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"No wonder no matter how you teach a child like that, he can't be taught. He's not as sensible as the older alpha brothers, and he has a bad temper too."

The young man struggled to drag his heavy suitcase out of the villa where he had lived since childhood.

The past seventeen years have been like a fleeting, beautiful dream that has always surrounded him. Jiang Yujin stopped in his tracks, a look of regret on his face. He shouldn't have acted impulsively yesterday and argued with his mother.

Even if they aren't biological children, after raising them for so many years, there should be feelings between them by now.

Jiang's mother wanted him to stay, but Jiang Yujin stubbornly said, "If you want to bring that biological alpha back, what's the point of keeping me around? Anyway, I'm not their biological child, so it doesn't matter whether I live or die." With these words, the Jiang family naturally wouldn't treat him well and wouldn't keep him any longer; kicking him out would be the best-case scenario.

Having found a cheap guesthouse to stay in, Jiang Yujin could no longer go back. He had always been arrogant and domineering because of his family's power and influence, and he didn't have many true friends. Now that he was down on his luck, he couldn't contact any of them.

In today's society, apart from the basic gender distinction between men and women, there are six genders.

Alphas are dominant due to their superior physical strength, and with the pheromone levels differentiated, S-level alphas are even more powerful. Betas, on the other hand, are naturally unable to smell any pheromones and possess only very faint pheromones themselves.

Omegas are inherently weaker than the other two types and periodically enter a "heat cycle," similar to an alpha's "susceptibility period," requiring the pheromones of their partner for stimulation. When necessary, both alphas and omegas without partners will use specialized suppressants. Suppressants have side effects and cannot be used excessively, otherwise, pheromone imbalances will occur, potentially requiring gland removal, which can be life-threatening.

Alphas can mark omegas. An omega's gland at the back of the neck can only be marked once in a lifetime. Alphas temporarily mark omegas by injecting their own pheromones into the glands. The temporary mark only lasts for a week. Betas cannot be marked.

The thought that his biological alpha was an S-rank made Jiang Yujin even angrier. Why was it that the alpha was both the Jiang family's biological child and a rare S-rank? In contrast, he himself was not only an omega, but also only a B-rank.

Fate played such a cruel joke on Jiang Yujin. It is said that his biological parents died long ago, leaving nothing behind.

Jiang Yujin was quite good-looking. With two outstanding alpha brothers, and being the youngest and most pampered child, the Jiang family had invested far more money and time in his upbringing over the years. Even as an omega, he had grown into a handsome and refined young man with sharp, clean eyes and well-defined lips. If that biological S-rank alpha hadn't come looking for him, no one would have doubted that he wasn't a child of the Jiang family.

Jiang Yujin was spoiled and arrogant. He grew up rebelliously under the care of his parents and brothers. While the omegas around him were learning how to please and depend on alphas, Jiang Yujin had already beaten an alpha who tried to harass him to a pulp, causing a lot of trouble.

The follow-up costs of schooling are very expensive, and Jiang Yujin didn't bring much money with him. News travels fast in the circle, and it's estimated that the fact that Jiang Yujin isn't the Jiang family's biological child has already spread throughout the school. He doesn't want to go to school and be looked down upon by those people.

If Jiang Yujin is frugal, he can still use the money he has for a while.

After paying six months' rent, Jiang Yujin looked at the five-figure balance on his phone and felt worried.

I used to be a big spender, and now I don't know where to start when I ask him to be a little more frugal.

This amount of money isn't even enough for one of his meals.

After thinking it over, Jiang Yujin decided to take a nap first. Once he was asleep, he wouldn't know anything and wouldn't have so many worries.

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Little did I know that I would fall asleep and it would be evening. I didn't turn on the lights, and the thick curtains blocked out the only light.

The pheromone concentration in the room was very high.

The pheromones with a plum flavor are sweet and sour, accompanied by a slightly sour and astringent taste reminiscent of dried fruit.

A strange flush rose on the young man's face as he lay on the bed. He curled the blanket into a ball and shrank into it, like a drowning fish struggling alone. His heat had come early, and he had no suppressants on hand, nor a partner by his side. He could only endure it alone.

The ordeal lasted until 5 a.m. the next day, when Jiang Yujin finally became more awake. He was wrapped up tightly, intending to take advantage of the fact that there were fewer people outside at this time to go out and buy the necessary inhibitors to get through the rest of his heat cycle.

He'll be an adult in a month. Before adulthood, omegas are protected by law, but many places don't hire underage omegas because they lack self-control and their pheromones can easily leak, causing chaos in public places. After adulthood, omegas need to wear neck rings when going out to work to protect themselves from harassment.

Fortunately, there was a 24-hour pharmacy nearby, and according to the navigation, it wouldn't take Jiang Yujin long to walk there.

After explaining his needs to the shop assistant, Jiang Yujin quickly received several vials of inhibitors.

The shop assistant was a young beta girl. Although she couldn't smell pheromones, the young man in front of her looked extremely unwell and had ordered a large dose of suppressants. She couldn't help but advise him, "You need to rest well during your heat. You should use fewer suppressants. Finding a partner to soothe him as soon as possible is the most effective solution."

Jiang Yujin replied frankly, "I understand, thank you."

Not long after Jiang Yujin left the pharmacy, he planned to find a place to get an injection of the inhibitors, but the physical discomfort surged up again, constantly eroding his consciousness.

The pheromone barrier was about to lose its effectiveness. The young man had just reached the door of the guesthouse when he found the key but couldn't open the door. He could only weakly pound on the door, praying that the tightly closed door would open soon.

Jiang Yujin couldn't take it anymore and removed the pheromone shield, intending to give herself an injection of an inhibitor to sober up.

The door suddenly opened, and he was roughly pulled inside. The suppressant in his hand was casually thrown away. Jiang Yujin felt extremely wronged. Before he could even speak, his mouth was covered, and the other person's kiss, carrying the taste of white peach oolong tea, pressed down hard on him.

The young man, unaware of the situation and encountering something like this for the first time, responded clumsily under the influence of pheromone compatibility.

After his glands were pierced by the other's fangs in the darkness, the young man finally regained some consciousness. He pushed the other away with all his might, injected himself with an inhibitor, and retreated to a corner.

"Who are you? Why are you in my rented guesthouse?" Jiang Yujin had already inhaled a large amount of the other party's pheromones with each breath, something that a single injection of inhibitors could not solve.

The alpha opposite her maintained a sliver of rationality from the start, looking down at an omega in heat who was craving pheromones in front of her, seemingly just a whim.

"It seems you've come to the wrong door, Young Master Jiang."