After Transmigrating as a Beta, I Got Messed Up with an Alpha (BL) - Chapter 3

Pei Yule heard the people around him gasp.

To be honest, he felt a lot of pressure. Before transmigrating, he was an unremarkable university student and a gaming shut-in. He had never experienced being the center of attention like this. Now that “retribution” had arrived and everyone was staring, he found it hard to handle.

He couldn’t help but complain inwardly. This “White Moonlight” had clearly rejected him yesterday; why was he taking the initiative to seek him out now? Did he want something?

The problem was that Pei Yule was the one who started the mess yesterday, so he had no right to complain about being sought out. If he refused to go… would that work?

…Probably not.

Refusing the “Emperor” of No. 1 High School in front of everyone would likely make his life very turbulent. The gazes of the onlookers alone were enough to tear him apart. Moreover, after such a passionate confession yesterday, he should be grateful for Huo Juan’s invitation. Refusing would be completely out of character.

Pei Yule wasn’t socially inept. He pushed back his chair and stood up silently. Seeing him move, Huo Juan turned and left the classroom first.

Pei Yule steeled himself and followed. He didn’t know where Huo Juan was taking him, but as they walked, he realized just how extraordinary Huo Juan was at this school. People in the hallways stared in shock. In every class they passed, students crowded the doorways and windows to watch them.

He saw Fei Yisa poke his head out from the classroom next door, giving him a “V” for victory sign and mouthing: “Go for it! Take him down!”

Shen Pin stood beside Fei Yisa, watching him too. Though he didn’t make a gesture, his gaze seemed friendly enough.

“…”

What is even happening?

He really had misunderstood things earlier. He blamed his deep impression of the book he just read.

Pei Yule looked away and followed Huo Juan in silence. They crossed the hallway, went down a flight of stairs, took several turns, and finally entered a vacant, unused classroom.

Pei Yule noticed the windows were covered with screen stickers, making it impossible to see in or out. Despite being a sealed space, the air wasn’t stuffy—it carried a faint, cold scent of cypress.

The moment he smelled that crisp fragrance, Pei Yule’s feet froze at the doorway. Alarm bells rang in his head.

He remembered a description from the book: As the top-tier Alpha, Huo Juan had a private spot in the school where he usually went to sleep. As for how he knew this was the place? It was because the room was saturated with Huo Juan’s pheromones!

Why bring him here?

The existence of this place wasn’t a secret, but almost no one approached it, let alone entered. This was Huo Juan’s territory. Without his permission, no one dared step inside.

In Pei Yule’s “memories,” his impression of Huo Juan was thin. To a Beta, even in the same school, Alphas and Omegas lived in a different world—especially one of Huo Juan’s caliber. Furthermore, the original owner of this body was even more low-profile than Pei Yule himself. His presence in class was near zero, with no friends and no girlfriend. Even Pei Yule sighed at these memories; he truly was a textbook background character.

The reason this background character liked Fei Yisa was that Fei Yisa had once accidentally helped him when he was being bullied. He had harbored a crush from freshman to senior year, finally working up the courage to confess, only for Pei Yule to transmigrate in at that exact moment and make a mess of everything.

Though he had escaped the tragic end of a cannon fodder, he was now entangled with Huo Juan. In the book, Huo Juan was just as dangerous as Shen Pin.

I confessed personally. I hugged him personally.

Pei Yule wished he could go back to yesterday and stop himself. Because he hadn’t thought things through, he was in this mess. He felt that by stepping into this room, he was entering an unknown world. He felt a strange sense of panic.

He desperately recalled yesterday’s events.

This guy definitely rejected me, right? Pushing him away and apologizing—that’s a rejection. So why bring him to a private base? Could it be the apology wasn’t a rejection? Is he going to do this or that? Having just read his sister’s “private collection,” he didn’t want to become a part of that world!

Wait, more importantly, it was impossible for Huo Juan to be interested in him. It made no sense.

As Pei Yule’s mind spiraled, Huo Juan, who had already entered, turned back. He saw the curly-haired boy standing frozen at the door, his pale face shifting between green and white.

Huo Juan went silent for a second, then said: “Come in.”

The man-boy looked under eighteen, likely two or three years younger than Pei Yule’s original age. Yet, Pei Yule heard an undeniable, commanding tone in that light voice.

Right. Alphas were born for this. They were experts at giving orders. They were subjects people instinctively wanted to obey—whether they were Omegas or Betas. Sometimes, if the pheromones were strong enough, even other Alphas would submit.

Creak—

The classroom door closed.

By the time Pei Yule snapped out of it, he realized he had already stepped inside.

