Every Midnight, I Turn into Bubbles

The mermaid Xi transformed into human form and came ashore, giving herself the name Paopao.

The price was that she turned into sea foam at midnight every day, only to reassemble at dawn.

To find true love and break the curse, she became an assistant to Gu Yuhuai, CEO of the Gu Corporation.

From then on, every afternoon as quitting time approached, she would grow restless, making up one excuse after another to leave.

“Mr. Gu, are you working overtime tonight?”

Gu Yuhuai raised an eyebrow. “Yes.”

Paopao’s face instantly turned pale.

Everyone at the company was saying that the new assistant ran off right on time every day and had a more exciting nightlife than anyone else.

Gu Yuhuai was puzzled too. She was good at her job, so why was she always in such a hurry to leave at night?

He deliberately worked late to keep her there and secretly investigated her. The more he looked into her, the more mysterious she seemed.

Until one day, during an all-night project, he went to the break room to make coffee.

In the moonlight, he watched helplessly as the assistant who always fled before quitting time slowly turned transparent, then shattered into foam that floated throughout the room.

He rushed over, but all he caught was empty air. Before she disappeared, the girl left him with just one sentence: “Don’t worry... I’ll be back tomorrow.”

That night, the CEO, who hadn’t slept in ten years, sat among the foam until dawn.

Later, someone noticed that Mr. Gu locked his office door every night.

No one knew that inside was a girl who disappeared every midnight, and a madman who waited for dawn beside the foam.

“Good morning, Mr. Gu. Are you working overtime today, too?”

“Yes.” He lowered his head to kiss her. “For the rest of my life, if you’ll have me.”