Inside a private room, the speakers blasted ear-piercing music. The air was thick with pheromones mixed with all sorts of emotions—it was like a chaotic chemical reaction. Everyone in the room was cheering loudly, except for the man sitting in the center of the sofa. He didn’t react at all.
It seemed like he was trapped in a nightmare, but no one noticed anything unusual.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and sat up from the sofa, looking lost and confused as he scanned the scene before him.
Shen Yuqing’s confusion deepened. Wasn’t he on his way to visit family? His memory seemed to freeze for a moment, and then a flood of unfamiliar memories rushed in. His temples throbbed painfully, and he couldn’t help but gasp.
Before he could make sense of anything, someone sat down beside him. The person draped an arm over his shoulder, reeking of alcohol, and slurred, “Yuqing, my dear Qing-ge, why are you sitting here alone? Come drink with us!”
Shen Yuqing turned his head and immediately, the name Lin Sui popped into his mind.
Lin Sui reeked of alcohol, his eyes were red—he had clearly been drinking a lot. He mumbled, “It’s just a credit card being cut off, no big deal. Don’t be upset! I’ll make sure you have fun tonight!”
Shen Yuqing’s head was still spinning, so he didn’t quite get what he meant. He was just about to say something when the private room door swung open from the outside.
Shen Yuqing looked up. Three people stood at the entrance—two bodyguards on either side were holding a young man between them.
His eyes locked onto the man in the middle. The young man’s school uniform shirt was messy, with the collar wide open. If you got close, you could see right through the neckline.
Just as Shen Yuqing was frowning, a robotic voice suddenly rang in his mind.
【Target detected. Retrieving relevant data.】
【Target: Song Wangzhuo
Darkening Level: 70
Favorability: 0
Mission Progress: 1%
Status: Semi-awakened】
The voice cleared up the fog in Shen Yuqing’s brain.
Right, I’ve transmigrated.
He vaguely remembered that three minutes ago, there was an accident in the elevator. The next time he opened his eyes, he was here.
In his previous life, Shen Yuqing was an orphan. He grew up in an orphanage and received help from kind people. He managed to get into a good university and had only graduated six months ago. He didn’t expect to die so suddenly.
He accepted the fact of transmigration pretty well. After all, he had always been alone—living anywhere made no real difference.
But he still wasn’t sure where he had ended up.
Then the system spoke again, quickly:
【Host, you’ve transmigrated into an interstellar A/B/O novel full of drama and love battles. You are now Shen Yuqing, the biggest cannon-fodder villain in the story.】
Shen Yuqing’s eyelid twitched twice, and he had a bad feeling.
The system continued:
【This world is complicated. The male leads have all awakened, causing the world’s core energy to become unstable and the world to collapse. Your mission is to maintain the role of the evil cannon-fodder while stopping the male leads from turning dark.】
Maintain the role of a villain while preventing the leads from going dark?
Why did that sound so weird?
Before he could think further, someone suddenly threw themselves into his arms.
Hey hey hey!
Shen Yuqing instinctively wanted to back away but remembered the character he was supposed to play—so he held still.
Looking down, he saw it was the student in the school uniform, the one who had been dragged in. The system said his name was Song Wangzhuo.
Right now, Song Wangzhuo was practically kneeling on the ground. One hand was on the sofa next to Shen Yuqing’s leg, and the other was pressed to the floor. His shirt was barely covering his upper body.
As he got closer, Shen Yuqing could hear his shallow breathing. His body temperature was abnormally high. Even through pants and a thin shirt, Shen Yuqing could feel the heat radiating from him.
Song Wangzhuo’s upper body was almost lying across Shen Yuqing’s lap. He tried to get up but was too weak from the drug. Instead, he looked up stubbornly and met Shen Yuqing’s eyes.
Shen Yuqing wasn’t shocked by his face—what stunned him was the sudden data change in his head.
