[ABO] After Awakening, the Cannon Fodder Refuses to Play Along

[ABO, two male leads + two powerful protagonists + men in positions of power vying fiercely for love + face-slapping and scum-bashing + both leads are devoted to one another]

Jiang Shu wakes up one day to discover he's the cannon-fodder villain in a melodramatic novel, doomed to be tortured to death by the protagonists.

Jiang Shu has spent his whole life walking on thin ice. After struggling to raise himself, he finds out he's nothing but cannon fodder, there to make the protagonists' story more satisfying.

Jiang Shu refuses to accept it. He's done playing the cannon-fodder villain!

Make Jiang Shu sow discord? Spread rumors behind someone's back? Secretly drug someone? No way!

Jiang Shu avoids the protagonists and breaks free of the plot, but gradually discovers that the protagonists from the original novel are showing their true colors. They're desperate to make Jiang Shu theirs.

Jiang Shu, kidnapped by the book's villain and taken to an island:

“?”

Then the villain's uncle, an alpha who rules the business world, appears before Jiang Shu and leans down to whisper affectionately in his ear:

“A Shu, don't you want me anymore?”

He Zhi suffers from pheromone allergies. Contact with the pheromones of either an alpha or an omega triggers an allergic reaction.

That is, until he meets a beta.

His name is Jiang Shu.

He Zhi can sense the pheromones Jiang Shu gives off, and even from far away, simply catching his scent leaves He Zhi feeling relaxed and comfortable all over.

The doctor hands He Zhi the test results. Every word on the page tells him the same thing:

All the positive reactions Jiang Shu has triggered in him come from the truest choice deep in his heart.

He Zhi chose Jiang Shu.