Wait for You Until Dawn

The vilest thing Yue Xingqiao ever did was take advantage of Qu Lanxi's vulnerability and climb into her bed. Seeing her constantly covered in suggestive marks she could hardly conceal, her friends teased her, asking if she was secretly dating another woman. Otherwise, how could she, an S-rank Alpha, end up looking worse than an Omega?

Yue Xingqiao just laughed it off.

It was a relationship between two Alphas, all right, except the other “A” stood for an A-rank Omega.

During their year as “contract lovers,” she proposed to Qu Lanxi nine times. The ninth time was the day before their contract expired.

As usual, she prepared flowers, red wine, candles, and a ring, then sent Qu Lanxi a photo: [One last time. I'll wait for you until dawn.]

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It took Qu Lanxi seven whole years to go from obscurity to winning Best Actress. But it took just one night to go from a star everyone adored to a “homewrecker” everyone despised.

And the person who branded her a shameless third party was the one she trusted most, the one who had once promised to stay by her side for the rest of her life.

But that person took someone else's hand and ran off with them.

At the darkest point, when she was blacklisted across the internet, a girl who looked like the betrayer came to her side. The girl never urged her to pull herself together. Instead, she sank with her, indulging her in a drunken haze and coaxing her to vent all her resentment and hatred toward the one who had betrayed her.

In truth, she was clearheaded every time they slept together. That only made her feel more and more despicable. She found it harder and harder to treat the girl as a substitute, and more and more... impossible to go on.

Yet the “trouble” she thought would take some effort to shake off didn't cling to her.

She had said it was the last time, and it really was.

The girl disappeared without a trace, as if she had never existed.

[Bonus Scene]

Two years after retiring from acting, Qu Lanxi finally received a decent offer: because of her resemblance to the young star Tao Yirui, she was cast as the supporting actress, playing a gloomy, twisted older sister.

On the day they filmed a scene in which the sisters fell into the water, Tao Yirui's friend from outside the industry visited the set and treated the whole crew to afternoon tea. In front of everyone, she held a towel and dried Tao Yirui's face and hair after she climbed out of the water, never once glancing at the Best Actress standing beside her.

In the pouring rain, Qu Lanxi walked dazedly toward the girl, whose voice and profile seemed familiar. Before she could ask, “Yue Xingqiao, is that you?”, she heard Tao Yirui say in a coaxing voice, “Qiaoqiao, you're so sweet. But haven't you always wanted to meet Teacher Qu? Why...”

“Why would anyone else matter more than you? Come on, let's go over there. You don't want to catch a cold.”

In the middle of the night, Qu Lanxi came down with a high fever. In a daze, stumbling as she went, she knocked on Yue Xingqiao's door.

“A-Qiao, it isn't dawn yet...”

[Important Details]

A cunning, lovesick, younger heiress × a washed-up, disillusioned, older actress

Six-year age gap, both each other's first, happy ending

The Alpha has no unnecessary attachments; no pregnancy or childbirth in the main story

Qu Lanxi and her childhood friend, an Omega who became an Alpha, were never romantically involved, though things did get ambiguous

This is a melodramatic revenge-romance story with lots of tropes. If you can't stand it, don't read it. Please don't take it out on the author! No writing advice, please! Everything serves the author's tastes and the plot!

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Theme: Creating a lover tailor-made just for yourself.