After Being Reborn, the Alphas Around Me Became Terrifying

[Please don't send paid votes. I'm not sure I'll write this, and I might change the blurb.]

Zhou Ji is a BETA from a powerful family.

He doesn't have gentle, soothing pheromones with the comforting quality of a top-tier alpha's, but he has a fulfilling life, his own career, and clear goals. Those passionate AO romances have absolutely nothing to do with him.

In his previous life, he couldn't escape an arranged marriage by his family, and signed the papers with a diamond-level alpha who didn't love him.

In this world, the higher an alpha's rank, the more effortlessly they can control their pheromones, and the less likely they are to be affected by an omega's.

After they married, the diamond-level alpha ran away with his beloved omega, and the two of them died in a car accident.

Zhou Ji had been mocked for being cheated on, but he ended up inheriting his late husband's fortune of tens of millions. With his patented technology and talent for making the most of people's abilities, he became a billionaire and reached the pinnacle of life: a promotion, a fortune, and a dead husband.

His only regret, right up to the end of his life, was that he never got to see Wen Yanshen, whom he considered his most efficient business partner, return safely.

He closed his eyes, opened them again, and found himself back in the year he entered into a contract marriage with his late husband.

Zhou Ji agreed at once. Hesitating for even a second would be disrespectful to the inheritance of tens of millions.

He thought his future late husband would treat him coldly, just like in his previous life. Instead, this time he invited Zhou Ji to dinner, brought him flowers, took him to see fireworks, and said he wanted them to grow closer.

Zhou Ji thought: Grow closer? What a load of nonsense! Keep the money and hurry off with your beloved omega, will you? Can you stop telling me those terrifying stories about how alphas and betas can love each other forever?

Just as Zhou Ji was so annoyed he was about to press his philtrum to keep himself alive, his future younger brother-in-law, Wen Yanshen, returned from studying abroad.

Wen Yanshen: Since it's an arranged marriage either way, why not choose me?

Zhou Ji thought: Of course I know you're younger, more promising, and more useful than your rotten big brother! But... why do you seem a little unhinged?

After all, Wen Yanshen's alpha rank was even higher than that of Zhou Ji's future late husband. Pheromones of every kind were completely blocked out for him, and in the not-too-distant future, he would be the pinnacle of alpha evolution. The alphas around Wen Yanshen were even more unhinged than he was.

When the Zhou family looked down on Zhou Ji, those alphas went wild with the Zhou family's business, nearly bringing the whole family to ruin.

When Zhou Ji's lab was sabotaged by his future late husband and nearly lost its investment, those alphas went so wild that the future late husband's financing fell through and his funds dried up.

Yet Wen Yanshen, who couldn't sense Zhou Ji's pheromones, spent every day teetering between going crazy and holding himself back.

The back of Zhou Ji's neck felt chilly. He was afraid Wen Yanshen might bite through it one day.

Later, Wen Yanshen told him about a dream he'd had. In it, he returned from far away, bringing beautiful flowers, only to find that Zhou Ji had already died. Though he shouldn't have felt anything, he shot and destroyed his own alpha gland.

Zhou Ji asked him, "Why would you destroy your own gland?"

Wen Yanshen replied, "I could always smell your scent, just barely. But after you died, I couldn't smell it at all. I thought my alpha gland was blocking my sense of smell."

Zhou Ji suddenly felt that even if the back of his neck got bitten up, it wouldn't be such a big deal.

Theme: Respect people for who they are.