The Black Emperor’s talk about online dating and such was completely ignored by Bai Muxing.
It was obvious that this was a silly rich kid, the kind that was so silly that he bubbled over.
He just threw around words without much thought.
Bai Muxing corrected: [It’s not online dating.]
[I showed you these to correct your careless transfer of money.]
Bai Muxing frowned slightly, thinking that if the Black Emperor kept acting silly, he might as well delete this elementary school kid.
So troublesome.
He didn’t want to end up in the headlines one day because of a massive financial dispute with a minor.
Sounds embarrassing.
Black Emperor: [I’m sorry, I understand.]
Black Emperor: [If you don’t like it, I won’t do it anymore. Can you forgive me? QAQ]
The person on the other side promptly kneeled down at the speed of light; the attitude could be considered textbook-standard.
It made Bai Muxing, who originally thought it was troublesome, suddenly feel like he might have been too harsh in his tone?
How did he scare someone like this?
Looking back, it doesn’t seem that bad…
Bai Muxing, with his low emotional intelligence, pondered for a moment and sent a message to ease the atmosphere.
White: [I’m not blaming you. Study hard and do well in school.]
Black Emperor: [……]
Bai Muxing saw the poignant ellipsis and remembered the other’s identity as a school underachiever, feeling a bit awkward.
It seems like he accidentally hurt the glass heart of this underachieving elementary school student netizen?
Well, Bai Muxing had to admit that he really didn’t have much social talent.
Back when he was in the military, his popularity was average; he didn’t have many close friends, probably because of his unconscious talent for poking people’s sore spots.
Many people who actively wanted to befriend him often couldn’t stay around him for long and were scared off by Bai Muxing’s cold words.
Actually, Bai Muxing didn’t think too much about it. He was just naturally a bit lacking in social graces.
But he didn’t really care about these things; he wasn’t very interested in getting along with people around him.
In a sense, Bai Muxing was someone who lived in his own world.
He used to be alone in school, always wandering around the library, and in the military, he didn’t care about anything other than fighting.
Like those people, this elementary school student probably won’t last long.
Bai Muxing thought that he should have never casually agreed to add the other person as a friend.
It’s not a big deal for him, but dealing with someone like him, isn’t it harming the empire’s underage flower?
However, unexpectedly, the person on the other end of the internet has a very optimistic personality. After quieting down for less than ten minutes, he enthusiastically came to talk to Bai Muxing again.
He chatted away, showing no signs of being discouraged.
He was like a perpetually carefree little dog.
Even when faced with setbacks, he quickly continues wagging his tail without a care in the world.
Bai Muxing thought.
***
On the fifth day of hospitalization, the single-person special care ward where Bai Muxing stayed received an unexpected visitor.
Seeing the visitor’s face, Bai Muxing’s pupils contracted imperceptibly for a moment, his muscles tensing up all over his body.
It was a completely subconscious defensive reaction.
But the anomaly only lasted for a very short moment on him.
With the adaptability honed on the battlefield, Bai Muxing quickly adjusted himself back to a naturally relaxed state, masking the relaxed disguise of his body in attack mode.
The newcomer only saw Bai Muxing seem to be lost in thought for a moment. He quickly put down his light brain, calmly glanced over, and stopped.
Bai Muxing called out the person’s name: “Major General Ariel.”
He was ordered by the doctor not to get up, so he gave a simple military salute while sitting on the bed.
Under Bai Muxing’s calm exterior was a surge of coldness.
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He didn’t even need to exude pheromones. Just by appearance, he was undoubtedly an alpha with great charm.
Bai Muxing was also familiar with this face.
Ariel, his direct superior in the army, the top noble heir of a prestigious family.
He became the youngest major general in the history of the empire due to his wartime military exploits, and his illustrious family background and dazzling personal radiance made him the top dream lover of the empire’s Omegas for several years.
At the same time, this person was also one of the four S-class alphas with whom he had a 100% compatibility rating in his previous life.
He was also the alpha he hated the most, without exception.
Bai Muxing was emotionally detached, and feelings of hatred and disgust rarely appeared in his life.
Even after becoming an Omega in his previous life, being coveted, oppressed, and antagonized by many people, and ultimately being swept away by fate toward death, he never particularly hated anyone in particular.
Just feeling annoyed.
