Chu Yunsheng and Yin Zheng lived an extremely fulfilling life.
Although they had occasional quarrels, disagreements, and even moments of leaving home in a huff, both were relatively rational individuals. They would seriously reflect on themselves, jointly seek out the issues between them, resolve problems, and adjust their personalities.
They did not change their own principles and convictions for each other but rather respected and understood one another, providing all the support they could offer.
In his early fifties, Chu Yunsheng, due to his outstanding contributions in the field of physics, received the world’s highest physics award, gaining international acclaim.
However, he was not a mad scientist.
At the age of sixty-five, he and Yin Zheng retired together, buying a two-story villa by the sea. They spent their days gardening, playing with birds, and leisurely enjoying their later years until the small square in their villa community opened, and Yin Zheng became infatuated with senior disco dancing—
Chu Yunsheng never imagined that one day he would be dancing wildly to the rhythm of music with a group of elderly men and women, almost getting into a fight over who would win first place in the square dance competition.
Yin Zheng, always one to enjoy the spectacle, cheered him on with little flags, which annoyed Chu Yunsheng so much that he cooked celery for Yin Zheng for two days straight. Yin Zheng got up in the middle of the night to secretly bite him, complaining that his skin had aged and didn’t taste good anymore.
Indeed, they had grown old.
Unknowingly, decades had passed.
On Yin Zheng’s eightieth birthday, Chu Yunsheng stood in the garden watering the flowers, while Yin Zheng dozed on the recliner behind him.
The seaside garden villa was filled with the cool sea breeze blowing from afar, and the lazy afternoon sunlight bathed the vibrant flowers, creating a faint rainbow through the mist.
Chu Yunsheng heard Yin Zheng’s aged, hoarse voice from behind: “Chu-ge, today is my birthday… Can I have some cake? Just a small piece… I haven’t had any in a long time, and I feel like I might never get to eat it again…”
“…Alright.”
Chu Yunsheng put down the watering can and slowly walked to the recliner, looking down at Yin Zheng and holding his hand: “I ordered a cake for you… but it seems you can’t wait for it.”
Yin Zheng slowly opened his eyes wide.
His eyes were already cloudy, and the light in them gradually faded.
He smiled and reached out his other hand towards Chu Yunsheng.
Chu Yunsheng knelt down halfway and held him in his arms.
The two aged, hunched bodies leaned against each other.
Yin Zheng softly said, “Chu-ge, I’m leaving. I can’t bear to part with you…”
Chu Yunsheng tightly grasped Yin Zheng’s hand.
That hand affectionately rubbed against him, but little by little, it gradually lost its vitality, becoming limp and aged, finally falling lifelessly, like a branch that withered and broke after a night of heavy snow.
Chu Yunsheng quietly held Yin Zheng, the warm sunlight covering his back, yet he felt completely cold at that moment. Yin Zheng was gone, and he had no one left to love, nor anyone to love him.
Chu Yunsheng sat in the garden for a long time.
It wasn’t until it got dark and Yin Zheng’s body had lost all warmth that he finally got up, staggering, and dialed the funeral home’s number.
Chu Yunsheng calmly held his lover’s funeral, smiling in response to the concern of many friends.
He made his will, just like Yin Zheng, donating all his assets to Project Hope and scientific research. Everyone knew what he intended to do, but no one wanted to stop him.
Such a deeply intertwined love, leaving either one alone would be painful.
On a quiet evening, Chu Yunsheng brought flowers to the newly erected tombstone and swallowed a small pill.
The strength in his body slowly ebbed away, and the setting sun shone on his face.
Just before losing all consciousness, he saw a familiar note suddenly appear on the tombstone in front of him.
“Task: Change Yin Zheng’s fate, completion rate 7%. Please choose whether to enter the next world to continue the task.
Yes/No.”
Chu Yunsheng was stunned. There were countless speculations in his mind that were yet to sort out, overwhelmed by this sudden surprise.
He silently thought “Yes,” and his vision went black as he lost consciousness.
At the same time.
In a research facility floating in outer space, a long “beep” suddenly sounded. A cocoon-shaped sleep pod slowly opened, and a handsome, bright young man sat up. The staff member wearing glasses immediately handed him a bottle of nutritional supplement.
“Professor Yin, Dr. Chu has successfully replaced the malignant data and obtained the original plot’s golden finger, receiving the patch’s approval. The first mental power patch has been perfectly integrated into Dr. Chu’s brain, and our experiment has initially succeeded.”
