Dating Apps: More Harm Than Good

Pre-release in my author’s collection: an ABO entertainment-industry story, The Tool Character’s Dramatic Rise from Has-Been to Resource Darling

After being bound to a System, the protagonist is forced to work with the love interest. To his surprise, he becomes a resource darling, and his career takes off overnight!

Petty, lovesick, pure-love-warrior love interest (A) * self-reliant, hardworking money-maker protagonist (B)

The blurb is at the very bottom. If you’re interested, feel free to check out the neighboring story and add it to your collection.

Story Blurb

Wen Yan was once the hapless victim of an ABO world. After a spacetime rift appeared and the novel world collapsed, he accidentally stumbled into a completely unfamiliar world.

After becoming a preschool teacher, he doted on the child of Li Shaojun as if the kid were his own. Betrayed by his ex-boyfriend, Wen Yan had a friend match him with someone on a dating app to help him get over the heartbreak. Who could have guessed that the stuffy, successful man he’d been chatting with for three months would turn out to be one of his students’ parents?

On his birthday, with the faces of Li Shaojun and his son lit by candlelight, he suddenly got carried away and agreed to give the relationship a try. But once they were really together, he realized Li Shaojun was practically an outdated robot riddled with bugs!

Later, he accidentally discovered that Li Shaojun didn’t actually like him. He just wanted to find a “mom” for his child. So Wen Yan had no choice but to take the unexpected child and flee in the middle of the night.

Three years later, he gets into a car accident while traveling with the child. Wen Yan, now suffering from amnesia, stares in shock at the child who looks just like him. “I got divorced from the person I finally managed to get together with? The person claiming to be my ex wants to get back together, and who did I have this kid with?!”

Help, what kind of melodramatic plot have I stumbled into?!

Reader's Guide:

The love interest has an ex-wife and a child, and the couple separated amicably. The protagonist is a beta. In the original story, he experienced pregnancy and miscarriage, and after arriving in the love interest’s world, he also had a boyfriend. Please don’t read if these topics bother you.

Pre-release Blurb

Cheng Yu got bound to an absurd System. His mission: make sure the original story’s couple stays together and prevent the world from collapsing. As a barely known actor with a tiny fan base, he was far below the protagonist’s status, so he could only team up with the original story’s love interest’s younger brother, who wanted to escape the cycle of world resets.

Zhuang Shiyi was a devoted believer in pheromones. Only Omegas with a high compatibility rating caught his eye. Unfortunately, after the celebrity Omega he pursued had used his resources to climb the ranks, they turned around and said goodbye.

So Zhuang Shiyi, having become a fool who’d been taken advantage of, immediately threw a bundle of resources at Cheng Yu, intending to make him famous and undermine the celebrity Omega.

And just like that, a has-been became a resource darling!

Cheng Yu, the one who came out ahead: “Wow, this really is the kind of good fortune that falls right out of the sky! Time to make money, make money!!!”

His sudden rise in resources led netizens to dig up the rumors linking Cheng Yu and Zhuang Shiyi, as well as the story of how Cheng Yu confessed to Zhuang Shiyi at their high school sports meet and got rejected.

Netizens: “Huh, so are they a sugar daddy and his boy toy, or a couple whose secret crush finally came true?”

Zhuang Shiyi, who had no memory of the confession, stared at the trending topic in shock. “You’ve had a crush on me for ten years, and you said you only liked female betas?”

He stormed over to Cheng Yu’s place in the middle of the night to warn him: “I’ll only marry an Omega. You’re a beta, so don’t get any ideas about me.”

Cheng Yu shrugged. “That was just a penalty for losing a game. Everyone knows Mr. Zhuang’s straight-Alpha chauvinism. I know my place.”

Later, during his rut, Zhuang Shiyi clutched a dose of suppressants and burrowed into Cheng Yu’s arms. Cheng Yu looked at his hapless sugar daddy and cried out in dismay: “Weren’t you only supposed to love Omegas?!”

With Cheng Yu’s clothes between his teeth, Zhuang Shiyi answered without a shred of shame: “Everyone thinks we’re a couple. Nobody else will want me, so you have to take responsibility!”

The whole internet is wondering whether Cheng Yu will end up marrying into a wealthy family. Meanwhile, the System is tearing its hair out: “This is so annoying! Can you two clueless rookies in love just do the mission already? The original story’s protagonist is practically flirting right in the love interest’s face, and you’re still over here playing pat-a-cake!”

Premise: Love knows no prejudice. Equality and healing come from choosing each other.