The Salty-Fish Beta Failed to Fade Into the Background on the Dating Show

My next book, "Only After We Married Did I Learn My Ex Had Been Plotting This All Along," is introduced at the very bottom. Please add it to your favorites, TT. Pretty please, TT.

[Blurb for this book]:

Yu Xian is an utterly ordinary, semi-independent illustrator. He randomly signed up for a dating show to find an excuse to dodge his deadlines, never expecting the production team to actually contact him.

While Yu Xian was wondering why "Letters I Want to Send You," a dating show centered on Alpha-Omega pairings, would invite a Beta like him, the production team admitted they were afraid the script would get out of hand, so they wanted him as a useful extra.

But I'm just a lazy fish trying to avoid deadlines, Yu Xian thought. He hesitated before turning them down, but the payment they offered dazzled him.

They were offering way too much, so Yu Xian, a conscientious hired hand who needed the money, came aboard.

As a lazy fish, our goal is simple: do as little as possible and make as much money as possible! While helping the production team set up couples, he would do his best to fade into the background of the dating show.

Armed with the script and information about the other seven contestants, Yu Xian briefly got his act together.

When the rich second-generation Alpha puppy failed to notice that the popular, glamorous Omega was allergic to something, Yu Xian quietly tipped him off, then helped him pick out something suitable before slipping away without taking credit.

When the gentle, reserved Omega felt down because he was trying to respect the professor Alpha's preferences, Yu Xian told him he was wonderful and didn't need to give up his dreams for someone else. He could choose someone willing to compromise for him instead.

When the scheming white lotus Omega, who had stirred up trouble, thought he had no right to keep pursuing the person he loved, Yu Xian told him that even if his original motives had been awful, that didn't matter. As long as he was willing to give, sincerity would eventually be met with sincerity.

Throughout the show, Yu Xian kept playing matchmaker and dropping hints like crazy. Just when he thought he'd managed to keep everything under control for the production team, apart from that calculating Alpha he couldn't read, he was ready to sign off and go back to lazing around with his fellow hired-hand buddy, another Beta...

The day before the final confessions, Yu Xian received seven letters.

Yu Xian: Calling the production team. What's going on here?

Production team: I want to know too! Who am I supposed to ask?

Audience: I thought I was here to ship couples, but it turns out I'm watching a love polygon?

[Reading Guide]:

1. Everyone has a one-sided crush. No betting on couples. The main pairing is the little rose and an Alpha. No secondary pairing.

2. Everyone is great. It's just that a lazy fish's love life has a first-come, first-served rule.

3. Inspired by other works, with some original worldbuilding. Thank you for reading, sending you love~

Coming soon: "Only After We Married Did I Learn My Ex Had Been Plotting This All Along"

Xu Muyun, the eldest son of the Xu family, is refined and composed, with a cool, elegant face and affectionate eyes. He's the ideal marriage candidate for every eligible Omega in their social circle.

Unfortunately, he presented as an Omega.

The Xu family elders, who seem to have lived for a thousand years, keep fretting that the family will die out. Unfortunately, neither of their only two Alphas is any use: one is busy mourning his late wife, and the other is a hopeless fool in love.

Unable to put up with it any longer, Xu Muyun chooses to marry for the family's sake. Fortunately, everything goes smoothly in every respect.

Except for one thing: his match is an Alpha from the Lu family.

In his wild and reckless youth, Xu Muyun had a secret history with the Lu family's illegitimate son.

Although they'd been apart for many years, Xu Muyun still remembered all the ways the Lu family had made things difficult for his first love back then.

What rotten luck. Now Xu Muyun is about to marry the legitimate eldest son of the Lu family.

It's just... isn't this eldest son an awful lot like his ex?

Xu Muyun raised an eyebrow. "What a coincidence. You... are also called Lu Zhixing?"

[A sharp-tongued little fox who likes soft treatment but not force vs. a wolfdog who's soft only for you]

When Lu Zhixing was young, he wanted to protect so many people, but all he ever felt was his own helplessness, as he lost them one after another.

Do I have to climb higher and higher just so you won't leave me behind?

Do I have to surpass you before I can make you stay?

I will love you with everything I have.

Theme: Face the future together