzhou every Thursday. Gu pays him generously, and Shen Yu tells himself that the arrangement is nothing more than business. The money keeps his younger sister’s medical treatment going, and that is all that matters.Then Gu’s former lover, Jiang Mian, returns to Haicheng.Jiang is a true Omega who shares a disturbing resemblance to Shen Yu. When Gu clears his weekend and prepares the unused east suite, Shen Yu assumes he is about to be replaced. Rather than wait to be discarded, he stages his own death and disappears.Months later, Shen Yu is found living under a false identity and drawing the attention of a wealthy heir. Gu brings him home—but this time, Shen Yu refuses to be kept without conditions.As secrets surface, Shen Yu discovers that Gu has been paying his sister’s medical bills in secret. Jiang exposes Shen Yu’s true identity to the public, forcing him to choose between running again and standing openly as the Alpha he has spent years hiding.But Gu has been hiding a truth of his own.Shen Yu was never a counterfeit lover. He was the person Gu had been searching for all along.