My Best Friend Is a Web Novel Author

I wrote my icy boss into a danmei novel and became a top author earning tens of millions a year.

By day, I'm Lin Sui, his most professional assistant, with my shirt buttoned to the collar and a life as programmed as an AI.

Late at night, I'm "Yan Zhi," a danmei superstar known to everyone on Tomato Novel. My stories of business rivalries and forbidden passion have taken the internet by storm.

I thought my secret would never see the light of day.

Until the company annual party, when a big screen randomly selected someone's phone and read its contents aloud.

My boss, Lu Yan, ever rational and composed, did this in front of everyone:

He opened the familiar Tomato Novel app.

Went to my bookshelf.

Then, in the same calm voice he'd used to pitch a hundred-billion-yuan roadshow, read aloud the R-rated lines I'd just posted the night before, in which I had him "pin me against the CEO's desk."

The whole room fell silent.

A hairline crack appeared in the wineglass in my hand.

That night, a private message arrived in my author inbox from my top patron, "LY":

"Chapter 137: The angle of the wrinkles in my suit is off by three degrees."

"But you got my habit of unbuttoning my cuff in Chapter 89 exactly right."

"Assistant Lin, every time you sneak a look at me, you write it into your book, don't you?"

"Tomorrow at nine, my office. We need an in-depth script review: first, the unauthorized use of my 'personal image,' and second, the intimate-scene tutorial you've kept your readers waiting for."

It turned out he'd seen every bit of the wild love and desire I'd written.

And this five-year-long solitary writing project was a mutual surrender, one he had permitted and taken part in.