Li Yuluo is the most beautiful and least promising Omega at the Federation's First Military Academy.
On his first day, everyone assumes he belongs in a safe position, far from the front lines and special operations forces. After all, Omegas are fragile, mermaids are rare, and a beautiful tail is better suited to being protected than to the training grounds or battlefield.
But Li Yuluo refuses to believe that.
From endurance drills and hand-to-hand combat to tactical infiltration, water rescues, and simulated battle breakouts, he uses his results time and again to silence his doubters. Then, during a training accident, his white-and-blue tail is briefly exposed, drawing the attention of forces lurking behind the academy, medical services, and military bureaucracy.
Lu Yang is an Alpha and a former special operations commander on the Federation's border: calm, keen, and like a silent gray wolf.
At first, he sees Li Yuluo as nothing but a troublesome new student. But then he witnesses firsthand how this Omega, whom everyone says “needs protection,” can grit his teeth and hold out to the end, and bring his teammates back from the most dangerous situations.
One refuses to let his secondary gender decide his fate. The other is used to shielding everyone from danger himself.
From academy training to the border battlefield, from hiding his tail to openly taking his place on the front lines, Li Yuluo has never been trying to prove only that he can win.
He wants to tell everyone: Who says an Omega can't join the special forces?