The cold cypress scent became even more intense, silently surrounding him from all directions. Though he wasn’t an Omega, he felt an implicit pressure from the scent. The hair on his neck stood up; he felt a sense of “facing a great enemy.”

He looked at Huo Juan, his nerves taut. He truly didn’t understand what this person planned to do.

—Haven’t you heard? The last person who tried something like that with Huo Juan is still lying in the hospital.

Fei Yisa’s words flashed through his mind. He had ignored the deeper meaning earlier, but now it was impossible not to overthink. That’s it—it’s impossible for Huo Juan to be interested in a plain person like him. He brought him here to beat him up!

Pei Yule’s heart skipped beats. When he saw Huo Juan turn and walk toward him, his entire scalp felt tight.

Steady, steady…

Yesterday’s overthinking caused the mess. This might just be him overthinking again. He had to stay calm!

With two long strides, Huo Juan was in front of him. He looked down, his dark eyes observing Pei Yule’s frozen face. He noticed the tension.

He didn’t care. He didn’t care what Pei Yule was thinking.

He simply followed his own will and reached out, grabbing Pei Yule’s wrist.

“Hah…”

Pei Yule felt a wave of coldness wrap around his wrist. Because he was so tense, he let out a sharp gasp the moment Huo Juan touched him.

He instinctively tried to pull away, but the other’s grip tightened. He looked up in shock, catching Huo Juan staring down at him. The handsome face was expressionless, but his gaze was slightly strange.

As expected. Just like yesterday.

The intense pain that had flared up within his body since last night began to recede from the point of contact the moment he touched Pei Yule’s wrist.

This pain, which had plagued him for over a decade, actually had a moment of peace.

Because of this person.

“You…”

Pei Yule opened his mouth to speak, but his dark eyes widened. Huo Juan let go of his hand, but the distance between them didn’t increase—because the man leaned down and hugged him.

“…”

Pei Yule clearly felt a stranger’s embrace. Unlike yesterday’s chaos, this time the other person had actively initiated it. This hug was tighter; since Huo Juan was nearly a head taller, Pei Yule was almost completely gathered into his arms. He had to stand on his tiptoes to be level with him.

The domineering cypress scent rushed into his nose, inescapable.

“You—wait—”

Pei Yule’s mind went blank. He finally reacted, pressing his hands against Huo Juan’s chest to push him away. Goosebumps broke out all over his body.

This embrace felt like being tightly wrapped from top to bottom. It made his skin crawl. Yesterday was out of necessity, but as a grown man, when had he ever been hugged like this by another man?

I wasn’t beaten to death yesterday; was I really as lucky as Fei Yisa said? Because right now, I want to punch this Alpha into the sky!

Unfortunately, in this world’s setting, Alphas were superior in every way—intelligence and physique. As a plain Beta, he couldn’t even push him away. Despite using all his strength, the struggle only made him inhale more cypress scent, making his head feel dizzy. He gritted his teeth and tried to “squat and slip” out of the hold.

Before he could slide down, a hand grabbed his collar and lifted him up effortlessly.

Huo Juan, who hadn’t spoken, frowned. He found the struggling annoying. Moreover, every time Pei Yule moved, the pain in his body flared up, stinging his very marrow. To stop the struggling, he simply pinned Pei Yule’s hands behind his back.

“Don’t move,” he said deeply.

The pain in his body was more intense than usual, making his pheromones slightly uncontrollable. They leaked out as he spoke.

The heavy, oppressive pheromones weighed down on Pei Yule’s chest. For two or three seconds, he couldn’t breathe. By the time he recovered, he was being hugged again—tighter this time. He was practically lifted off the ground.

“Wait, let go of me…”

Being held in a much sturdier embrace, Pei Yule resorted to words. “What are you doing?”

The sharp pain had turned into something bearable. Huo Juan opened his dark eyes and looked down at the bewildered Pei Yule. He paused, his expression turning odd.

“Don’t you like me?” he asked in a low voice.

“…”

Pei Yule’s body stiffened.

Right. That’s the ‘setting’.

He had completely forgotten about that. But even with that setting, it didn’t give him the right to hug him whenever he wanted! Was this person really like this? The book said he was a “White Moonlight” who rejected everyone. If Shen Pin and Fei Yisa’s personalities broke, at least it benefited him, but this was too much.

He’s a hooligan!

Pei Yule had nowhere to vent. He struggled to find the words. “Even if that’s the case… this isn’t right. Let me go first…”

Huo Juan gripped his waist, using his free hand to catch the wrist that was trying to push him away again. He looked him over.

