Starsea Military University was located in the bustling district of the Imperial Capital. Because of its beautiful scenery, it was called the Emerald on the Crown.
Inside the campus café, the early spring afternoon sunlight shone through the glass window, falling on the boy sitting by the window.
The boy wore a simple white hoodie. He clearly looked like an Omega, but his limbs were long and slender. His skin was fair, his facial features sharp and well-defined. Under his soft black hair, his eyes were pure and clean, like clear glass.
Many Alpha students were sitting in the café. They rarely saw Omegas inside the academy, let alone one this good-looking.
Many gazes fell on Yun Xingze, but he was looking out the window with a very focused expression, as if he were studying something seriously.
“What do you think that little O is looking at?”
“Probably some Alpha. After all, the Alphas in our academy are all pretty handsome.”
“Yeah, I think so too, hahaha…”
A few Alphas whispered among themselves.
No one realized that Yun Xingze’s attention was completely focused on the mecha training hall in the distance.
The training hall was a white, bowl-shaped building. On its roof was a black mecha hologram projection that slowly rotated 360 degrees. It looked down on the campus from above, appearing very real and imposing.
Yun Xingze stared at the mecha projection and instinctively analyzed its strengths and weaknesses.
The elbow joints needed improvement. The head-to-body ratio was pretty good. The position of the jet thrusters was wrong…
In Yun Xingze’s mind, the mecha was quickly disassembled, just like a detailed blueprint. Every part was clearly analyzed.
At that moment, the black mecha projection made a sword-drawing motion.
An icy blue lightsaber shot out from the hilt. Combined with the mecha’s movement, it looked like a swordsman challenging an enemy.
Yun Xingze’s eyes widened in amazement at the cool motion. He couldn’t help but secretly copy it, mimicking the sword-drawing pose.
After arriving in this world, he finally had a healthy body. He often dreamed of piloting a mecha himself.
But since he had just been discharged from the hospital and didn’t have a mecha of his own, he hadn’t been able to make that dream come true yet.
Suddenly, he realized his movement was a bit childish. Feeling embarrassed, Yun Xingze glanced around and quickly put his hand down.
Just then, something seemed to come to mind. He stared at his palm, a little dazed.
A female barista was watching the whole thing. Seeing the boy mimicking the mecha, she was instantly charmed. She grabbed her coworker’s arm and whispered excitedly, “Oh my god, that Omega boy is too cute!!”
Her coworker, a male barista, looked in Yun Xingze’s direction. He pulled her hand off and said with disdain in his eyes, “You don’t know who he is? He’s Chi Yu’s fiancé. Very well-known among the first-years.”
“He goes to Starsea Military Academy too? Is he famous for being good-looking?”
“He’s famous for getting in through connections. He can’t do anything. His mental and physical strength are both C-level. He bullies other Omegas all the time…”
The female barista glared at him. “No way. He looks so kind and clean…”
None of this gossip reached Yun Xingze’s ears. His thoughts were far away.
Just one day ago, he had been lying in the Galactic Army’s medical pod, waiting for the end of his life.
After losing consciousness, he woke up in this strange world.
Before crossing over, Yun Xingze was the youngest mecha engineer in the galaxy’s military. He led many breakthroughs in mecha technology, and his designs contributed greatly to the army’s victories. He was called “the man who stood on the shoulders of mechas.”
However, he had a severe genetic disease. Most of his life was spent in a wheelchair or in a medical pod. His strength and mental power had slowly weakened over time.
He loved mechas deeply but had never piloted one himself. That passion supported him and drove him to pour his life into research and development. He became a great mecha engineer.
When he was critically ill, the entire galaxy prayed for him. But his life still ended in the winter of his 25th year.
His biggest regret in his past life was never getting to personally pilot the mecha he designed.
When he woke up, Yun Xingze thought the Galactic Army had saved him.
He sat up from the medical pod, only to find that he was in a new body.
Then, countless images flooded into his mind like pages flipping through a book.
These images told him he had entered a novel.
Half an hour later, he finally accepted that he had transmigrated into an interstellar ABO novel.
The title of the novel was Love Has Nothing to Do with Pheromones.
In this world, there were six genders. Yun Xingze became a male Omega — the rarest among them.
Omegas were usually weak, but Yun Xingze felt truly happy about his rebirth.
At least now, he could move like a normal person. He no longer needed daily medication, and he no longer had to live in fear of death.
He thanked the heavens for this second chance and was grateful for the original host’s body.
Right now, Yun Xingze was sitting in a café, waiting for the original host’s fiancé.
The original host’s fiancé was named Chi Yu — the main Alpha in the story.
But Yun Xingze was not the main character. He was just cannon fodder.
In the original plot, their pheromones were a perfect match, so their families arranged their engagement when they were young.
But as Yun Xingze grew up, he became spoiled, unruly, and unmotivated — the exact kind of Omega Chi Yu hated most.
Chi Yu was the son of a general. The Chi family held high military power. Meanwhile, the Yun family had declined, so the Chi family also began to dislike the engagement.
