An ABO Combination-Permutation Anthology

[AA] Urban setting + seven-year itch

[Black-lotus Alpha (Yu Kong) x hypocritical Alpha (Jiang Wujin)]

Two Alphas who know perfectly well that neither of them is any good have been together for years. Once the passion fades, they start questioning their own appeal.

Yu Kong & Jiang Wujin: Is he cheating on me?

In that case, let's hire someone to test our relationship!

(An old married couple spicing things up)

[AO] School setting + friends with benefits to official couple

[Cold, aloof Alpha (Zhu Feng) x conflicted, rabid-dog Omega (Zhou Xingye)]

A handsome, adorable junior Omega joins the club, and everyone welcomes him.

Except Zhu Feng.

After all, the last time he saw this junior was in a hotel bed.

Zhu Feng touches the bite mark on the back of his neck and sneers: Who said Zhou Xingye was cute?

(Flirtatious push and pull, explicit content)

[BO] Entertainment industry + mutual pining

[Free-spirited, sunny Beta (Ling Xia) x gloomy, black-turns-white Omega (Shen Zhiyi)]

While studying abroad, Ling Xia falls in love at first sight with an Omega, and the two share a brief, romantic vacation.

Only later does he find out the other person is the megastar Shen Zhiyi.

Ling Xia thinks he'll have to spend the rest of his life holding on to the memory, but in the year he graduates, a variety show contacts him. Shen Zhiyi's name is right there on the cast list.

He agrees without hesitation.

On the show, Ling Xia tries very hard to pursue Shen Zhiyi, and feels that Shen Zhiyi is falling for him too.

Just as he's about to confess...

Shen Zhiyi: "Ling Xia, I've liked you for a long time, even before the time I slept with you abroad."

Ling Xia: ?

(Variety show, unrequited love becomes mutual)

[OO] Entertainment industry + rekindled love

[Omega who says one thing and means another (He Ming) x Omega who can't speak his mind (You Chunyu)]

The three most unlucky moments in He Ming's life:

1. Getting photographed with swollen, ugly eyes at the airport after breaking up with You Chunyu.

2. Planning to fake a couple pairing for the first time, only to have You Chunyu assigned as his partner.

3. Waking up in You Chunyu's bed the day after picking him up on his return to the country.

You Chunyu: "It's no wonder He Ming is still single. Only someone blind or brain-dead would fall for him."

He Ming: "Did you go abroad to fix your eyes or your brain?"

You Chunyu: "Either way, they didn't fix it."

(Childhood friends who made a mess of things become lovers after arguing themselves hoarse)

[BB] School setting + friends to lovers

[Perfect-mask Beta (Wen Ji) x hot-tempered, blunt Beta (Fang Muhe)]

Everyone says Wen Ji is fake and pretentious. Only Fang Muhe thinks he's sincere and natural.

Everyone says Fang Muhe is quick to anger and bites everyone's head off. Only Wen Ji thinks he's serious and earnest.

Friends: ...You two should spend your whole lives together.

Wen Ji & Fang Muhe: Mm-hmm, we're friends for life.

But why does it feel so bad when a friend says they want to date...

And why do they think, "Why can't that person be me?"

(Old friends become lovers)

[BA] Urban setting + married first, fall in love later

[Easygoing, unflappable Beta (Ke Wen) x taciturn, cool Alpha (Shi Zeyun)]

Ke Wen knows his marriage to Shi Zeyun has many reasons: their friendship as classmates, a life-saving debt, a business alliance... In short, it isn't love.

After getting married, they agree on three rules:

First, don't interfere in each other's lives.

Second, when necessary, pretend in front of friends and family.

Third, no intimacy.

But living in the same room every day, able to see and feel just how wonderful the other person is, makes it seem almost impossible not to fall in love.

(A married-first, fall-in-love-later story where neither is secretly pining, going from truly unfamiliar to truly intimate)

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Reader's guide:

1. The main characters from each arc are connected, and they'll visit one another across the arcs.

2. The arc timeline is AO-BB-OO-BO-BA-AA. Aside from the first arc being [AA], the other arcs may not follow the timeline or the order in the descriptions. It mostly depends on which one the author feels like writing or which one readers want to read (if anyone comments).

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