{"id":3199,"date":"2026-06-06T23:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:25:00","slug":"after-transmigrating-into-a-beta-i-took-the-initiative-to-attack-the-main-characters-love-interest-41","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/chapter\/after-transmigrating-into-a-beta-i-took-the-initiative-to-attack-the-main-characters-love-interest-41\/","title":{"rendered":"After Transmigrating into a Beta, I Took the Initiative to Attack the Main Character’s Love Interest 41"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ceiling above was still white; Gu Sheng knew his susceptibility had completely passed this time.

He looked around and saw his second sister sitting in a chair playing games.

Gu Jin Yan had a lollipop in her mouth, holding her phone as she wreaked havoc in the gaming world.

All the exhaust fans were turned on; aside from the smell of disinfectant, Gu Sheng didn’t detect any lingering pheromones.

Gu Jinyan finished a match and was on the results screen, reporting the two teammates who had AFK’d, when she looked up and saw Gu Sheng was already awake.

“Awake? Do you feel any discomfort anywhere?”

Gu Jinyan put down her phone and watched Gu Sheng slowly move his limbs.

After being restrained for so long, his limbs felt somewhat unfamiliar, as if they no longer belonged to him.

Gu Jinyan climbed up and helped Gu Sheng turn over.

Gu Sheng gritted his teeth against the numbness, rolled over and waited for the tingling to pass: “I’m okay.”

After a moment, Gu Sheng asked her, “Are you the only one here?”

“My parents went to rest. I sent them a message. Gu Yuan I have no idea where he ran off to; he called me and told me to watch over you, said he had something to take care of. If you need anything, just tell me\u2014I’ll see what I can do.” Gu Jinyan smiled at Gu Sheng, who was struggling with the numbness, her smile making her words a little impish.

Gu Sheng looked around; there really was no sign of Zhou Shiyi. He was almost fully recovered, so he sat up to move his limbs.

Ignoring the wounds hidden beneath the bandages, Gu Sheng flexed his fingers.

Gu Sheng was afraid that not using his limbs for a long time would lead to poor blood circulation, which would not only make the susceptible period harder to endure but could even result in amputation \u2014 a truly miserable outcome.

“It’s fine, I was just asking.”

Gu Jin Yan’s phoenix-like eyes narrowed, and she asked casually, “You’re looking for someone? Someone like that little classmate Zhou of yours?”

Gu Jin Yan had said it offhandedly, but Gu Sheng knew his second sister was already suspicious.

“No one, I just saw you and was really surprised. When exactly do you start school?” Gu Sheng didn’t want to talk about it.

“I already told you I’m on a gap year. If it weren’t for you, unlucky child, I’d have gone to Alaska to ski by now.” Gu Jin Yan put away his phone and poked Gu Sheng’s head with a finger, but Gu Sheng dodged.

When he dodged, Gu Jin Yan got interested.

“Oh? Growing up, and you won’t even let me touch you anymore? I’m going to poke you anyway.”

They started making a ruckus; when Gu Yuan opened the hospital room door, he saw the two of them causing a commotion.

“This is a hospital \u2014 mind your behavior and the disturbance.”

Gu Jinyan made a throat-slitting gesture toward Gu Sheng, meaning “you’re as good as dead.”

“Big brother.” Gu Sheng stepped past Gu Jinyan and called out to Gu Yuan, who was standing there scrutinizing him.

“Mm, feeling any better?” Gu Yuan stepped over.

An alpha who had just come out of the estrus window had an extremely keen sense of smell. The moment Gu Yuan got close, Gu Sheng caught a strong scent of smoke on him.

He frowned slightly. Even though Gu Yuan usually dressed head-to-toe in black suits\u2014so much so that if you didn’t look closely you’d think he wore the same suit every day\u2014he took great care with his appearance.

Judging by the creases in the suit, it looked like Gu Yuan hadn’t been home all night.

“Did you call Mom and Dad?” Gu Yuan asked, looking at Gu Jin Yan.

Gu Jin Yan glanced at them suspiciously and said, “Not yet. He just woke up. How about I go downstairs and pack some food to bring up?”

Gu Yuan gave a small “hmm.”

Gu Jin Yan shot Gu Sheng a meaning-filled look one last time, then went downstairs.

