The Aloof International Student Gets Tangled Up with the Alpha Male Campus Heartthrob

You Xing is a Japanese university student: aloof, solitary, and indifferent to others. He's run into tens of thousands of ghosts, but has zero romantic experience.

In the final semester of his senior year of high school, the school's heartthrob from the class next door starts pestering him.

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Their first clash comes when they're seated one behind the other in an exam room.

The heartthrob doesn't seem interested in him and says coldly, "I hope you get a perfect score this time."

You Xing raises an eyebrow. He just had a ghostly dream: in the dream, the students seated one behind the other had to take the exam as a team. If either of them got a perfect score, the other would be chopped in half at the waist.

You Xing gives a chilly smile, hands in a perfect-score paper, and waits for the fun to begin.

But the heartthrob gets a perfect score too. The ghost doesn't chop him in half. Instead, it drags both him and You Xing into a supernatural instance.

They both tumble into a haunted classroom.

The heartthrob: "Have you finished lying there?"

You Xing climbs off him: ""

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In their next clash, You Xing runs into a "doppelganger ghost" that takes the form of the person he resists and despises most.

In front of a classroom full of students, the doppelganger ghost turns into the heartthrob.

The heartthrob: "..."

The classmates: "???"

You Xing coolly shuts the classroom door and pretends nothing happened.

The doppelganger ghost has one advantage: it can fight.

You Xing orders it to fight monsters, move desks and chairs, and do manual labor. He leads it around the whole instance like a dog on a leash.

He even hugs it a few times.

Not bad to the touch.

Then he accidentally learns that the heartthrob isn't a normal person. He's half a ghost.

And the "doppelganger ghost" is the heartthrob's own double.

The original and the double share their five senses and their emotions.

You Xing, with his arms around the double: "..."

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You Xing swears to cut ties with the heartthrob.

The first week after they cut ties, an upperclassman presents You Xing with flowers and confesses.

In the chilly winter rain, the heartthrob holds an umbrella over him, shielding his head from the drizzle.

Standing behind him, he pushes away the flowers being offered to You Xing and says quietly, "No."

The second week after they cut ties, a ghost from an instance falls in love with You Xing.

The heartthrob crushes the ghost and grinds it into the ground, then kneels before You Xing and asks, "Wouldn't it be better to love only me?"

The third week after they cut ties, You Xing flees back to his home country overnight.

The night he lands, he loses consciousness. When he opens his eyes again... he finds himself lying in the heartthrob's house.

The room is pitch-dark. The heartthrob leans against the doorway, watching him, his expression hard to make out.

The heartthrob has a whole cabinet full of portraits. You Xing is the subject in every single one.

The earliest one is dated three years ago.

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Sharp-tongued but honest, cool on the outside and restless within, pretty international student uke vs. devoted and restrained, dominant, gravity-wielding heartthrob seme

◎ The heartthrob is extremely possessive, dark and twisted, with a gravity-based power. His way of thinking is far from normal. Do not apply his views on love to real life.

The following is an upcoming novel:

In the fifth year of the zombie virus outbreak, Xie Wang opens a detective agency. His first case is to steal a dog from a pet hospital.

The dog is a zombie dog. It clamps its jaws around Xie Wang's head and drags him into a zombie horde.

But Xie Wang doesn't panic in the slightest.

Two minutes later, he crawls out of the zombie horde, covered in filth. He picks up the zombie dog, a hairball stuffed in its mouth, and sends his client a photo of the returned dog.

The photo of the dog on its return makes him famous, and business at the detective agency takes off. Before long, everyone knows that the mysterious detective agency director with red hair and a clown mask is "quick on his feet," "brilliant to the point of being demonic," and "probably a beta, since he wanders around all the time and never has a heat or rut."

The detective agency is located in District F, a chaotic and unstable place. People say the clown director has survived three zombie sieges, each time breaking through the bloody encirclement alone, with not a single zombie daring to come near him.

Only Xie Wang himself knows that he can't always escape the zombie hordes. The truth is...

He's a zombie himself.

Maybe his mutation gave him built-in regenerative genes. Even when the zombies bite him down to half a body, Xie Wang can still force himself to crawl out of the horde and deliver the things people treasure: a photo of a beloved dog, a love letter from a first crush, and...

The heat suppressants that he and his Omega client both need.

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After the Clown Detective Agency becomes famous, Xie Wang lands a big job:

Escort a team of researchers from District E south to the Terminal Research Institute.

It's a long journey, passing through at least five cities where the zombie threat is rated "high risk." The "Clown Director," who supposedly knows zombie behavior and has survived several zombie hordes, is the perfect choice for this escort mission.

He's accompanied by an elite armed unit.

They're strong. Every member is tall and long-legged, with an imposing presence, and they're all Alphas. They can flick their guns around and blast three zombies away at a time.

Omega zombie clown director Xie Wang: "..."

He feels like a real clown. With the armed unit's captain pointing a gun at his head, he hugs his little bag of suppressants tight and, deeply aggrieved, joins the escort team.

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That night, he dreams that his mother is lying in a hospital bed, telling the person beside her, "I'm leaving Xiao Wang in your care."

Standing beside the bed is an Alpha, very tall and broad-shouldered, so handsome he could make any Omega weak in the knees and dripping wet.

Xie Wang is an Omega.

Everyone knows what it means to leave an Omega in an Alpha's care.

The Alpha gives a low response and says yes.

Xie Wang doesn't think much of it. The only problem is that this Alpha is his neighbor.

And he's called him "big brother" for ten years.

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He wakes up in the truck, puts on his clown mask, and sees a bonfire burning outside the window.

He opens the window and sees the armed unit's captain, who had just held a gun to his head, take off his mask and reveal the face of the brother who's been dead for five years.

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Flirtatious and unpredictable, easily flustered, information broker pretty Omega uke vs. cold and ruthless, brutal man of few words, fierce Alpha seme who leads an armed unit. 1v1, happy ending.

Theme: Face yourself.