But they were all a bunch of slaves manipulated by pheromones. If he had to hate each one individually, he simply wouldn’t have enough hatred to go around.
He didn’t have such rich emotions to invest in others.
But Ariel was an exception.
Bai Muxing remembered this person, and he truly felt disgusted.
Before Bai Muxing transformed into an Omega, their relationship was actually quite good.
Bai Muxing had a nickname in the army, “White Star.”
This nickname referred to both his dazzling performance on the battlefield and also indicated his coldness, like a distant star, indifferent and unwilling to interact with others.
It was these two characteristics that made Bai Muxing a subordinate highly valued by Ariel.
No superior would dislike a subordinate who was of average birth, not involved in factions, and sufficiently capable.
Such a person would become a sharp tool in the hands of the superior.
Bai Muxing was that tool in Ariel’s hands.
He had carried out many dangerous missions, and several times, all the alphas who executed missions together died, leaving only him alive.
Objectively speaking, Ariel was a good superior.
Bai Muxing had a non-competitive personality. He could retire with the rank of colonel, thanks in no small part to Ariel’s support and favor.
So, until that incident happened, his impression of Ariel was very positive.
They could even be considered as mutually appreciative superior and subordinate.
In Bai Muxing’s barren social life, this was simply a miracle.
At least, that’s what Bai Muxing had always thought until that deception occurred.
In his previous life, probably about three months after he differentiated into an Omega, he experienced an unexpected heat cycle.
He differentiated into an Omega too late, and due to the body’s retaliatory compensation, his heat cycle came extremely fierce.
Like a flame that couldn’t be extinguished, almost burning him into a handful of dry ashes.
Members of the Omega Supervision Association warned him: “Even if you don’t engage in a final bond with an alpha, you at least need a temporary marking; otherwise, you’ll be burned into a fool.”
But Bai Muxing didn’t trust any alphas.
He didn’t want to be controlled by the pheromones of a dominant, even if it was just a temporary marking.
The pheromones injected into the Omega’s body through the gland would establish a connection between the Alpha and Omega. The omega would uncontrollably become submissive to the alpha marking them.
By then, even if one said it was just a temporary marking, the final outcome would likely not be something controlled by Bai Muxing, the submissive.
Do not trust the hunter’s kindness; this was the eternal truth Bai Muxing learned on the battlefield.
Therefore, he refused to accept even a temporary marking.
During the stalemate between Bai Muxing and the Omega Supervision Association, Ariel proposed a solution.
It seemed out of consideration for their previous friendship. Although also 100% compatible with Bai Muxing, unlike the other three alphas, Ariel did not pursue this valuable omega aggressively during Bai Muxing’s six months of differentiation into an omega.
Instead, he often talked to Bai Muxing about their past in the military with an attitude that was neither too close nor too distant, which made Bai Muxing rarely feel relieved.
Compared to the other alphas, their relationship was not tense.
It could even be considered a friendship.
Hearing that Bai Muxing was deeply troubled by his heat cycles, Ariel proposed, “How about extracting and transplanting my pheromones directly into your gland? Don’t worry, we won’t have direct contact.”
Ariel was considerate, saying, “It’s just a temporary marking to help you through your heat cycle. I’ll soon be going on a mission to a remote galaxy, and when I come back, everything will be over.”
Out of trust in his former good superior and partial friend, Bai Muxing accepted this plan.
The pheromones extracted from Ariel’s gland were injected into Bai Muxing’s gland through a simple surgery.
His heat cycle subsided, as expected.
However, Ariel did not go to the remote galaxy for a mission as previously promised but appeared in the capital star after the surgery, shamelessly emitting pheromones in front of Bai Muxing.
The highly suppressive alpha pheromones flooded into Bai Muxing’s breath.
As an Omega marked by Ariel’s pheromones, Bai Muxing’s bones softened under the instinctive submissiveness and required great willpower to remain conscious and not bow down to Ariel.
At that moment, his mind was already hazy and dizzy.
In a daze, he heard Ariel’s voice, tinged with a smile, accompanying the noise in his ears like an absurd drama.
“…Do you know, Muxing, I noticed you as soon as you entered the army, but you were just a beta back then, and I couldn’t marry a beta. And you were foolish; you didn’t even know when someone was showing interest in you. I hinted at you many times, but you probably didn’t realize, did you?”
