When You Zhi tried to drag Yan Fan to the red-light district, Yan Fan refused.
“Brother Zhi!” Yan Fan clung to the sofa and refused to let go. “I’m an omega! If I go there, I’ll be used like a rag!”
Only then did You Zhi seem to remember. He sucked in a breath. “Oh, right. I think I’m an omega too.”
“Bro, you really can’t go. This isn’t a joke.” Yan Fan hugged a cushion. “Imagine being surrounded by more than a dozen men at the same time…”
Yan Fan shuddered all over and rubbed his arms.
You Zhi thought about it carefully.
He was wearing an outfit full of jingling accessories, with studded chains hanging from his loose trousers. He pulled up his pants and sat directly on the carpet. “Now that you put it that way…”
You Zhi casually took the freshly peeled apple from Li Yuan’s hand, bit into it, and hooked the corner of his mouth into an ambiguous smile. “I’m actually kind of looking forward to it.”
Yan Fan swallowed.
You Zhi put a hand on his shoulder and patted him.
“Li Yuan!” You Zhi called him back. Suddenly becoming a little obedient, he placed both hands properly in front of himself, lowered his eyes, and said, “Can you really bear to let two sweet, soft omegas wander into an A den by ourselves?”
Yan Fan raised his hand. “Not two! Just him!”
You Zhi blinked innocently at Li Yuan.
In the end, after You Zhi pestered him relentlessly and added a threat involving carrying him up the game rankings, Li Yuan really did take You Zhi to the red-light district. Yan Fan resisted with all his might and went home to be a good baby and sleep.
Before they left, Yan Fan gripped Li Yuan’s hand. “Li ‘Imperial Guard’ Yuan, I’m entrusting my Brother Zhi to you. You absolutely must bring him back without so much as a hair missing.”
Li Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth and casually rubbed Yan Fan’s head. “As you command.”
In truth, this was Li Yuan’s first time going to the red-light district too. He had only known the place existed and had never visited.
The place was underground. The moment he entered, Li Yuan felt as though a layer of haze had settled over his eyes, the entire scene steeped in decadent languor.
AO couples, BO couples, AA couples.
Just that one sweeping glance was enough to refresh Li Yuan’s entire worldview.
The lighting was extremely dim, almost making it impossible to see anyone’s face clearly. All that could be heard was deafening music, as though the sound could punch through the ground itself.
“Now this is interesting.” You Zhi rubbed his hands together eagerly.
You Zhi had changed clothes before coming. He wore a long coat with a belt. Compared with his usual dopamine-bright high-school-boy styling, this outfit made him look much more mature and gave him a distinctive allure, emphasizing his broad shoulders and narrow waist.
You Zhi had applied nearly twice the normal amount of pheromone blocker over his gland. He felt as though he had marinated himself in it.
“Security’s pretty strict here.” You Zhi rested a hand on Li Yuan as he spoke.
The so-called red-light district was no longer the kind of place from the previous era where people solicited business. It was now a space for adults to socialize freely. Everyone came to have fun. If two people liked each other, they could go home together.
Of course, it could be three people, or four.
But You Zhi still knew his limits. He could not play quite that wildly.
Li Yuan had just seen three people kissing in a tangle and had been disgusted for a while. He frowned deeply. “You Zhi, you really can’t run around. Just stay behind me…”
He turned his head. You Zhi, who had been beside him a moment ago, had already vanished without a trace.
And what was our sweet, fragrant little omega doing…?
Flirting with other sweet, fragrant omegas.
“Hi.” Smiling, You Zhi picked up a drink and struck up a conversation with a very pretty, brown-curly-haired omega at the bar. “New manicure? Looks good.”
The curly-haired omega’s eyes visibly brightened when he looked at You Zhi. He clinked his glass against You Zhi’s. “Just got them done this afternoon. Sir, did you notice me because of my nails, or because of my face?”
The curly-haired omega lifted the corner of his eye.
You Zhi knew his own face extremely well and knew exactly which angle made him look most seductive. He smiled faintly. “Obviously your face caught my eye first. You stand out in a crowd. After clinking glasses with you, I noticed the rest of your accessories are matched very cleverly too. You must be someone meticulous who understands fashion extremely well.”
The curly-haired omega turned the ring on his finger and nodded with a raised brow. He looked You Zhi up and down, then leaned a little closer.
A faint floral fragrance suddenly slipped into You Zhi’s breathing.
The scent of an O.
He wrinkled his nose.
No way. In an ABO world, did pheromone incompatibility really affect people this much…?
“Sir, I really can’t tell what you are.” The curly-haired omega’s fingers rubbed against You Zhi’s collar and slowly moved toward the back of his neck. “Are you A or B?”
You Zhi was tall and broad, almost indistinguishable from an alpha. Only a few subtle details revealed his omega traits, such as those extremely beautiful, seductive eyes and skin so pale it almost glowed.
“What do you want me to be?” You Zhi asked with a smile.
The curly-haired omega stroked his collar. “Anything but O works for me.”
You Zhi lifted a brow.
“Your pink hair is beautiful.” The curly-haired omega’s hand climbed to the side of You Zhi’s face, brushing the hair at his temple. “I want to see it a little more clearly.”
You Zhi caught his hand and pressed it back down. “Sorry. Maybe next time.”
He said it through gritted teeth.
If only he were an A!
The curly-haired omega froze. You Zhi smiled at him and told the bartender, “His drinks are on me.”