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The young man downed the nutritional supplement, glanced at another closed sleep pod beside him.
Inside, the man’s face was pale, and his eyes were tightly shut.
A trace of tenderness flashed in the young man’s eyes.
He laid back in the sleep pod, closed his eyes, and a clear, gentle voice softly said, “Seal the memories, and begin the transfer.”
“Yes.”
…
The moment he regained consciousness, Chu Yunsheng once again felt the familiar burning sensation coursing through his body, causing him immense discomfort.
His muddled mind struggled to surface, and his fingers touched a patch of cool skin. He tried to open his eyes and raise his hand to push the approaching body away.
But as his vision finally cleared, Yin Zheng’s face suddenly appeared before him.
Yin Zheng was looking at him with bright, clear eyes, “Chu Yunsheng, is your pheromone scent that of wine? It seems a bit faint… but that’s okay. I wanted to ask, when do you plan to mark me?”
“…Yin Zheng?”
Chu Yunsheng’s motion to push the person away halted.
After decades of love, Chu Yunsheng could almost instantly tell that this was not someone who merely resembled Yin Zheng, but Yin Zheng himself.
He recalled the note on the tombstone and began to form a hypothesis.
“Who is Yin Zheng?”
The young man’s expression stiffened, but he quickly forced a smile: “I’m not someone else, Chu Yunsheng… I’m Ye Qing, Ye Qing from the Ye family. I’m your new bride…”
His initially obscure gaze suddenly trembled inexplicably upon seeing the restrained forbearance on Chu Yunsheng’s face, and a surge of emotional turmoil welled up within him.
Ye Qing couldn’t help but take two steps forward, his palm turning to grasp Chu Yunsheng’s hand.
He didn’t know where these sudden overwhelming emotions in his heart came from, but he found them difficult to control. Thus, the words he intended to ask calmly came out directly: “Chu Yunsheng, you might be in heat because of my pheromones. You can… you can have me…”
Ye Qing was stunned, pursing his lips, seemingly finding it hard to believe that he had just said those words.
But he did not regret it.
Instead, he added a strange half-sentence: “You can… and only can have me…”
“Alright.”
Chu Yunsheng clasped the young man’s wrist: “You said it.”
Clothes were torn.
The rose petals on the bed were shaken off layer by layer.
The crystal lamp on the edge of the bedside table was swept to the floor, shattering with a crash that drowned out other sounds.
About a day and a night passed.
Chu Yunsheng placed the person who had already fallen asleep into the bathtub, cleaning him while organizing the plot and memories in his mind.
This time, the novel’s world was set in a sci-fi ABO universe.
Although “sci-fi” sounded like a vast framework, Chu Yunsheng could see numerous loopholes and issues with just a quick glance. However, these didn’t matter much because the original author wrote this novel with the primary purpose of exploring romantic relationships.
The story’s protagonist was named Su Wenshu, a male beta born in a slum but exceptionally talented.
At the age of eighteen, his mecha control skills had already reached an A-level standard, and he was admitted to the Federal Military Academy with the third highest score in the joint entrance exam.
The top scorer in the joint exam was Feng Huan, the only son of the Marshal’s family, and the second highest was Chu Yunsheng.
Su Wenshu, with his outstanding looks and gentle personality, quickly attracted many beta admirers. Even some alphas were willing to forgo competing for the rare and precious omegas to marry Su Wenshu, a male beta who could neither be marked nor bear children.
In this novel, the author’s setting was quite conventional: betas were normal men and women, alphas were generally strong individuals with high overall capabilities, most of whom served in the military or government, fighting on the battlefield against the Empire and the insect race. In addition, there were the rare and precious omegas.
Omegas were generally synonymous with being delicate and rare.
The Federation had a dedicated omega academy, and society and laws were very favorable towards omegas, offering them significant protection. Most alphas paired with omegas, as their pheromones could attract each other, alleviate each other’s heat periods, and marking could confirm loyalty.
This was the most common form of romantic relationship in this society.
Betas, lacking pheromones, mostly paired with other betas. Occasionally, a beta might fall in love with an alpha or an omega, but due to the inability to mark and the uncontrollable nature of heat periods, such relationships often ended in tragic breakups.
Although the protagonist Su Wenshu appeared to be a beta on the surface, he was actually an omega disguised as a beta.
