The Universe’s Top Beta

[I’m quietly leaving a new story here to collect interest. Let’s see if someone destined to find it comes along. The blurb is at the very bottom.]

(Straightforward, lively, happy puppy × cold-faced, warm-hearted, solitary swan)

Captain Yun has been troubled lately. The mju substance used to ease the corruption of mental energy has been found to contain unstable elements.

Apparently, it can temporarily change someone’s AO gender, for an unpredictable length of time.

As luck would have it, she was once forced to take mju.

As luck would also have it, she can clearly feel her pheromones changing.

And as luck would have it once again, Aurora has come knocking to deliver her self-criticism report.

“Captain Yun, I’m here with my self-criticism report. This time, it’s not just a bunch of filler!”

Aurora knocked and stepped inside, only to find Yun Su leaning over her desk with a grave expression.

Could this be the legendary special phase?

She left the report on the floating table nearest the door, then turned to fetch some medicine.

Yun Su was relieved that Aurora was a beta and couldn’t sense the changes in her.

Would it be all right for an omega to hug a beta?

“Don’t go yet. If you hug me, I’ll…”

Before Aurora could think it through, Yun Su was already rushing toward her.

Would it be all right for a beta to hug an alpha?

Recently, footage of the fleet in combat seems to have leaked onto the Star Network.

One clip was enthusiastically sent trending by netizens.

The hashtag was #TheUniverse’sNumberOneBeta#

Aurora, the star of the clip, was deeply puzzled. She had only taken down two aliens in close combat. Was that really so astonishing?

Later, observant netizens spotted something.

The Third Fleet: wasn’t that Captain Yun Su’s ship?

Then an interview clip about Aurora went viral.

“Ah, I’m not sure. Captain Yun wrote this script for me.”

The internet erupted.

Everyone had thought Captain Yun Su was an abstinent, icy beauty, but it turned out she was hiding a sweetheart in the fleet.

The universe’s number one beta and the strongest alpha captain: is it okay to ship them?

(Little bonus scene)

On the table was a gift Yun Su had given Aurora.

Aurora opened the gift box, took a closer look, and blushed to the roots of her hair.

Two bottles of perfume: one scented with amber stone, the other with iris grass.

She had secretly gone to order them. How had the captain happened to see her?

“Mm, it smells just like my pheromones.” Yun Su teased her by her ear.

“But my dearest little Guang, pheromones and perfume aren’t the same thing.”

Yun Su took out the real gift from behind her back.

“Here. I blended this for you myself. It’s the scent closest to my pheromones. Amber stone and iris grass: which do you like better?”

“Captain, there’s an idiom in the book you gave me: ‘love me, love my crow.’ So,” Aurora turned around and rubbed her cheek against Yun Su’s, “the one I like best is you, Captain.”

“Su Su, I’ve been studying the book you gave me. What you’re doing is called ‘trying to steal a chicken and losing the rice used to bait it.’”

Just as Aurora was about to leave, satisfied, Yun Su smiled and wrapped her arms around her.

“Looks like little Guang has been studying very hard. So, little Guang, have you ever heard of ‘turning the tables’?”

Reader’s guide:

1. This is an ABO setting with plenty of original worldbuilding. Female alphas and female betas have no appendages.

2. The mju (Miu) substance can ease the erosion of mental energy by corruption, but temporarily changes a person’s AO gender.

3. This is a fictional world.

MBTI personalities: ENFP × INTJ

[Upcoming story blurb]

Yun Qu, courtesy name Zoubi, is the sixth-generation demon hunter of the Yun family.

Age eighteen, strength unknown.

Mission on leaving the valley: reactivate the Four Directions Command.

Then, halfway there, she picked up something recorded in an ancient book: a… dragon?

At their first meeting, Yun Qu thought she had run into a deer demon.

“Strange. Are there deer demons near the Central Valley?”

“Deer demon?”

In the space of a breath, a massive tail wrapped around Yun Qu’s rigid body and lifted her upside down, away from the ground.

The disparity in strength still wasn’t enough to satisfy it. And that wasn’t all: the “deer demon” amused itself by flicking its tail fin, finding just the right force to slap Yun Qu several times. Only when Yun Qu’s face was flushed did it toss her aside.

The cool touch jolted Yun Qu’s sluggish nerves awake. She landed in a daze, then struggled to her feet, her body tingling and numb.

She held her flushed face for a long while before murmuring dreamily, “Heh, a dragon slapped me. Hehehe…”

Bai Yinhe: …

Yun Qu: This is wonderful! It’s a dragon, a real dragon! I have to do my best and bring it back to the valley with me!

Good news: the dragon doesn’t hate her. It even chose her as its guide, and will cuddle up with her!

Bad news: her family might be the dragon’s enemy.

At last, Yun Qu saw the dragon imprisoned in a tower, its spiritual power gone. Its words were slurred as it told her to leave.

“Don’t be afraid, Bai Yinhe. I’ll take you home. I’ll give you Bian Tan back. I promised you a world that would prosper and remain safe.”

For you, I’ll rebuild your world.

Yun Qu, courtesy name Zoubi, the only demon hunter left to carry on the Yun family’s legacy.

This entry was written by Yun Zoub i.

“Yun Zoubi? She has nothing to do with you…”

Audio source: Bai Yinhe. Some content has been omitted.

Bai Yinhe, Lord of Bian Tan.

Age unknown, strength unknown.

Mission upon awakening: find Bian Tan and discover the reason for her amnesia.

Then, the moment she opened her eyes, she saw someone touching her horns and muttering something about a “deer demon.”

“Deer demon?”

Bai Yinhe repeated in surprise, transforming her tail into a dragon’s tail. It coiled around the human with the poor eyesight and lifted her upside down.

The little thing struggled hard, and even accidentally touched one of Bai Yinhe’s old wounds. Her tail tightened out of control.

When the little thing stopped struggling, Bai Yinhe used her tail fin to brush the nose of the “thing caught in her tail.”

Feeling that she was still breathing, Bai Yinhe breathed a sigh of relief and tossed her aside.

Who knew the woman had not only poor eyesight, but also a strange mind?

“Heh, a dragon slapped me. Hehehe…”

Bai Yinhe didn’t understand. Was getting beaten something worth being happy about?

Afraid the little thing might meet with an accident, Bai Yinhe took pity on her and decided to keep her close, appointing her as her guide.

But why did their relationship grow stranger and stranger as time went on?

How could she have fallen for a human?

Fortunately, she discovered the truth about Bian Tan before the end of her life.

Fortunately, she was able to protect the little thing in the end.

The tragedy was that, in the end, the little thing still found her, battered and wounded all over.

As the bait, how could she let those people’s plan succeed?

Ignoring her injuries and her situation, she shouted and cursed with all her strength: “Go! You humans are the masterminds behind all this. I’ll never make peace with you. Get out… Get out…”

The electric current surged back, doubling in intensity.

Bai Yinhe understood that what she really wanted to say was: “Little one, save me.”

Scales like racing thunder, claws like startled bows; horns like flashes of lightning, tail like drifting mist; eyes brighter than the sun, fur warm as winter; radiant and lively, truly extraordinary!

This entry was written by Yun Zoubi.

“The Lord of Bian Tan: Bai Yinhe.”

Audio source: Bai Yinhe, with background noise.

[Reader’s guide:

1. The Yun family reproduces through parthenogenesis. The women of the Yun family are raised from spirit stones and their mothers’ flesh and blood.

2. This is a nontraditional world.

3. I promise a happy ending.]

Theme: Don’t let any label define you.