23-Year-old Lin Wei broke into the cubicle in Shanghai with the dream of being an "advertiser". However, amid the overtime work of 996, the difficulties of customers and the subtle competition from colleagues, he became the "workplace pleaser" that he once despised - he did not dare to refuse unreasonable demands, used to use apologies to cover up his nervousness, and even silently tolerated the plagiarism of his plans.
There is no sudden salvation in her world: Party A's father, Chen Mo, is known as a "detail-controller" and his plan was smashed in the first collaboration; the seniors in the same group seemed kind, but they always "borrowed" her ideas at critical moments; her parents also urged her on the phone to return to the small town to become a teacher, believing that "stability is the most important thing for a girl."
But in the plans that were changed until early in the morning again and again, in the collaboration with Chen Mo from tit-for-tat to mutual recognition, after clearly seeing the rules of the workplace but still choosing to stick to the bottom line, Lin Wei gradually discovered: Growth is never about suddenly becoming stronger, but choosing to try again at the moment of "wanting to escape" - she began to dare to say "no" to unreasonable demands, be able to use professional data to fight back prejudice, and even counterattacked to win big projects with a plan that had been rejected 17 times.
When she finally no longer needed to "please" in exchange for recognition, and when Chen Mo's eyes changed from "collaboration partner" to uncontrollable concern, Lin Wei understood: the best relationship is when two people run forward on their own track, and occasionally when they run side by side, they can see the same determination in each other's eyes.
