2- Ryan Ashborne

Ryan had memories of his previous life from the tender age to when he died, he remembered it all. Once upon a time, he had been called Yun, it was Xin Yun but his father expelled him from the Xin family. Although later the court ruled that he could keep on using the family name for his enterprise, he had since prefered to be called Yun.

It hadn't always been like that, of course. It was true that he never had a warm relationship with his parents but until some point in his life they didn't hate him. They just never had time for him. Until they finally did.

He was twenty one in that life when everything went awry. His conservative rich second generation parents discovered his sexual orientation. And it was in the worst possible way too. They were called to the police station, their eldest son having been charged with rape.

Did Ryan really do something that debasing? No! His boyfriend of the time had wanted to try some BDSM play, so he bought the whole pack: ropes, whips, cuff, and all.. they only missing items were the condoms. They had run out of it and his boyfriend who was supposed to buy them forget, so to punish him and also as some kind of foreplay game, he left the young man tied to the bed naked, only with an eye mask on him. The room was warm enough to not fear the cold and he wasn't gone for long anyway.

However, neither could predict that this was the premise for the horrible break up to come- could it even be called that, for in reality, there had never been any real closure to that relationship they shared. The thorn in the operation had been they sudden visit of his boyfriends's mother. Of course, he didn't know the exact details on how the woman really found Yuan Li or what had Yuan Li said to her, but by the time he came back to his boyfriend's appartement, Yuan Li was covered with the bed's sheet, crying as though rescued from some kind of shocking experience, while the woman was anxiously pacing, frantically making calls everywhere. It happened so fast, the cops, the ambulance, his boyfriend's father and the Yuan family's lawyers... eveything went so fast, by the time he registered what was going on, he wal already in the police station, listening as a policeman was reading him his rights.

Only then did they make it clear to him that he was accused of aggravated assault and rape.

God knew that he wasn't a saint, but there were some things on this earth that he just couldn't do!

He belatedly raelize that this was the story Yuan Li came up with to not come out to his parents but gosh, of all things, ruining his life just to save face?

He had pleaded with the man to tell the truth to no avail... He had hoped that -even though he kind of knew in a corner of his heart- that his parents would help him, but they left him utterly alone going so far as to sever relationship with him pubicly via newpapers, social media, tv... you name it, they used it!

After some jailtime, he went out, grateful to the system for having found him not guilty

Though his first serious relationship ended in such a disaster, leaving him with nowhere to call his home, he couldn't simply willed himself to change his sexual orientation and for his body to respond accordingly to such. He had a couple of other relationship but none that survived six months of time. Mostly because he couldn't trust with all his being.

By the time he was thirty and same sex marriage was possible, he had no one, not even flings. Work became his only haven. He died at thirty four, blown up in a foreign country by a terrorist bomb, only to wake up as a baby here.

This world was similar to his previous one, but different at the same time. There were six genders here, male and female of course, but each of such was divided in sub genders that were alpha, beta and omega. While beta didn't really differ to humans as he knew them, alpha and omega had characteristics that were mind blowing to say the least: female alpha could impregnate people and male omega could get pregnant! Of course, that wasn't all there was to it, but those were what, upon learning this at school, had him dumbstruckingly stared at the teacher for more than the man found comfortable at the time.

One couldn't directly know his sub gender as he could with his primary one upon birth, it could only be observed when reaching puberty, usually around eleven to thriteen years old. Very fex had their differentiation show up at around ten though it did for him.

Many expected him to be an alpha male but he turned out to be a beta.

He read a lot about that topic since he first learned of it around five and he had done lots of thinking about that too. He had absorbed knowledge after knowledge around it and truthfully, had, since long a ago, always prayed to differentiate as a beta. He really didn't envy alpha and certainly not omega. So what if they were the pillars of the worlds? So what if they were supposed to be endowed with natural talents! Who wants to be in heat or going through rut? Who wants to feel his body sleeping out of control from some kind of perfume they call 'pheromone'. Sorry, but he was quite happy being a beta.

Only, that hadn't been the reaction of his parents.

In two lifetimes, he never had a loving family, -or maybe in two lifetimes, he had never learn to be a worthy son. Either he had shitty luck or they did.

Ryan met Mike Myers when he had long left home and was still involved with Jade, hiw now ex, around four years ago. They met a couple of times around the span of a year, each time more unpleasant than the last. The young man being Jade's good friend, Ryan put up with it, and, most of the time he could tell that the other party wasn't really angry at him but merely looking for an outlet to vent his anger: he just happened to be the ideal punching bag, the worthless beta that was clinging to a promising alpha! Though that didn't make it any less infuriating.

From what he could tell, Michaelson Myers had been the embodiment of the stereotype alpha: arrogant, full of himself and unable to realize the faults in his way of being. How funny now to see that person crying out for help.