Bai Muxing felt his blood turning cold bit by bit.
He looked at this former caring superior of his, and even the last trace of warmth in his memory shattered.
So, from the beginning, Ariel never treated him as any kind of “friend.”
His concessions and gentleness, from beginning to end, were just disguises before the next plunder.
The alpha’s voice fell on his ears like a lofty verdict before execution: “Do you know how happy I was when you differentiated into an omega? With 100% compatibility, you are destined to be mine.”
“Be my Omega, Muxing. Marry me.”
Ariel had everything planned out well. He would use pheromones to lure Bai Muxing into a passive heat cycle and thoroughly obtain this omega.
But he underestimated Bai Muxing’s determination.
After all, he was a sharp tool that survived the fires of war and was once the most useful in his hands.
He hovered between life and death countless times and lived through it.
Even after differentiating into an Omega, the blood in his veins remained unchanged.
Bai Muxing severed his own femoral artery, enduring the pain to resist the bonding heat triggered by the pheromones, using every cunning tactic to wound both himself and Ariel, holding out until the police arrived.
Ariel was punished for attempting to override Omega’s wishes for a final bond, paying a hefty price.
Without Bai Muxing having to lift a finger, the other three alphas, who had been eagerly seeking a bond with him, seized upon this opportunity to bite into Ariel and his family.
If Ariel had succeeded, they would have had no recourse, but since he failed, retaliation from competitors was inevitable.
Since then, the two had completely broken ties.
Recalling those nauseating past events, Bai Muxing’s already indifferent expression turned colder.
The pallor of illness on his cheeks provided the perfect disguise for his unexpected expression, not appearing out of place.
Ariel approached his bedside, saying, “No need for formalities. I’m here on behalf of the military to visit you.”
Bai Muxing lowered his eyelashes. “Thank you.”
Ariel didn’t sit in the chair by the bed. He maintained an upright posture, looking down at Bai Muxing.
Bai Muxing’s voice was faint, echoing the coldness of his subordinate from before.
If there was any difference, it was perhaps the vulnerability revealed by the injuries, an aspect extremely rare in him, as if his porcelain face could shatter with the lightest touch, like a fragile dream.
Dreams…
Recalling the dreams of the past few days, Ariel felt a bit bewildered.
He actually dreamed of Bai Muxing as an Omega, losing his sanity to him like a dog.
It was absurd.
Ariel found it difficult to describe the feelings upon waking from the dream.
Though he did like Bai Muxing’s face, Bai Muxing was just a beta, a beta who couldn’t provide quality offspring for the family. At most, he could only give Bai Muxing the title of lover.
And Bai Muxing was quite clueless. Despite Ariel dropping hints several times, the other party didn’t seem to catch on at all.
After a while, it got tiresome.
He wouldn’t resort to any means for a beta, and Bai Muxing had quite a reputation in the military. In the tense border wars, Bai Muxing wasn’t someone he could easily manipulate. If things got out of hand, it would damage the image he had crafted for himself.
He would eventually marry a prestigious Omega, and creating too many scandals before marriage was not a wise choice.
Even though the noble families indulged in private affairs, their public image had to remain impeccable.
Ariel had always been a rational person. He received the most orthodox aristocratic education, which enabled him to analyze the pros and cons of every situation and decide whether to act.
For instance, he had no real reason to make this visit. Offering condolences to an injured retired officer was essentially a thankless task, with no potential benefits for his future career.
But because of those vivid dreams, he hadn’t slept well for several days.
In the dreams, Bai Muxing’s clear, light eyes were tinted with a watery hue due to the effect of pheromones, and his typically cold gaze ignited with passion and sharp anger as if fire.
He emanated his own alpha pheromones, but the mark wasn’t complete; it should’ve been only a temporary one.
Even in the dream, he could feel his urgent desire to fully mark Bai Muxing.
The sensation of that dream was too real, as if it had actually happened, so much so that the longing and restlessness conveyed through the dream became palpable.
Every morning, he woke up unable to distinguish between dream and reality for a few minutes, ensnared by his desire for Bai Muxing.
He even started experiencing alpha pseudo-heat. Even his parents asked if he was getting too close to an Omega lately, warning him to wrap things up and not cause scandals all over the capital before marrying a noble Omega.
Ariel thought, It’s not an Omega.
