[Blurb written at 22:25 on August 7, 2025. Screen-recorded and archived]
Blurb:
As an ordinary beta, Yu Yan has a father who doesn't care and a mother who doesn't love him. To make enough money to repay his student loans after graduation, he's tried all kinds of part-time jobs.
During the food-delivery boom, Yu Yan shook milk tea at a shop swamped with orders. He worked as a server at a bar that only needed night-shift staff, sleeping just four hours a day. He even took a weekend job feeding cats at people's homes through a secondhand marketplace app, only to be harassed as if he were an omega...
After working himself to the bone for a pitifully small paycheck, Yu Yan reached a conclusion:
Better to sell your body than break your back.
The shady industries pay faster.
So Yu Yan made a decision that would bring shame upon his ancestors.
He bought a mystery box of nine skirts for 50 yuan on a shopping app, then started doing faceless, suggestive cross-dressing livestreams as a side job. Each week, the top tipper would receive a custom photo of his legs.
Dancing the stiffest, most suggestive dance imaginable, Yu Yan earned the highest paycheck of his part-time career.
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Livestreaming made Yu Yan's life a lot easier. But why had his top Alpha roommate, who usually treated him like he wasn't there, suddenly started stealing glances at him all the time?
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Huo Chengjun is the only son of A City's richest man, a 3S top-tier Alpha. Handsome, wealthy, and generous, he's the ideal partner in the eyes of every omega at school, except for his abysmal temper.
Despite all those advantages, Huo Chengjun had never once looked his beta roommate in the eye.
That is, until summer arrived and everyone around him switched to cool shorts. Even his beta roommate, who usually wore the same two pairs of long pants on rotation, had spent money on a new pair of shorts.
Clutching the photo of his favorite streamer’s legs, which he had rubbed over countless times, Huo Chengjun glared at his roommate's fair, slender legs in the sunlight. There was a little mole in the hollow behind his knee, just like the one in the photo. Huo Chengjun was furious.
Only today had he learned that the sweet omega streamer he'd been coaxing with dozens of virtual luxury gifts every day was actually a man.
Not only was he a man, he was also the beta roommate Huo Chengjun had looked down on from the very beginning.
Humiliated after being fooled for half a year, Huo Chengjun flew into a rage and decided to get revenge on Yu Yan.
Yu Yan has been sleeping especially well lately. That's because his Alpha roommate gives him a glass of fresh milk for sleep every day, saying he doesn't want it himself.
Yu Yan has only ever seen a fancy brand like this on his phone, so he drinks every glass down to the last drop.
But every morning when he wakes up, he finds suggestive marks like handprints on different parts of his body.
As if, while he was asleep... someone had spent a long time kneading and measuring him with their hands.
But there are only two people in the dorm: him and Huo Chengjun.
At last, Yu Yan gathers up his courage and asks Huo Chengjun, "Lately, I've been waking up with strange marks on my body. While I was asleep these past few days, did you..."
Huo Chengjun snaps, "You're just a beta. What could I possibly do to you?! You're way too full of yourself!"
Yu Yan thinks he has a point.
But why are the marks even more obvious the next morning?
By chance, Yu Yan discovers the photos he'd sent to his top tipper in Huo Chengjun's drawer, along with a box of specially mixed medicine to deepen his sleep.
Without a word, he closes the drawer, deletes his livestream account, removes Huo Chengjun and his top tipper from his contacts, and moves out of the dorm.
After more than twenty years of believing himself invincible, Huo Chengjun faces the empty dorm room and panics for the first time.
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During the days he can't find Yu Yan, Huo Chengjun often thinks that if Yu Yan were an omega, he would have developed an unbreakable dependence on Huo Chengjun's pheromones after all those nights when Huo Chengjun bit his gland again and again.
He wouldn't have been able to escape him or abandon him.
But Yu Yan is a free beta. He has no gland, and he'll never be able to smell Huo Chengjun's pheromones.
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Reading Guide:
1. Obsessive but foul-mouthed, short-tempered gong x sensitive, unloved, gloomy shou
2. As is customary, one-on-one romance, body and soul
3. After the gong's identity is exposed, there's a groveling arc, but it definitely won't be as intense as in dedicated groveling-for-your-wife stories. If that's not your thing, don't come in.
4. Extreme shippers, stay away.
Theme: Haven't thought of one yet