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🌟 Affectionate, socially savvy sweetheart x cold-faced, socially inept flirt
💫 Enemies to lovers from the heroine's perspective | Secret crush comes true from the hero's perspective
Zhu Juejia couldn't stand Ling Shuo at the office.
He had an ice-cold face, spoke bluntly with no social skills, was capable but supremely confident, acted like he owned the place, and made her revise her proposals and slapped question marks on everything she did.
Her emotional stability and social savvy always melted into utterly ineffectual eye-rolls in front of him.
One day, while slacking off, she happened upon a blogger whose avatar and tone both reminded her of Ling Shuo. This blogger wrote secret-crush diaries.
The account drew massive traffic, with praise and criticism pouring in together, and was caught up in a scandal over whether the diary's heroine even existed.
As she watched, Zhu Juejia couldn't resist adding fuel to the fire:
"Post a photo of you two together to prove it. What do you mean, she doesn't exist?"
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Even after the controversy died down, the secret-crush blogger never offered any convincing clarification. He continued writing at length about his unrequited love every day, letting the comments run wild with speculation.
The humble devotion in the diary was completely at odds with her nemesis of a boss, but his icy way of handling things and his typing habits were simply too similar.
The resemblance made Zhu Juejia unable to resist making sarcastic remarks.
He posted: "? Why do those people get to have lunch with her? Why isn't she eating with me?"
She commented: "Seeing your face would probably ruin her appetite."
"I love it when she says my name while chatting with someone else. It puts me in a better mood."
"Don't get excited. She's probably insulting you."
"? She got mad at me, then turned around and smiled at someone else. She hasn't spoken to me in three days."
"Because she hates you."
The blogger never replied to comments. After insulting him for a while, Zhu Juejia got bored of it. But when an alert for a new post popped up, she still clicked on it out of habit:
"Today she wore a yellow floral dress and carried a pink cartoon suitcase. She looks so good in dresses, but she doesn't wear them often. I wonder who she's going out with after work. I hope it's not her boyfriend."
Zhu Juejia's expression froze, the cutting reply she'd been about to type forgotten. Her gaze slowly left the screen and dropped to the yellow floral dress she was wearing and the pink suitcase beside her desk. She nearly dropped her phone.
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To get to the truth, Zhu Juejia commented on the blogger's latest post asking how to catch his crush's attention:
"Wear a tight black turtleneck to work."
On Monday, she had just arrived at the office when she saw her ice-faced boss sitting at his desk in a black turtleneck, despite the muggy early-summer weather. His Adam's apple bobbed as he stared at her with his usual brooding gaze.
Zhu Juejia froze for a moment, then couldn't help looking away.
It wasn't only because the secret-crush blogger she followed turned out to be her boss. The main reason was
Ling Shuo looked downright sexy dressed like that.
As lust clouded her mind, a new message from someone appeared on her phone:
"Just wearing this is enough to satisfy you?"
[Reader's Guide]
1. One true pairing; the male lead has a secret crush.
2. The male lead really does have terrible social skills! About the level of a ripe banana.
3. No real-life inspirations. Please don't draw parallels to real people or start fights.
4. Some of the reasoning and plot details can't be conveyed in the blurb. The story itself takes precedence.
* Blurb screenshot saved on 26.5.19. Minor edits may be made occasionally, but the premise won't change.
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