translator: baumkuchen editors: serefina, glitterypanda
trigger warning
Ji Zuoshan was left in a very safe position, the rest camp in the rear. He was only responsible for the dressing, feeding, and living circumstances of Zhan Yanchao alone. In order to avoid causing any adverse effects, he never took a step outside.
……Up until that day.
When Zhan Yanchao and Ji Zuoshan were eating, a rash staff officer intruded into their tent. The moment he saw Ji Zuoshan, he couldn’t look away.
This staff officer was particularly eye-catching. Ji Zuoshan couldn’t help but give him a second look.
This single look instantly ignited Zhan Yanchao’s temper.
This time he came back from the frontlines having suffered some light wounds, so he was in a bad mood. How could he bear his own Omega making eyes at someone else? He directly threw Ji Zuoshan into a small grain storehouse and locked him in, swearing at him all the way. He passed him a pen and paper through the window, telling him to inspect the stock and report to him later.
When they were both Betas, Zhan Yanchao really liked to lock Ji Zuoshan into a little black house. He’d even previously specially commissioned a coffin for Ji Zuoshan and would stuff him inside and lock him in for a day and night at the slightest provocation.
In his point of view he was simply being unreasonably gentle with this time’s punishment.
However, he forgot to give Ji Zuoshan a bottle of suppressants and forgot that he had been charged with the duty of leading a team in three hours.
Only when warmth filled his body, did Ji Zuoshan realise his heat had come early.
He leaned his body against the window, calling Zhan Yanchao’s name in distress.
No one listened.
Ji Zuoshan started banging on the railings, but had no way of controlling the pheromones flooding out of his body, exceptionally fragrant and intoxicating.
Even his voice changed, “Stop joking around, Yanchao!”
In that tent there were no signs of Zhan Yanchao, but a few people who had come to get a glimpse of the source of the smell had appeared, poking their heads over from nearby.
The past Ji Zuoshan wouldn’t have been stopped by these few metal bars, but now, even using all his strength, he had no way of escaping from this space enclosed by a thatched roof and metal fences.
……The people on the battlefields were all Alphas. What Ji Zuoshan couldn’t do, they could do with ease.
By the time Zhan Yanchao returned in his mecha and noticed the chaos over at the granary, it was already too late.
His gaze turned red and his control snapped. He instantly drove his mecha straight over, crushing everything in his path.
Infighting and killing one’s fellow soldiers before battle was a huge crime. Moreover, the cause of the disaster had been brought here by Zhan Yanchao. Mister Zhao had to expend great effort in order to save Zhan Yanchao from having to face a court martial.
When Ji Zuoshan woke up, he was immediately met with Zhan Yanchao’s furious face.
He pointed at Ji Zuoshan and scolded loudly, “Don’t you know how to resist!? You just let them—— do that. Didn’t you use to be able to fight very well?”
As he watched him stomp around in anger, Ji Zuoshan tried to make excuses for him as he had in the past.
But he was tired.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Ji Zuoshan shivered slightly.
But he was still indifferent, without even the energy to get angry, “En. I see.”
He didn’t really want to see Zhan Yanchao, but he couldn’t get up at all. Those Alphas were complete beasts in rut, directly breaking his legs. And Zhan Yanchao had been stripped of his military rank and could only stay at home all day.
The first, second time coaxing, the third, fourth time coaxing, Zhan Yanchao could still taker it. But having to face a dead face all day, he absolutely couldn’t bear it any longer, but he didn’t know what was wrong, so he could only let his anger out on Ji Zuoshan.
He felt that Ji Zuoshan definitely cared a lot about his attitude, so he repeatedly expressed, “I already said it! I won’t disdain you, really! Why don’t you believe me?!”
Ji Zuoshan almost wanted to laugh.
He didn’t want to say another word to Zhan Yanchao.
Zhan Yanchao, forced to the point of helplessness, had a flash of inspiration one day, coming up with a good idea.
He told Ji Zuoshan’s siblings about his current state.
