AHDIBCB Chapter 01

Yuan Yi had once seen a joke online, saying that in the future, tombstones wouldn’t need epitaphs—just a QR code, Scan it, and you’d be able to see the life story of the deceased. At the time, he thought it was complete nonsense. He laughed it off and forgot about it.

Never in a million years did he expect it to actually happen to him. He wasn’t the one in the grave. But he was the one scanning the digital tomb code to read about the life of the deceased.

“Li Heng—Male Alpha, born in Galactic Year 1758. Supreme Commander of the Sirius Fleet of the Owanda Empire, holding the rank of Major General. Heroically sacrificed in the Battle of the Nine-Colored Starbridge in Galactic Year 1788 and posthumously awarded the title of First-Class Imperial Hero.”

“To be honest, asking you to marry Li Heng now is indeed a bit difficult.”

Yuan Yi hadn’t even finished reading when a bratty young man, who looked no older than a high school student, said beside him, “No matter how glorious he once was, he’s just a dead man now. You’re marrying in only to become a widow—yeah, that’s kind of miserable. But you can’t threaten us with your life over this, right? Our Zhou family raised you for so many years. Even if we don’t have great merits, we at least put in the effort. And now, I’m just asking you to bear a dead man’s child in my place. Yet you’re acting like you’d rather die. Isn’t that a bit ungrateful?”

“…”

“Hey! Yuan Yi! I’m talking to you! Did you go mute?”

Zhou Xingran noticed that, after all his talking, his cousin was still frowning at Li Heng’s biography in silence. Furious, he snapped, “What, are you stupid? How long are you gonna keep staring? No matter how much you read it, Li Heng isn’t coming back to life. But whether you like it or not, this is happening! You have to carry his child—got it?!”

“Got it. No need to shout.”

Yuan Yi casually tossed the optical brain aside like garbage, then slowly turned his gaze toward Zhou Xingran, his expression carrying a hint of coldness. “You just said it yourself—it’s nothing more than having a child for a dead man. So why don’t you do it?”

“Why should I? Of course, I can’t do it.” Zhou Xingran stared in shock at his cousin’s sudden change in demeanor. “You and I are completely different!”

“What exactly is different?” Yuan Yi’s jet-black eyes scanned Zhou Xingran from head to toe, as if he were running an X-ray.

As a medical student, he had always been busy to the point of exhaustion, and he wasn’t unfamiliar with the thought that one day he might drop dead from overwork. But he never imagined it would happen right after renovating his new home—before he even got to live in it for a single day.

And yet, after his death, he found himself in this world—a world with six genders. Here, there were three main sexes: alpha, beta, and omega, each further divided into male and female.

Alphas were the strongest, excelling in both explosive power and endurance, making them the elites of all fields.

Betas were more average, but they had great stamina, allowing them to be diligent workers in almost every profession.

Omegas had the weakest physical constitution and were the rarest of the three, but they were often exceptionally beautiful and had a higher chance of giving birth to outstanding offspring. As a result, they were primarily seen as childbearers.

And now, he had become the rarest of all—a male omega. Not only did he have to deal with something called a “heat cycle,” which required either an alpha or inhibitors… He also… had the ability to conceive. This was downright bizarre. If he weren’t a medical student, accepting it would have been much harder. Honestly, this was even stranger than scanning a QR code to read about a dead man’s life.

Zhou Xingran suddenly felt a chill run down his spine under Yuan Yi’s stare. He stammered, “W-Why are you looking at me like that? You and I are fundamentally different. You’re an orphan—our family raised you, so you should be grateful! How could you compare yourself to me? My dad is the commander of the Fourth Defense Zone!”

Yuan Yi stretched his arms and legs, then tested getting out of bed. “Oh? And then?”

He might look calm on the surface, but inside, he was on the verge of losing it.

The original owner of this body was an orphan, just like him in his past life—so at least he didn’t have too many attachments in this unfamiliar world. But back then, he had a stable job, a new home, and a car. This body’s original owner, however, had none of those things.

In the modern world, he had been a fully trained emergency doctor. But here, Yuan Yi—no, Yuan Yi had become a freshman in the design department, barely starting his first year of university. Their names were almost the same. He was “Yuan Yi” (袁毅), while the original owner was “Yuan Yi” (袁亿) — just a difference in the last character.

As for the person in front of him?

