All for You (Lily Futa ABO) - Chapter 1

On a rainy night in early spring, Lin Yao woke up on a hospital bed. After the nurse verified her name, she told Lin Yao that she had just been in a car accident. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries—just a concussion—and she would recover soon.

While dragging her exhausted mood, thinking she still had to continue living a meaningless life in this boring world, she massaged her temples to ease the headache. But when she lowered her hand, she noticed that the information on the wristband was particularly strange.

Name: Lin Yao; Age: 24; Gender: Ω.

Shouldn’t her gender be female? Why was this incomprehensible letter written here?

After looking at it several times to confirm she wasn’t mistaken, she found her bag on the bedside table, took out her phone, and searched for the meaning of this gender. In shock, she realized she had arrived in a very different world. During the few days of recuperation in the hospital, she pretended that the concussion had caused her to lose general common sense. She asked the other patients, nurses, and doctors around her everything she could, while also searching online with her phone and gathering a lot of information. Finally, she confirmed that, for some reason, she had entered another world.

In this world, genders are divided into α, β, and Ω—that is, Alpha, Beta, and Omega. Regardless of biological sex, Alphas can impregnate others, Omegas can get pregnant, so people of these two genders can have children together. Betas are almost unable to reproduce. Alphas and Omegas are relatively few in number, while Betas make up the majority of the population.

Both Alphas and Omegas have strong pheromones, emitted from the glands at the back of their necks. These pheromones can attract or even interfere with each other. People of these two genders also go into heat, during which they need to mate with each other; otherwise, they must endure intense physical pain. Although there are suppressants to relieve the symptoms, they cannot be used long-term. They can also mark each other in a certain way. Betas have no pheromones and are not affected by those of the other two genders.

This world is extremely unequal. Alphas receive the most social resources and are the most likely to achieve success; Betas are the backbone of society; but Omegas are often confined to reproduction, rarely achieving high accomplishments, and they get pitifully few opportunities for education and work. Moreover, because Alphas and Omegas are overall rare, the birth rate in this world keeps declining, with serious population aging. Many countries have implemented mandatory partner allocation policies.

Most Alphas and Omegas pair up and have children early, and voluntarily paired partners usually have many kids.

However, those who remain single at age 25 are obligated to attend the national matchmaking conference held every six months. In this event, each person is forced to meet one compatible reproductive partner per session, after which they can develop feelings on their own. Partner allocation is determined based on genetic information—the two people estimated to produce the healthiest offspring are matched together.

Everyone has the right to reject ten partners, but if they refuse to pair and reproduce after more than ten rejections, they face severe punishment—though in practice, no one has ever dared to defy the policy and reject more than ten times. Once they complete the task of each person having two offspring, they no longer have to participate in mandatory allocations.

So, she had inexplicably arrived in an even worse world.

After being discharged, Lin Yao once again used the excuse of concussion-induced amnesia to go to the police station and look up her address in this world.

After several transfers on public transport, Lin Yao walked toward “her” home as rain began falling again. Smelling the fishy scent brought by the rainwater, Lin Yao fell into deep thought. In her original world, that car accident had not been a simple mishap.

She didn’t know how many times she had wished to disappear from the world, but she was a coward. She had once researched various feasible ways to end her life, yet because she feared facing death’s terror and pain alone, feared the heartache it would cause her parents, she had never acted. She didn’t know how many times she had hoped for an “accident” to take her away. That way, she wouldn’t have to steel herself to decide, and her parents would only grieve over an accident, not have to face the truth of their daughter’s world-weariness.

So that night, when the rain blurred everything, even though Lin Yao vaguely saw the car speeding toward her, she did not dodge… Who knew, perhaps hell really exists. Having vanished from her original world, she still couldn’t escape torment and ended up in an even worse one.

She arrived at the address of “her” home in this world. Lin Yao entered a very old apartment building, climbed the damp stairs, passed through a dark and moldy corridor, and reached her tiny home. She took out the keys from the bag she had found in the hospital—sure enough, they opened the door. It was a single room combining living area, kitchen, and bedroom, with another door that probably led to the bathroom.

