How to Become Rich: ABO

(Shameless, heartless, not very bright, and desperately clawing his way up bottom x jealous, all-seeing-camera top)

1v1, third-person narration, updates by 10 p.m. at the latest

My name is Lin Bai. I was born on a garbage planet and am a low-grade E-class Beta: vicious, poor, and weak. My dream is to become the best of the best one day, climb the social ladder, and say goodbye to the filthy garbage planet forever.

Of course, with a useless guy like me, none of those grand ambitions would ever come true.

People say marriage is like being reborn into a new life.

So I got married. My spouse was a sucker of an Alpha. He seemed honest and reliable, and maybe even had potential.

After I sweet-talked him, the day after our wedding he decided to pack his bags and go work on a high-class planet. Before leaving, he promised again and again that he’d make my dream come true as soon as possible.

Escape the garbage planet… as soon as possible? With a low-grade Alpha like him?… What a pipe dream…

I pretended to be touched and saw him off. Then I began my new life.

Of course, I hadn’t enjoyed this wonderful life for more than a few days when I received even better news.

The good news: he went missing on the battlefield and was all but confirmed dead.

The even better news: before he disappeared, he converted his military merit into the expensive ticket I needed to leave the garbage planet.

Boohoohoo… What a wonderful ex-husband! I, Lin Bai, have no way to repay him, so I’ll just make lots of friends and keep improving myself. I can’t let his sacrifice be in vain.

Lin Bai had already figured out how to enjoy the good life ahead.

For example, he could make friends with a powerful, ancient noble Alpha, a teacher at a military academy, or a famous interstellar star Omega.

And so on… eligible young people who would make good friends.

Lin Bai had his own way of making friends, and everything was going well.

But even the happiest life has the occasional misfortune, enough to make you stop and think.

For example, why had his dead ex-husband, who had been cold for ages, come back to life?

And why was every good friend he made, in certain ways, a little like his damned ex-husband…

And why were they all fighting so fiercely?

Coming-soon blurb:

How is an incubus not a devil!

Lin Zhao is a poor, hard-working office drone. His salary is gone by the end of every month, he shares an apartment, and the girl he likes is in love with someone else.

He spent twenty-nine years living this shitty life, where he could see the end from the beginning. After countless failed dreams of getting rich overnight,

he unexpectedly got a magic lamp. A devil lived inside, and he could make a wish. Supposedly, it could grant any wish. The price was unknown.

Damn it! Could life get any shittier than this? Only a man would refuse to make a wish!

I want to be rich!

I want to humiliate my awful boss!

I want to reach the pinnacle of life!

O’Connor, the great demon king, was tricked into becoming the lowest-level incubus and sealed inside a lamp for three thousand years. His magic would keep fading over time, and once the time was up, he would vanish into thin air.

Time passed, and the years flew by.

In the long, lonely stretch of time, the bored demon king made a vow.

For the first thousand years, I’ll grant whatever wish the person who opens the lamp and frees me makes.

For the second thousand years, I’ll give the person who opens the lamp and frees me countless treasures of gold and silver.

For the third thousand years, I’ll grant the person who opens the lamp and frees me three wishes. But the price will be…

The demon king had waited in the magic lamp for two thousand nine hundred and ninety years. Gritting his teeth, he touched the new incubus horns growing on his forehead and roared at the unreliable Lin Zhao:

How is an incubus not a devil? If you make a wish to me, then you have to blah blah blah… blah blah blah!

Theme: Stay strong through setbacks and keep moving forward with a smile in adversity