Xie Tan was an Omega with the lowest grade of pheromones.

While other Omegas possessed scents of flowers, fruits, or milk—sweet, alluring, and intoxicating to Alphas—Xie Tan’s pheromones were different. They were decaying, eerie, cold, and stale, reminiscent of damp, ancient books in a haunted attic or flowers rotting silently at midnight. They were permeated with ill omens.

People rejected him, loathed him, and avoided him like the plague. Even Xie Tan himself was weary of it all.

After staying up late reading manga and dying suddenly, he transmigrated into a story as a cannon fodder, destined to be sacrificed and devoured by a minor ghost at the very beginning.

With his limbs bound and a terrifying, purplish-blue ghost—whose head was larger than its body—looming before him, he simply lay flat, waiting for death.

Instead, the ghost sniffed around, retracted its fangs, and embraced Xie Tan with an expression of pure intoxication, like a cat discovering catnip.

“…Fragrant… so fragrant…”

Xie Tan: “?”

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“Strange Tales”, the most popular horror IP, had released a new series.

In the opening chapter, a world-weary youth appeared, possessing a beauty as dazzling and bewitching as a demon. Readers were deeply stunned, yet they wailed in grief: “The ‘wife’ I just claimed is about to die!”

By tradition, opening characters served only as narrative hooks—cannon fodder who wouldn’t survive a single chapter.

But later, they realized how wrong they were.

The ghost in the rain held an umbrella for him; the Lady of Whispers lulled him to sleep.

The ghost of a clown performed head-swapping magic tricks to make him smile; the Corpse Collector blushed as he gifted him a freshly bloomed corpse flower.

The Spirit of the Pen clasped fingers with him; the ghost bride’s tent**les beneath her red veil wound around him, refusing to let go.

…

He was a mesmerizing monster, a “fleur du mal”, driving all evil creatures into a stupor of infatuation and frantic longing.

Xie Tan, who had inexplicably become the most popular character: “…I want to die even more now.”

All the ghosts and monsters shrieked in unison: “You are not allowed!!”

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Xie Tan believed that whether he was loathed by ten thousand humans or adored by ten thousand ghosts, it was all because of his pheromones.

Only Lu Jinzhao was different.

That meddlesome, troublesome fellow—who was cheerful and sunny every day and believed the whole world was full of good people—was the only one who could smell his pheromones yet treat him normally.

Xie Tan often worried that this “silly dog” wouldn’t live to see tomorrow.

Thus, in a manga world without the ABO system or suppressants, Xie Tan sent a message to Lu Jinzhao when he fell into the throes of a painful heat.

Lu Jinzhao—the hidden Boss—forced back all the restless, lurking monsters with a single glance. He then looked at Xie Tan’s blurred, reddened eyes and revealed his usual concerned and bright smile.

“A Tan, do you need my help?”

Pseudo-sunshine, black-bellied, schemes-like-a-big-dog Top x Dazzling as a demon, cold-hearted but soft-centered, world-weary beautiful youth Bottom.

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