Shipping the Heroine's Pure-Love Couple in a Harem Story

Ji Lian transmigrates into a book, one of those smutty novels she'd read that had no love in it, just group sex.

In the book, the villainous Alpha CEO Ji Lian falls "in love at first sight" with Shen Qinghe, an Omega whose pheromone levels are abnormally high.

On the very first day after tricking her into his grasp and taking her by force, he can't wait to gather his pack of cronies, give her a drug that triggers her pheromones, put her in a gift box, and open it in front of everyone.

Then there's a twisted, obsessive childhood friend, a rich heiress who acts as his accomplice, a creepy stranger...

Ji Lian had scoffed at the book, but she was unexpectedly drawn to the heroine's resilient, stubborn character, and somehow kept reading.

Later in the book, the battered and bruised Shen Qinghe meets the only person who truly cares about her: Lin Yu'an, a powerless Beta. But their clumsy escape plan is discovered, and they both end up as everyone's playthings.

Ji Lian's vision went black.

Who writes pure love into a group-sex novel?! Ji Lian was so furious that she threw her phone, and, unfortunately, got hit by a car.

Now she's become the vile Alpha Ji Lian from the book, and she's bound to a matchmaking System.

Mission objective: Find Shen Qinghe true love.

What a godsend!

Ji Lian rubbed her hands together. [Once I'm the heroine's best friend, I can set her up with whoever I want. Then completing the mission will be a piece of cake!]

System: [...I'll wish you luck.]

For the mission, Ji Lian carefully worked to raise Shen Qinghe's affection for her. As her relationship with Shen Qinghe grew closer by the day, she lay in bed, happily dreaming about the future.

She'd use her "best friend" status to play matchmaker and send the heroine into the arms of her true love, a Beta...

Until one late night, the crisp, bewitching scent of green bamboo silently filled the room. Shen Qinghe's hoarse voice sounded in the darkness, laced with a broken plea. "Ji Lian, mark me."

Ji Lian, gripping the back clasp of her bite-proof mask, burst into tears.

"W-wait! This isn't how the plot goes! Get a grip! The person you're supposed to love isn't... isn't me!!!"

From Shen Qinghe's perspective:

Shen Qinghe's life was a long, drawn-out torture.

Her unusual constitution and money-hungry parents had made her suffer in hell for twenty years.

She escaped with great difficulty, only to be handed over by her own family as an object to settle a debt, and sent to an Alpha she'd never even met.

The depraved, cold-blooded pervert who wanted to share her with everyone as a surprise on their first meeting changed completely the day after she arrived.

That Ji Lian, who seemed... not quite right in the head, clumsily and carefully gave her a degree of care and protection she had never dared hope for in her twenty years of life.

Was it an illusion? The excessive focus in Ji Lian's eyes...

Did Ji Lian like her?

The last shreds of reason at the edge of the cliff tugged at her, whispering in her ear: Ji Lian is a liar! Her tenderness is poison wrapped in honey, and her love is false.

And yet her surging heat, like a tsunami, destroyed every defense. Instinct overwhelmed reason. She almost violently tackled the panicked Alpha, greedily drinking in her pheromones. Their scent was crisp and cool, yet like the only bonfire in the depths of winter, making her crave warmth at any cost.

She undid the clasp on the Alpha's bite-proof mask herself, cradled her dazed face, and resolutely exposed the vulnerable gland at the back of her own neck to the Alpha's sharp teeth.

The mark engulfed her with the sense of belonging she longed for, filling her heart.

She let herself sink into it, weaving herself a false nest of comfort.

Ji Lian must love me...

Then it should be all right to quietly give her a tiny piece of the softest corner of my heart, shouldn't it?

But when dawn pierced the darkness and she awoke from the afterglow of the marking, the eyes she met were utterly unfamiliar. There was only blank confusion, not a trace of passion.

Cold words easily crushed all the tenderness and delusions of the night before.

"Don't worry. I'll take you to have the mark removed."

[No sidekick characters. The author is a sucker for melodramatic unrequited love. 1v1.]

Blurb written on June 28, 2025

Theme: Have the courage to pursue love