My Childhood Friend Keeps Pretending to Be an Omega While Being an Alpha

Ye Qi Hong had a neighbor boy, Qiu Jing, who was five years younger and whom he had watched grow up.

The year Ye Qi Hong graduated from college and Qiu Jing turned seventeen, two things happened.

First, Qiu Jing presented as an S+ alpha.

Second, Qiu Jing firmly believed he was an omega.

Denying one's secondary gender was harmful to a teenager's physical and mental development, so Ye Qi Hong resolutely took on the responsibility of guiding him through counseling.

He gave him biology lessons, bought him suppressants that looked like they were for omegas, and even cooked for him and waited for him to finish evening study sessions when Ye Qi Hong himself was going through a heat. He explained the differences between omegas and alphas, doing his best to make Qiu Jing understand that he was an alpha.

But it barely worked.

At eighteen, Qiu Jing was a fierce A, 189 centimeters tall, with powerful pheromones and the strength to take on ten people at once. Yet he wore the pink suppressant patch Ye Qi Hong had bought him on the back of his neck and regularly declared that he was "afraid of alphas."

Having failed at his guidance mission, Ye Qi Hong decided to respect the kid's wishes and treat him as an omega.

That was until Qiu Jing's college entrance celebration, when Ye Qi Hong went into heat early. Dizzy and delirious from the fever, he called Qiu Jing and asked him to buy him suppressants.

The next morning, he woke with a dull ache at the back of his neck, and the scent of S+ alpha pheromones lingered in the air.

Qiu Jing crouched beside his bed, looking guilty. "I'm sorry, Bao Bao. I lied to you. I'm actually an alpha."

Ye Qi Hong: "..."

Wait! Did you think I didn't know you were an alpha?!

From the gong's point of view

Qiu Jing grew up in Ye Qi Hong's shadow. He thought the person he hated most was Ye Qi Hong.

That was until Ye Qi Hong went away to college, and they could only see each other a dozen or so times a year.

Watching Ye Qi Hong give all the warmth he used to show Qiu Jing to his new friends made Qiu Jing regret everything.

On the day he presented, he looked at his test results and thought of how distant and polite Ye Qi Hong was toward alphas. In a moment of inexplicable impulse, he hid the results behind his back and told Ye Qi Hong, "I'm an omega."

Ye Qi Hong believed him and really did take care of him as an omega.

He helped him study, went out to have fun with him, and bought him little things now and then. He even let Qiu Jing stay close during his heat.

Qiu Jing watched Ye Qi Hong's eyes, full of him, his smiling face, the sound of Ye Qi Hong saying his name, and the faint trace of pheromones in the air. The resentment in his heart changed into something else, day by day.

The next book will be Top-Tier Star Actor Keeps Faking a Couple With Me

Blurb:

At nineteen, Jiang Mian had a happy family and a comfortable life. He was the heartthrob of the drama academy, and his first role was the lead in a film by a top director, acting opposite a newly crowned award-winning actor.

At twenty-four, Jiang Mian's father was in prison and his mother had died. To pay for his grandmother's medical care, he signed his life away to an unscrupulous agency.

To raise money as quickly as possible, Jiang Mian followed the agency's orders and faked a romantic relationship with a man to attract fans.

The newly crowned actor he had acted opposite back then had since won countless awards, earned an excellent reputation and become a household name. He was an undisputed top-tier star. Most importantly, in his eighteen years in the industry, he was appearing on an acting variety show as a mentor for the first time.

The agency forced Jiang Mian onto the show and repeatedly told him, "Just ride his coattails!"

Looking at the award-winning actor who had played his same-sex lover five years ago, Jiang Mian gritted his teeth. Since he had to fake a relationship for publicity anyway, he might as well latch onto someone big!

Even bad publicity is publicity!

And so...

With four mentors and tens of thousands of viewers around, he only looked at the man in the middle.

During rehearsal, everyone got a bottle of water, but he insisted on drinking from the man's thermos.

He sweetly called the other mentors and guests "brother" or "sister," but addressed the man he had worked with by the title he had used for him in the film: "Teacher Gu."

Bracing himself for a torrent of abuse, Jiang Mian nervously opened the comments on Weibo, only to find no insults at all.

Instead, there were comments like:

My little sister-in-law!

Little sister-in-law, you're finally back!

Sob, I'm dying from shipping them. I knew it, Sleeping Alone is real!

Can't you two get together? Little sister-in-law, do you know how Teacher Gu has been getting by these past five years without you?!

Jiang Mian was baffled. "Huh? How has he been getting by?"

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After filming the variety show, Jiang Mian was sent by his agency to a production set and decided to latch onto someone else.

But the supposedly otherworldly Actor Gu chased after him. "Can you fake a relationship with me, and only me?"

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Why did Actor Gu, who avoided appearing on camera except for films, suddenly go on a variety show?

Who gave him the thermos he always carried, and whose favorite drink was inside?

And who was it that, after filming that movie, never took another role with a romance plot, unable to forget the way he had been called "Teacher Gu"?

Theme: Cherish the present. Time waits for no one.