The Seductive Beta Is a Beautiful Villain

Xu Yanci is a naturally flirtatious beta. He discovers that he's actually the villain in a novel: after offending the powerful alpha male lead, Shen Xiuqing, he'll go bankrupt and be brutally exiled to the East African Rift Valley. While he's pondering how to change his fate, the red wine in his hand accidentally spills onto the man in front of him. The man's clothes are soaked, clinging to his lean waist as he looks at Xu Yanci with cold eyes. The banquet falls silent. Everyone thinks this beta is done for. Only Xu Yanci curls his lips and trails his fingertips over the man's waist. "You're all wet." The man's eyes are pitch-black, giving nothing away. He lets Xu Yanci tease him. A moment later, his long, elegant fingers clamp around Xu Yanci's wrist. "You've got nerve." * Shen Xiuqing has been reborn. His previous life was like a dream: on one side was a love that had engraved itself on his heart, and on the other, the cruel reality that Xu Yanci had used him. He plans to lock Xu Yanci up and return every bit of pain he suffered, making him sink into the mire and suffocate to death. But everything is different now. Shen Xiuqing has a defect in his scent gland. When his condition flares up, he loses all reason. Omegas tremble in fear beside him, and only the beta Xu Yanci dares to soothe him. That beta runs against the crowd and wraps him in his arms. Shen Xiuqing laughs in furious disbelief. He wants to coldly reject Xu Yanci's insincere kindness, yet can't bear to lose even a little of the warmth Xu Yanci gives him. The beta across from him asks if it hurts. Shen Xiuqing smiles and bites hard into the nape of his neck. He murmurs, "It hurts. It hurts so much I'm nearly dying." * Xu Yanci feels like it's time to run. The male lead is about to propose to him, and the plot has gone completely off the rails! What bankruptcy? What East African Rift Valley? To hell with all of it! Just as the male lead drops to one knee to propose, Xu Yanci suddenly regains his memories. So he didn't transmigrate into a book. He was reborn, and in his previous life he had betrayed Shen Xiuqing for the sake of the company he ran. The male lead has returned from hell to kill him. Xu Yanci smiles as he accepts the ring, his fingertips trembling. He nearly drops it down a ditch. He keeps a calm face, but secretly packs his bags. He thinks that if he runs far enough, he won't be caught. Until, years later, on a rainy night, Xu Yanci opens the door and finds a soaked man standing outside, smiling as he approaches. Xu Yanci greets him as though nothing is wrong, but his eyelashes are trembling with fear. ----- Seducing the Protagonist's Older Brother (Transmigrate into a Book) ----- Jiang Yitian was an adopted son cherished by everyone. Later, when the Jiang family had a biological child, his status plummeted, and he became someone everyone despised. While he was depressed, he met the beloved genius Xie Ke, and the two fell in love. Then he accidentally caught Xie Ke cheating. The expensive tie Jiang Yitian had bought after eating steamed buns for three years was now tied around his younger brother's fair hand, which bore suggestive red marks. Xie Ke offered no explanation. He simply pulled his frightened younger brother into his arms and said slowly, "He's timid. Stop acting crazy and scaring him." Only then did Jiang Yitian understand. When people bullied him in the back alley, slapping and humiliating him, Xie Ke and his friends had watched from nearby, laughing as they took pictures and teased him on their phones. They were doing it to please the younger brother who had always looked down on him. All the bullying he had suffered over the years had been thanks to the person he loved. So, under their pressure, Jiang Yitian closed his eyes and leaped from the rooftop, laughing in a way that was both mad and heartbreaking. He never saw Xie Ke, running toward him in utter disarray, or heard his agonized scream. * When Jiang Yitian opened his eyes again, he had been reborn six years earlier. Only then did he learn that this world was an angsty novel about Xie Ke and his younger brother, and he was merely a short-lived cannon fodder character. Later, Xie Ke knelt in the rain and begged him to reconcile. Jiang Yitian made him watch as he kissed Xie Yunqian. "That's your biological older brother. You should call me..." Jiang Yitian narrowed his eyes and touched his lips, still tingling from the kiss. "Uncle." Xie Ke's face turned deathly pale. Only then did he realize that people really can feel each other's pain. The other person had returned every bit of suffering he'd endured. [Reader's Guide] 1. The bottom had a very hard life in his previous life. After being reborn, he turns dark and becomes a ruthless, crazy beauty who'll stop at nothing for revenge. 2. Everyone except the top has a one-sided crush on him. The bottom goes from being universally disliked to universally adored. Theme: What goes around comes around. Be a good person.