Picking Up Trash

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(An old-school, angsty melodrama featuring three scumbag tops competing for the same person.)

Xu Xiaozhen is a poor but determined beta struggling at the very bottom of society and trying to change his fate through education. One night, while collecting trash, he finds a living person. The stranger says his name is Zhou Yan, but his background is a mystery.

At first, Xu Xiaozhen hopes he might be an alpha, since that would mean he could get some financial assistance. Later, he stops caring. He's been lonely for so long, and having someone around would liven things up.

Xu Xiaozhen spends his savings buying Zhou Yan new clothes. He won't even turn on the lights at night, but heats water for Zhou Yan with the water heater.

There's no refrigerator at home, and Zhou Yan complains, so Xu Xiaozhen goes out that very night and buys a secondhand fridge from a scrap yard.

When he's bullied, Xu Xiaozhen hopes Zhou Yan will stay far away so he won't get caught up in it.

Later, Xu Xiaozhen differentiates again. After spending eighteen years as a beta, he's at a loss when faced with an unfamiliar heat, and Zhou Yan fully marks him. That's when he learns the other man is an alpha.

That night, Xu Xiaozhen imagines countless futures for the two of them, oblivious to the mocking disgust in Zhou Yan's eyes, as if he were looking at a piece of trash.

Later, Zhou Yan becomes Gu Yanye, a heaven-blessed heir who stands far above everyone else. He no longer needs Xu Xiaozhen, and says coolly, “He's an eighteenth-class commoner. The fact that I stayed with him for so long was already an enormous act of charity.”

They meet again at the most prestigious academy in the imperial capital, where Xu Xiaozhen has enrolled as a freshman.

Gu Yanye spots him from upstairs, and his heart, dead and silent for so long, suddenly pounds. An overwhelming ache surges through him. After a long while, he turns the cigar in his hand and smiles at his friend. “He still came chasing after me. He's tried so hard, so I suppose I can reluctantly give him the position of a lover.”

Only later does he learn that omegas who have been permanently marked but receive no soothing from their partner's pheromones can develop pheromone dysregulation syndrome. Xu Xiaozhen differentiated late and is also pregnant, making his symptoms more severe, nearly costing both mother and child their lives.

He can't afford to have the mark removed. On a sunny afternoon, he buys a new razor blade for the first time, cleans it with expired alcohol, and cuts out his own gland.

Sweet, sunny beta x vicious, heartless alpha x gloomy, unhinged alpha x scheming, lovesick alpha

(He should count as a beta, since his gland only existed for a few months.)

[All three tops are unhinged, and all three are virgins. Feel free to criticize the tops, but please don't blame Xiaozhen. He was just unlucky in love when he was young. (bows)]

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Coming soon: [How to Raise a Vicious Cannon Fodder]

Yu Yuan is gloomy, selfish, and vain, with an inflated sense of his own importance. He has just made it into university from a poor, backward mountain village.

Dazzled by the bright lights of the big city, he has no money to his name. All he can do is wash dishes, cast jealous glances at everyone around him, and fantasize about a wish-fulfillment life where he marries a rich beauty, becomes a CEO, and reaches the pinnacle of success.

And Jing Liuyu is the person Yu Yuan imagines himself trampling underfoot in his fantasy story.

Yu Yuan envies his handsome looks, his privileged family, his refined air, and his popularity with everyone. By comparison, Yu Yuan feels like a rat in a gutter.

But Jing Liuyu seems completely oblivious to this. He keeps trying to befriend Yu Yuan, and gives him all sorts of expensive gifts.

Yu Yuan is certain that Jing Liuyu is trying to bribe him, the financial titan of tomorrow! But don't think you can change my mind just by doing that! You're nothing but a rich kid who lives off his family!

Still, when a rich idiot like Jing Liuyu is offering, why not take advantage?

Until one morning, after taking advantage of him again and again, Yu Yuan wakes up in Jing Liuyu's bed, covered in marks and thoroughly used from head to toe...

Despised-by-everyone, foolish bottom x sweet-faced, cold-hearted top

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