I Got Myself Tangled Up While Trying to Rush My Deadline

[Two Female Leads, Gu Lingyi x Lin Xizhi]

Gu Lingyi

On the surface: A lazy, carefree professional deadline-misser, a writing genius who can't manage daily life.

Underneath: A calculating, devoted master planner who spent three years plotting to win her editor's heart.

Classic quote: "Editor Lin, you're the only deadline in my writing career I don't want to miss."

Lin Xizhi

On the surface: A serious, diligent deadline enforcer, a work machine who puts professionalism first.

Underneath: Pure-hearted and easy to fluster, she says one thing and means another, as reason gradually crumbles before love.

Classic quote: "I've chased countless manuscripts, but yours is the only one I'd be willing to wait a lifetime to see finished."

On the very first day Lin Xizhi took charge of Gu Lingyi, the nuclear weapon of the deadline-missing world, she was hit with the 108th excuse for missing a deadline. Faced with the editor-in-chief's ultimatum, "Turn in the manuscript or we'll replace you," she stormed over to Gu Lingyi's home, only to unexpectedly sign a Co-Living Manuscript-Chasing Agreement.

"For the sake of making it easier to chase the manuscript, I'll provide round-the-clock, close personal service," Gu Lingyi said with utmost seriousness.

Lin Xizhi believed her.

But after moving in, she discovered that chasing the manuscript had caused some serious problems:

Gu Lingyi needed a "special environment" to write, like having her editor sit beside her in her pajamas.

Her excuses for missing deadlines came in endless varieties: "editor-watching phobia," "I need the right atmosphere to write," and "You're so cute, you distract me."

Even more terrifying, the readers' chat group exploded, the story made the trending searches, and the whole internet was shipping them as a couple.

Lin Xizhi tried to maintain a professional distance, but Gu Lingyi always found a way to make her lose her composure:

The water unexpectedly stopped in the bathroom, and Gu Lingyi "accidentally" exposed herself.

Drunk in the middle of the night, she let the truth slip: "I can't write when you're not here."

In front of the readers, she made an ambiguous remark: "Words..."