A Pure-Hearted Alpha's Guide to Online Romance Scams

[Extra chapters are not updated daily] Next book: Pretty Baby, Maliciously Online Dating! - [Chit-chat: Does anyone know that hopeless romantic who got scammed out of 3 million in an online relationship and still defended the scammer?] [The scammer didn't even treat him like a mark worth working on. I'm shocked anyone could fall for such a halfhearted scam.] q123 replies to post 1: [Spending money on your lover counts as getting scammed now? You know nothing about love. Get lost, you poor thing.] [?] - [The person on the other end is a professional catfish. Search the forums and you'll find posts about him everywhere.] q123 replies to post 112: [They're all rumors. He keeps crying. My baby is innocent. He would never scam me!] [... ?] - [He ignores you for ten days, then plays the victim the second you reach out. Seriously, you don't think anything's wrong with that?] q123 replies to post 1037: [He's busy with school, that's understandable. I'm the person closest to him, so of course he shares all his pain with me right away. My baby and I are devoted to each other and trust each other. That's what love should be like.] [LOL] * Yinxing grew up in the slums. He's a very innocent alpha. By which I mean he disguises himself as an omega, sends fifty scam messages online without so much as changing expression, and says, “Big bro, work is exhausting. I might feel better if I got the latest [X] from [X].” Thirty clever people block him. Fifteen fools send him money. The biggest idiot sends him 500,000: “Baby, it breaks my heart. I wish I could hold you.” He's a very kind alpha. By which I mean he roams the lower district, shoves a gun into a drunk's mouth with its barrel against his chin, and smiles. “Pay up or die. Pick one.” He's a very handsome alpha. That's actually true, because he's ridiculously, unbelievably good-looking. Most importantly, though, he's an alpha. A vile, shameless, despicable bastard who'll do anything for money. * Qi Qing comes from a distinguished family and is a prominent anti-alpha activist. That is, until an alpha from the lower district moves into his single room. The two are inseparable, closer than close. Qi Qing, high above the common people, gives this impoverished nobody every unimaginable privilege and favor. Rumor has it that Qi Qing even hand-washes Yinxing's underwear. Someone digs up Yinxing's records and presents them with malicious intent, hoping to expose the vile scammer for what he is and prove their loyalty. But instead: “Get out! All of you, get out!” “He's only eighteen! He's still a kid! So what if he scams me a little? You don't understand at all. He's the sweetest, best baby in the world!” The person struck in the face by the flying papers and Yinxing, who had thought he was about to be in trouble, exchange a glance and freeze in unison. Yinxing: I'm done for. This time I scammed an idiot. #Shocking: Watch out for a new kind of scam! Not only are people getting scammed out of their feelings and money, they seem to be losing their minds too!# Content warnings: 1. The protagonist has low morals and dates online solely to scam people out of money. 2. The love interest isn't the protagonist's first partner. The protagonist has an ex-boyfriend, and in the main story he has intimate contact with both his ex and the love interest's friend. 3. Set in an alternate-universe ABO military academy. The setting is entirely my own invention. 4. Special warning for the love interest's hopeless romantic tendencies: no matter how far the protagonist crosses the line, the love interest can put up with it. He's an unbelievably hopeless romantic. = Coming soon Pretty Baby, Maliciously Online Dating! Ning Meng hates his roommate. He's big and burly, has a nasty temper, and is always standing next to Ning Meng to intimidate him. He says strange things, gives Ning Meng gifts he hates, and always wears a deeply gloomy expression when he stares at him. At the end of his tether, Ning Meng comes up with a nasty scheme that will infuriate his homophobic, straight roommate while indulging his own twisted sense of fun. Ning Meng dresses as a woman and starts dating him online. Every day, he watches his roommate toss and turn over the insincere messages copied from the internet that he sends him, and it makes him deliriously happy. But that's not even the endgame. Ning Meng plans to meet his roommate in person. He can't wait to see the guy's disbelief and fury when he learns the truth. But things don't go as expected. His roommate is completely head over heels for Ning Meng. There he is, beautiful Ning Meng, standing before him in the dress he bought. The countless fantasies he'd indulged in behind closed doors have come to life perfectly. This is how Ning Meng hides in his own bed, blushing as he taps out, “I love you so much, hubby. I'd be so sad without you.” The love interest can barely take it. Dizzy and flushed, he cries, “Baby...” Ning Meng: Wait!! * Being with his roommate is unbearable. He licks Ning Meng's boots like a dog, and Ning Meng really wants to break up with him. But the guy looks so fierce, and his muscles are solid enough to lift Ning Meng right off the ground. Ning Meng is afraid he'll fail to break up and get beaten instead, so he comes up with another crooked scheme. He keeps dating other people online, making himself out to be a beautiful, melancholy married woman. He says his husband cheats on him and is especially awful. He says his husband is never home. He says his husband is cold and distant whenever they're together. He even makes up a story that the love interest won't feed him! This time, he scams a high school esports academy player, who gets so worked up that he says Ning Meng should divorce his absent husband and let him support him while he plays competitively. Hahaha! Idiot. Ning Meng would never like someone who only knows how to destroy games. Ning Meng's plan goes smoothly. As he watches the high schooler grow increasingly worked up over his roommate's husband, Ning Meng looks forward to his arrival. He hopes the guy will punch the love interest, so Ning Meng can say, “Waaah, I don't want you two fighting over me. Let's break up.” But then... When the high schooler appears on an academy team poster, the roommate points at the screen. “That's my little brother.” Ning Meng:?! Message: Beware of online scams!