Xie Yuanxing has a roommate he utterly despises. The other is an Alpha with SSS-grade physique, a wealthy background, and his senior—the heartthrob of countless students at their school. Meanwhile, Xie is just a beta—dull in personality, unlikable, and best at fading into the background as an unnoticed extra. No one would guess that a beta like him hides bite marks on the nape of his neck, left behind by that top-tier Alpha heartthrob. That is the root of all Xie Yuanxing’s hatred for Shen Bianye. * Shen Bianye had lived a smooth, privileged life for twenty years—until he was tripped up by a beta, all because of that damned hormonal disorder. The disorder made him mistake a beta for an Omega during his rut, biting and licking him over and over. The little beta was like a gloomy mushroom in the corner, and Shen Bianye despised his attitude—yet his own hormones genuinely treated this beta as an Omega. When Xie Yuanxing was happy, Shen tasted sweetness; when unhappy, bitterness; when sad, sourness; when angry, spiciness. Shen Bianye sneered at him but still drove five hours just to buy the cake Xie loved, coaxing the beta into tasting something sweet. But when had Young Master Shen ever coaxed anyone, let alone a beta? Even after doing such things, he habitually mocked Xie. “What’s a beta got to be delicate about?” “Can’t even handle a project—you deserve the scolding.” “Don’t tell anyone about this. If anyone finds out I bit you, you’re dead.” Shen Bianye tutored Xie Yuanxing, fought for him, and painstakingly took him to see the most dazzling fireworks in the city. All his friends thought Shen had fallen for a beta, but he scoffed: “Who’d like a beta anyway?” On the day his hormonal disorder was cured, Xie Yuanxing rushed to move out of their dorm—while Shen Bianye celebrated with friends at a bar. Drunk and stumbling back into the empty room, Shen saw the clothes his beta had forgotten to take. Like a pervert, he buried his face in them, inhaling deeply.