After Accidentally Marking the O Next Door

A synopsis for my best friend's rivals-to-lovers, Focus Lost, crematorium-style romance novel. Welcome to bookmark it~

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[Exclusive relationship and happy ending / Ten-year age gap / Difference in seniority / Secretly entangled right under everyone's noses]

Couple: Slightly socially anxious, timid, quiet, smoldering younger Alpha × openly flirtatious, secretly in love, two-faced older Omega

Before Xu Nian Shi could storm back to her hometown after quitting her job in a huff, she accidentally marked an Omega.

The kind of Omega with a slim, soft waist, who clung tightly and was especially good at crying.

Unfortunately, she couldn't find her.

She was a little beside herself.

Her mother, Qiu Minmin, thought she was upset about losing her job, so she specially brought her kind and considerate best friend, Shen Yi Shu, to meet her at the station.

Who knew that when they met, Xu Nian Shi wouldn't even greet her?

Qiu Minmin flew into a rage. "What are you staring at? Don't you recognize Auntie Shen from next door?"

She really didn't recognize her.

If she had, how could she have left Shen Yi Shu's eyes red, bullied her until she begged in a husky voice, "Help me...?"

Her one-night stand was her mom's best friend. What kind of situation was this?!

Shen Yi Shu was gentle and mild-mannered. She was raising a daughter on her own, though the girl wasn't her biological child, and had agreed to look after her best friend's daughter, Xu Nian Shi.

But she felt guilty.

Because she'd looked after the girl all the way into bed.

Afterward,

she tied on an apron, then a ribbon,

hiding the trace of Alpha pheromones.

She looked every bit the devoted wife and mother.

Gentle and soft-spoken, with a tender air.

Yet beneath the table, she couldn't resist hooking her foot around Xu Nian Shi's leg.

She didn't act like an auntie at all.

It left Xu Nian Shi too nervous to eat, and she began avoiding Shen Yi Shu.

But after dodging her this way and that, somehow she ended up at Shen Yi Shu's home.

On the surface, she was tutoring Shen Yi Shu's daughter.

In secret, she took the chance to mark Shen Yi Shu completely whenever they were alone.

Steam billowed through the kitchen.

The ribbon that had been meant to hide the pheromones

was now soaked with Shen Yi Shu's tears.

The noisy sounds were like a cover for their shame.

They drowned out Shen Yi Shu's seductive, alluring voice.

Xu Nian Shi asked in confusion, "Auntie, can you still finish cooking?"

"I can..."

Shen Yi Shu's voice trembled at the end. She softly offered a solution: "If I can't finish cooking, you can eat me instead."

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Focus Lost (GL)

A fake assembly-line painter who is actually a genius artist VS the person in charge of a top auction house

1.

Shang Li is an assembly-line painter who copies masterpieces, yet she dreams of winning the favor of the woman in charge of an auction house.

Her roommate advises her: Different circles, don't even think about it. It won't happen.

Not long after, the woman invites her over to help out in an emergency. These emergencies grow more frequent and more complicated, and the location shifts from the gallery to the exhibition hall, then the auction house, and finally a villa halfway up the mountain.

One night, the woman catches her by the hem of her clothes. "Is it dry? Why are you in such a hurry to leave?"

She glances at the painting, which has long since dried. "Not yet. It's going to rain tonight, so I'll leave tomorrow."

After that, the rain keeps coming, one storm after another. Those damp, sticky nights are like a badly out-of-focus film, with a captivating soundtrack that beguiles the mind.

Later, Shang Li discovers that the real reason she was called in to help was to drive up the value of her paintings as high as possible, then package her up with her work and sell them both.

Every word the woman says is sharp-edged: "Your education, your imitations, your perspective: which of them can you really claim as your own? Without me, you're nothing!" Shang Li leaves decisively, saying, "I'll never look back," and vows never to set foot in Lu City again.

2.

Shi Yu is the person in charge of a top auction house. She puts a price on everything and is always rational and restrained.

No one knows that in a bedroom filled with enchanting light and shadow, she willingly becomes a sheet of paper for Shang Li to paint on, letting her draw as she pleases. They entwine so completely that not a gap remains between them.

When her phone suddenly rings, she rests a foot on Shang Li's shoulder, trembling as she orders, "Hang up. Keep going."

Shang Li only half obeys.

Shi Yu lifts her chin, taps her face twice, and speaks in a bewitching voice: "If you're going to be so disobedient, do you still want your special reward?"

"I do."

"Then behave yourself and don't get distracted."

Before long, a friend warns her, "Money, status, fame: what else haven't you given her? Be careful you don't come to regret it." Shi Yu pays no heed.

Only when Shang Li vanishes from her life does Shi Yu realize that she has lost her completely.

3.

When they meet again after a long separation, Shang Li has become the artist with the greatest commercial value, and Lu City even has a private art museum named after her initials.

The atmosphere at the dinner is strange. Someone tries to smooth things over. "They say President Shi has a good eye for talent..."

"Selling out a friend for profit, a merchant's vulgarity: that suits President Shi better." Shang Li interrupts and leaves.

Shi Yu rushes after her with red eyes and grabs her wrist. "Who said you'd never look back? And who gave you permission to come back?!"

Shang Li gently pulls her hand away, her voice calm. "It has nothing to do with you."

"But after you left..." Shi Yu sheds all her pride, her voice breaking. "I wished I were dead."

Theme: Accept yourself, and find peace in the passing years.