After Breaking Up With My Abstinent CEO

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At a book signing in C City, Lu Wu and Li Jin met for the first time.

At the time, Li Jin walked in wearing high heels.

Her features were cool and aloof, her slender waist and long legs wrapped in a black dress. She had the otherworldly air of a supermodel on the runway.

Lu Wu had assumed a supermodel wouldn't be interested in anything here, including her books and, of course, Lu Wu herself.

But Li Jin joined the long line and came right up to her, holding out a business card with a cool, haughty air.

"I want a custom book. I have only one requirement: keep the romance pure. I don't need any 'intimate exchanges.'"

Li Jin really did hand her a business card.

But the contact information on it belonged to her assistant, who handled business partnerships.

Li Jin seemed profoundly uncomfortable even discussing the "intimate exchanges" adults had.

That is, until one wild night that lasted from midnight to dawn, from the carpet to the sofa.

Lu Wu asked, "Didn't President Li say she didn't need any intimate exchanges? Then what are we doing?"

Li Jin closed her eyes, languidly resting, and replied offhandedly, "I make exceptions once in a while."

But their occasional exception turned into something lasting.

For a long time, they were like an ordinary couple.

Li Jin made time after work to watch Lu Wu's favorite movies with her, and she would turn down business engagements to get home before midnight and celebrate her birthday with her.

Li Jin agreed to every unreasonable, over-the-top request Lu Wu made, not only through every night of intertwined light and shadow and every sunrise and sunset, but in every little detail of daily life.

Surrounded by so much sweetness for so long, Lu Wu truly came to believe that they were in sync, and that their love was unquestionable.

Until the day she knelt before Li Jin, who accepted the ring with a cold, bewildered look Lu Wu had never expected.

"Our relationship?"

"Just a diversion."

Many years later, someone asked Lu Wu, "I heard Li Jin has been looking for you all this time. Don't you care about your past together at all?"

Lu Wu smiled, her eyes calm and untroubled. "Our past? It was just a diversion."

Synopsis revised on 10.24

Important: President Li has a 'daughter,' but she's not her biological child

Writer (24) x CEO (30)

Passionate, dazzling, young writer with a great sex life x restrained, chaste, untouchable CEO

Explicit sex in the early chapters

Later, President Li suffers and chases her wife

Coming next: After the Breakup, the Aloof Omega with Touch Starvation Regrets It

Gentle, cool figure-skating Omega x younger, unhinged CEO Alpha

* Early on: a sugar mommy and her kept woman, with a harmonious sex life and ulterior motives on both sides

* Later: adversaries, pure hatred, and a partnership and bedmate arrangement based entirely on sex

When Shi Xu first saw Pei Qing, a group of Alphas were gathered around her, jeering.

Pei Qing stood beneath the glaring lights and tilted her head back, swallowing everything in her glass.

She took the dirtiest, most wretched money, yet the Omega's expression was stubborn and cool, like a pristine flower fallen into the mud.

She asked her, "How much for one night? I'll buy you."

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Pei Qing was interested in figure skating, so Shi Xu hired her the most renowned coach and booked the most expensive rink.

When someone insulted Pei Qing during a competition, they were found the next day, having fallen into the sea and been eaten by sharks.

When her heat arrived, iron handcuffs cut deep, bone-revealing marks into Shi Xu's wrists. Yet when she marked Pei Qing, she was so gentle she almost seemed to hide her canines.

Later, confidential company documents were stolen and core data was made completely public. The Shi Group's stock collapsed overnight.

Shi Xu, caught in a fever, was barely conscious, yet she kept holding Pei Qing and repeating,

"Pei Qing, don't leave me. I only have you."

Pei Qing pries Shi Xu's fingers apart one by one, admiring her reddened eyes and the way she has been reduced to groveling in the dirt.

"Shi Xu, have you ever wondered who betrayed you?"

Shi Xu comes to her senses and sees Pei Qing smiling, her gaze more merciless than an enemy's.

"Shi Xu, every time you mark me, it makes me sick."

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Pei Qing is cool and aloof. Revenge is what kept her alive through the first half of her life.

Shi Xu's Alpha father killed her parents and left her mired in the mud, never able to return to the figure-skating rink.

Pei Qing repays him in kind. She hides her identity, deliberately approaches Shi Xu, and seduces and indulges her. Then she leaves her with nothing and casts her into the dirt.

The Shi Group is destroyed, and Shi Xu disappears without a trace.

Pei Qing gets what she wanted. She should feel triumphant, but just then she hears that her true enemy was sent to prison long ago.

It turns out Shi Xu knew all along that Pei Qing approached her with ulterior motives.

From that day on, Pei Qing is plagued by nightmares and grows weaker by the day. At night, she keeps thinking of the Alpha's reddened eyes.

Her hospital report shows that she has pheromone dependency syndrome and must rely on Shi Xu's pheromones to sleep normally.

They meet again later at a high-society banquet in N City.

Shi Xu arrives with an unfamiliar Omega on her arm. She's become a rising star praised by business tycoons, more successful than ever.

In a hotel room,

Pei Qing's long-suppressed heat is easily stirred by the Alpha's pheromones.

Her dependency flares up, and an indescribable heat surges through her, threatening to overwhelm her.

She bites her lower lip and uses trembling fingertips to undo her clothes.

"Help me..."

Watching the misty moisture gather at the Omega's eyes, Shi Xu gives a faintly amused smile and lifts a hand to hold her chin in place.

Her fingertip stirs against her warm lips, pushing deep inside.

"You want to be marked?"

"But I clearly remember Miss Pei saying..."

"That I disgust you?"

Pei Qing's reason is on the verge of crumbling. She can only rub herself against Shi Xu on instinct.

She calls the Alpha's name without realizing it, unable to form a complete sentence.

"Shi Xu..."

"Please."

Shi Xu pulls out her finger, drawing a barely visible strand of silver behind it.

She looks down at Pei Qing, raising an eyebrow. Her words are mercilessly mocking and scornful.

"Miss Pei."

"Have some self-respect."

* The characters aren't perfect: unhinged x sweet on the outside, ruthless within

* The Alpha is twisted, ruthless, and cruel, while the Omega is also very good at using the resources at her disposal

* My take on ABO, no appendages

* Reconciliation after a breakup, groveling, a bit of angst, but very compelling

Theme: Be brave enough to face yourself.