Shattering Neptune

At twenty-seven, Xia Yuzhou cut off every escape route and went alone to join one of Beijing's top internet companies.

She admired strength and had an extreme lack of security. Dropped into this cutthroat world of fame and fortune, where people fawned over the powerful and trampled the weak, she instinctively tried to cling to every lifeline she could find.

There, she met three men:

Sushi, the product team's leader, was warm and composed, the unattainable ideal she looked up to through countless nights of overtime;

Shen Yichu, the mentor assigned to guide her, was considerate and attentive, always handing her a cup of warm water when she was at her most disheveled;

and Cheng Yue, her direct supervisor, was cold and sharp. He loved tearing her to shreds in meetings and was the workplace tyrant she had cursed countless times through gritted teeth.

But beneath the deep sea, undercurrents are always in motion.

This is the story of Xia Yuzhou's six years of struggle in Beijing and the growth of her ambition.

When she finally shattered with her own hands the illusion of Neptune, steeped in ambiguity and suffocation, she did not sink.

Treading on those shattered delusions, beneath the inscrutable gaze of the tyrant, she climbed step by step to stand as his equal.