Does This Background Character, a Little Widow O, Have to Be Forced Into a Love Triangle Too?

#Pitiful Nobody Beta Widow × Heartless, Arrogant Alpha × Dark, Clingy Ghostly Green-Tea Alpha × Gentle on the Surface, Actually a Yandere Alpha#

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Shi Jiao was an utterly ordinary nobody Beta. He hated being the center of attention, and his greatest wish in life was to live out his days in obscurity.

But things did not go as planned, and he unexpectedly married the Empire's youngest top Alpha general.

Fortunately, though, his husband died on the battlefield not long after.

He calmly took care of his husband's funeral, planning to move out of this home, where he never fit in, as soon as the funeral was over.

But to his surprise, that very night,

the white funeral banners in the mourning hall swayed in the night breeze. His brother-in-law, who had never once looked his way, pinned him against his husband's cold memorial tablet with a chuckle. "Sister-in-law."

"...You smell so good."

"My brother is finally dead."

"Don't worry. I'll take good care of you in his place."

Shi Jiao: "...Huh?"

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Only then did Shi Jiao realize his brother-in-law was a venomous snake. He had set his sights on him as soon as Shi Jiao stepped into this house.

On every night when Shi Jiao fell fast asleep, the dim light would cast a long, sinister shadow beside his bed. The man would softly lick his earlobe, his gaze clinging to him with infatuated obsession.

Thanks to him, Shi Jiao got to experience the trendy #dark, ghostly wall-stalking love# for himself.

But their relationship was too far beyond the bounds of convention, and Shi Jiao couldn't accept it. To get away from his brother-in-law, he took the initiative and sought out his late husband's good friend.

The good friend was gentle as jade and a perfect gentleman. Shi Jiao could accept being with him more easily than being with his brother-in-law.

Maybe because Shi Jiao was his husband's surviving spouse, the man treated him very well, too.

Aside from his habit of locking Shi Jiao in a dark room whenever he saw him interacting with an Alpha, Shi Jiao couldn't find fault with him.

His life returned to peace once more. But just as he became pregnant with his good friend's child...

his supposedly dead husband came back alive.

Shi Jiao: "...Huh, huh?"

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Shi Jiao decided to run away with the baby.

Before he could even get out of the city, three men cornered him at the station.

His heart tightened, but before he could say a word, the men turned to look at one another with dangerous expressions.

His resurrected dead husband: "He's my wife. Naturally, the child in his belly is mine, too."

"Shameless," his good friend said, lighting a cigarette with a sinister smile. "When I was in bed with Shi Jiao, you were still lying dead in your coffin."

Only his brother-in-law gazed greedily at Shi Jiao. "Sister-in-law, I'm the best at taking care of you, aren't I? Come with me. What do you say?"

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The three men, Lu Zhaoye and the others, had always regarded the little Beta who had married into the Lu family by cashing in on a debt of gratitude as a joke. When Lu Zhaoye staged his fake death, they made a bet:

Whoever won the heart of this Beta, who only cared about wealth and status, would get a wedding house from the other two.

But they never expected that, in less than a year, the three Alphas, who had once been close enough to share a pair of pants, would turn red in the face fighting over Shi Jiao.

They all wanted to be Shi Jiao's dog.

But Shi Jiao said he didn't want just any dog.

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1. An Alpha-versus-Alpha battle for the love interest, and all the love interests are virgins.

2. A groveling redemption arc later on. The three love interests couldn't make up one decent man between them.

3. Don't criticize Jiao Jiao. He's completely innocent. He just wants to give everyone who loves him a home.

Theme: Respect love, respect yourself.