Leaving the living quarters, Wang Luan saw the male servant waiting outside.
“Miss Luan, the family head has summoned you.”
Wang Luan had only come to this new world for one day and had not yet fully adapted to this strange body of hers or to this complex world of confused genders. Hearing now that this body’s father wanted to see her, she searched through the vague memories left behind by the original body for information about her dad.
A blur.
This could not be blamed on the original body. From the time her C-grade aptitude was confirmed when she was a few years old, she and her dad had maintained a frequency of meeting once a year, to the point that she was not even as familiar with him as with the male servant responsible for her daily life.
This was a pair of emotionally distant father and daughter. The original body still had some filial yearning toward her father; swapped with Wang Luan from Blue Star, that filial yearning had already vanished into smoke.
The Wang family’s estate was absurdly large. From the small building where Wang Luan lived privately to the main residence where the family head lived, even taking the estate’s internal hovering vehicle took ten minutes.
All the way there, Wang Luan’s mind wandered far away. Although she was full of a dispirited lack of fighting spirit, her temperament and bearing were not quite the same as the original timid appearance that always kept its head lowered.
Unfortunately, regarding her unusualness, only the butler waiting at the main residence gave a surprised expression; no one else noticed, or rather, did not care.
The original body had always been an existence that was overlooked.
The one who carried this neglect out most thoroughly was her own biological father. When Wang Luan was just born, the Wang family head had cherished her like a treasure; after discovering her genetic mutation and that her level was only C, his attitude abruptly underwent a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
After a period of futile examinations and failures using various methods to raise her level, Wang Luan, this disappointing daughter, never again received a proper glance from the Wang family head.
The most tragic part was that the only mother who loved Wang Luan passed away early.
Many Omegas were delicate in mind and gentle in temperament; the original body’s mother, even more so, had been raised to be unable to withstand even a trace of wind or rain.
Giving birth to a genetically mutated daughter, watching with her own eyes as her daughter was abandoned by her husband, and then watching her husband attempt to find a mistress to have children—
In just a few years, she died of melancholy, leaving the original body alone to grow up uneasily in this loveless great estate.
Growing into a girl who was unloved, solitary, and cowardly.
#The Disliked Life of Wang Luan#
Unlike the original body that lacked love, Wang Luan from Blue Star was born into a moderately well-off family, physically healthy, with parents who loved each other, and an older sister who doted on her, with two or three close friends. She attended the university she wanted, found a satisfactory job after graduation, quickly integrated into workplace life—everything went smoothly.
Who could have thought that life could take such a sudden plunge to this extent: the world she was in changed, and her gender also changed by… by half.
This was an ABO world, with very simple rules: Alphas with high genetic levels stood at the very top; Betas generally had poor aptitude and found it hard to get ahead; Omegas’ main function was to bear children for Alphas.
The simpler the world’s rules, the more cruel they were.
Under this strict hierarchy, Wang Luan was an existence that was neither high nor low.
Standing before the Wang family head, Wang Luan looked at the way he looked at her and thought: a chicken rib, a chicken rib—tasteless to eat, yet a pity to throw away.
Her dad looked at her like he was looking at a chicken rib.
“You’re already eighteen. I’ve arranged a betrothed for you—Yan Qiongyu, the seventh-year chief student of the Omega Academy. He’s a male Omega of 3S level. Get along well with him in the future, and have him give birth to a child early.”
The Wang family head did not say a single word of nonsense and directly stated his purpose.
Wang Luan took a moment to digest it, her expression turning strange, then she revealed a look of barely restrained disgust.
In that short stretch of words from the Wang family head, there were simply far too many things she found hard to accept.
She had not yet accepted that she had become a female Alpha who could get people pregnant, with that thing growing on her body. Even before using this body to go to the toilet or bathe, she had to do a round of psychological preparation. And now she was actually being told to use this thing to sleep with men—and even make someone pregnant?
A string of words like “absurd” and “damn it” flashed through Wang Luan’s mind, leaving only four huge words in the end: I can’t do it!
“What kind of expression is that?” Seeing his daughter remain silent for a long time, the Wang family head scolded impatiently. “You’d better give birth to a high–genetic-level Alpha with him. Otherwise, what use do I have for a daughter like you? You’ll only make me—make the entire Wang family—lose face!”
Though the reasons were different, the expressions on the father and daughter’s faces were equally ugly. Wang Luan forced herself to endure the goosebumps rising from her imagination and asked, “What if I can’t give birth?”
The Wang family head had not expected this attitude from her. His expression immediately darkened, and he said without hesitation, “Even if you can’t, you still have to.”
An invisible pressure suddenly enveloped Wang Luan’s entire body as the Wang family head’s sharp gaze fixed on her.
Wang Luan caught a whiff of a pungent alcohol smell. She froze for a moment, then remembered that in this bizarre ABO world, both As and Os had pheromones. So-called pheromones… were probably like built-in perfumes with different scents.
They were generally used for fighting or courting, much like many animals in nature.
A high-level Alpha deliberately releasing pheromones would make lower-level Alphas feel fear.
But perhaps because Wang Luan’s soul was not a native original, she did not feel the threat or anger brought by the Wang family head’s pheromones. She only felt that the alcohol smell was so strong it was choking, making the Wang family head seem like a drunk, and she could not help but take a step back to avoid the unpleasant odor.