This was the son of Yuan Yi’s uncle. Because he had a crush on the school heartthrob—but the school heartthrob liked Yuan Yi—he framed Yuan Yi in retaliation. He and a group of others spread a rumour that Yuan Yi had deliberately used drugs to induce his heat, trying to seduce the school heartthrob.

The result?

No matter how much Yuan Yi explained, no one believed him. The entire school thought he had tried to use dirty tricks to seduce the school heartthrob. Worse, he had almost been forcefully marked by some passing alpha. Even the school heartthrob refused to acknowledge him anymore. With nowhere to appeal for justice, abandoned and humiliated, Yuan Yi saw no other way out—he chose to end his life by overdosing on medication.

If not for the one friend he had, who found him just in time and saved him, he wouldn’t have survived. And now, this person had the audacity to say, “It’s just carrying a dead man’s child”?

Heh.

Yuan Yi stuffed his hands into his pockets and leisurely walked around the hospital room, eyeing his so-called cousin.

“What’s wrong? Cat got your tongue?”

Zhou Xingran wasn’t mute—he was just stunned. He couldn’t believe that the same timid, weak-willed person had suddenly become someone completely different. The sheer weirdness of the situation left him feeling uneasy.

“W-What did you just say? Who are you calling mute?! Do you even know who you’re talking to?!”

Yuan Yi replied casually, “I’m talking to you, you little idiot.”

He tucked his hands into his pockets and tilted his head slightly. “I’d advise you to think carefully. Yes, you’re the son of the Fourth Defense Zone commander. But don’t forget—your dear father is still waiting to sell me off so he can curry favor with his superior. If something happens to me, guess who’ll have to take my place? Tell me, who do you think will be laughing then?”

Zhou Xingran’s face drained of color. His eyes widened in terror, staring at Yuan Yi as if he had seen a ghost.

How did he know that?!

His father had indeed planned to use this marriage arrangement to please his superior, but he had never told Yuan Yi!

Panicked, Zhou Xingran blurted out, “S-So are you going or not?!”

If Yuan Yi refused, then the one who’d be forced to go would be him!

There was no way he was marrying a dead man!

Yuan Yi ignored him completely. Instead, he was already analyzing the situation, running through the possibilities in his mind.

The current year was Galactic Calendar 1788.

And right now, he was standing on the main planet of the Owanda Empire—Huamei Star.

Specifically, inside a military hospital in the capital city, Aoste.

At this moment, he had two choices:

1. Obediently follow Commander Zhou’s arrangements—marry the war hero Li Heng, and use the frozen genetic material left behind before Li Heng’s final battle to continue the Li family bloodline.
2. Escape.

If the Zhou family were just ordinary people, then option two would clearly be the best choice.

 But reality was different.

 The Zhou family held influence in both the military and political circles. If he ran, he’d likely be caught before he could even figure out how to feed himself. Right now, he had nothing—no money, no home, no savings, no usable credentials. Even if he wanted to return to his old profession, he didn’t have a medical license in this world.

And most importantly—he was an omega male. Not only was he physically weaker, but he also had the biological disadvantage of an “estrus cycle.” Without a fixed alpha partner, even if he somehow managed to survive on odd jobs, most industries wouldn’t even consider hiring an omega male. Given the circumstances—option one was clearly the most viable choice. 

Li Heng had once been the youngest Air Force general in the Owanda Empire. He also possessed a specialized mutated gene—one that made him not only far superior to regular alphas in intelligence and combat ability but also allowed his blood serum to enhance battle performance instantly. On top of that, his presence could stabilize other alphas’ emotions, making his genetic material valuable enough to be preserved by the military. However, not just anyone could carry a child with such an enhanced genome.

After Li Heng’s death, the military did everything it could to find a suitable candidate to continue his bloodline. To this end, they conducted multiple rounds of genetic compatibility screenings within the families of military officers. But after countless attempts, only four individuals were found to meet the required genetic criteria—and among them were him and Zhou Xingran.

The other two candidates, unwilling to be bound to a dead man, had immediately undergone permanent marking with their chosen alphas the very day their genetic compatibility results came out. A final marking in this world was equivalent to a lifelong bond, something that could not be easily undone. So now, the only two remaining candidates for this “mission” were him and Zhou Xingran.

Zhou Xingran, however, had his sights set on the campus heartthrob and refused to marry Li Heng no matter what. Yet, this marriage would bring tremendous benefits to the Zhou family—especially in terms of reputation. For Zhou’s father, the commander of the Fourth Defense Zone, a successful match could greatly accelerate his chances of promotion. Thus, Zhou Xingran’s parents had made their decision: No matter what, Yuan Yi had to marry into the Li family.