Once she left, the whole hospital room felt empty.

Gu Sheng looked at Gu Yuan, knowing he had something to say.

“I saw everything yesterday.”

Yesterday\u2014saw Zhou Shi Yi, right? Gu Sheng thought for a moment and said, “You saw everything? Then Mom and Dad…”

“My parents don’t know yet.” Gu Yuan’s gaze scrutinized him sharply. “When did it start?”

Now that it had come to this, Gu Sheng was surprisingly more candid. “If you’re asking when I started liking him, I can only say it was a long time ago.” Even earlier than he himself had thought.

“If you’re asking when we started\u2014what we had\u2014then I can only tell you there was nothing between us. He always treated me like a regular classmate.”

Gu Sheng gave a bitter little smile.

Gu Yuan hadn’t expected Gu Sheng to be so candid. Alpha-beta pairings have never been well regarded by the public, precisely because of that uncertainty.

An alpha and omega lifelong marking means uniqueness, while a beta does not, and without pheromonal bonding there\u2019s no binding\u2014so both parties face equal tests and temptations.

A few alpha\u2013beta couples who overcome all odds and stay together in the end still succumb to their own instincts, ultimately ending in a hasty, bleak divorce.

This path is extremely difficult; Gu Yuan doesn’t want Gu Sheng to go down it. Besides, judging by Gu Sheng’s behavior, it’s entirely a one-sided crush on his part \u2014 Zhou Shi Yi has no such feelings at all.

Gu Yuan sighed, speaking earnestly: “Gu Sheng, I know during adolescence hormones can make one restless; developing feelings for a classmate is perfectly normal. I won’t stop you from seeing someone, but you need to decide whether you want to continue as friends or cut ties for good.”

Gu Sheng recognized Zhou Shi Yi because Zhou Shi Yi was simply too easy to recognize.

Not to mention that Zhou Shi Yi is the only beta in Gu Sheng’s class \u2014 even now, Zhou Shi Yi is representing Huaguo at the international biology competition, took first place with his team, and is being held up as a model throughout Mingde High School.

Because of this, Zhou Shiyi also received scholarships set up by Mingde High School and the local education bureau. With just that money, Zhou Shiyi wouldn\u2019t have to worry about college expenses for the next few years.

That kid really is an exceptionally outstanding person, and he even saved him and Gu Sheng \u2014 including this time \u2014 so you could say he\u2019s the Gu family\u2019s lifesaver.

But that didn\u2019t change Gu Yuan\u2019s opinion: an alpha and a beta pairing was doomed to go nowhere.

Cases like Gu Sheng\u2019s were still rare; the hospital\u2019s diagnosis concluded that his current state could only be caused by psychological factors. To truly cure him, they would first have to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Even if Gu Sheng never fully recovered, being with a beta didn\u2019t seem so bad.

But would that beta truly be willing\u2014living every day with a partner under the shadow of wondering whether they might one day meet an omega whose pheromones matched them perfectly, and then be abandoned, their marriage cast aside?

Even if Zhou Shiyi truly agreed, the Gu family would compensate him in other ways, but Gu Sheng’s post-traumatic stress disorder would still be a ticking time bomb \u2014 no one knew when it might flare up, and what new problems that would bring.

Gu Yuan hesitated; he didn’t know how to start.

“Big brother, you don’t need to try to persuade me. I’ll cooperate with Dr. Li’s treatment, but you can’t stop me from seeing him. I promise you, I won’t cross that line before the college entrance exam is over.”

As if he knew what Gu Yuan was worried about, Gu Sheng cut him off.

\u201cNo matter whether I can be cured in the future, no matter whether he\u2019s a beta, no matter whether he\u2019ll ever fall for me, I\u2019ve already decided on him\u2014on who he is.\u201d

\u201cMaybe you think what I\u2019m saying now is just youthful recklessness, but I have to tell you the truth: whether in my past life or this one, I\u2019ve long since fixed on him.\u201d

Maybe it was because in his past life he died in Zhou Shiyi’s arms, maybe it was the four years they spent together in college, maybe it was the moment he first noticed Zhou Shiyi \u2014 Gu Sheng knew he had long been in love with Zhou Shiyi.