The Wang family head only thought she finally knew fear. He snorted, seeming too lazy to say anything more to this useless daughter, and waved his hand impatiently to have her leave.
If the daughter did not listen, he did not need to worry about it; there were naturally people below him who would handle such small problems for him.
Holding her breath, Wang Luan turned and left.
The kindly old butler escorted her back to her residence along the original route, chattering non-stop along the way.
“Miss Luan, congratulations on having such an outstanding betrothed companion. I’ve heard he’s a male Omega with a gentle personality and great talent in music, painting, and the like. You will certainly like him.”
“You should know, Omegas as outstanding as this are fought over by nobles every year. This year, because Miss has just come of age, the family head specially secured him for you.”
“You should be grateful to the family head, that even at such a time he is still willing to cherish you and arrange everything for you…”
The kindly old butler had used this set of “gratitude theory” to brainwash the original body for more than ten years, causing the original body, after being ignored and disliked by her father for more than a decade, to still harbor some feelings of reverence and longing toward him.
But this set did not work on Wang Luan. She did not listen to the butler’s spiel at all, only thinking about her own matters.
In front of Wang Luan’s residence, the butler stopped talking and finally said, “Miss Luan’s illness has also recovered these past two days. Tomorrow, you should return to school. As for the arrangements regarding getting along with your betrothed Yan Qiongyu, I will inform Miss Luan.”
Wang Luan thought through escape plans all night, only to overturn them one by one in the end. At present, wanting to escape the Wang family’s control was far too unrealistic.
The next day, she was sent to school early.
In the Thorn Empire, after completing elementary universal education, what followed was nine years of advanced professional education.
Students of the three major ABO genders each had their own dedicated schools. For example, for Omegas, aside from the Omega Academy that gathered high-level Os, there was also the Peace Academy attended by low-level Os.
The Peace Academy was spread throughout the empire and was a charitable institution. As long as one was an O, one could enroll for free—or rather, was forced to enroll.
Not to mention the numerous various Beta academies, the most famous were the three elite schools attended by Alpha students, known as the Academy Star: Thorn Military Academy, Beidou Star Academy, and Gongyi Academy.
Wang Luan’s aptitude was not enough for the best Thorn Military Academy, and her grades were not very good either. No matter how hard she tried, she still could not get into the second-ranked Beidou Star Academy, and in the end could only enter Gongyi Academy, the lowest-ranked of the three military academies.
Gongyi Academy, unlike Thorn Military Academy, did not specialize in training soldiers, and it also could not compare to Beidou Star Academy, which was praised as the “cradle of politicians.” Its only redeeming point was its long history since founding. It was a comprehensive academy with many majors, but none of them were particularly outstanding. In recent years, it had become famous for being a gathering place of useless people.
All those nobles’ and wealthy families’ children with poor aptitude and no ability were stuffed into this school.
Recalling the original body’s memories of school, Wang Luan found them far from pleasant.
A group of wastrel youths abandoned by their families stirred up trouble at school, jumping about endlessly. The internal struggles within this school were even more brutal than those at Thorn Military Academy.
In military academies, the students were all high-level Alphas. Injuries or deaths were major losses, and once conflicts between students went too far, they would be stopped. Gongyi Academy was different. Here, there was a large number of low-level Alphas who were no longer under protection; if they were injured or died, no one might even bother to investigate.
Among them, Wang Luan was an outlier.
She was not outstanding, the Wang family largely ignored her, yet had not completely abandoned her. The classmates at school did not dare to use lethal force in bullying her, but all kinds of disgusting little tricks never stopped.
The cause of Wang Luan’s timid personality was also related to these classmates who liked to “joke” with her.
Having just returned to school, before she had even stepped into her dormitory, those “jokes” that had accompanied Wang Luan for seven years came again.
The unmanned hovering vehicle she was riding inside the campus deviated from its preset route and carried her straight into a lake within the school.
Compared to this, the teasing over the previous seven years had all been minor matters. This time was especially dangerous, because the original body could not swim, and even after three minutes, no one entered the water to save her.
Fortunately, the current Wang Luan could swim. She surfaced on her own and wiped her face.
A group of Gongyi Academy students watching the show from not far away let out regretful jeers at the sight, pushing and shoving each other as they came over to watch the excitement.
“Yo, isn’t this our Miss Wang Luan? How did you accidentally fall into the lake?”
“The car must be broken, right? Miss is really unlucky, hahahaha~”
One student who looked like the leader lifted his foot and prodded Wang Luan’s leg, saying smugly, “Why do you look like a drowned rat? Miss Wang, hurry up and get up, go home and take your medicine, so you don’t accidentally get sick again.”
“Exactly, hurry up and go. Our Miss Wang is even more fragile than an Omega.”
It was the first time in her life that Wang Luan personally experienced campus bullying. The cold lake water that had poured into her ears just now jolted her completely awake.
She did not jump up and curse loudly, nor did she lower her head and cry in embarrassment. She simply raised her hand slightly and used the smart brain attached to her wrist to take a photo of the group in front of her, sending it to the head butler of the Wang family.
“These people tried to murder me. I’m injured. Butler, come over and handle it.”
Not expecting this reaction from her, the laughter by the lake stopped abruptly, and the few prank-playing Alphas all froze.