The fluffy natural curls and clean, fair face made him look much younger than his actual age. The boy had no pheromones—a genuine Beta. His limbs were long, and he was tall for a Beta, only half a head shorter than Huo Juan, but his thinness made him look fragile.

Huo Juan knew. This person didn’t actually like him. He didn’t know why the boy said those things yesterday, but that didn’t stop him from using it to his advantage. Since being near him could lessen the pain that tortured him day and night… the “truth” of the confession no longer mattered.

He slowly released Pei Yule. The moment he let go, Pei Yule scrambled back several steps until his back hit the door, looking for a chance to bolt.

As the distance grew, the familiar pain in Huo Juan’s body began to wake up. However, compared to the previous agony, it was now within a bearable range. Huo Juan’s expression remained unchanged. After ten years of pain, he was an expert at hiding it; not a single trace showed on his face. Not even those close to him could tell, let alone Pei Yule, who had only met him twice.

Huo Juan looked at him deeply and moved his thin lips: “…I agree.”

“Agree to what?” Pei Yule was on high alert, thinking only of running if the guy tried to be a “hooligan” again. He couldn’t beat this “Alpha of Alphas.”

Huo Juan said: “I agree to date you.”

“…………………………What?”

The answer was so unexpected that Pei Yule was stunned.

Did I hear that right?

Huo Juan didn’t give him time to process. He took a step forward, stopping just an arm’s length away, and dropped a final sentence: “Come here after school.”

The shock made Pei Yule forget his plan to run. Huo Juan reached past him to open the classroom door. As he stepped out, he looked back at Pei Yule’s stunned, frozen face. His lips curled into his first smile since entering the room.

“If you don’t come, bear the consequences.”

For some reason, even though Huo Juan was smiling, Pei Yule felt a chill. A sense of danger far greater than what he felt with Shen Pin flashed through his mind. His intuition told him that if he didn’t do as Huo Juan said… things would get very serious.

What do I do? If I tell him now that I got the wrong person yesterday… will it work?

…Of course not.

The moment the final bell rang, Pei Yule packed his bag to make a quick escape. Before he could leave, two people lazily stepped up to block his path, effectively sealing the back door.

Pei Yule looked up in confusion, his backpack slipping halfway off his shoulder.

His “memories” told him these two were Li Ning and Zhong Shengfeng, popular elite Alphas and Huo Juan’s close friends.

“…”

The two didn’t speak. Pei Yule looked toward the front door—two more “gatekeepers” were there, also Huo Juan’s inner circle, watching him like hawks.

His heart sank.

Huo Juan had left class during the third period and never returned. Pei Yule thought he could take the chance to run, but he hadn’t expected Huo Juan to leave “enforcers.”

—Huo Juan, though low-profile, is a literal overlord at No. 1 High School. All Alphas follow his lead and never disobey his orders.

That was the description from the original novel. After seeing Fei Yisa and Shen Pin act out of character, Pei Yule hadn’t expected this part to stay intact. With one command, multiple Alphas were mobilized to block him.

How am I this ‘important’?! Why is this the only thing that’s the same as the book! This is a scam!

Surrounded by four Alphas, Pei Yule was led toward Huo Juan’s territory. As they passed the next classroom, Fei Yisa saw him. Seeing the four guys around him, Fei Yisa seemed to misunderstand the situation; he looked like he wanted to follow, but Shen Pin held him back. Shen Pin whispered something, and Fei Yisa had a moment of realization, turning to give Pei Yule another “Keep it up!” gesture.

“…”

Pei Yule stood at the classroom door again. The four Alphas left immediately after delivering him, seemingly wary of something.

Pei Yule stared at the closed door. This couldn’t continue. He should just tell Huo Juan the truth—that he made a mistake. Even if he got beaten up, it was better than this. The book never mentioned Huo Juan killing anyone, so he should be fine…

Just as he was building up his courage, the door opened from the inside.

The “tear mole” guy (Xu Yanxi) walked out. Seeing Pei Yule, he looked surprised, raising an eyebrow. “You’re actually fine?”

“What…”

Before Pei Yule could finish, the thick cypress scent from inside hit him like a physical wave. The intense pressure followed; his knees buckled, and he almost collapsed. Xu Yanxi caught him with quick reflexes.

“???”

In an instant, sweat broke out on Pei Yule’s back. It felt as if all the strength had been sucked out of his limbs.

“Oh boy,” Xu Yanxi said, sweat also visible on his face. He supported Pei Yule, frowning slightly. “This state won’t do. Forget it, you should go home first—”

“…Let him in.”

Huo Juan’s voice came from inside.

It was low and strained.