No Matter How I Look at Him, He’s Flirting with Me

Bai Zhili is a first-year dance student at Jing University. With her fair skin and sweet, well-behaved looks, she has had a constitution that attracts perverts ever since she was little. After what seemed like countless incidents of harassment by roommates, she moved in with an upperclassman.

The upperclassman is stern and cold, and Bai Zhili is afraid of him. She doesn't even dare meet his gaze.

She keeps out of his way on the way to and from class, stays far away from him at meals, and avoids his schedule.

Bai Zhili thinks this should keep her from bothering the upperclassman.

*

Cheng Xiuning has always thought that his junior, who is as pale as a lychee, has a crush on him.

Otherwise, why would he have agreed as soon as Cheng Xiuning invited him to move in? Why would he always keep his head down and be too shy to look at him, or blush whenever they spoke?

He deliberately practices his basic dance moves in front of Cheng Xiuning, doing flexible poses that make anyone who sees them blush.

He even started an account to record the little details of their life together, finding all sorts of chances to get close and cuddle up to him.

Cheng Xiuning thinks, Why hasn't he confessed to me yet?

*

Bai Zhili thinks that after moving into Cheng Xiuning's home, her pervert-attracting buff has finally worn off.

What she doesn't know is that Cheng Xiuning is the biggest pervert of all.

Naturally flirtatious, mild-mannered, pure, and adorable bottom * cold and aloof top who puts on an act but is actually love-struck

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Before he came of age, everyone believed that Shi Jian would differentiate into the Norman Empire's one and only top-tier Omega.

He possessed the most beautiful spiritual form in the entire universe, a Dawn Swallowtail Butterfly. His family had deep roots in the Ninth Military District, and he was the cherished darling of his father and brothers. His life had always gone smoothly, and countless Alphas and Betas were eager to pursue him.

People speculated that with Shi Jian's status and beauty, he would be more than qualified to marry into the royal family.

He was beautiful, noble, and highly sought after.

It all came to an abrupt end when Shi Jian's second differentiation turned him into a defective Alpha with a mere E-rank rating.

An E-rank had no combat ability. Even the lowest-ranked infantrymen, cannon fodder on the battlefield, were above that level. His unique spiritual form was dragged down with him, becoming a beautiful but useless ornament.

And because he had differentiated into an Alpha, he wasn't even qualified to be an ornament. He became a stain that the Shi family, a warlord clan that had produced countless high-ranking officers, could never wash away.

Forget marrying into the royal family. He would have trouble even finding an Omega willing to accept him.

Overnight, Shi Jian went from the family's cherished darling to someone everyone despised.

Despite having no combat ability or experience, he was forced by his father to enter military school, where he endured bullying from high-ranking Alphas day and night.

They enjoyed pressuring him with high-level pheromones he couldn't withstand, delighting in watching the beautiful butterfly who had once stood above them lower his wings and endure it all, trembling with resentment.

Shi Jian had accidentally glimpsed the obscene slurs about him on the internal forum, posted by people who knew he had once been an Omega. They made him so sick he wanted to vomit.

His adopted elder brother was an instructor and had the ability to protect him, but never once stopped any of it. He even blamed Shi Jian more than once, saying that he had spoiled him into being too pampered, and repeatedly emphasized that he was no longer a more valuable Omega.

The brother who had once flown into a rage and stood up for his younger brother over the tiniest scrape now told Shi Jian, after he had suffered so many grievances, to learn to endure them.

So Shi Jian obediently endured it all. Even in the blaze after an explosion, he endured the pain without making a sound, letting the scorching flames consume him.

The last thing he saw before he died was his father and brothers, sent to carry out a rescue, saving the Alpha who had bullied him. Only a few meters away, Shi Jian's tears evaporated in the heat before they could fall.

At death's door, he finally awakened an ability that let him cling to life, at the cost of his memories becoming jumbled.

Everyone else left him with nothing but a departing figure. Only the Alpha who, like him, was treated as an outcast for having no spiritual form risked his life to carry him out of the fire.

When Shi Jian opened his eyes again, he was once more surrounded by people.

*

Shi Jian clearly remembered that just yesterday, his adopted elder brother had said he would propose once Shi Jian's second differentiation made him an Omega, and bring him home to cherish him like a rose.

He remembered how his brother would casually let slip that he looked down on Omegas, only to soothe Shi Jian when he brought it up by saying, "You're different from other Omegas."

But after waking this time, his brother kept looking at him with a gaze full of both guilt and malice. Shi Jian glanced at the medical chart beside his bed and thought, Oh, I'm an Alpha now.

"Alphas can't marry Alphas."

The malice in his brother's eyes grew even more intense.

When they met again, however, his brother had Omega pheromones.

"I hate that you're an Alpha, but I've realized that if I take on a different identity and pay a small price, this barrier between us disappears."

He had gone mad enough to forcibly reverse his differentiation, turning from a favored Alpha into an Omega with an incomplete reproductive system.

The father who had once regarded him as a stain now always stood cautiously outside his hospital room, speaking quietly with the medical staff, every other word about Shi Jian.

Whenever Shi Jian opened his eyes, whether in the day or the dead of night, he would meet those dark eyes.

He could sense how many times his father wanted to come closer, but the moment he took a step, pheromones Shi Jian couldn't withstand as an E-rank Alpha would surge toward him. Shi Jian would always huddle up in fear and hide in a corner.

Shi Cangfeng saw a fear and aversion in his youngest son's eyes that had never been there before. His heart felt as though it were being cut to pieces, yet he could only watch helplessly as Shi Jian accepted everyone except him.

His brother, his classmates...

He didn't seem to remember much about them.

So why were they apologizing, making amends, and trying to win him over...?

Shi Jian couldn't make sense of it. Only when he was beside a certain Alpha did the razor-sharp memories in his mind, like a tangled mass of wires, stop cutting into him.

Only then would his thoughts grow quiet for a little while.

*

"After an Omega's second differentiation into an Alpha, the womb pouch, which has already developed enough to be fertilized at any time, will gradually degenerate. In most cases, they lose the ability to reproduce."

The Alpha's hot, panting breath brushed against Shi Jian's ear. "But I know how to make it open again."

Beautiful, powerful, and tragic bottom * older top with immense power

Please note:

1. He's actually a magnet for admirers from beginning to end. The bullying in the middle can be understood as a version of "if they can't have him, they'll spread rumors and crawl around in gloomy resentment," turning him into someone everyone hates.

2. There are hidden circumstances. His family members aren't genuinely awful people.

3. His adopted elder brother's change into an Omega only gives him the legal identity of an Omega. There is none of the imagined top-turns-into-bottom plot. His body is no different from an Alpha's.

4. The top's identity and setup are deliberate. You'll know who the tops are as soon as they appear. There's no split personality; it's the same person.

5. The bottom is an Alpha early on and can freely change later. When the top makes him feel bad, he can turn into an Alpha or a Beta. It's a lovers' little game.

6. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

Theme: Finding love in ordinary life.