After Lying Flat, I Found Out I Was the Powerful One's Secret Crush

My upcoming novel, After Becoming the Guardian of a Yandere Villain, is now open for follows~ After Li Yan went through a chaotic relationship in high school, her family forcibly sent her abroad. By the time she returned after graduating, her uncle's family had almost taken over all the family assets. She had no grand ambitions. She took an easy job at the company, thinking she'd spend the rest of her life doing nothing remarkable. But even though she'd chosen to lie flat, she discovered that her life had somehow started getting easier in inexplicable ways: The banquet her cousin couldn't get into sent her an invitation well in advance; the bank president her cousin had been trying to meet went out of his way to give her his card; even the project her company had struggled to secure was assigned to her by the powerful Lu family, who insisted she lead it. A friend joked, "Could that mysterious head of the Lu family have a crush on you?" Not long afterward, Li Yan was lucky enough to run into Lu Manqing at a banquet. Lu Manqing was a Beta. Her appearance unsettled everyone, and the pheromone levels in the entire banquet hall skyrocketed. But Lu Manqing couldn't smell anything and continued socializing with everyone around her, completely unaware. At her friend's urging, Li Yan went over to say hello. Lu Manqing remained composed, made an excuse to leave after only a brief conversation, and acted as though she didn't know Li Yan at all. So her friend paid up on their bet and began pretending to date Li Yan to avoid an arranged marriage at home. At first, the news circulated only between their two families. But for some reason, as the company project progressed, it also reached the neighboring Lu Corporation. When Li Yan took her team to give a progress report, she got lost and wandered into an office. In the dark, a warm, soft body pinned her against the wall. Lu Manqing asked her, "Can a Beta do it too?" Before Li Yan could react, she heard Lu Manqing murmur, "Then why can't it be me?" P.S.: In all my ABO stories, female Alphas have no appendages. The high school romance was a complete misunderstanding. The two heroines are the only ones for each other, in body and heart. Blurb for After Becoming the Guardian of a Yandere Villain: After an accident, Ye Huaiyu transmigrated into an unfinished novel. The System tasked her with repairing the world's broken storylines. The original story was a sweet romance with two heroines. To add some twists to their relationship, the author created a yandere villain. At the end, the villain faked the first heroine's death and secretly imprisoned her in a little black room she'd built herself. When the story reached that point, the author despairingly realized that nobody could outsmart the villain, the smartest character in the book. The only option was to force the villain to die by accidentally electrocuting herself in the black room, allowing the first heroine to escape and forcing a happy ending. But this absurdly stupid plot twist caused the world of the book to begin collapsing. System: Either find a logical way to defeat the villain and save the heroine, or wait for the world to collapse and take everyone down with it. The first time Ye Huaiyu met Mu Jingyi, she gave up on the idea of opposing her. The sixteen-year-old girl was thin and stood in a corner like a new bamboo shoot. She was at the most vibrant age of her life, yet her eyes were as still as a pool of dead water. Ye Huaiyu completed the adoption paperwork and brought the villain home to care for her. She hoped to change the girl's nature and prevent the tragedy from happening. Years later, the lonely villain, who had been adopted by the first heroine after losing both her parents in the original story, had transformed into a wealthy heiress, treated like royalty. Exceptionally intelligent, Mu Jingyi graduated early, turned down the research institute's enthusiastic invitation, and insisted on returning to Ye Huaiyu's side to help manage the company. One day, she happened to run into the first heroine, who was still struggling through a low-paying job on the street. The two started getting in touch again. Ye Huaiyu was terribly nervous. Whenever they met, she secretly hid nearby, afraid her girl might get it into her head to fall for someone else's heroine again. Keeping watch really did uncover a problem. One day, a private detective sent her an address. Ye Huaiyu hurried out of a matchmaking banquet and rushed there, only to discover that Mu Jingyi had secretly built a little black room for imprisoning people, just like in the original story. She trembled with anger. She turned to leave, only to find that someone had locked the door. "Do you like it?" Mu Jingyi asked her from the darkness. "I decorated it especially to suit Auntie's tastes." Ye Huaiyu: "..." The little black room was here, and there seemed to be no avoiding the imprisonment play. But the person who'd ended up in it had changed. Ye Huaiyu realized what was going on and gave a cool laugh. She casually slipped off the two decorative rings on her hand and tossed them to the floor. "After all this time, you still haven't learned your lesson. I suppose you'll have to graduate late." Mu Jingyi's eyes trembled, but she obediently came closer and nestled into Ye Huaiyu's arms with practiced ease. Theme: Be confident and strong, independent and self-reliant.