An Honest Man Who's Determined to Save His Marriage

A Beta who seems harmless and guileless but is actually lethally poisonous, versus all kinds of Alpha big shots

A scandal over blood ties has erupted around the Shi family, a rising power in the interstellar capital. The family's Beta heir is in fact unrelated to the Shi family by blood. What's more, his biological parents were the criminals who switched him with the real heir years ago. To show the Shi family's righteousness, they keep the Beta heir and claim that both boys are related to the family by blood.

Shi Fangjin is that Beta heir.

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Shi Fangjin is an utterly ordinary Beta. Like all Betas, he's dull and uninteresting, honest and awkward. Aside from his handsome face, he seems to have few redeeming qualities in his rather lackluster life.

From childhood on, what Shi Fangjin heard most often was that everything he did reflected on the Shi family. So he followed that principle in his life with almost neurotic devotion.

So, when he felt the hand of his nominal Alpha older brother winding its way up his leg, Shi Fangjin immediately agreed to the marriage alliance his Alpha father proposed. His intended was an Alpha twelve years older than him who already had a child, but he couldn't bring shame on the Shi family.

Marrying up is like swallowing needles. Shi Fangjin learned the truth of this after the wedding. The only consolation was that he was a Beta and wouldn't be affected by pheromones.

His husband was one of the most outstanding people in the interstellar world. He was busy, so busy that Shi Fangjin rarely saw him outside of his downtime. Shi Fangjin spent more time with his stepson than with his husband, and their days together were fairly harmonious.

Just as Shi Fangjin thought he would go on living peacefully like this, his father threw the scandal of his husband's affair in his face. He had brought shame on the Shi family again, so Shi Fangjin could only promise to handle it properly.

Shi Fangjin didn't dare tell his husband about the affair. He was afraid the marriage he had worked so hard to maintain would be easily shattered. Instead, he secretly sought out the Omega his husband was cheating with. The Omega was glamorous and seemed easygoing, but the demands he made revealed his vicious nature.

Shi Fangjin had no choice but to agree to the Omega's demands: to come whenever he was called and work like an ox or horse. He would hide it as well as before and make sure no one else found out. As long as the Omega's interest wore off and he stopped pestering him... his husband and the Shi family's reputation would be protected.

Then Shi Fangjin discovered he was pregnant. As he hesitated over what to do about himself and the child whose biological father he didn't know, every problem he had tried so hard to conceal came to light...

Shi Fangjin hid behind his husband to escape his father's fury. The Shi family's reputation weighed heavily on him, leaving him feeling helpless. The marriage he had carefully maintained was now in pieces, and Shi Fangjin tried to find the root of all their problems but came up empty-handed.

The beliefs ingrained in him over so many years ran deep. Shi Fangjin promised his father that he would leave the Shi family and divorce Duan Jingxu in order to protect the family's reputation. All he wanted was to keep the child in his belly.

Behind him, Shi Fangjin's husband, Duan Jingxu, gave a cold, incredulous laugh. Divorce? Had he agreed to it?

Content warnings: melodrama

The bottom is a lethally poisonous, guileless heartthrob, and the tops fight over him.

The bottom is 20. He is not a virgin, and the top has a child, who is adopted. There is no romantic relationship between the male tops.

The Alpha top is an Alpha pretending to be an Omega. He only looks like an Omega.

Pregnancy and childbirth.

Synopsis captured on August 28, 2026.

Theme: Only by facing the root of a problem can it be solved