My Boss's Special Tenderness

The first time Lin Wan met her immediate superior, Lu Chengyu, she thought he was a walking “air conditioner.” His gaze, sharp as a blade behind his gold-rimmed glasses, and his crisp, uncompromising instructions in meetings meant no one in the entire company dared even breathe too loudly around him. She was a new hire in the marketing department, carefully following the rule of “make as few mistakes as possible and work as hard as possible.” Yet when she worked late into the night, the light from his office always illuminated her path. When her proposal was rejected and she hung her head in defeat, an anonymous industry analysis report arrived from him. And when she rushed to a project site in the pouring rain, she found his car pulled silently to the side of the road, with an umbrella bearing his crisp, refreshing scent waiting for her. Her colleagues all said President Lu was cold and unfeeling, but Lin Wan gradually discovered that behind that hard exterior lay a tenderness reserved just for her. He remembered that she took her coffee without sugar, discreetly stepped in when she was being given a hard time, and put an international conference on hold to stay at her bedside after she fell ill from working late. From initial awe to a heart pounding out of control, the feelings that began in the cubicles grew clearer with every tentative approach. When the icy boss finally let down his guard and sheltered her beneath his wings, expressing his favoritism in his own way in every little detail of their lives... “Lin Wan,” he murmured, resting his forehead against hers, his voice low. “From today on, all your troubles are mine to handle.” This is a story about a newcomer and her aloof boss, from restraint to falling headlong in love, until she is wrapped in his tender devotion. Their budding feelings are hidden in meticulous spreadsheets, in the company he keeps her during late nights at work, and most of all in the words, “My tenderness is only for you.”