Chief Night Watchman

On her first day as the new CEO, Gu Qingci discovers three strange things: her predecessor, Shen Moyuan, took only one thing with him, an old teapot that had been repaired; tests show the tea inside came from an ancient spring that dried up seventy years ago; and when he disappeared, the city’s surveillance cameras were all coincidentally undergoing “routine maintenance.” When she receives an anonymous warning, “Watch your step, the road is slippery,” she finally realizes that this fallen CEO hasn’t run away. He has gone undercover in a world she can’t see. And what’s inside the teapot isn’t water at all. It’s the beginning of an ancient secret capable of drowning the rules of modern business.