【Darkening Level: 74 | Favorability: -10】
【Darkening Level: 76 | Favorability: -15】
【Darkening Level: 78 | Favorability: -20】
Wait wait wait! I haven’t even done anything yet!
The system urged him in his mind:
【Host, this part of the plot is where Song Wangzhuo is drugged, and the original Shen Yuqing forces him to do… things that would need to be censored. Please proceed with the plot immediately!】
Shen Yuqing felt a massive headache coming on. Why did it have to start with something this intense?
The body on his lap kept giving off heat. Lin Sui, sitting beside him, laughed with a teasing tone, “Qing-ge, this is just your type.”
As soon as he said that, Shen Yuqing saw Song Wangzhuo’s favorability drop to -30.
Great, so that’s how we’re playing, huh?
Looking down again, he could see Song Wangzhuo’s muscles were tight—he was clearly at his limit.
Shen Yuqing quickly calmed himself down and turned to Lin Sui.
“What did you give him?”
Lin Sui chuckled, tilted his head back, and downed his drink.
Then slowly said, “Nothing much. Just a stimulant our company developed—makes people more obedient. Don’t worry, he’s an alpha. His metabolism is fast. No big deal.”
In other words, it was an aphrodisiac.
He glanced at Song Wangzhuo, still half-kneeling on Shen Yuqing, with a trace of mockery in his eyes. Turning back to Shen Yuqing, he said with a smile,
“Didn’t you just tell me a few days ago that this type of alpha was your favorite? How about it? Happy now?”
His voice was just loud enough for both Shen Yuqing and Song Wangzhuo to hear.
More data popped up in Shen Yuqing’s mind. His temples throbbed again.
Looking down, he met Song Wangzhuo’s gaze—his entire body flushed from the drug, but his eyes were cold, unyielding, and filled with defiance.
Shen Yuqing got goosebumps. The system started urging him again.
Shen Yuqing reached out his hand.
“The antidote. Give it to me.”
Lin Sui’s family made the drug, so naturally, he had the antidote.
Though he frowned slightly, he still pulled a small vial from his pocket.
Shen Yuqing took it, but didn’t give it to Song Wangzhuo right away.
He first asked the system to confirm it.
Once it was confirmed, he opened the vial and offered it to Song Wangzhuo.
But Song Wangzhuo didn’t take it—either because he had no strength or because he didn’t trust him.
So Shen Yuqing grabbed his chin and tilted his face up. His other hand, though it looked rough, gently pressed the antidote to Song Wangzhuo’s lips and helped him drink it.
Everyone in the room stared at Shen Yuqing in curiosity.
Lin Sui poured himself another drink and said lazily,
“What’s this? Going soft on him now?”
When Shen Yuqing differentiated at sixteen, he became a beta.
In this world, betas were the most ordinary—neither as strong as alphas nor as delicate as omegas.
Coming from a powerful family, Shen Yuqing had always assumed he would become an alpha. When he ended up a beta, he had a breakdown.
He acted perfect in front of his family, but outside, he used his family name to mess around with plenty of alphas.
Lin Sui, who grew up with him like a brother, knew everything.
Still leaning on Shen Yuqing, Song Wangzhuo gradually regained his strength and clarity after drinking the antidote.
His lips pressed into a thin line, and the next moment, he felt Shen Yuqing stand up—causing him to fall to the side.
But he didn’t hit the ground. Instead, a pair of hands caught him.
It was Shen Yuqing.
What is this Shen Yuqing up to?
Shen Yuqing helped him onto the sofa.
Lin Sui frowned. “Yuqing, what are you doing?”
Maintain the evil cannon-fodder act… and prevent the male lead from going dark…
Mumbling to himself, Shen Yuqing opened his bag.
In full view of everyone, he pulled out—
a stack of test papers.
He threw them onto Song Wangzhuo’s lap and, using the most villainous tone of his life, barked:
“Hurry up and finish all these papers!”
Everyone: ?
System: …
