Chapter 1

“What the hell is going on, Wen Xing?” My best friend, Lu Ye, pinned me against the windowsill after my heat struck without warning, glaring at me in fury.

“Your medical report clearly says you’re an Alpha! Wen Xing, tell me—how did this happen?”

He seized my chin roughly, and I winced in pain.

“I… I’m…”

So hot.

Too hot to speak.

Lu Ye held me down. The air was saturated with his powerful Alpha pheromones, and I could barely stay on my feet.

He was such a bully. This wasn’t fair at all.

I covered my eyes in misery.

“Wen Xing, tell me. What are you?” Lu Ye enunciated every word.

“I… I’m an Omega. I’m an Omega! Lu Ye, I hate you! I don’t want to be your best friend anymore!”

I roared and snarled.

All my humiliation came pouring out as anger.

He was so furious he laughed. “You don’t want me? Then who do you want—those Alphas from earlier?”

An hour ago, I’d been surrounded.

In a dark alley on my way home from school.

Five big, brawny Alphas stood in front of me.

I knew them. They were the star Alphas from the sports school next door.

But in last week’s basketball game, I’d single-handedly crushed them so badly they’d practically cried for their parents.

Apparently, they’d been nursing a grudge.

Normally, I could take on one, two, or even three of them at once.

But today, with my rotten luck, I’d left home without my suppressants.

As they closed in, the innate pressure radiating from the Alphas made me deeply uncomfortable.

“I’m warning you—don’t come any closer!” I stared them down one by one, my face cold.

I was forcing myself to look calm. In truth, I was already in bad shape.

For some reason, my arms and legs were suddenly going limp as noodles.

I swayed and nearly fell.

Then a suggestive pheromone scent drifted through the air.

It was mine—the scent of lemon soda.

The Alphas’ expressions changed in an instant. “W-Wen Xing, you’re an Omega?”

“Oh, you’re done for now! You pretended to be an Alpha to get into an aviation academy. I’m reporting you!”

Another Alpha moved slowly toward me and slammed me against the wall with one hand.

He pulled open my clothes and stared at my gland. “Who knew the untouchable campus tyrant would ever end up pinned down by us, kneeling and calling us big brother? That only makes it more exciting, doesn’t it?”

“Get. Your. Hands. Off. Me! Or I swear you’ll regret it!” I warned, eyes red.

But the next second, the Alpha drove his fingernails viciously into my gland. The pain nearly drove me mad.

The heat raging inside me screamed for me to draw closer to them.

Yet the smell of them filled me with disgust.

I raised my leg and kicked the man in front of me as hard as I could.

He crumpled, clutching his crotch, and bellowed in a rage, “Wen Xing! You’re dead today!”

My face changed at once. His words left me feeling deeply humiliated.

This again.

Why the hell did I have to differentiate into an Omega?

An Omega who could be so easily affected, mocked and toyed with during those vulnerable periods.

Just as I was trying to figure out how to escape unscathed, the force of an even stronger Alpha’s pheromones crashed over us.

The aggressive pressure drove the other Alphas back step by step.