My Former Boss Loses Control

Lin Zhiwei always thought the most dignified ending for a relationship was to leave each other alone.

Then, at the most dangerous point in her company’s wave of layoffs, she looked up and saw the newly appointed vice president, Zhou Jiming.

Five years ago, he was the person she loved most, and the past she’d left behind in the most humiliating way.

Five years later, he was impeccably dressed and wielded great authority, now her boss, someone she could only look up to.

Everyone said Zhou Jiming was aloof, restrained, and scrupulously professional.

Only Lin Zhiwei knew the truth:

He would reject her proposal in front of everyone at a meeting,

then email her a list of revisions, one by one, in the middle of the night;

he would keep his distance from her in public,

but ask her softly when they were alone, “Lin Zhiwei, how much longer are you going to avoid me?”

She thought their reunion was just a coincidence.

Only later did she realize he had joined the company for her from the very start.

The layoffs, office politics, old scores revisited, emotions spiraling out of control:

between reality and love, they found their way back to each other.

This time, he had no intention of letting go.

And she had finally learned not to retreat.