During a Federal Military Academy exercise, Su Wenshu was exposed to a plant toxin on the training planet, which prematurely triggered his heat period. He had lost his suppressant, and without relief, he would die. In desperation, Su Wenshu asked Feng Huan, who shared the same tent, to initially mark him.
Feng Huan was the other protagonist.
After this incident, Feng Huan dominantly regarded Su Wenshu as his omega and began to pursue him relentlessly. Su Wenshu was unwilling to reveal his identity, so Feng Huan helped him conceal it everywhere and assisted him through several heat periods.
However, the truth could not be hidden forever.
During a shopping trip, Su Wenshu suddenly went into heat, his pheromones dispersing and driving all the alphas on the street mad.
Feng Huan fought his way out with Su Wenshu, but eventually, the military arrived, and both were apprehended.
Feng Huan was taken to court for concealing Su Wenshu’s identity and for coercive actions.
Su Wenshu woke up from unconsciousness, ready to rescue Feng Huan, but was suddenly informed that he was the sole heir of the wealthy Ye family.
Yes, as the story progressed, it became evident that the author incorporated elements of Autumn in My Heart into the ABO setting.
The wealthy Ye family was one of the three major military and political families. When General Ye and his lover had their only son, it was during a battle with the Empire.
At that time, the situation was urgent, and the frontline medical conditions were poor. General Ye’s lover tragically died in childbirth. By the time General Ye rushed to the dilapidated house, he only found a baby.
That baby was Ye Qing, the sole heir of the Ye family.
At the age of twelve, Ye Qing underwent gender differentiation and became an omega, cherished by the Ye family as their precious gem.
However, in reality, Ye Qing was actually a beta. The Ye family had a tradition that all betas must serve in the military, but General Ye did not want his only son to die on the battlefield like his lover. Out of personal motives, he purchased black market simulated pheromone drugs to disguise Ye Qing as a frail omega, thus avoiding conscription.
Ye Qing grew up carefree, unaware of his true gender.
Although his health was poor and he couldn’t go out often, Ye Qing still lived a very happy life.
This happiness ended when he turned twenty.
General Ye had suspicions when he saw Su Wenshu’s face, which bore a striking resemblance to his lover.
After the incident with Su Wenshu, General Ye immediately obtained Su Wenshu’s genetic sample and compared it with his own. The results showed a 99% match.
Su Wenshu was his real son.
And Ye Qing had no blood relation to him.
The true omega heir had been lost, suffering in the slums during his childhood, yet growing up to be so outstanding that he could even hold his own against alphas.
General Ye felt both heartache and relief. Naturally, he and Su Wenshu reunited.
Su Wenshu’s adoptive parents had long since passed away, and the sudden appearance of his biological father, who was extremely caring and filled with guilt, allowed Su Wenshu to experience another form of paternal love. He did not refuse to acknowledge his heritage and realized that he could no longer hide his identity, so he openly revealed it and got engaged to Feng Huan.
The Ye family publicly acknowledged their lost son in a high-profile manner.
With the support of the Ye family and the Marshal’s residence, Su Wenshu initiated an omega protest movement, liberating the omegas who had been kept in cages and bringing them onto the battlefield and into the military, proving that omegas were no less capable than alphas.
His grand wedding with Feng Huan was also highly spectacular and drew much attention.
As for the beta, Mr. Ye Qing, who had only a name throughout the story, was quickly forgotten once Su Wenshu agreed to return to the Ye family.
Regarding his disposition, General Ye asked Su Wenshu. Su Wenshu, having little affection for Ye Qing, who had occupied his father’s attention for many years, casually said, “Marry him off.”
“To which family?”
General Ye was troubled.
Su Wenshu recalled the information in his mind and said, “Marry him to the Chu family. Chu Yunsheng from the Chu family has great potential and is worth aligning with. He is an excellent alpha, though his personality is not very good and he has some quirks. However, Ye Qing is still considered part of the Ye family and my brother. Chu Yunsheng is my friend and won’t really mistreat him.”
Thus, Ye Qing was sent to Chu Yunsheng.
Before this, Ye Qing had only seen Chu Yunsheng from a distance and had never even spoken a word to him.
But he knew that sooner or later, he would marry an alpha. He didn’t have strong feelings about it, neither great aversion nor particular fondness.
However, no one knew that the so-called quirks Su Wenshu mentioned about Chu Yunsheng were actually erectile dysfunction and pheromone imbalance.
Su Wenshu had guessed these issues but deemed them unimportant and did not inform Ye Qing.
