Those Years I Was Loved by a Green Tea Alpha Pretending to Be an Omega

[Main story complete. Coming next: Eight Hearts, Eight Arrows and His Highness Is Enamored with the Fish Seller's Beauty]

● Black-bellied, pretend-Omega, green-tea, devoted Alpha (Ji Shangjiu)

● Hardworking, sharp-tongued, outwardly warm but inwardly cold top student Beta (Qiu Yechen)

Everyday school life and mutual healing / unconventional powerhouse Alpha and Beta / the uke has herbal pheromones, failed to differentiate, and is ill but not weak / the seme acts like a green tea and pretends to be an Omega, but someone will see through it

[Blurb]

After leaving the hospital, former physics Olympiad student Qiu Yechen, who had faced criticism for failing to differentiate, was forced to transfer to Mingli High School. There, he ran into Ji Shangjiu, the child star he had once liked many years ago.

He thought Ji Shangjiu was just as gentle and considerate as he had been on television, but after spending some time together, he realized it was all an act.

[Lie 1: Ji Shangjiu is humble and gentle.]

[Ji Shangjiu]: Who still writes love letters these days? So tacky.

After saying that, he turned around and threw the love letter someone had given Qiu Yechen in the trash. Then he went home, drew in his journal, and wrote love songs!

So good! So good! If my darling likes it, who cares if it's tacky!

[Lie 2: Ji Shangjiu is a delicate Omega.]

[Qiu Yechen]: Then who's this long-haired Alpha fighting a bunch of other Alphas right in front of me?

[Ji Shangjiu]: QAQ, I didn't know I was going to differentiate all of a sudden. I always thought I was an Omega TUT

[Qiu Yechen]: A bridal carry? Running five kilometers at full speed? Broad shoulders, a narrow waist, big pecs, and long legs? How is that delicate?!!!

[Lie 3: Ji Shangjiu is an innocent little white flower.]

[Qiu Yechen]: What do you people think innocent means? Did he really hang my jacket by his bed to worship it and pray to it before exams?

[Sunflower childhood friend]: He told me Qiu Yechen couldn't accept that his longtime buddy had a crush on him, so he broke off our friendship?

[White Tea school bully]: He told me Qiu Yechen was an Alpha! He even told my dad that Qiu Yechen and I were in an Alpha-Alpha relationship?

[Matcha class flower]: I was here first, so why did that shameless green tea Alpha beat me to it? (smiling face)

[Black Lotus top student]: Hmph. (sneers)

[Ji Shangjiu]: (sniffles) What did I do wrong... Why are you all slandering me? Qiu Ye, sob sob.

[Qiu Yechen]: Get away from me!

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One rainy night, in a special ward at the hospital.

Qiu Yechen said self-mockingly, "I asked the doctor whether I was an Alpha, an Omega, or a Beta. He said I could choose. But is it really that simple?"

Ji Shangjiu shook his head. "It's not that simple, but there's one thing I'm sure of."

Differentiation into a secondary gender because of pheromones doesn't change the fact that I like you.

[Content warnings]

1. Pheromones: lindera and miwu.

Their love began with attraction, grew from admiration for each other's talents, was deepened by affection, and was strengthened by character.

After revisions to the completed story, they get together only after graduating from high school.

2. The seme only acts like a green tea around romantic rivals. In truth, he's kind and a bit of a show-off.

3. The uke has narcolepsy and can fall asleep even while standing. He falls in love in his dreams and says one thing while feeling another.

4. If you spot any implausible plot details, please point them out. Thank you.

[Married-life extra stories] A separate story, Eight Hearts, Eight Arrows, will focus on the two of them twenty years into their relationship. Bittersweet and angsty.

Theme: Oppose school bullying.