Can't I, Just Because I'm a Beta?

[Complete!]

Wen Qi, who had differentiated as a beta, finally worked up the courage to give his longtime childhood friend, Ji Yaoming, a love letter outside the library.

But right in front of him, Ji Yaoming frowned, tore the letter in half, and tossed it into the trash. Then he walked past Wen Qi and said coldly:

“Disgusting.”

One of the Alliance's few S-class alphas, Ji Yaoming was exceptionally admitted to Hailaiter Interstellar University’s Shooting and Combat program at seventeen. He went on to join the Alliance Deployment First Unit, and became its deputy captain in just three years.

Almost no one could imagine that this dazzling alpha would have anything to do with an ordinary beta like Wen Qi, even though the two had been friends since childhood.

Even Ji Yaoming himself refused to admit it.

He treated Wen Qi like a stain and kept his distance.

Seven years later, Wen Qi, now missing an arm, moved into the Alliance Headquarters Logistics Department with a bag in hand and became a mechanic.

Of course, Wen Qi didn't think he was anything noble. He just fixed weapons.

Wen Qi was content. There was one perk to working at headquarters: if he was lucky, he might run into Ji Yaoming now and then. Ji was now the First Unit's captain and the chief executive officer of the eight war zones.

Though Ji loathed him to the extreme, Wen Qi still couldn't help being drawn to him whenever he got the chance to see him.

But apart from that, he no longer entertained the ideas he'd had when he was young. He knew perfectly well that someone born to shine and an ordinary person like him were destined to take different paths.

But fate loved a joke. To improve combat efficiency, the Logistics Department underwent a major overhaul, and every unit was assigned two or three mechanics to accompany it.

What a coincidence.

When he opened his private notification, he saw:

“Dear Mechanic Wen Qi, you are assigned to Group A of Headquarters Repair Department and have been specially approved to report to the First Unit.”

Wen Qi: ...

Ji Yaoming had been troubled lately.

He frowned at the love letter taped back together on his desk. Its awkward, youthful words all made Wen Qi's feelings for him perfectly clear...

But lately, Wen Qi had actually started avoiding him?!

He would come home and lock himself in his bedroom without even saying hello. He'd eat in silence, clear away his things, and hurry off. Even when he brought weapons in for repairs, all he'd do was nod and say, “Oh, Captain Ji is here.”...

Finally, one time, with alcohol clouding his head, Ji Yaoming pinned him beneath him.

“Wen Qi, do you like me?”

The man beneath him froze, then smiled. “I did before.”

“What do you mean?”

“Now I only admire you. And also...” He actually pushed Ji away as he said, “Please behave yourself. My family is already arranging a blind date for me.”

“...”

Ji Yaoming nearly choked on his own breath.

The person he'd held back from making a move on for so many years...

Was about to be snatched away just like that?

[Bonus Scene]

Someone was sneaking glances at him. Ji Yaoming curled his lips into a smile. “If you have something to say, just say it.”

“Uh... it's nothing.” Wen Qi had been drinking and was a little out of it. “It's just that they said you, Lieutenant Colonel Ji... are you really that... well-endowed?”

Ji Yaoming found the shy man intriguing and replied nonchalantly, “Have you tried it?”

Wen Qi: “...”

Well, he kind of wanted to try.

Here's another upcoming novel

"The Korean Webtoon's Ruthless Top Reformation Plan"

Blurb: Zhou Shi died, then came back to life. Only, he was reborn in another world. He was secretly delighted, thinking he could cleave open the heavens with one sword and shine for all eternity! He'd be invincible, sit back with an all-knowing view of the world, and live forever in the river of time, hahaha! Then the System told him that he'd landed in a Korean webtoon.

What? You mean that beautiful cannon-fodder character in the comic he accepted in two minutes, the one whose family was destroyed and who was buried in debt, is me?????

[To promote a positive outlook, Host, please turn this comic into a highly readable, humorous, and non-explicit comic. The main thing is that it should be non-explicit~]

Zhou Shi had no idea what “non-explicit” meant. The villa he'd woken up in was spotless, but the breathtakingly beautiful person sitting beside his bed, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and a height of over 1.9 meters, dressed in an expensive suit and impossible to tell apart as male or female, was staring at him without moving. It gave him the creeps.

[Um, may I ask who this is?]

[This is the person Host needs to reform, Zheng Tairen. He's currently seventeen years old and will turn eighteen after today. He's younger than you.]

What was with the “he's younger than you”? Why was the System making a big deal of that?

Zheng Tairen leaned closer and pinched his chin. “I'll be an adult in nine minutes, big brother. You promised you’d pay me back.”

Zheng Tairen's gaze could only be described as venomous. Zhou Shi couldn't help swallowing.

Zhou Shi cried out to the System: [System, System!!! Can you tell me what this target is all about?]

[In the original storyline, he's a ruthless top. You're the first key to opening the door to a whole new world for him. After your first night together, he'll go down the path of threesomes, group sex, cold-blooded top, ruthless top, obsessive top, and more. After your first night, Host will also be dragged into threesomes and even suffer a miserable life of being used by everyone.]

Zhou Shi: “...”

[I sense that Host is hesitating. Is there anything you don't understand?]

Zhou Shi: [Well... I understand all that. But what does it mean to be used by everyone?]

System: ...

Never mind, it wasn't important. Anyway, Zhou Shi understood: he just needed to steer this little punk onto the straight and narrow, right? With a clear goal, it was easy enough. Zhou Shi was capable, too. Through tireless effort, he managed to avoid that so-called group sex, and the domineering young man became well-behaved and obedient.

Only, it seemed something had gone a little wrong...

Every night, Zheng Tairen would come nestle against his neck, eyes misty, and say in a pitiful voice:

“Zhou Shi, it hurts so much. Will you touch it for me?”

With no experience whatsoever, Zhou Shi chose to...

A ridiculous comedy. The top is half-crazy and half-puppy, and even after he's been penetrated, he still thinks he's saving the world? *wry smile*

Classic Korean webtoon trope: ruthless top × chuunibyou straight-man bottom

Theme: Courage is the anthem of humanity.