The children were both shocked and scared. Each and every one of them made a fuss about wanting to see their brother. Zhan Yanchao brought the children back home, full of joy and expectation. Upon reaching the door to the bedroom, he said loudly, “Xiao Ji, look, who’s here?”
Ji Zuoshan put down his book and glanced at the door.
Upon seeing those little, tear-streaked faces, Ji Zuoshan suddenly lost control.
He pulled up the quilt to cover his face and screeched, “Leave!!! Make them leave!!”
Shocked by his loss of control, his younger siblings started crying even louder.
Zhan Yanchao said, dissatisfied, “You don’t recognise them anymore? These are your younger brothers and sisters.”
Ji Zuoshan didn’t speak, but Zhan Yanchao pushed one of them forward and hurriedly said, “Quick, go to your gege.”
His simei who had been pushed forward by him said, trembling, “Erge, I, I’ll leave first, don’t be sad.”
After that, she quickly ran out. The remaining few children fled like rabbits, eyes red with tears, each fleeing faster than the other.
Zhan Yanchao simply couldn’t understand. “What was the point of calling them over, why are they running?”
Ji Zuoshan yanked down the quilt and glared angrily at Zhan Yanchao.
He didn’t know how to scold people. Even though he was currently trembling with rage, all that came out of his mouth was a single light sentence, “Zhan Yanchao, you’re too much.”
Zhan Yanchao’s face was filled with a lack of understanding. “What did I do?”
Ji Zuoshan was tongue tied.
He originally had an endless amount of hate to let out, but seeing Zhan Yanchao like this, he already lost all the strength to let out what he thought in his heart.
……Just let it be. What else was there to say.
Ji Zuoshan didn’t continue, but Zhan Yanchao was filled with energy. He asked, “Ji Zuoshan, what exactly do you want? I already said, those people are dead——”
Ji Zuoshan turned his back to him, thinking, next he’ll definitely say, he doesn’t care about that.
……Isn’t that just fucking great.
After Zhan Yanchao left resentfully, Ji Zuoshan looked up at the ceiling, let out a bitter laugh, then vomited a mouthful of blood.
Ji Zuoshan was satisfied to just get by in this manner and began to think, when his injuries got better, he wanted to leave the Zhan home, leave Zhan Yanchao.
He really couldn’t stand Zhan Yanchao’s childishness anymore.
He didn’t want there to be a next time.
He told his younger siblings his plans. His younger siblings were all completely in favour of it, even saying they wanted to go with erge, they were all already adults, they could take care of erge.
They set a date to leave, and a place to meet up.
Who would have thought that on the day he had prepared to leave, one of the Zerg units made a detour to the rear and dropped in a large amount of mechanical Zerg.
Even though there were reserve mechs in the rear, those who could fight basically consisted only of Betas and a few low-levelled Alphas, so Zhan Yanchao also joined the guard team, rushing over in his own mecha.
In the chaos, Ji Zuoshan wanted to go find his younger siblings, but ran head-on into a mechanical Zerg that had fallen from the sky.
Since it had seen him, there was no point in running.
Ultimately, he and the mechanical Zerg fell beside the ruins of a fortress that had had several holes blasted into it. The mechanical Zerg’s legs pierced into his lungs, while he ran the mechanical Zerg’s brain through with a steel bar.
Before he died, he struggled to cling onto life for a long time.
He saw Zhan Yanchao walk out of his mecha, hurriedly searching for him. He also saw how his eyes were red when he called his younger siblings over to question them.
He heard his simei yell loudly, “Erge left in the chaos. You won’t ever be able to find him”.
Zhan Yanchao threw his simei to the ground in one move, then rushed towards a few of the Zhan family’s soldiers standing off to the side and shouted, “Even if you have to search to the ends of the earth, you have to bring him back to me.”
Hearing that, Ji Zuoshan laughed.
Before his consciousness faded completely, he dragged himself towards a burning house and threw himself into the flames.
The fire would burn away his face and body. He didn’t want to be found by Zhan Yanchao for the rest of his life.