Why? Why had a hardcore top who used to roam bars in the real world transmigrated into this shitty world only to become an O?!
He wanted to fuck men so badly. He wanted to fuck men so badly.
You Zhi squeezed the wineglass until the glass was nearly crushed in his hand.
The DJ onstage started another dance track. Below, people were partying in clusters. Several male As were pushed onto the stage to perform stripteases, wearing wolf-ear headbands and tails strapped to their asses.
Everyone around him was going wild. After several drinks, You Zhi’s blood was up. He shouted among the crowd and danced with a bunch of men whose secondary sexes he could no longer distinguish.
The stage DJ casually selected people to come up and perform. Anyone who got pushed onstage was either outrageously slutty or capable of soloing the whole room.
You Zhi had completely lost himself in the fun. Anyone beside him, no matter who, could become a bro. He did not care about ABO at all. As far as he was concerned, everyone here was a man.
As long as they were men, he liked them.
You Zhi’s pink hair was especially conspicuous in the crowd. When the dance track ended, several bros who had been dancing beside him shoved him straight onto the stage.
You Zhi had always been willing to play hard.
Fine. Bring it on.
In the real world, You Zhi had needed to remember his identity as an esports player and consider his company and team.
Now he was alone and unattached. It was finally time for him to have some fun.
Once You Zhi got onstage, all he could see below was a dense sea of heads and hands waving in the air.
Before the DJ could hand him the microphone, he had already taken it with practiced ease and shouted to the whole room, “Please give me your buttocks and shake freely!”
You Zhi flung off his coat. Underneath, he wore a sleeveless black T-shirt and gray sweatpants.
You Zhi was not quite slutty enough for a striptease, but he genuinely knew how to dance. As a child, he had thought street dance looked cool and studied it for a while. Coincidentally, the DJ had just put on a song he had danced to before.
You Zhi did not know striptease, but street dance was more than easy enough for him.
Most of what he had learned involved floorwork. The crowd below roared, and while You Zhi performed on the floor, he felt as though hundreds of hands were reaching toward him.
Whistles rang out nonstop below the stage. The DJ was a master at controlling the room.
You Zhi was completely caught up in the rush and did not notice the changes happening in his own body at all.
It was only after he finished dancing, the whole venue erupted in cheers, and several alphas began climbing onto the stage—
That You Zhi suddenly froze.
“This is an O, holy shit!”
“An O this tall?”
“Fuck, he’s so slutty! Smells incredible!”
“I’m taking this one tonight!”
You Zhi touched the gland at the back of his neck. He could smell the faint milky fragrance, and at the same time, all kinds of pheromones closed in around him from every direction.
These idiots were actually releasing pheromones.
Standing onstage and looking at the men climbing toward him, You Zhi felt disgust rise from deep inside him.
The omegas in the venue reacted instantly. Some turned deathly pale and collapsed to the floor; others curled up in crouches…
You Zhi reacted at once as well. A moment ago, he had nearly failed to stay upright and dropped straight to his knees.
So this was what pheromone suppression felt like… He could not summon any strength at all.
You Zhi clenched his jaw, sweeping his gaze over the As below who possessed an innate biological advantage. For the first time in his life, he physically experienced the enormous disparity between secondary sexes.
His legs trembled, nausea churning violently in his stomach. He was disgusted by the filthy things these people were saying, and by the rotten alpha instinct to suppress Os that seemed embedded in their bones.
Everyone had come here to have fun. You Zhi had never imagined these people would be disgusting enough to use pheromones to suppress others.
You Zhi stood onstage, took several deep breaths, and with a trembling hand reached for the gland at the back of his neck. He dug his fingers into it hard, barely managing to keep himself somewhat lucid.
You Zhi had always preferred to break rather than bend. Even as an O, he would never let these disgusting things control him.
The DJ grabbed the microphone and shouted, “Even if this is the red-light district, there are still rules! Release pheromones again and I’m calling the police!”
“You want me to pull back my pheromones? Then make that O do another dance! Take his clothes off!”
“Why isn’t that O reacting?”
“Scared stupid, probably. His face is white.”
You Zhi slowly swept his gaze across the whole room.
His thoughts at that moment: If he took down one person every ten seconds, how long would it take to deal with everyone below? If they surrounded him and attacked together, what were his odds? In his current physical condition, could he beat this group of idiots…?
Li Yuan had witnessed everything from below the stage. All the Os in the crowd were already curled in on themselves.
Even Li Yuan, an A, could not stand the nauseating mixture of pheromones blended with alcohol.
“You Zhi!” Li Yuan found an opening and squeezed through. “We need to leave, now!”
You Zhi kept his fingers dug tightly into his gland, his mind still spinning at high speed.
The DJ continued maintaining order. “Do not climb onto the stage! One more rule-breaking move and I will call the police immediately!”
“I don’t care. He’s mine tonight!”
“Who said he belongs to you? Whoever can take him away is the real winner!”
You Zhi pressed his tongue against his cheek and looked over the people below. His gaze landed on an O who had collapsed to the floor and was already drenched in cold sweat.
Fuck. These animals were not even human. Time to hit them.
“Who wants to sleep with me?” You Zhi crouched down and looked from above at a foul-mouthed A with dyed yellow hair.
“Baby, I do,” Yellow Hair said in a way that begged to be punched.
You Zhi narrowed his eyes and gave an unreadable laugh. “Oh.”