“First, you’d better apologize to me right now.”

Yuan Yi stood across from Zhou Xingran, his dark eyes sweeping over him like he was assessing a medical specimen. Then, slowly, a smile crept onto his lips—one that was neither warm nor kind.

Zhou Xingran tensed.

Something was wrong.

He had spent years belittling and pushing Yuan Yi around, knowing full well that the other boy had no power to fight back.

Yet now… Yuan Yi was looking at him like he was nothing more than a mildly interesting inconvenience.

That was not the look of someone who had just tried to kill themselves.

That was not the expression of someone desperate and broken.

Instead, it was the kind of calm, controlled, and quietly dangerous demeanor that made Zhou Xingran’s instincts scream at him to retreat. And that was deeply unsettling. But still, he scoffed, trying to mask his unease with bravado.

“Apologize? To you?” Zhou Xingran crossed his arms, forcing a sneer. “For what?”

Yuan Yi tilted his head slightly. The air in the room shifted. Then, with an almost lazy tone, he said, “For setting me up. For slandering me. For pushing me to the point where I would rather die than stay in that disgusting school with you.”

Zhou Xingran froze. He knew Yuan Yi had always suspected him. But he had never admitted it outright.

Not like this.

Not with this unnerving, absolute certainty.

Yuan Yi took a slow step forward. His voice remained calm, almost clinical, but there was something sharp beneath it—something that sent a chill down Zhou Xingran’s spine.

“You can either apologize now, like a civilized person…”

Another step.

“Or I can make sure everyone in your perfect little social circle finds out exactly how low you had to stoop just to make yourself feel superior.”

A pause.

Then, with a small, amused smile—

“Your choice.”

Zhou Xingran seriously suspected that the person in front of him had gone mad. This guy had never dared to talk to him like this since childhood. Every time he spoke to Yuan Yi, wasn’t it always like training a dog? How come now it felt like he was the one being disciplined instead?

“Yuan Yi, did you take the wrong medicine or something? It’s already good enough that I’m not asking you to apologize to me, and you actually dare to ask me to apologize to you?”

“What, don’t want to?” Yuan Yi said. “Zhou Xingran, don’t forget, the one with a higher compatibility with Li Heng is you. If I just give up on myself and randomly find someone to mark me, do you think the Li family would still agree to let me go? In the end, it would still be you. Don’t think I wouldn’t dare—I’m not even afraid of death, so what else wouldn’t I dare to do? Or do you want to take a gamble? Gamble on whether Commander Zhou will grit his teeth and give up the chance to impress his superior?”

“You—!” Zhou Xingran gritted his teeth. He didn’t dare to gamble at all. Because he knew better than anyone just how much his father cared about his future.

The fact that he had arranged for someone to drug Yuan Yi at school had already been discovered by his father. Because of that, Yuan Yi had attempted suicide, and he himself had been severely reprimanded, then assigned to watch over Yuan Yi here. Even though Yuan Yi seemed like a different person now, there was one thing he had said that was absolutely true—his father was indeed very invested in securing a marriage alliance with the Li family.

Although Li Heng was dead, his achievements were etched in the hearts of all the citizens of the empire. And Li Heng’s grandfather held an exceptionally high position—one that not just anyone could hope to reach. The benefits of forming an alliance with the Li family were countless!

If Li Heng hadn’t died, there wouldn’t even be a chance for someone like Yuan Yi to take this opportunity!

Yuan Yi casually rolled up his slightly long sleeves. “You’d better hurry. I don’t have that much patience.”

Zhou Xingran hesitated as he stared at Yuan Yi for a moment. In the end, he decided not to waste any more time arguing with him. Gritting his teeth, he asked, “If I apologize, you’ll really agree to marry into the Li family?”

Yuan Yi nodded. “That’s right.”

Zhou Xingran took a deep breath. “Fine. I’m sorry.”

Yuan Yi said, “Louder, I didn’t hear you.”

Zhou Xingran shouted, “I’m sorry!”

Yuan Yi said, “Alright, take me to see Commander Zhou.”

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Hello everyone!!! I hope you all have been doing well. After a short break, I planned to start translating a new one. Now I read this novel while translating it. Thus, I would like to apologise in advance as there may be some errors. If you find any mistakes, kindly comment below. Thank you all for your love and support!!! Love you all!!