His only regret, was that he wouldn’t be able to go to that place he and his siblings had agreed on.
After watching the entire story, Chi Xiaochi fell silent.
He briefly issued his impressions, “A shriveled calf.”
061 approved of this description.
Chi Xiaochi asked, “What’s the current situation?”
The response 061 gave him made him let out a slight sigh of relief.
Currently, there was still half a year before the two turned 18, and they were still attending to the mecha academy.
This time, Zhan Yanchao was once again making trouble out of nothing.
A few of the new transfer students hadn’t yet found out about the terror that was Zhan Yanchao, and of course didn’t know about the relationship between Zhan Yanchao and Ji Zuoshan.
In their eyes, Ji Zuoshan was wearing the same school uniform as Zhan Yanchao, so he should be a student with a relatively high status.
Seeing how quiet and handsome Ji Zuoshan was, a girl called Rosie began to like him and pulled him over to talk.
After noticing this, Zhan Yanchao sneered and said, this is my human sacrifice, don’t touch him.
Rosie disliked the existence of “human sacrifices” the most and she really liked Ji Zuoshan, so she just casually said, Zhan, given your strength, you don’t need a human sacrifice, so why not give him to me?
In the end, upon going home that week, Ji Zuoshan was given ten or so lashes by an enraged Zhan Yanchao and locked into the little coffin that had been specifically prepared for him. Only when he was finally unable to bear it anymore did Zhan Yanchao proudly invite everyone, including Rosie, from that day over, to let them see that this person belonged to him.
Hearing Rosie’s almost provocative words, Zhan Yanchao sneered. He turned and looked towards Ji Zuoshan, “Xiao Ji, you’re so amazing. You’ve only met a few times, but you’ve already seduced this person up to here.”
Rosie said in a rude tone, “I’m talking to Ji Zuoshan, what are you butting in for.”
Zhan Yanchao laughed, “Alright, you talk to him. I’ll see what he can say to you without my permission.”
Rosie looked at Ji Zuoshan encouragingly. Reaching out her upturned palm, she gave him a sincere invitation, “Will you come with me? I don’t need a human sacrifice, you just need to be my sparring partner.”
Zhan Yanchao found this rather funny. “Alright, those terms seem very attractive. If Xiao Ji agrees, I’ll let him go.”
Rosie raised her eyebrows. “You’re speaking the truth?”
Zhan Yanchao cracked his whip and proclaimed, “There are so many people here, they can all be my witnesses.”
In the last life, Ji Zuoshan had also received such an invitation.
But the Ji Zuoshan of that time had his mind muddled with pain, only leaving the vague thought: If I stay here, I can also be an Alpha.
Anyways, he wouldn’t dare to trust Rosie. He was afraid that she was another one of those tricks that Zhan Yanchao had planned for a long time to probe at his true feelings.
But this time, Ji Zuoshan raised a shaking hand.
Zhan Yanchao was utterly unconcerned.
He believed, Ji Zuoshan would definitely push Rosie’s hand away.
However, Ji Zuoshan actually lightly placed his hand, covered in wounds, onto Rosie’s palm.
Then, he fell forwards, his fever-ridden body falling into Rosie’s arms.
Seeing this, Zhan Yanchao’s smile froze on his face. His cheeks were both stinging and hot, as if he had been given two harsh slaps across his face.
The author has something to say:
Sending over a friendly explosive to launch this stupid bird into the sky.
panda: I am so, so relieved that CXC spawned before the tournament! Poor little JZS still has a chance!
sere: im so so glad that JZS doesn’t have stockholm syndrome and doesn’t like the shit pile anymore
I hope the face-slapping this time will be the hardest one.
thank you for the update!
The ABO of this story is so diff. it’s refreshing. Also, you chose the right choice of escaping that bastard of a trash bf’s clutches CXC.
Thanks for the chap!
Ji Zuoshan, ohhh, poor boy. My heart bleeds for him. That Scum is so awful. Even at the end he thought he was right! What a joke.
