On the surface, office drone Lin Ye is meek and always available at a moment's notice. In reality, he is a scheming mastermind who plans for every eventuality.
On Friday night, Director Wang Jian and Li Meng, his manipulative colleague, team up to trap him and make him take the blame for a failed project.
Lin Ye acts flustered and agrees, but secretly turns on the recording function on his phone.
Three days later, an anonymous email appears out of nowhere. The recording, doctored files, and evidence of kickbacks are sent to the entire company, clear as day.
The manipulative colleague is disgraced and publicly humiliated on the spot. The director kneels outside the company begging for forgiveness, while Lin Ye eats hotpot upstairs and posts on social media: "The essence of humanity is being wise after the fact."
From then on, Lin Ye fully awakens.
He opens a milk tea shop called "Office Drone Gas Station," with the slogan "Have a cup, then keep putting up with it"; he enters the short-video business, where one video gets over a hundred million views; and he builds a restaurant chain, letting his competitors burn money while he rakes it in.
The aloof CEO Su Qingran goes from mocking him to falling for him. He sees right through her endearing contradictions: her poor sense of direction and road rage.
"Ms. Su, next time you want to laugh, just laugh. Holding it in gives you wrinkles."
This is the story of a scheming mastermind sweeping through the city.
From taking the blame at work to becoming a business mogul, Lin Ye deals the fiercest face-slaps while acting like a total coward.
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