After Becoming the Hated Substitute Omega

The full novel is complete. A new dual-character illustration has been commissioned: @Jinjiang Xie Canglang [The next novel will be “Pretty Sweet O Keeps Thinking He’s a Robot.” Blurb at the end.] [Blurb for this novel↓] Everyone in City A knew that Wen Shengran was the young master of the Yi family, Yi Cheng’s little stand-in. Though he did look somewhat like the aloof beauty Li Yu... He was still nothing but a counterfeit who could never be acknowledged in public. Li Yu came from a distinguished family. He was elegant and refined, untouchable to all. The counterfeit, meanwhile, was painfully shabby. He had barely two hundred yuan to his name, and though he was pretty, he looked cheap. Li Yu was an S-rank alpha with a brilliant future ahead of him. The counterfeit was an omega with a gland defect, ruled by instinct alone. The counterfeit was also pathetic, hopelessly devoted to Yi Cheng and willing to be a replacement kept hidden from the world. Unfortunately, Yi Cheng had never taken him seriously. At a drinking party, Wen Shengran and Li Yu appeared together. The former was trampled on and insulted at will, while the latter was surrounded by admirers, like a moon high in the heavens, untouched by the mundane world. Everyone had already ignored the counterfeit’s existence, except for The moon himself. Under the astonished gazes around them, Li Yu bent down and laid his jacket across the little stand-in’s knees. It just barely covered the last shred of dignity that no one else cared about. * Wen Shengran couldn’t help feeling helpless. In his previous life, he’d been a pampered young master, driving the wildest cars and playing the most thrilling games of family intrigue. Then, in a single moment, he transmigrated into a book and became the universally loathed protagonist shou in a melodramatic novel about scum and suffering. The protagonist shou was the real young master of a wealthy family, switched at birth, but rejected by his family and looked down on by everyone else. On top of being sickly, he was also abused in body and spirit by the scum gong as a substitute omega. With no other choice, he put his acting skills to work and diligently played the stand-in in front of the scum gong. He just had to wait for the scum gong to pay his wages and for his birth family to divide up their inheritance. Then he could get the medicine he needed from the scum gong’s beloved, Li Yu. Once he had the medicine, he’d run. The scum gong didn’t love him. He didn’t care. Everyone looked down on him. He didn’t care. As for Li Yu, the beloved who should have been a shadow in his life in everyone else’s eyes, Wen Shengran took advantage of the fact that he was the only person who’d shown him kindness and flirted with him from head to toe. And then... Li Yu took him seriously. Later, Wen Shengran realized that his beloved really was a beloved. He just had a bit of a dark side. And when it came to making someone suffer... he could be pretty ruthless, too. * Later on, The Wen family, who had once looked down on Wen Shengran for being poor, begged him to come home. The arrogant eldest young master of the Wen family declared that Wen Shengran was his only younger brother. And Yi Cheng, the eldest young master of the Yi family, stood there red-eyed with regret, begging only for Wen Shengran to look back at him once. Notes: 1. CP: Li Yu x Wen Shengran. A cool, aloof beauty on a high peak x a clever, composed, flirtatious pretty boy 2. ABO, classic alpha/omega pairing, orchid x orange soda 3. Includes a cannon-fodder gong (the original scum gong) and some rivalry. The shou has no romantic feelings for the cannon-fodder gong, and nothing substantial happens between them. 4. Mild melodrama Coming next: “Pretty Sweet O Keeps Thinking He’s a Robot.” Please add it to your favorites! As the lowest-ranked omega student at the military academy, Huo Lening has the cheapest-smelling pheromones, the worst physique, and the poorest combat scores. His teachers dislike him, his classmates mock him, and the local thugs want to pick on him because he’s pretty. But Huo Lening doesn’t care. He has a secret. He’s a robot, and only two programs have been installed in his body. One is to stay alive. The other is to find an alpha named Zhan Zheng and seduce him. * Zhan Zheng, the Empire’s top commander, is cold and hard-hearted. One day, someone delivered a flowerlike vine to his bed. The flowerlike vine was an omega, docile and delicate, completely useless, and a walking violation of every one of Zhan Zheng’s rules. Everyone thought the poor omega would meet a miserable end, but... When the omega was bullied at school, the commander personally came to the military academy to protect him. At a banquet, the commander kept the omega by his side. Before long, the Empire announced their engagement, and there beside the commander stood the omega, quiet and well-behaved. * After someone drugged him, Zhan Zheng ended up bringing an omega home. His face was full of menace, but he couldn’t bring himself to be cruel. What was done was done, so he could only patiently keep the omega with him. As he did, he realized the omega didn’t seem all that bright. And then... He fell for him. At first Huo Lening: I’m a robot. Zhan Zheng, nonchalantly: Mm. Be good. If you aren’t, I’ll send you back to the factory for a rebuild. Later Zhan Zheng hauled back the omega who had abandoned his mission and tried to run away, then patiently coaxed him: “Didn’t you say you were going to seduce me? Your mission isn’t finished yet. You’re not allowed to run.” Theme: As long as you stay positive, work hard, and keep striving, you can find a beautiful life and love.