I hope Chi Xiaochi can be free with that girl’s help.
Thanks for the chapter!
I legit cried. This author will crush my heart one day with their stories. Every arc something from the original host’s past part will make me weep like a kid for these poor souls. CXC we’re waiting for your debut in this ABO world, we need that scum die in a pit.
This is one of the times that I wish that this will turn into BG…….
I know, right??
What’s BG?
Just like BB means BoyxBoy (BL), BG means BoyxGirl.
In the case of this new world I ship little seal with the rescue girl (which I like), that’s why I’d like it to be a BG
Yessss even in just 1 world right? 🙂
🙏🙏🙏
+2!!
+1
Yes please
Thanks for the chapter~ ( ;∀;)
Thank you for the chapter💐💕
The scum still doesn’t know what he did wrong? How can he be so self-centered and selfish and…GAH. I can’t believe him! What a horrid man. Thank god Chi Xiaochi is in time. I hope that Rosie is as good as her word. Please please please have this world be a good one. Don’t let Xiaochi suffer any more author.
On a lighter note, I wonder who Liu Laoshi will be this time.
Thanks for the hard work love the story ^_^
This guy is worse than the wife-beater if you ask me.
Making those promises like he’s actually capable of caring for someone before pushing them into hell
Ugggh omg TvT. I’ve read spoilers on the NU forums for the whole story, so I know what’s going to happen in every arc. I’m prepared, you know? And it still hits me so hard when I read the full translation. I just feel like the author has a perfect understanding of how to convey not just hopelessness (Ji Zuoshan T_____T) but the kind of caustic arrogance and self-centeredness that can really ruin your life (Zhan Yanchao). My heart almost can’t take it each time _:(´ཀ`」∠):_
Thanks so much for the chapter ❤
Me ha pasado lo mismo, me spoiler, y pensé ya que no me debe afectar tanto, y paff me afectó más TT___TT
When this updates, it coincides with my Friday, Saturday and Sunday dinner. Every Sunday I’m left wanting more, and every Friday I’m terrified to continue reading, as this story has so much emotional ups and down >.< but it’s so awesome to read!
Sometimes it feels a bit off to make the *ssholes regret before they’ve done what they truly should be regretting. I’ve never known that there were so many different flavors of *sshole though.
Thank you for the chapter <3
One yeas ZYC deserves to be hung drawn and quartered, but how did this idiot host never even once speak up? Obviously you can’t expect this scum to have common sense so why did he never speak up? Also why did he f^cking go along with ZYC sacrifice bullsh!t? Obviously if he became an alpha himself he can take care of his own siblings so why?
it’s called stockholm syndrome
trauma and abuse isn’t that easy to shake off
Yeah but from day 1 he never called him on his BS. I understand he was basically a slave but there were time where he rightfully could have caked him out but never did.
And as for “beating ZYC up and becoming an Alpha”, please remember that his siblings, while he was at the tournament, were still in the hands of the Zhan family. What do you think they would have done to them if he made ZYC into an Omega? What do you think they, a large family who have had power for generations, would have done to him, a new, lone Alpha? It would have been better to become an Omega, a reality he had accepted upon selling himself to the Zhan family as a human sacrifice, and ensuring his siblings’ safety and continued support from the Zhan family in exchange.
Furthermore, this isn’t even considering how much he must have felt he owed the Zhan family, and how powerless he must have felt, which I think namio explains a lot better than I ever could.
Up until he was 18, the Yan family was also feeding his younger siblings. For someone like JZS, that was a debt he couldn’t repay.It wasn’t a wise choice by any means, but calling someone who had no power in a relationship where he could be turned into a bloody pulp over situations he has no control over an idiot is uncalled for.
You hit the nail on the head. I guess I’m really mad that he doesn’t seem to care about himself. This dude needs the MC therapy more tan almost any other host so far except the big shot arc
Thanks for the update
OH MY DARLING LITTLE SEAL SWEETHEART MY SON I’M SORRY I COULDN’T READ YOUR BACKSTORY IN HD ENGLISH BAOBEI IT HURTS TOO MUCH
the only solace I have is Chi Xiaochi getting into this I’m sobbing
Also Rosie!!! I !! Love her!!!!!
