Three in the morning. The emergency room.
Fluid drips from the IV bottle, one drop at a time.
Her phone lights up: 27 unread messages from her boss.
“Make the black dazzlingly colorful. I need it before nine tomorrow morning.”
Shen Qingxing looks at the 3% battery and smiles.
Then she sends three messages, shuts off her phone, and falls asleep.
It’s the first time she’s had a proper night’s sleep in twenty-seven days.
When she wakes the next day, 99+ messages flood in.
From her boss, HR, her coworkers, and people she never would have expected.
The message at the very top is the one she sent last night:
“I can’t write the twenty-eighth draft.”
Everyone thinks she’ll regret it, apologize, and beg the company on her knees to take her back.
But they’re wrong.
She walks into HR carrying a “special document.”
Three months later, her former boss comes to her with a business proposal.
The first clause in the contract she hands over reads:
“The First Party must pass a basic workplace respect exam. Retakes cost 1,200 yuan per hour.”
This is a story about coming to her senses.
When you decide to stop trying to please the world
that’s when the world starts treating you normally.