Whether intentionally or out of forgetfulness, General Ye also did not tell Su Wenshu and Chu Yunsheng that Ye Qing was a beta.
Thus, Ye Qing’s fate was predictable.
On the night of the wedding, when Ye Qing asked Chu Yunsheng if he would mark him, Chu Yunsheng took it as an insult and mockery of himself. He beat Ye Qing severely and locked him in the basement.
In the basement, due to the long-term lack of simulated pheromone injections, Ye Qing finally discovered that he was not an omega but a beta.
Chu Yunsheng soon discovered this as well and, feeling deceived, broke Ye Qing’s limbs in a fit of rage and dragged him before Su Wenshu for questioning.
Su Wenshu sincerely apologized, promised to compensate Chu Yunsheng with resources, and agreed to the divorce between Chu Yunsheng and Ye Qing.
To prevent this scandal from leaking, the Ye family fed Ye Qing drugs that would cause mental disorders.
Upon learning this, Su Wenshu accused the Ye family of being cold-blooded but did not stop the injection. After learning that Ye Qing had gone mad, he merely said sadly, “Mother Su would hate me, wouldn’t she?”
Ye Qing finally understood the whole situation. He resented the Ye family, Su Wenshu, and Chu Yunsheng.
Surprisingly, he did not go mad. Instead, he sought help from an old friend, pretended to be insane, and escaped while being sent to a sanatorium. He left the capital star and joined an interstellar pirate group.
A few years later, Su Wenshu encountered Ye Qing again on the battlefield. Due to being pregnant, his strength had greatly diminished, and he was nearly killed by the pirate group.
Feng Huan, in extreme anger, annihilated the entire pirate group, including Ye Qing, who was the pirate group’s warship commander.
Clearly, Ye Qing, also known as Yin Zheng, was once again stamped as the villain by the novel’s author.
And now, the plot has just reached the point where Su Wenshu has returned to the Ye family, and Ye Qing has been hastily married to Chu Yunsheng with a marriage certificate.
The scene he woke up to was Ye Qing asking Chu Yunsheng if he would mark him.
In the original plot, Ye Qing was rather reserved and did not touch the original character. As soon as he finished speaking, he was beaten in a fit of rage by the original character and thrown into the basement.
The original character had physiological issues and did not do anything to Ye Qing, nor did he go into heat.
In the previous world, although there were suspicions about the twisted plot regarding such matters, Chu Yunsheng did not have time to investigate. However, this time was different.
The moment the burning sensation surged, he instinctively realized that this desire did not arise without reason but was driven by a toxin.
The same toxin as in the previous world.
Chu Yunsheng believed that without this strange toxin, even if he were present, he would not have been able to sleep with Ye Qing. After all, with faint pheromones and erectile dysfunction, these issues were not easily resolved.
If this strange toxin was not in his original body, then it must have been brought by Chu Yunsheng himself.
Chu Yunsheng did not know what this toxin was, why he was familiar with it, or why he carried it, and why it activated every time he woke up.
These obvious unknowns made Chu Yunsheng’s expression somewhat grim.
Additionally, the changes in the original plot were definitely not solely due to the toxin in his body.
Just now, after he mentioned the name “Yin Zheng”, Ye Qing’s expression shifted abruptly from calm and indifferent to a familiar intensity.
This was not part of the original plot.
However, although Ye Qing was Yin Zheng, he seemed to lack Yin Zheng’s memories.
And then there was the note that mentioned “continue the task, enter the next world”…
Chu Yunsheng laid in the bathtub, washing the familiar body beneath his hands, temporarily suppressing these thoughts. Then he thought of a serious issue that had almost been overlooked—
His current body… seemed to have erectile dysfunction?
Chu Yunsheng: “…”
Hmm, very well.
Developing a new type of medication for this should definitely be prioritized.
The author has something to say:
Chu Yunsheng: The first lesson in the new world will be treating impotence.
Dog Author: Your [Restoring Vitality] golden finger is on its way.
Thank you for the chapter~!
Thank you for the chapter! New story arc~~ yaayy!
Lololol i love the bit about senior disco dancing, so cute!!
Author: lets make him impotent
Chu Yunsheng: opens lab let’s not.
Author: In this world you will be an impotent maniac 😀
Chu Yunsheng, channeling his inner aged Captain America: No, I don’t think I will.
Omg I love the little interlude. Im usually not fond of the Soulmates trope unless its an “In my next life I would still choose you” soulmate trope. Im dying on this hill and Im bringing popcorn.