Chapter 1#

No. 1 chapter#

“Do you have any other questions?”

The assistant looked at the young Beta before him and slowed his speech.

Ji Liao took a deep breath.

This feeling was strange.

He had transmigrated into a book.

Before going to sleep, he had just finished reading a novel called Forbidden Match.

Forbidden Match described a pure love story about a gentle, kind, universally adored Omega and a violent, overbearing Alpha who married first and fell in love later.

The main plot wasn’t bad—there was only one side character that left Ji Liao feeling aggrieved.

In the novel, the infatuated villain Alpha couldn’t have the protagonist Omega, so he grabbed a random Beta passerby to be a substitute.

The Beta was reluctant at first, but under the villain Alpha’s forceful domination, he gradually developed Stockholm syndrome, fell in love with the villain Alpha, came to hate the protagonist Omega, and even tried to drive his car into the protagonist Omega.

The villain Alpha naturally wouldn’t forgive the Beta. Not only did he take back everything he’d given the Beta, but he personally sent the Beta to prison.

Perhaps the Beta was the only poor person in the entire novel, which made Ji Liao automatically identify with him.

Ji Liao shook his head in frustration. What use was love? He should have just taken the money and run!

But when he woke up, Ji Liao had become the substitute Beta.

The scene before him was exactly the one where the substitute had just been dragged back to sign the agreement.

The assistant, also a Beta, saw Ji Liao wasn’t responding and felt sympathy.

But after glancing at his boss, he still urged:

“If there are no problems, just sign it.”

Ji Liao held the pen and lowered his gaze to the documents on the table—the substitute agreement.

He didn’t need to read the contents to know—Party B was him, and Party A was the villain Alpha.

Once the agreement was signed, Party B would receive 500,000 yuan per month from Party A.

Five hundred thousand!

Every month!

He couldn’t even imagine how happy he’d be once he got the money!

The only problem was—

“This agreement…” Ji Liao secretly pinched his thigh to make sure he wasn’t dreaming.

Pain shot through him, and Ji Liao’s voice sounded a bit gritted through his teeth.

“Cough…”

He cleared his throat before finishing:

“Does this agreement have legal force?”

Joking aside, he’d watched his fair share of legal affairs programs. If this wasn’t a dream, he still needed to confirm the money could actually reach his pocket.

The assistant pressed his lips together, interpreting Ji Liao’s question as “a last struggle.”

With sympathy, but without offending his boss, he said in a normal tone:

“As long as you fulfill your obligations, the agreement will take effect normally.”

Ji Liao naturally knew what the substitute’s obligations were.

Forbidden Match described how the villain Alpha would vent all his desires for the protagonist Omega onto the substitute Beta.

In other words, the villain Alpha would sleep with him.

The five hundred thousand wasn’t free money.

Ji Liao looked up at Party A.

A noble-looking Alpha stood sideways by the window. His jet-black short hair set off his fair skin, and gold-rimmed glasses perched on the bridge of his high, straight nose.

He gazed out the window, seeming utterly indifferent to Ji Liao.

But the body wrapped in that suit kept assaulting Ji Liao’s vision.

That solid chest, those broad shoulders, that narrow waist, those long legs!

Ji Liao’s Adam’s apple moved.

That could work.

A man this handsome—radiant enough to put big celebrities to shame—Ji Liao had never even seen one, let alone touched one.

Now this man wanted to sleep with him and pay him?

Who was the villain here? He was clearly a living bodhisattva!

A person couldn’t give up benefits just for the sake of dignity, right?

With that thought, Ji Liao stopped hesitating.

He scribbled his name down in a flash, swiftly climbed onto the big bed nearby, and lay flat with excitement, saying:

“Come on, let’s fulfill the agreement right now!”

Beta assistant: ???

To prevent Ji Liao from causing trouble, they’d found a relatively remote villa to stay in, and brought along some bodyguards to ensure Ji Liao couldn’t escape.

But what was happening now? He gave in that easily?

Even Wen Qiu turned his head to look over with confusion.

But his silent phone chose that moment to ring.

Ji Liao lay with his eyes closed, hearing the phone ring and the door open, assuming the assistant had stepped out.

Then, the room fell silent—no more movement.

He opened his eyes. He was the only one left in the room.

The villain Alpha was gone too.

Only then did he remember: on the day the substitute and the villain signed the contract, the villain had been called away by the protagonist.

He’d been too excited earlier. He’d forgotten.

He scrambled up in one motion, and Ji Liao looked around his surroundings.

Beautiful velvet curtains blocked the wide French windows, and the beige floor was spotless. Besides the King-size bed, the room also had a sectional sofa, tables and chairs, a dresser, and so on…

He used to live in a shared rental—a two-bedroom unit converted into several cramped rooms, one of which he rented.

