Five years ago, he left without a word, shattering every dream she had about love. Five years later, Lin Wei had become a cold-blooded “layoff expert,” relying on nicotine and mint candies to stay calm as she precisely “optimized” each target, all to scrape together enough money to save her mother's life.
The first name on this assignment's list was Jiang Yu. The man who had once promised her a future was now an idealistic entrepreneur she had to destroy with her own hands.
Late at night in the conference room, she slid the cold severance agreement across the table. Instead, he put an old ring on top of it. “Would this be enough to buy me?” She forced herself to stay calm. “I follow procedure.” He gave a cold laugh and called her out. “Does your procedure include personally reviewing every one of your ex-boyfriends?”
Just when she thought she had finally cut off the past and won everything by sticking to her cold professional principles, the man she had crushed stood outside her home, stripped of all his pride, his eyes bloodshot.
“The company is yours. My dignity is yours...”
“Now, can you pick up the version of me from back then, when my heart was still warm?”