It’s a beta.
He was bewitched by a beta.
His mind was filled with Bai Muxing’s figure.
So, even though he knew perfectly well that this trip wouldn’t bring any benefits, he took over the task from his subordinate, who was originally responsible for it.
Ariel’s gaze fell on the glaring white bandage around Bai Muxing’s neck.
He knew what had happened to Bai Muxing. His visit this time was also on behalf of the military, expressing concern for the retired officer and advising him not to blow the incident out of proportion, which could cause a public relations disaster.
—Bai Muxing’s glands were destroyed in an accident for which the culprit had not yet been found.
He had read the detailed report on the incident several times.
It was a very unlucky accident: a retired officer, weakened by hormonal imbalance after retirement, was attacked by thugs while returning from visiting his parents’ graves, at the moment when his vigilance was at its lowest.
The heavy rain washed away any possible evidence that might have existed, and the authorities couldn’t find any leads to solve the case. The case would most likely be closed without resolution.
Logically, there was nothing unusual to find.
But for some reason, he felt that this accident was extremely abrupt, even glaring.
Even after studying it several times, he couldn’t pinpoint the source of that sense of discord.
Considering Bai Muxing’s status as a retired military officer, the military decided to send someone to comfort him and try to keep the matter from escalating.
It wasn’t a big deal for a beta to lose their gland. Their glands weren’t valuable. But if it caused panic between the alpha and omega communities, it would be troublesome.
There was also a concern that such an incident might spark imitation.
In that case, omegas, who were more vulnerable than betas, would be the more appropriate targets.
The capital star was already chaotic enough, and they needed to avoid any factors that could cause further unrest.
Ariel understood all of this very clearly.
But when he arrived at the hospital and saw the person with the pale face wrapped in bandages around the neck, he suddenly forgot the purpose of his visit and felt a kind of indescribable unease filling him.
A sense of confusion surged up, slowly engulfing the little bug trying to find something on the beach.
It was too strange. Much too strange.
He just felt that something was off.
How could this happen?
A voice emerged in Ariel’s mind, starting faint and gradually becoming piercing.
It told him that something was wrong. This wasn’t how things were supposed to be.
Bai Muxing’s gland couldn’t have been destroyed, could it? Shouldn’t he have differentiated into an Omega?
…Omega?
For a moment, Ariel was stunned. He couldn’t believe how much he had been influenced by a dream.
Setting aside the fact that there had never been a precedent in the empire’s history of a beta differentiating at the age of 27, the reality before him was that Bai Muxing’s gland was already destroyed. Not to mention becoming an Omega; he wouldn’t even qualify as a proper beta in the future.
The dream filled with fantasies, compared to the reality in front of him, suddenly seemed like a ridiculous joke, one that would only invite laughter if shared.
But… Was everything so vivid just a dream?
For a moment, Ariel felt a bit confused. He stood on the cold, hard tiles of the hospital floor, feeling like a part of his body was floating, unsure if his soul was still trapped in the dream, unable to wake up with his body.
I hope this Ariel will just leave our baby alone.
Thank you for the update
What the perfect profile pic to go with that comment!
Don’t worry, friend, his ridiculously OP, yet still surprisingly innocent crush…haver?…will take care of Ariel eventually, I’m sure. I’m just sad that BM not only lost a friend due to his differentiation in his past life, but he also found out that Ariel was really never his friend 😭
Does that mean all of the four have dreams too? 😨😨
Thanks for the chapter!! 🩷🩷
The only thing pretty about you is your name Ariel, I hope you live to regret what you’ve done!
The more that Bai Muxing’s past revealed, the worse the details are. 😭 I can’t wait to see this guy leave!!
I’ll bring the knives, guns, or whatever weapon I could find just to eliminate this guy!
Everyone, bring your weapons! It doesn’t matter what it is as long as it’s effective!
(Thanks for the Chapter!)
What a delulu alpha… Stay away from bai muxing!! >:((((
disgusting alpha, how can you hurt someone who trusted you so much!
Ariel this scumbag, what are you? The little mermaid looking for toys to play with? Well let me tell you now mah baby Xiao Bai ain’t no sh!tty toy for you to put your grubby hands on so scurry on your way and find your own little Omega somewhere else, I can already sense the cheating tendency coming from him 🤡
What a d*ck!! 🤮