Most of a working person’s salary went to supporting the landlord. To save money for a house, he could only live in places like that.

In comparison, his current surroundings were luxurious enough to rival a palace.

This had better not be a dream.

Ji Liao nearly wept with joy.

As his memories resurfaced, he also remembered that on the day the original body signed with the villain, the villain came back in the middle of the night, and they had their first “grand harmony of life.”

For Ji Liao, that was still rather rushed.

Having grown to this age, Ji Liao had never been in a relationship, let alone had sexual relations.

Not that he didn’t want to—he simply had no time.

His parents divorced when he was very young and each remarried. Because neither was willing to take him in, they dumped him at a boarding school.

His unsettled life made him determined to buy his own house one day and give himself a home. So throughout his growing up, aside from working and saving money, he had absolutely no leisure for romance.

Now, without ever having dated, he was about to jump straight into the main event.

To ease his nerves, Ji Liao ran to the walk-in closet to look in the mirror. The original body was at most 175 cm tall, slender, and because he was young, looked a bit thin. He wore a grey athletic set, looking very much like a student.

Then he looked at the facial features.

A delicate, straight nose. Moist, lustrous lips. Thin eyelids with a subtle double fold. Clear, bright pupils.

The beautifying power of a novel world was maximum. And since the original body bore some resemblance to the protagonist Omega, his features were naturally flawless.

Much better-looking than his real self. Ji Liao was extremely satisfied.

“Steady.”

He quietly encouraged himself.

Just think about the 500,000.

Before, he’d wake at six and sleep at midnight, busting his ass and still not making much money.

However it went, it couldn’t be harder than before.

He understood all that, but Ji Liao was still nervous. He instinctively felt his pockets.

No phone.

How could a modern person live without a phone?

So he walked to the door and decisively opened it.

“Mr. Ji, is something the matter?”

The assistant hadn’t left—he was sitting right outside the door.

Ji Liao didn’t care about being watched. He ignored the bodyguards on both sides and just smiled at the assistant: “Could you give my phone back?”

The internet was too important. Ji Liao felt that a phone was what he needed most right now.

But the assistant looked hesitant.

Ji Liao had been forcibly brought back by them. Although he’d cooperated just now, there was no guarantee…

“Don’t worry, I won’t call the police.” Ji Liao kept smiling. “I couldn’t earn this high a salary in a lifetime on my own. Why would I run?”

The original body was a college student. A young person’s clean, sincere smile was hard to refuse—and what he said was true.

It just didn’t match a college student’s innocent state of mind.

So the assistant’s eyes held even more sympathy.

Poor kid. After signing his soul away, was he starting to brainwash himself?

Shaking his head, the assistant handed the phone to Ji Liao and advised:

“Be good, and President Wen won’t make things hard for you.”

He wasn’t afraid of Ji Liao calling the police, nor even of Ji Liao running.

Because in the end, the one who’d suffer would definitely be Ji Liao.

“Got it.”

Ji Liao successfully got his phone back, smiling even brighter.

Back in the room again, Ji Liao quickly unlocked the phone with his fingerprint.

The original body’s setting was a poor student, so of course the phone was a low-end model.

But at least it worked.

Fortunately, in terms of social life, the novel world wasn’t much different from the real world. The phone had everything it should—mobile banking apps, payment apps, all complete.

The only difference was that this was an ABO world. Besides male and female, humans were also divided into three genders: Alpha, Beta, and Omega.

Reading about it in a novel was one thing, but once it became reality, it was a bit strange.

Still, the original body was a Beta.

According to the book’s setting, Betas were completely unaffected by pheromones. Ji Liao felt he’d be about the same as before and could adapt.

The villain could return at any time, so Ji Liao made the most of his time, quickly recording all the plot he could still remember into his notes app.

At this point in the timeline, the protagonist Omega had, under pressure, decided to accept an arranged marriage, marrying the sickly protagonist Alpha.

The villain rushed over to dissuade him, failed, and in despair got into a car accident. He came home, saw the original body, and then…

Ji Liao opened Weibo and searched for the protagonist Omega, planning to study him thoroughly.

But just as he found the account and was about to click in, his phone received a notification.

[Hua Bank Notice] Dear customer, your account ending in 7788 has received a transfer of 500,000.00 yuan. Balance: 500,280 yuan.

Ji Liao: !

He immediately realized this was the villain Alpha’s “advance payment.”

Signed just now, paid just now—what a divine client!

The working-class gene awakened. Ji Liao followed the transfer record and found the villain’s phone number—

Bosses who pay promptly are rare these days. Better hold on to this one.

Add friend.

Note: God.

That’s right—the God of Wealth is also a god. The villain was his god from now on!