The Flirtatious Beauty Pretends to Behave, Then Fails to Get Away

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[Opening in December: "The Face-Blind Beta Everyone Loves Is Pretending to Be an Omega for an Alpha." Please add it to your reading list!]

Jiang Zhiyi is a notorious playboy in their social circle, falling for one person after another, with nothing but a pretty face to his name.

Beautiful, flirtatious, and very good at putting on an act.

The first time he saw Lin Duzhao,

the young man had a calm, understated look, with delicate features and monolid eyes. When he looked up, the tiny black mole on his eyelid was as vivid as a splash of ink.

Naturally, Jiang Zhiyi was smitten at first sight.

Lin Duzhao liked obedient types, so Jiang Zhiyi made himself look very obedient indeed.

He was practiced at acting meek, cuddling drunkenly without realizing it, indulging in restrained affection, and occasionally revealing a porcelain-like fragility...

He was far too skilled at this routine.

Jiang Zhiyi was so absorbed in his game of seduction that he failed to see the desire surging in the young man's eyes behind him.

With his fish about to take the bait, Jiang Zhiyi planned to arrange a dignified breakup. But things gradually began to get strange:

His entangled ex-boyfriends suddenly vanished without a trace.

Jiang Zhiyi was happy to enjoy the peace and quiet.

He went drinking at a bar with his unruly friends, then woke up with a red mark on his collarbone.

Jiang Zhiyi didn't care in the slightest.

All the mess of contacts on his phone had been deleted.

Jiang Zhiyi was utterly unconcerned... until he wasn't.

Jiang Zhiyi: This is weird. Really weird.

Until one day, he accidentally saw the name Lin Duzhao had saved for him:

Liar.

Jiang Zhiyi: ...

Was something not quite right here?

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Things began to take a turn for the worse.

Jiang Zhiyi packed his bags and planned to flee Qinggang overnight. He'd bought a standing-room ticket. :)

Before he could step out the door, warm breath brushed the back of his ear in the darkness, sending chills down his spine.

The young man leisurely caught his wrist and bent down, the shadows in his eyes gathering like thick fog as he murmured against his ear, "Zhizhi is always running around outside. It makes me very unhappy."

Jiang Zhiyi blinked, trying to squeeze out a tear. "You're hurting me..."

But this time, the young man who had always indulged his every whim did not give him what he wanted.

"You won't," the refined young man said, lowering his eyes. His voice was calm and gentle, filled with the long-awaited joy of anticipation. "If it hurts once, you'll remember your lesson next time."

Jiang Zhiyi: ...

I-I think I've taken this too far. QAQ

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Lin Duzhao had known since he was a teenager that Jiang Zhiyi was a little liar who never stopped lying.

Cold-hearted and callous, he was best at playing with people's feelings.

When the little liar set his sights on him, Lin Duzhao didn't mind playing along with his game of seduction.

Jiang Zhiyi liked to act, and Lin Duzhao was happy to play his part.

After all, who says the ending has to be the fish taking the bait, and not the fisherman being dragged into the sea?

He could be loyal, gentle, and endlessly accommodating forever.

The only condition was that the game never end.

Until he discovered the train ticket hidden in the wardrobe.

Lin Duzhao curled his lips, almost able to picture Jiang Zhiyi trembling with fear.

"So adorable," he murmured with a low laugh. "Are you even planning to surprise me with the breakup?"

#The clever fisherman is about to be dragged into the sea#

#Jiang Zhiyi: I thought I was good at pretending, but he turned out to be even better at acting :)#

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*An obsessive, cold-blooded, two-faced, unhinged top and a carefree, naturally seductive bottom

*Both virgins, one-on-one, happy ending.

*Both the top and the bottom have some psychological issues. Read with caution if that bothers you.

*They save each other and grow closer, with neither of them in the wrong.

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Blurb for "The Face-Blind Beta Everyone Loves: A Guide to the Love Rival Battlefield":

Qi Yunshu is a beta with face blindness, and has always struggled to form close relationships. After he works up the courage to find a sweet, considerate omega boyfriend online, his life starts getting strange:

His new deskmate asks him to see a movie. Dazed and confused, Qi Yunshu goes to the theater with a stranger and watches the entire film.

His new deskmate stops speaking to him.

A younger student at his school confesses to him. When Qi Yunshu returns the love letter, he mistakes the recipient, causing a misunderstanding, but the letter is still accepted.

The younger student is so angry that he falls for someone else.

His older neighbor offers to walk him home. Qi Yunshu gets into a stranger's car instead, yet still makes it home safely.

His neighbor starts acting hot and cold.

Qi Yunshu is troubled by all this and secretly vents to his sweet boyfriend online, but he doesn't dare mention the biggest source of his suffering.

One day, he finds an alpha in rut lying by the roadside. He kindly helps him, only for the irrational alpha to leave a bite mark on the back of his neck.

The unlucky beta can neither smell pheromones nor recognize faces, so all he can do is hope his boyfriend won't get jealous when they finally meet in person.

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Zhou Xingliao attended the same schools as Qi Yunshu from kindergarten through high school, always in the class next door.

He helped him build sandcastles in kindergarten, carried his backpack in elementary school, fought for him in middle school, and coldly registered an account for him on a dating app in high school.

Qi Yunshu was clear about what he wanted from the app. His ideal type was written plainly in the profile: an omega with a zest for life.

The alpha, who was always cocky and sharp-tongued, turned green with envy and hurriedly changed his gender to omega.

Hobbies: flower arranging, embroidery, needle felting~

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Online, Zhou Xingliao played the part of a gentle, sweet omega boyfriend. Offline, he made sure to fend off ill-intentioned, despicable alphas. Once their online relationship was on track, he eagerly looked forward to meeting in person.

But the day before they were supposed to meet, he suddenly went into rut and collapsed by the roadside. A beautiful, pale hand reached out to him

"Hello. Do you need a suppressant?"

The naive beauty didn't know what he was getting into, blundering straight into a beast's hunting ground. When he fell into Zhou Xingliao's arms, his eyes were misty red and tears fell in a rush. All he could do was whimper timidly, "I'm a beta, not an omega..."

An alpha in rut was muddled and barely in control of his reason. And the nape revealed when the black hair was brushed aside was so beautiful and pale, so easy to mark.

Yet he still suppressed the beast's ferocity, lowered his head, and tenderly and reverently left a faint, almost invisible bite mark on the snowy nape.

It was like a temporary mark.

It was also like a kiss.

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Later

After learning the truth, Qi Yunshu said, "You pretended to be an omega online to coax me, then acted like a stranger in person to make me mistake someone else for you. Is anything about you real?"

The young man lowered his eyes and meekly admitted his fault. "The bite I gave you during my rut was real."

Qi Yunshu: "???"

#Is this despicable alpha wearing a secret identity for me, or is he nesting identities inside identities?#

#The beast and the rose garden he faithfully guards#

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A naive, innocent, obliviously irresistible beta beauty bottom X a cocky, sharp-tongued, skillful actor and scheming alpha top

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