Forced into Becoming Everyone's Favorite After Debuting in My Brother's Place

One day, by sheer chance, Chi Xun discovers that she is living inside an ABO boy-band novel. According to the original story, the Federation’s seven-member boy band, made up entirely of Alphas, is about to debut. They become an overnight sensation, and rumors about the members’ pairings are everywhere. Of all the ships, the most popular is the one between the band’s steady leader and its cool rapper. They are also the novel’s two main love interests, one in the pursuing role and the other in the receiving role. Her childhood friend and older brother, Chi Xun, is the cannon-fodder pursuer who loves one of the protagonists but can never win his heart. And Chi Xun herself is cannon fodder among cannon fodder: the tagalong little sister who lives with Chi Xun in a slum, mentioned only in passing as a way to show how miserable his life is. Her character is twisted and warped, or so the book says. That was what she believed at first. Then, on the eve of the band’s debut, her brother vanished without a trace. Facing a sky-high breach-of-contract penalty, Chi Xun had no choice but to disguise herself as a boy and temporarily take her brother’s place in the band. After all, when they were thirteen, her brother presented as an Alpha, while she turned out to be an utterly ordinary Beta. She had no glands or pheromones, and no one could mark her. Even if she joined the band, she would be safe. But as time went by, Chi Xun began to feel that the way her six teammates looked at her was growing stranger and stranger… They would often stare at the back of her neck, lost in thought; when alone with her, they would enter heat and lose control of their pheromones, filling the entire room; and before long, the clothes she hung out on the rooftop began to disappear. At first it was her jacket and scarf, then her underwear. One day, Chi Xun accidentally barged into a teammate’s room and saw him piling her clothes in a circle to make a nest, sniffing them as he tried to imitate her pheromones. Only then did the slow-witted Chi Xun realize that the brotherly affection she’d assumed they shared might not be quite what she thought. * Chi Xun thinks being a Beta is her get-out-of-death-free card. She doesn’t realize that being unable to mark her or lure her with pheromones only makes them more anxious and possessive, driving each of them toward obsession. Not even her brother is an exception. Reader’s Guide: 1. The original novel’s plot has hidden circumstances. In reality, this is a group of straight men, and the story contains no BL. The siblings are not related by blood and are not registered in the same household. At its heart, this is a Mary Sue story about a sweet, soft girl adored by everyone. All the men are virgins. No shipping wars. 2. The heroine, Chi Xun, is a slow-witted, soft girl, not a strong female lead. She’s naturally airheaded and wins people over without realizing it, with one-sided crushes pointed at her from every direction. There are men and women, as well as faux-incest vibes, plus a little bit of fujoshi and misandrist content. 3. Men and women refer to biological sex in this story. The ABO setting is largely original, retaining mainly the pheromone and gland concepts. The heroine doesn’t have a secondary gender and will not later present as an Omega. There’s a reason she’s in poor health and gets tired easily during training early on; she’ll gradually get better later. 4. Comments insulting the heroine, making personal attacks, nitpicking, or otherwise being unkind will be deleted. No need to announce that you’re dropping the story. Synopsis screenshotted on 2024.6.12. Theme: Be yourself. You don’t need to change.