Thank you for the chapters yowls
Yes! A big slap on the face.
I want him to be strong and beat the bastard. He should also live with his siblings.
Thank you for the chapter!
thank you for translating this novel. I look forward to each and every update of your hard work in order to understand this story.
What a scum, that ZYC. I really hope CHC teaches him a lesson.
Break free from the Stockholm!
Also, having a female character play a big role makes me excited.
Just become the strongest alpha out there and show that damn ZYC how fukn useless he is >D
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
damn this is so heart breaking
Why am I right? I guessed there’d be rape but it’s so sickening that I’m right. I hate that emotionally retarded dirtbag.
I pray that Ji Zuoshan will get the ending he deserves for all his sufferings
This is different isnt it? I almost feel bad for Zhan Yanchao because he’s the first target that actually loves the host the most and puts him above everything…
He’s just an immature, selfish, spoiled, stupid person with no emotional intelligence whatsoever.
yes i think so too! i really hope he can change himself
Wow, so intense. I feel so sad for Ji. My body involuntarily jerked with a light spasm at the mention of rape and it happened again when he threw himself in the fire. It’s killing me, the emotions are too raw. However, now that Chi is here, I know things will turn out better for Ji and I can’t wait for that.
idk why in laat few arcs i felt i wanna revenge on them or kill them whatever but this arc i just wanna see this brat to change himself and regret
Damn it, damn it, damn it. Such a spoiled fucking brat who doesn’t know his wrongs. Fuuuuuuck.
They just get scummier.
now he needs to hide the siblings
excitedly rubs hands together
Yesss. It’s starting.
Bless Rosie. Please continue to be a good character.
Ji Zuoshan is such a good person. It’s a shame he had to live a life like that. He deserves all the good in the world
I don’t really like this arc settings… Let’s say JZ defeated all his opponents then after losing once he became omega?! Does that means all his defeated opponents became omega too? I would rather let fate determined the secondary gender.
Just thinking about what would have happened to JZ if it wasn’t our MC taking the task, I’m petrified. This story makes my emotions surge up a lot. It’s rare that stories make me really cry.
The only good thing that that Zhan idiot did in this chapter is killing those animals in heat alphas and YESSS JZ giving the cold shoulder is actually refreshing and at the very least he didn’t give up on himself and even tried to escape.
Ohohohoho HOW DOES IT FEEL TO TAKE A ROCK AND SMASH YOUR OWN FEET HUUHHH AHAHAHHA LMAO AND HE EVEN CONFIDENTLY SAID THOSE WORDS
Oh and I have to say I really like this way of determining one’s secondary gender cause at the very least they were given a choice and have their fate on their own hands though those practice of “human sacrifice” really makes you wonder how far rich people will go through to maintain their status quo huh
This arc is so sad😤😣
I’m really glad he took the chance, aaaaa! Here’s hoping Rosie is a nice person… Thank you for the chapter!
“But don’t worry, I’ve killed everyone who dared to lay a hand on you”
Oho then why didn’t you killed yourself?
Time to build some regret points?
that’s why it took me so long to read the novel, it’s so painful
It awakens my “animal side” and makes me want to beat someone up 😐🧹
Ji Zoushan😭😭 my heart bleeds for you😭😭 im so glad that CXC appeared before the tournament. also author-nim who hurt you?
What’s up YOU STUPID FUCK EHEHEHHEHEHE
Rosie babe I hope you are ok in head
And yk what?there are these kinda novels,mangas,manhwas,manhuas which are ending with a so very “happy” ending with the abuser and the victim being in “love”
Man every sums gongs are such piece of shits 🤬 rape torture gaslighting emotional and physical abuse etc etc ugh its almost like they represent all the depravity and negative characteristics of humanity .
Ohhhh, Rosie got my support, hopefully she is niceeee