Retired to a Tea Estate, I’m Pursued by a Cool and Aloof Executive

In Jiangzhou, everyone knows that Gu Chenyuan, the owner of the Half-Day Leisure teahouse, is a mild-mannered, laid-back middle-aged man who wants no part of the world’s troubles.

No one knows he was once an ace cleaner who struck fear into countless overseas power players.

He only wanted to retire to the city, drink tea, and read the papers, but the world refuses to leave him in peace.

A cool, aloof senior government official, a ruthless and alluring underground queen, an icy beauty of a CEO, a poised and gentle university professor... one by one, these mature, high-status women enter his life, each bringing her own troubles and tenderness.

Power struggles within the municipal alliance, brutal business wars between trillion-yuan conglomerates, and bloody conflicts in the gray underworld gradually draw him into the center of this maelstrom of power.

“In the adult world, the strong make the rules.”

When Gu Chenyuan crushes the teacup in his hand and lets his edge show once more, the powerful figures of Jiangzhou finally realize in terror:

This seemingly ordinary teahouse owner has connections everywhere!