Chi Yu was one year older than Yun Xingze and was a second-year student in the mecha combat department of Starsea Military Academy.
To stay close to Chi Yu, Yun Xingze used the Chi family’s connections to enter the academy.
Everyone around him looked down on him. But every day, he made desserts, washed clothes, and cleaned Chi Yu’s room, never caring about others’ opinions.
However, Chi Yu liked Omegas who could fight beside him on the battlefield — or at the very least, Omegas who worked hard.
He didn’t like Yun Xingze at all. Instead, he admired their classmate, the main character shou, Su Zinan.
Su Zinan could pilot and repair mechas. He always got perfect scores in theory classes. He was one-of-a-kind at the academy — the most special Omega in Chi Yu’s heart.
When Yun Xingze noticed Su Zinan’s presence, he became paranoid and jealous, constantly picking fights with him.
This made Chi Yu dislike Yun Xingze even more.
Even if Chi Yu didn’t truly like Su Zinan yet, he still felt guilty toward him because of this drama.
Not long after, Chi Yu would break off the engagement in public, hold Su Zinan’s hand, and announce the touching line, “Love has nothing to do with pheromones.”
Yun Xingze’s ending was to become a laughingstock, humiliated until he finally broke his own glands and died from infection.
That was where the original novel ended.
Yun Xingze guessed the original host’s story ended there too. That’s why the memories in his mind stopped at that point.
A flying vehicle slowly landed outside the café. A tall, handsome Alpha stepped out, wearing the dark blue uniform of Starsea Military Academy.
Welcomed warmly by the staff, the Alpha walked in and immediately saw Yun Xingze, who was lost in thought. He frowned and strode toward him, sitting down at the table.
Yun Xingze was staring at his hand, clenching it tightly, feeling the strength of life.
In his last life, even making a fist had been difficult. Now, the sensation of strength made him smile.
Noticing someone sit across from him, Yun Xingze blinked and then looked up.
Chi Yu took off his jacket and placed it aside. His long legs made him seem a bit cramped at the small table.
“Speak. What do you want with me?” Chi Yu asked directly.
Two days ago, the original host had argued with Chi Yu over Su Zinan. Chi Yu had said something harsh and even pushed him. The original host fell and passed out.
But now, Chi Yu acted like nothing had happened.
Yun Xingze carefully observed Chi Yu and thought he wasn’t that good-looking — just tall. But all Alphas in this world were tall.
He didn’t understand why the original host was so obsessed with Chi Yu.
Was it the power of the story?
Still, this body had given him a second chance, so Yun Xingze decided to demand justice for the original host.
“I thought you’d apologize to me,” Yun Xingze said.
Chi Yu paused.
In the past, Yun Xingze was spoiled, but always obedient to Chi Yu. He had never asked him to apologize.
Chi Yu suspected he misheard.
“Why would I apologize to you?” he frowned. “Su Zinan and I are just friends. You’re the one being unreasonable.”
Even if Chi Yu liked Su Zinan and their relationship was ambiguous, he didn’t think he did anything wrong.
Just then, a waiter pushed a cart over and placed desserts, milkshakes, and fruit on the table.
Yun Xingze smelled the dessert and licked his lips, then carefully took a sip of the milkshake.
In his last life, he could only drink medicine. He had long forgotten the taste of sweets.
At that moment, it was like eating the most delicious thing in the world.
The boy tasted the milkshake, his face lighting up with joy and satisfaction. He smiled at the waiter. “Thank you.”
The waitress blushed and stammered, then hurriedly wheeled the cart away.
From the counter came a faint voice: “He’s really too cute!”
Yun Xingze had always been strict about his figure and avoided sweets. He would even calculate calories before eating — something Chi Yu never understood.
Now, he was happily enjoying the desserts, as if he had forgotten Chi Yu’s existence.
Chi Yu’s face darkened.
Just then, Yun Xingze looked up and said, “Of course you were wrong. Why won’t you admit it?”
His eyes were clear and serious, full of unshakable determination.
Chi Yu suddenly felt as if he’d been seen through. A flicker of guilt crossed his eyes, but he quickly hid it.
“Yun Xingze, I’ve told you before. I don’t like Omegas like you,” Chi Yu said, changing the subject. “If it weren’t for the fact that our families are longtime friends, I’d cancel the engagement right now.”
The threat of breaking off the engagement was Chi Yu’s trump card.
Every time he brought it up, Yun Xingze would give in and tearfully say, “Don’t be mad.”
Chi Yu was sure it would work again this time.
Yun Xingze stopped eating his dessert.
Chi Yu stared at him, calmly waiting for the apology.
Then the boy spoke.
His voice was soft and clean as always, but it made Chi Yu freeze on the spot.
“Let’s break up.”
After finally getting a second chance at life, Yun Xingze didn’t want to tie his fate to an arrogant man.
He had so much he wanted to do.
He wanted to learn how to pilot a mecha, design the perfect machine of his own, and become the best mecha warrior.
He would use this chance to complete the dream he never fulfilled in his past life.
Before that dream came true, Chi Yu was nothing more than a stone on the road — just something to step over.
