The Stand-In CEO Wants to Quit Every Day

[Lighthearted comedy + younger love interest + substitute]

Xu Disheng got fired. His company’s boss explained that he had hired him because he looked like a promising, capable professional who could take on a lot. He hadn’t expected to get an idiot who clocked in right on time every morning, left right on time every evening, was useless at everything, and was a champion at lying flat and slacking off.

Xu Disheng had his pride too. He dusted himself off and walked out, quitting on the spot. Just as everyone was stunned, thinking he’d lost his mind, Xu Disheng arrived at the CEO’s office and was left gaping too. Could someone explain why the CEO looked exactly like his twin, and what on earth was this “CEO Substitute Contract” in front of him?

That’s right: he wasn’t the CEO’s beloved moonlight. He was the CEO himself. Xu Disheng wanted to tear up the contract on the spot. He’d come to inherit the mantle of the CEO’s beloved, who had gone abroad and was never coming back. All he wanted was to be a delicate little vine, not go from a 996 office drone to the ultimate 777 corporate slave!

But the CEO offered him a staggering amount of money.

Xu Disheng gave in. Who could resist money’s charms?

Xu Disheng smiled cautiously. “So, what are you going to do, Mr. CEO...?”

The CEO: “Play video games.”

Xu Disheng: “Huh?”

And so Xu Disheng watched the other man use his ID card to embark on his journey to become an esports legend, while he was stuck doing miserable office work in a hundred-square-meter office.

The company’s new show became a hit, the company’s stock soared, the company went public... He knew nothing about any of it. He was just a substitute CEO!

One day, the CEO said, out of his mind, that he wanted to pursue him.

Xu Disheng: “Don’t you think this is like falling in love with yourself?”

The CEO disagreed. “It’s fine. I’m narcissistic.”