Sensitive, avoidant creative team lead × beautiful, secretly passionate brand director
The ultimate push and pull between agency and client
Song Ci is holding a stack of medical checkup reports showing more than a dozen abnormalities and lamenting that no one should work in advertising when she hears a few things from her gossipy coworkers.
Good news: Her nemesis at work has finally quit.
Bad news: She's inherited her nemesis's project.
Worse news: The client is picky, difficult, possibly gay, and likes to send feedback in the middle of the night.
Worst news: The client is Lu Shen.
Three years of kindergarten, six years of elementary school, six years of middle school, one year repeating a grade, and four years of college.
Over the full twenty-year "marathon of schooling" Song Ci ran, Lu Shen was there for nine of them.
When their repeat-year class started, Lu Shen plopped down behind Song Ci with a cheeky grin. "They split up our high school classes five times and still couldn't separate us. It's fate!"
Song Ci rolled her eyes. "More like a cursed fate."
That "cursed fate" was thrown into chaos by a drunken kiss from Lu Shen on the night they graduated college. But the next day, once sober, he casually said, "I was drunk. Don't read too much into it."
Song Ci smiled too. "Don't worry, I didn't take it seriously."
Then she walked away, and they didn't see each other for five years.
Now she's a creative team lead at an advertising agency, and he's a brand director. Song Ci feels like the sky is falling.
That night, she hurriedly posted online to ask for advice:
"What do you do when your crush of ten years becomes your client?"
Top comment 1: "Quit. Client and agency are like Romeo and Juliet, or Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange."
Top comment 2: "I've been in advertising for fifteen years and never heard of a client and an agency employee dating. You could be making love one minute, then have him ask you to revise the proposal again the next. What kind of misery is that?"
Top comment 3: "I don't believe you can still have feelings for him after seeing his feedback and feeling nothing."
Top comment 4: "Forget ten years. Even a crush of twenty years can turn you into enemies in a single day!"
Song Ci took a deep breath and opened her computer in the middle of the night to write her resignation letter.
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