An Ordinary Person, but Pretending to Be an Alpha in an AO Manga

Qin Su has a secret. By day, he’s an ordinary college student. Every night, he transmigrates into the AO action manga Star Legend as a transfer student at a military academy who is about to be written off because he has no popularity. The panel tells him that only by rising to No. 1 in popularity can he stay alive.

Qin Su: “?”

“Does this even make sense? In this ABO world where AO, the two genders, are all the rage, how am I, an ordinary human who’s neither an Alpha nor an Omega, supposed to get popular...”

System: [Death warning!]

Qin Su: “...OK, fine. System, I know you’re in a hurry, but calm down first. Watch me work.”

In the manga, Alphas are the quickest to gain popularity, so Qin Su decides to pretend to be one.

Step one to faking Alpha: No Alpha pheromones? Easy. A unique perfume formula, personally mixed by Qin Su and never shared with anyone.

On the first day of class, his classmates catch the crisp, domineering, forceful scent of pheromones coming from Qin Su. It’s a unique fragrance that has never appeared among the recorded Alpha pheromones.

Step two to faking Alpha: No aura created by pheromones? Simple. He has a plan.

During the class monitor election, the instant Qin Su’s expression darkens, his classmates are seized by a chilling, oppressive aura and feel as if fate has a hand around their throats, leaving them terrified and unable to breathe.

Step three to faking Alpha: No rut? No problem. Qin Su faces the mirror and manually pinches the spot on the back of his neck where he doesn’t have a gland until it swells.

In the real world, Qin Su’s roommate is following Star Legend and sees this scene. He exclaims, “Even with the back of his neck swollen and hot, he can still calmly demonstrate how to operate a mech. That’s Qin Su for you, what incredible self-control! The new transfer student character is so cool!”

Hearing his roommate, Qin Su says nothing, just smiles.

Faking Alpha is a piece of cake.

Manga comments:

[Compared to the bright, vivid main cast, the black-haired boy in black clothes and black pants at the edge of the panel looks like an inconspicuous gray shadow, but... why does he seem so charismatic? Is he a new character?]

[Is he an A or an O? Tall and slender, with a gloomy, icy aura. Even the flowers blooming behind him look cold. I’m guessing he’s an A!]

[Ahhh, I guessed right! He really is special. Even his pheromones have a one-of-a-kind scent!]

[As expected of an Alpha, he’s so A it’s insane! His self-control is off the charts. I hereby name him the Alpha of Alphas!]

Content warnings:

1. Misunderstanding-based story, and very much so. Includes forum posts and a protagonist who deliberately steers people toward misconceptions. He switches between the manga and real world at night and by day, and is misunderstood in both. The protagonist is overpowered, with an invincible golden finger. In the manga world, he’s an ordinary human who pretends to be an Alpha. The original protagonists of the manga are protagonists in their own world, but side characters in the protagonist’s world, and won’t be described in detail.

2. The cover uses a non-exclusive template. The author’s writing is very amateurish and they’re great at awkward humor. The logic is nonexistent, it’s pure wish fulfillment, and it’s a slice-of-life story with no real plot.

3. Mwah!

Pre-release blurb divider

The Sickly One, but a King in the Infinite Game

Synopsis:

Yu Qinglan, who was beyond saving and waiting for death to come, opens his eyes and discovers that he has entered a horror livestream game called Nightmare.

[Good news: Congratulations, you’ve drawn an SSR skill, Word Spirit.]

“!”

Doesn’t that mean everyone’s fate is in his hands?! Yu Qinglan smiles.

The next second, the panel displays another message:

[Bad news: Other people can use the Word Spirit skill on you, but you can’t use it on them. Also, you can’t lie while the skill is active.]

Yu Qinglan: “...?”

Doesn’t that mean his life is in other people’s hands? What kind of nonsense is this?

Yu Qinglan’s upturned lips flatten. He decides on the spot that he’s never been much of a smiler.

The only consolation is that he can choose when to activate the skill himself.

To avoid being killed by players or NPCs, the frail Yu Qinglan decides to disguise himself as a BKing-level expert, using the act to raise Word Spirit’s limits.

So...

In the Green Mountain Sanatorium instance, facing the boss’s deadly question, he looks at the empty shrine at the end of the corridor and deliberately risks leading the boss astray in front of all the players spying on them: “You whisper my name day and night, risk your life just to follow me, and every time I look back, you’re overcome with longing, trembling with excitement and worship... Tell me, who am I?”

A man stands in the middle of the mottled, bloodstained corridor. Confusion flashes in his golden eyes, and the black cracks on his pale face gradually disappear. His low, cold voice echoes through the corridor: “My... lover?”

Yu Qinglan: “...???”

Is that right?

Shouldn’t the answer have been “god”?!

What a mistake. No one told him that the shrine had once held an image of “Them” and Their lover!!!

After the Green Mountain Sanatorium instance, a strikingly beautiful, mysterious, top-tier player appears out of nowhere in the Nightmare game. He’s good at disguises and manipulating people’s hearts. No one ever knows what role he’ll cosplay in the next instance, or what shocking thing he’ll do there...

[The bosses that other players fear like the plague are obsessed with him. It’s got to be some top player using an alt to stomp on newbies!]

[He’s blind? For real?]

[No way! How could he be blind? I’d sooner believe I’m blind than believe he is, okay?]

[It’s all an act, he’s faking everything. Damn it, don’t let him fool you!!!]

Yu Qinglan: “...”

The truth is, he’s just an ordinary sickly person. That’s all.

Theme: Love is the world’s greatest treasure.