Rule Disqualified

Name: Rule Disqualified
Author: Loves Cocoon Flowers

规则失格

by Loves Cocoon Flowers (喜欢茧子花)

Status: Completed
Length: 175k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 11mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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“In this place, feelings are a burden, and rules are weapons. My first mistake was thinking work meant getting things done. The first lesson I learned was that survival meant knowing how to deal with people.”

When a trivial meeting title got me publicly used as a “prop” by a drunken third-in-command looking to make an example of someone, I didn’t feel wronged. I simply felt the rules’ icy touch. My name is Chen Xu, and I’m a newcomer who only wants to do a good job. In that moment, I had an epiphany: the workplace isn’t a chessboard. There are no clear dividing lines, only invisible lists woven from power, connections, and information. Whoever can decipher the lists’ codes can make the rules.

I calculate every move rationally and use rules to fight rules, treating every conflict and emotion as a data point. When I play the games they know best at a level they can’t comprehend, the pretentious bosses, blame-shifting coworkers, and fake allies all become case notes on my list.

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