It was just that the affection had arrived so suddenly, and then vanished like a gust of wind \u2014 slipping through his fingers before he could grasp it. Only he knew that a breeze had truly passed by just now.

He then, like everyone else, followed the usual path into society, moving through the steel forest of bustling traffic, drinking and socializing with others, laughing and chatting.

When he was set up and ended up in the lab, he ran into the person he had never been able to forget. The humiliation he felt then made him realize that he’d imagined countless times how he and Zhou Shiyi might meet again, but he had never pictured it happening with him appearing so disheveled.

Over the following three years, more than a thousand days and nights, the bond between him and Zhou Shiyi only grew deeper.

The surge of an oestrus phase is extremely tormenting; every heat is a test for an alpha, and it’s a form of torture.

During those months-long, day-and-night heats, he gradually lost himself in the tide of desire and even entertained thoughts of ending himself.

He was the test subject Zhou Shiyi cared about most in the lab; almost every sensitive period, he was the one who stayed with Gu Sheng through it.

In the boundless surge of heat and the pain of bones that had been broken and put back together, he could find only a moment’s peace in Zhou Shi Yi’s arms.

That unspoken crush, long buried in his heart and impossible to share, was forcibly reshaped by outside forces before it had time to bloom and bear fruit. In the end, that wind he couldn’t hold onto gathered into a storm.

That tree called “Crush” had been violently forced and bound to his life, in an absolutely twisted way taking up the place in Gu Sheng’s heart. Its branches and vines were thick and tangled, enclosing the small Gu Sheng so tightly no air could pass through, and that seed remained clutched in Zhou Shi Yi’s hand.

Zhou Shiyi was like a merciless controller, always looking down on him from above, watching him cry and tremble in pain; no matter how Gu Sheng begged for mercy, Zhou Shiyi remained composed and utterly without pity, tugging at Gu Sheng’s heart.

Any movement from Zhou Shiyi made him hurt.

How could this not be a kind of twisted love.

He’d thought about forgetting Zhou Shiyi. He tried to stay away from him, to gouge out that vine-wrapped tree with its roots tangled so tightly they couldn’t be separated, but he found he really couldn’t.

No matter the outcome, Gu Sheng didn’t want to give up lightly without having tried.

Even if it meant going to hell, Gu Sheng would stand in the red sea of hell and try to reach out to Zhou Shiyi on the shore; if Zhou Shiyi responded, Gu Sheng would drag him down into the sea.

Gu Yuan looked at the madness and obsession in Gu Sheng’s eyes and felt a secret chill.

He was mistaken.

In their eyes, Gu Sheng had always been a child who never grew up, but they all overlooked one thing: how could a Gu family child be merely a soft, easy prey? At their core they were hunters, lying in wait for their prey to arrive.

Gu Yuan was silent for a moment. “The reason you were investigating that extremist group made up of betas before\u2014was that because of him? And now? Have you confirmed it?”

“It wasn’t him; from beginning to end, I was the one who got it wrong,” Gu Sheng sighed inwardly.

When he was first reborn, hatred had clouded his eyes and his memories were faulty.

Just the Zhou Shi Yi in his memory\u2014taciturn, unbothered by external things\u2014wouldn’t have wanted to join the student council because it would waste his study time; how could he have joined such a large organization?

Even the loose composition of the group’s members would have made obsessive-compulsive Zhou Shi Yi frown.

Gu Yuan looked at Gu Sheng, and for some reason a strange smile suddenly appeared on his face, as if in reminiscence. He shivered, and felt a sudden surge of sympathy for Zhou Shiyi, who had been fixed under Gu Sheng’s stare.

“So what are you thinking now?”

Speaking of which, Gu Sheng sounded a bit annoyed: “He’s already been guaranteed admission to B University. Right now I just want to go back and study properly.”

Gu Yuan gave a light chuckle and ruffled his hair; that dark, crazed look from a moment ago \u2014 he almost didn’t recognize him.

Seeing Gu Sheng look at him with a plaintive gaze because his hair had been mussed, finally showing a hint of the familiar expression from his memory, Gu Yuan sighed inwardly.<\/p>","protected":false},"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"novel":[],"class_list":["post-3199","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3199\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"novel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetink.xyz\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novel?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}