She's a Poor Beta

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Arrogant elite Alpha × spineless, penniless Beta × cruel, obsessive Omega (temporarily 1v1)

Soapy melodrama warning!

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In this world, Alphas and Omegas are born to be the main characters. After all, rare things are precious.

Most of them are born into high society and want for nothing. Once their stomachs are full, they start noticing the emptiness in their hearts. Among people like them, the most intense love and hate are easily kindled, leading to tangled affairs that never end until death.

Fortunately, Chen Yun is an utterly ordinary Beta. The love and hatred of AOs have little to do with her. She only needs to stand aside, watch the drama unfold, and play a minor role in their epic love stories before making a safe exit.

But that's what Betas are like in AO stories. What is the real world of Betas like?

Growing up quietly, working an ordinary job, marrying another ordinary Beta, then raising ordinary little Betas, carrying on the unremarkable mission of worker ants like them.

At least that's how Chen Yun's Beta mothers lived.

Maybe she'll end up just like them.

Really?

Looking at the Alpha and Omega blocking her way, Chen Yun couldn't help asking herself that question.

Why on earth would a penniless Beta like her get tangled up with AOs?!

And worse, these two AOs were engaged to each other!

It all started with a family-arranged marriage.

The two people with the most prestigious families at school had been forced into an engagement. Their elders had settled it with smiling faces, but the two people involved didn't seem happy about it.

One was a top student in the law department, an elite. The other was the most dazzling talent in the combat division.

Neither could stand the other. They even lost their composure and started fighting in public. Chen Yun had only been standing nearby, happily watching the show, when she heard the beautiful Omega say, “I'd date a Beta before I'd marry someone like you.”

Chen Yun: ???

Wait, what do you mean, “before”?

Betas didn't do anything to you!

Before she could even finish cursing inwardly, a slender, bony hand gripped her wrist.

“I don't have time to choose. You, then. Be my girlfriend, now, right this second!”

W-wait, is that how this works? Girl, you might not be picky, but I am!

“Your AO lives are already dramatic enough. Why drag a Beta like me into your play?”

“Don't Betas deserve to live, too?”

You don't really think Chen Yun had the guts to say any of that out loud, do you?

Hahaha, all she dared to do was curse them out in her head, then meekly nod and bow to the AOs in front of her.

What could she do? She was just a poor B with no money or connections.

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Reader's guide and content warnings:

1. The female characters don't have any male sidekicks.

2. The protagonists all have varying degrees of moral flaws.

3. A nontraditional ABO world, not a strong Alpha and weak Omega dynamic.

4. The ending leans toward an open ending in the conventional sense.

5. An imaginary interstellar setting. The details aren't meant to withstand scrutiny.

6. The main storyline is the Beta's rise as a Phoenix-like heroine, along with her romance.

7. The writing style may be a little strange, swinging between comedy and deliberately literary prose.

8. They switch roles.

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Theme: Keep striving and live with strength