Why Are You Pretending to Be a Beta? [ABO Body Swap]

At seventeen, Xu Chun was already considered unusually old for someone who hadn't differentiated. For ten years, he had steadfastly believed he'd be an Alpha, maybe even an exceptional one like his older brother and sister, with broad shoulders, long legs, and overpowering pheromones.

He absolutely wouldn't lose out in gender differentiation to that detestable Pei Ji.

On the second day after turning eighteen, Xu Chun got his wish and became an Alpha with broad shoulders, long legs, and overpowering pheromones. But he wasn't happy, because somehow he had ended up in Pei Ji's body!

Pei Ji, who was broad-shouldered and long-legged but gloomy and practically invisible in class, with a student ID identifying him as a Beta, was actually an Alpha with outstanding pheromones.

Xu Chun: Why did you bother pretending to be a Beta if nothing was wrong with you?

Whenever Pei Ji was around, Xu Chun, who wanted to follow in his older siblings' footsteps and become a campus star, could only ever come second.

Second place, forever.

Whether it was competitions, monthly exams, a four-hundred-meter back-and-forth in swimming class, or an informal five-a-side basketball game on the field, Xu Chun always came in behind Pei Ji.

And yet Pei Ji wasn't a big name at school. He was taciturn, and unless there was an exam or a competition where he was needed as a substitute, he was like a ghost. With heavy bangs covering his eyes and clunky black-rimmed glasses, he hunched timidly in the last row of the classroom like a giant mushroom.

Some people in class said he was from the old district, a place that was practically a slum. Some said his father was in prison and still hadn't been released.

Others said he'd do anything for money.

Xu Chun found that Pei Ji was becoming more and more spineless. He was so frustrating that Xu Chun felt he was unworthy of being a rival.

He also thought Pei Ji was just a spineless Beta, and that after graduation they would never have anything to do with each other again.

Until he was forced to switch lives with Pei Ji.

A life of poverty, younger siblings in poor health, hiding his exceptional status so he could stay with relatives who weren't related to him by blood, and having to live as a Beta forever: Pei Ji had always carried a heavy burden on his shoulders.

It was a life Xu Chun, who had lived like a little prince, had never seen.

Pei Ji never imagined he'd have the chance to talk to Xu Chun, much less end up living in Xu Chun's body.

An accident connected him in countless ways with the obsession he'd harbored since differentiating at seventeen.

It seemed like something he should be happy about.

But Xu Chun seemed to hate him.

Xu Chun, before sweeping aside Pei Ji's heavy bangs: At least you know your place.

Xu Chun, after sweeping them aside: ...Why are you hiding a face that would make anyone jealous and resentful? Who could look at this face and say they hate you?

One day after getting together with Pei Ji, Xu Chun finally differentiated.

The whole Xu family celebrated. Their rigid family, in which everyone was an Alpha, finally had an Omega who was supposed to be weak and adorable.

Except Xu Chun, who'd dreamed of becoming an Alpha like Pei Ji: Damn it!

And after he and his lover went through a rut together for the first time...

Xu Chun, held by Pei Ji and refusing to let go, making full use of his Alpha to order Pei Ji around: So much for being exceptional. It's nothing special.

Pampered, sunny rich boy who thinks he's an Alpha, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, the bottom X gloomy, poor, and pretending to be a Beta at first, exceptional Alpha, devoted and obsessive, the top

Theme: Long live love and freedom.