Lin Yao walked in and found that although the apartment was small, it was very clean and tidy. In one corner of the room was a desk, next to a low bookshelf filled with books. Somewhat surprised, she went over to look, only to find they were all textbooks and reference materials—unlike in her original world, where her books were mostly literature and art. Suddenly, she noticed a familiar notebook on the far right of the shelf, was startled, and quickly opened it. Just like in her original world, this was also a diary. Seeing this, Lin Yao remembered something.

Although she had come to a completely different world, Lin Yao’s identity hadn’t changed. The bag and phone she found in the hospital were the exact same models as her original ones. On her ID card, everything was identical except the gender had become Omega. At the police station, she could use this ID to look up her address and other details.

In other words, in this world, there had already been a Lin Yao, and after the car accident, where had that Lin Yao gone? The original owner of this body she now occupied—did she still exist? Suddenly she thought of something, went to the bathroom mirror, and looked. Sure enough, her appearance hadn’t changed at all—not even the moles on her face were different. That meant after the car accident, she had come to a parallel world where a version of her already existed.

Back at the desk, she opened the diary. The Lin Yao here, like her, didn’t write every day but had the habit of recording major events. She searched the bookshelf again and indeed found several filled diaries—this habit of keeping all her diaries was, of course, the same as the original Lin Yao’s. Wanting to understand more about the “her” of this world, she slowly read through each one.

It turned out that the Lin Yao who grew up in this world was not raised by her parents. Due to the special mandatory partner allocation policy, children born were not required to be raised personally by their biological parents. Successfully matched pairs could choose to simply have the child and separate, or truly live together forever. So once pregnancy was achieved through the policy, the parties could choose for one side to raise the child alone, or neither raise it, handing the child over to official institutions for unified upbringing.

Thus, the parents of this world’s Lin Yao had only given birth to her and then separated—they never lived together or raised her. She grew up in a very standard orphanage. Reading this, Lin Yao thought of her original world’s parents, whose personalities and values clashed so badly they argued every day, hated each other, yet lacked the courage to divorce—and she actually felt relieved. At least here, they didn’t have to be bound together; they could each live their own lives…

Continuing to read, this world’s Lin Yao, despite achieving excellent grades in high school as an Omega, didn’t even get the chance to pursue higher education. She could only survive by working part-time jobs, and even then, it was hard to get hired as a formal employee—simply because people generally believed Omegas needed to focus on reproduction and were unsuitable for work.

So the Lin Yao here was currently working as a temporary cashier at a large chain digital products store. The diary was filled with anger at the unfairness of the social system, and it expressed her determination: even as an Omega, she would achieve success. Because of this, she worked during the day and still studied various subjects on her own at night—especially foreign languages—hoping to make something of herself one day.

Lin Yao sighed with emotion. In her original world, she had successfully earned a master’s degree in literature, was proficient in two foreign languages, and worked as a translator at a tech giant that owned this very chain of digital product stores. She had just started the job not long ago. Her original salary would have allowed her to afford better housing, not live in such a remote and cramped apartment.

The education and career she once had were exactly what this world’s Lin Yao dreamed of but could hardly obtain.

Moreover, according to the diary, this world’s Lin Yao was extremely disciplined in her habits—completely unlike how the original self had been willful, staying up late and self-destructing. No wonder the home, though cramped, was kept neat and orderly, unlike the original world’s larger place that had been so messy she could barely step anywhere.

Lin Yao suddenly burst into loud sobs, feeling unworthy. A useless person who thought about suicide had actually taken the place of such a life-loving girl.

At that moment, she remembered that while in the hospital, her phone had received many calls, but she hadn’t answered any due to the shock of arriving in a parallel world. Now she picked up the phone and saw many missed calls from her workplace. Gathering her courage, she called back, explained that she had been in a car accident with a concussion causing amnesia, which was why she had been absent for several days. She could provide hospital proof and begged the store manager to let her return to work.

With her livelihood secured for the time being, Lin Yao thought she couldn’t disgrace the original Lin Yao here. She hurriedly began looking up information on the various products sold at the digital products store. After roughly going through it, night had fallen. She suddenly remembered something and searched online for some important literary figures, artists, scientists, etc., that she remembered from her original world. She found they all existed here with the same names—only most were Alphas. This further confirmed she was in a parallel world where almost everything and everyone was the same as her original one, just with different gender dynamics.