The Bookworm Has a Lot to Worry About

Coming next January: A Scoundrel’s Survival Guide. Check the column ^ ^ ■ Thanks for supporting the official release. Comments from readers of pirated copies will be deleted. ■ Top-focused story / not suitable for readers who are protective of the bottom There is a novel in which the main top is an alpha from a distinguished family, while the main bottom is an omega from a poor family. For certain reasons, the main bottom disguises himself as an alpha and attends an all-boys alpha high school. He becomes roommates with the main top, and the gears of fate begin to turn. They circle each other, making advances and retreating, constantly testing one another. There is also a cannon-fodder roommate who watches the main couple circle each other, making advances and retreating as they test one another. He occasionally helps them along and becomes part of their games, but most of the time he serves as a perfectly adequate background prop. Unfortunately, Jiang Xu transmigrates into the role of this cannon-fodder roommate. The story takes a turn the year the main top turns eighteen. Still unaware of the main bottom’s true gender, he chooses to come clean to his family. They refuse to accept that he has fallen for a poor student of the same gender, and frantically introduce him to outstanding omegas from families of equal standing. The main top is driven to distraction and thinks of his cannon-fodder roommate. “Just help me out. Get rid of one person for me, and I’ll give you 100,000 yuan. How does that sound?” “...” Jiang Xu checks his bank account. It is as empty as his pockets, so he agrees. A few months later, the main top is exhausted in body and mind from the tug-of-war in his relationship with the main bottom. By chance, at a banquet, he runs into one of the people he was once set up with: Jin Jiayue, the Jin family’s sole omega heir. Jin Jiayue is twenty-eight, tall and handsome, and the very image of a domineering CEO. His forceful personality often leads people to joke that he doesn’t seem like an omega at all. His eccentric temper has also driven away every alpha who pursued him, and apparently he has never been in a relationship. The main top stares blankly at Jin Jiayue’s beautiful face, then calls Jiang Xu. “Jiang Xu, did you already get rid of that Jin Jiayue for me?” “Yeah.” “How did you get rid of him?” Jiang Xu is silent for a moment before answering, “I became his boyfriend.” Main top: “...” * Jin Jiayue hates blind dates and hates being alone with alphas who have ulterior motives. But he has no choice when his grandmother begs him to meet a male alpha who is still in high school. He hears that the alpha is tall, handsome, and silver-tongued, with plenty of admirers, yet has never so much as spoken to an omega. Their first meeting is at the library. The alpha wears a white shirt and black pants, with black-rimmed glasses, and sits across from him reading all day. Jin Jiayue: “...” Their second meeting is at a café. After ordering a glass of milk, the alpha pulls out a copy of Five Years of College Entrance Exams, Three Years of Mock Exams without a care in the world. Jin Jiayue: “...” Their third meeting is in a hot spring lodge halfway up a mountain. Alone together, one alpha and one omega, the alpha finally leans back on the sofa and plays on his phone. Jin Jiayue thinks, Surely he can’t keep up the act now. Then he leans over and sees that the alpha is using Bai Ci Zhan, already up to word number ninety-four. Jin Jiayue: “...” * Jin Jiayue’s old feelings flare up, and he misses his alpha the second they’re apart. So he accepts an invitation to give a speech at A City’s top alpha high school. Passing the Hall of Fame beneath the administration building, he sees his alpha’s photo, along with his class and name. Senior Year, Class A. Jiang Xu. Only then does Jin Jiayue learn that his alpha is a bookish boy with excellent grades who has to run around taking odd jobs just to cover his living expenses. Theme: Studying comes first.