
Forty and Bewildered: A Single Mother and a Shattered Elite
四十有惑:单亲妈妈与破碎精英
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This is a story about being "brought back to the world by love", but it is written in a non-sensational way and relies entirely on details. In many workplace emotional novels, the workplace is the background and emotion is the main line. But this book is different - the relationship between Shi Xiaoran and Jiang Shengzhou grew up while fighting side by side. He taught her to read reports, analyze data, and deal with the board of directors; she brought a lunch when he was most tired, and brought her daughter into his world when he was most lonely. Their relationship is not "love at first sight" or "hero saves beauty", but from teacher and student to comrade-in-arms, from comrade-in-arms to confidant, from confidant to irreplaceable person in each other's lives - every step is supported by a solid plot. This way of writing "Tacit understanding in the workplace nourishes emotions" makes the emotional line not suspended, not bloody, and not industrial saccharine. These two people came together because they appreciated each other, needed each other, and redeemed each other. Jiang Shengzhou is the most successful character. He is not a "boss" in the traditional sense. He is professional, decisive, and strategic, but also tired, lonely, and traumatized. His "cold-blooded" is the outer shell, and "Chiang Butcher" is the label given to him by the outside world, but readers, like Shi Xiaoran, see the softness under that outer shell. The most touching thing is his "presupposition" about himself - "My life will end at the age of fifty." This is not pretentious, it is that he has truly set a destination for himself. The appearance of Shi Xiaoran made him waver. Shi Xiaoran is the most immersive and growth-oriented heroine. She is not a "perfect heroine". She was divorced, had a baby, had a career break, and was once in embarrassment. But she's tough, smart, and resilient. Her growth is not a "sudden cheating", but a step by step - from taking notes to making models, from making models to independent reporting, from independent reporting to managing a center, from management to checks and balances, games, and taking charge of herself. Looking forward to the follow-up story.
A GMA who is divorced and has a baby meets a middle-aged MD who is aggressive and decisive on the outside but broken on the inside. She thought he was teaching her how to grow, but in fact he was secretly learning how to live. This is not literature about bosses, nor is it literature about workplace pleasure. This is a true record of two scarred people getting closer bit by bit in daily details. This story is full of tension but not ambiguity of industrial saccharine. It has a workplace game that is so real that it makes your scalp numb. It also has the stamina to make you lose sleep, feel distressed, and can't help but watch it again after watching it. Please prepare tissues - not for torture, but because he is still smiling and insisting even though it hurts so much. If you also want to know—— How does a person who doesn't even believe in himself learn to live again? How does a single mother with a child live in a way that others dare not mess with? Please give "Forty Confused" a chance. It's worth all your late nights and tears. This is not a story about "the prince saves Cinderella". This is a story about how two dusty adults built a bridge with each other on the ruins.
The setting of this book is really novel. The forty-year-old protagonist is a setting rarely seen in online novels. Most of them have happily watched the rest of their lives by the age of thirty or so. The age of forty really arouses my curiosity and deep thought. Unlike those who are thirty-year-old, who are successful and happy, they are just like chicken feathers. An unhappy marriage brings harm to one person, but an unhappy marriage between two different people can be redeemed by each other when they get close to each other. The age of forty is not only the end, but also a new starting point.
Just two days ago, I was very happy that Master Xiaojiang agreed to his promise, and Xiaoran's work progress was also very smooth, and it was like a scene of double harvest in career and love. Who would have thought that Master Xiao Jiang's illness would be discovered all of a sudden. Xiaoran felt distressed, and so did I. From the beginning, I knew that the main characters in this story were all middle-aged, and the subject matter was more grounded in reality. It would not be as beautiful as in fairy tales, but when the impact of reality came one after another, I still couldn't help but feel worried. I hope that both Xiaoran and Master Jiang will go smoothly in the future. They have endured enough hardships ahead!
Many people can be pulled back, not because of how attentive the person who pulled them is, but because that person's heart took the initiative to reach out and pull them back. Now it seems that the male and female protagonists are not only talking about the children, it's great.
The writing is very delicate, with both emotions and careers developing. It really describes the rationality and restraint of middle-aged people's love. I love it lightly, but it is actually sweet. Looking back to savor it carefully, it is also memorable. I love Jiang Shi CP hehe.
He is both a teacher and a friend, and he is also the person who makes her heartbeat; It seemed like a dream, like an illusion, like the ripples that stirred the deep pool in his heart. The meeting between the two seems to be a long time coming, but as long as their hearts are close and their fates are intertwined, isn't this the best arrangement in the world? No matter where the mountains are high or the roads are far away, we all rush to meet our loved ones every year. When he met her, got to know each other, and stayed together, everything was just right.
A divorced working mother with a baby and an elite boss in despair, clumsily approach each other in a miserable life, and use a seventy-year-old promise to brighten up their broken lives. I love reading this kind of story. The author writes more [Blow Kiss][Flow Kiss]
Breaking away from the cliché plot of a boss falling in love with me, the protagonist is no longer a young girl, but a divorced single mother with a baby, Shi Xiaoran. The male protagonist is not a CEO who contracts a fish pond with a wave of his hand, but is in a difficult situation trapped in life. Two injured adults clumsily get close to each other in the workplace, and use their agreement to light up each other's gloomy lives. This mutual healing emotion is even more touching. Let me sigh, the author's workplace dramas are really down-to-earth and not floating. What the male bishop gives to the female protagonist can basically be seen in the real boss, and sometimes it can embody the feelings of subordinates like Wang Li.
I feel deeply when I look at it. It's not easy in the workplace and it's not easy in the family. I'm all looking for peace among the chicken feathers on the floor. I grow up slowly, with joy, bitterness, healing and pain. This may be the tribulation of forty years old.