A Shut-In's Unordinary Life

[Light Novel] [Single Female Lead] [No System] [Not Reborn]

Liao Nan, twenty-four, is a seasoned shut-in. His motto in life: if he can lie down, he will never sit; if he can stay home, he will never go out. To preserve this peaceful existence, he has worked at the convenience store downstairs for two years. His days are neither good nor bad, and his only hope is to clock out on time every day.

The one exception is a drawing in his desk drawer: the one from when he was sixteen, when the love letter he gave someone was posted on the school bulletin board.

Then one day, a poster announcing the new store manager appeared at the convenience store entrance. The girl on it wore a gentle, harmless smile: Gao Wanqing, his new manager. She was also the girl who had fed stray cats with him in the courtyard one summer when he was twelve. And the girl who posted his love letter on the wall when he was sixteen, ruining his entire adolescence.

“Liao Nan, long time no see.”

“From now on... I hope we get along.”

She still had the same beautiful smile. But he knew that beneath that face lay all the chaos and turmoil of his adolescence.

Someone who once ruined your youth suddenly becomes your boss, hovering right under your nose every day. There is no revenge, no power fantasy. Just a seasoned shut-in forced to get up early and go to work every day, watched by his manager as he works, and forced to pretend in front of his coworkers that he barely knows her. A daily parade of social humiliation.

Actually, to me, this is more like a story about a patient being saved. But I believe you won't scroll all the way to the very bottom of the synopsis.