Pretending to Be a Jerk

To avoid being set up on blind dates, Su Beiyan studies all the things women say to turn men off, then disguises himself as the ultimate mama’s boy.

To get closer to Su Beiyan, Duan Qingcheng takes a perfectly good overbearing CEO and disguises himself as an insufferably arrogant, delusionally confident man.

At one blind date, Su’s mother watches Su Beiyan repeat “Mom says this, Mom says that” and falls into deep thought. Meanwhile, Duan’s mother watches Duan Qingcheng repeat “I think this, I believe that” and falls into deep thought, too.

After thinking it over, the two mothers reach the same conclusion: a mama’s boy and an arrogant, delusionally confident man are made for each other! And so Su Beiyan is kicked out of his home by his own mother and packed off to live with Duan Qingcheng, supposedly to “get rid of his bad habits.”

The two fake turnoff guys end up living together for no apparent reason. They think they’re just strangers who happened to cross paths, but it turns out they’re old acquaintances reunited after years apart.

Then Su Beiyan spots the man in the distance issuing orders and falls into deep thought: We agreed to be disliked together, but you secretly became a CEO.

Duan Qingcheng: “Beiyan, even if I am a CEO, it only proves how outstanding I am. My feelings for you haven’t changed.”

Su Beiyan looks at the words “mama’s boy” hovering over his head, then suddenly snaps and smashes them to pieces: “To hell with being your good little boy! I’m a workplace nitpicker!”

Duan Qingcheng: “Of course, Beiyan. Go ahead and give them a hard time. Your Duan-ge will be the fulcrum you use to move the earth.”

Su Beiyan: (shrugs) “What can I do? I guess I’ll make do.”

At home, the bottom acts like a good little boy and a mama’s boy; at work, he’s the perfect nemesis of clueless, incompetent bosses. At home, the top pretends to be a narcissistic, arrogantly confident guy; everywhere else, he’s known as the workplace’s ice-cold CEO.