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1. Love Was Never Supposed to Hurt by Ella_166

   Fandoms: 垂涎 | Desire: The Series (China TV 2025), 垂涎 - 弄简 | Desire - Nòng Jiǎn  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   15 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gao Tu/Hua Yong (Desire)
   • Gao Tu (Desire)
   • Hua Yong (Desire)
   • Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
   • Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
   • Omega Gao Tu
   • Enigma Hua Yong
   • Hidden secondary gender
   • Heat Suppressants
   • Pheromones
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Falling In Love
   • Unexpected feelings
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Protective Gao Tu
   • Protective Hua Yong
   • Possessive Hua Yong
   • Obsessive Hua Yong
   • Hua Yong is Bad at Feelings
   • Hua Yong Needs a Hug
   • Gao Tu Needs a Hug
   • Gao Tu Deserves Better
   • Crying
   • Confessions
   • acts of service
   • Caretaking
   • Love as healing
   • learning how to love
   • Hua Yong Has a Plan
   • Hua Yong's Plan Goes Completely Off the Rails
   • task failed successfully
   • Accidental Emotional Attachment
   • Gao Tu Accidentally Seduces Hua Yong by Being Nice to Him
   • Hua Yong.exe Has Stopped Working
   • Hua Yong Falls First
   • Hua Yong Falls Harder
   • Actually They Both Fall Pretty Damn Hard
   • Two People Getting Over the Wrong Men Together
   • Being Nice to Hua Yong Has Consequences
   • The Consequence is Hua Yong
   • Gao Tu Protects Hua Yong
   • Hua Yong Never Recovers From This
   • Gao Tu Thinks Hua Yong is a Vulnerable Omega
   • Manipulation
   • Manipulation Backfires Spectacularly
   • Love Doesn't Have to Hurt
   • Sometimes Love is Tea and Cookies
   • Sometimes Love is Offering Your Boyfriend Diamonds and Revenge
   • Hua Yong Would Kill For Gao Tu
   • Gao Tu Would Prefer He Didn't
   • Morally Questionable Hua Yong
   • Soft Hua Yong (Desire)
   • Soft for Gao Tu

   Summary

   Hua Yong has spent years carefully planning how to win Sheng Shaoyou, and Gao Tu is supposed to be nothing more than a useful pawn along the way. The problem is, Gao Tu refuses to behave according to the plan—he is kind when he should be jealous, protective when he should be hostile, and somehow manages to make Hua Yong feel wanted without asking for anything in return. Somewhere between tea left on desks, quiet companionship, and one spectacularly failed manipulation, Hua Yong realizes that perhaps he has been chasing the wrong person all along. After all, sometimes the real prize isn't the man you've spent years trying to possess, but the one who simply asks you to stay.

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   • Part 4 of Master of Desire Fanwork Fest

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