The heroine, Ruan Xiaoxiao, is an unsuccessful writer of tragic romances whose life motto is, “If I lie flat enough, the rat race can’t drag me in.” To make ends meet, she takes a job as secretary to the CEO of a top company. Her daily routine consists of slacking off on company time and treating her boss as a “walking source material” for her research into CEO romance fiction.
She seems like a lazy secretary, but online she is a moderately popular blogger studying the behavior of domineering CEOs. Her anonymous account, “CEO Behavior Watch V,” has 500,000 followers. She posts the hashtag series #Today’sBafflingCEOBehavior every day, and her fans follow along more eagerly than they watch TV dramas.
Her ultimate dream is to write the magnum opus The End of the CEO: From Beginner to Buried and win the Golden Keyboard Award of the Year.
The hero, Qin Shenyuan, is the heir to a business empire with mysterious overseas investors behind him. He speaks several languages fluently, but his use of Chinese idioms is a complete mess, often leading to hilarious blunders.
To outsiders, he is the perfect CEO: cold and sharp-tongued. In reality, he’s a drama queen with an unconventional mind who loves observing people in secret and convincing himself that he’s in love.
He scrolls through “CEO Behavior Watch V” late at night and secretly likes every post that pokes fun at him, making him the account’s number-one fan. His inner monologue: “This woman’s analysis is surprisingly reasonable, but could she please stop calling me a ‘husky-style CEO’ next time?”
