Did I Dump My Boss Twice?

Chapters 21-29 are high school flashbacks.

Six years ago, after an operation, Lin Huang lost almost three-quarters of his memories.

Believing his life to be uneventful, he never felt compelled to recover them. Like most people, he simply worked and lived one day at a time.

But even someone as diligent and dependable as him was on the verge of losing his job.

Business at Qibo Hotel had declined year after year, and just then the group parachuted in a new president, leaving the whole hotel on edge.

The new president was the chairman's second son, Xie Huaixi. With his deep, detached eyes and his refined, aloof air, he was as ruthless at firing people as he seemed.

Worse still, his gaze often seemed to drift toward Lin Huang, and he always spoke to him in a cutting, sarcastic tone.

Lin Huang smiled as he spoke with a colleague. When he turned away, he met the new president's gaze, cold as a deep pool. In front of everyone, Xie Huaixi remarked quietly:

"Housekeeper Lin is popular."

Hoping to earn good reviews, Lin Huang did his best to make the guests feel at ease. Xie Huaixi turned and warned him coolly, "You should keep your distance from the guests."

Lin Huang couldn't help wondering: Had he offended Xie Huaixi somehow?

Sure enough, a colleague who had known the new president before quietly told him later:

"I heard you and President Xie had a bit of a history. He still remembers it."

"Anyway... watch yourself."

The colleague wore a strange look, as if they'd just heard some juicy gossip.

Lin Huang: "...?"

He couldn't remember a thing, and before he could ask for details, the colleague had walked away, tight-lipped.

Completely baffled, Lin Huang became more and more careful, doing his best to avoid Xie Huaixi as the latter's gaze grew ever darker.

As the days passed, most of the senior leadership was replaced, but Lin Huang remained in his steady job and even took part in an important project.

At the celebration banquet after the project wrapped up, Lin Huang lost a game and was forced to take on a dare.

The dare was outrageous: confess to President Xie.

Lin Huang braced himself and did it.

He would approach, deliver a heartfelt confession, then immediately run off and pretend nothing had happened.

That was the plan, anyway, if Xie Huaixi hadn't pinned him in a corner halfway through his escape.

In the corner, Xie Huaixi's usually impassive face was overcome with emotion, a faint glimmer in his lower eyelids.

In the dim light, Lin Huang heard him demand, his voice hoarse and choked:

"Liar."

"Are you planning to play me for a third time?"

Lin Huang: "?"

So this was the history between him and Xie Huaixi?

Gentle, kind-hearted white-moonlight gong (Lin Huang) x resentful president shou who can't stop hating and loving him (Xie Huaixi)

The workplace details are fictionalized. Please don't scrutinize them.

[Quick Transmigration: Scum Gongs Are in Short Supply, Must a Cannon Fodder Step In?]

In recent years, the Quick Transmigration departments have been reforming scum gongs or replacing them in various small worlds, leaving the Scum Gong Department facing a staffing crisis: no scum gongs available. The department head has therefore issued the "Notice on Promoting Cannon Fodder from Various Small Worlds to Scum Gong Positions," effective immediately.

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The protagonist, a cannon-fodder underling gong (Mu Fei) x the aloof, heaven-blessed shou (Gu Yanji)

The System tells Mu Fei that he is in a story where the shou is abused, but the scum gong has already been transferred to another world for reform.

As a cannon-fodder underling who outwardly obeys the heaven-blessed one but resents him inside, Mu Fei must take the scum gong's place and scheme to possess and humiliate him.

Mu Fei: That's it? This isn't even scummy enough.

So Mu Fei secretly blindfolds the heaven-blessed one and, as a mysterious stranger, takes him and threatens him. In public, he continues to be an obedient underling, showing Gu Yanji endless concern after "accidentally discovering" that he has been humiliated.

He takes his body and tricks his heart, truly living up to the saying: "By day, I call him boss; at night, he calls me boss."

The System marvels again and again: The Scum Gong Department needs talented people like you!

Once the System judges the scum-gong score full, Mu Fei grows bored too. He lets the other man go and leaves to live a quiet life in a remote town.

What he doesn't expect is that soon afterward, the heaven-blessed one, who should have recovered from his trauma and returned to the heights to bask in everyone's adoration, shows up in this isolated town.

With nowhere left to run, Mu Fei finally faces the heaven-blessed one before him, whose sharp eyes narrow with a dangerous glint. He doesn't look at all like someone who has suffered trauma.

"What, you lost interest in me and don't want to play anymore?"

"I never agreed to that."

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A wooden, honest cannon fodder (Jiang Wu) x a forcibly confined ice-cold beauty

System: You're a cannon fodder in a story about coercive pursuit. You must replace the scum gong and force the ice-cold beauty into your possession.

Jiang Wu has no choice but to grit his teeth and do as instructed.

With plenty of free time during summer vacation and no risk of affecting the ice-cold beauty's studies, he locks him up.

The ice-cold beauty is easy to get along with. Though he loathes Jiang Wu, he stays quiet and obedient, never making a fuss.

For two months, Jiang Wu diligently works at it day and night. As the new semester approaches, he finally reaches the required scum-gong score.

He opens the door and hints several times that the other man can leave. But the ice-cold beauty seems not to understand, and continues quietly waiting for him to come home every day.

Jiang Wu has no choice but to say it plainly: "I'll let you go. From now on, I'll make sure to disappear from your sight. Just pretend we never met."

The other man says nothing, glances at him, takes the TV remote, and turns it on.

The screen lights up, showing surveillance footage from every corner of the house. There are twenty bizarre angles, all recording their intimate moments over the past few months.

The ice-cold beauty gives him a knowing smile.

"Never met? Like this, sleeping together every night, and pretending we never met?"

Jiang Wu: …

When did he record all this?

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Ambitious prince gong (Chu Zhi), who failed to seize the throne x decisive general shou who repays a debt of gratitude

In his previous life, Chu Zhi lost the battle for the throne and died. Reborn, he learns that he is in a story about an abusive romance between a powerful minister and a general.

He is a cannon fodder character, and the general shou mentioned by the System is the very same man he kicked aside just before claiming the throne in his previous life.

After waking reborn, Chu Zhi reads through the original story's romance and laughs, utterly unconcerned.

Poor General X. After I used you, are you really going to let someone else deceive and toy with your heart?

Chu Zhi happily accepts the mission to take the original scum gong's place and abuse the shou.

General X, you must always be my sword, conspiring with me in all my wickedness.

Rather than let someone else deceive you after I've used you, wouldn't it be better if I were the only one playing with your feelings from beginning to end...

Later, once the scum-gong score is full, the shou refuses to leave.

"Could you... deceive me a little longer?"

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A bookish cannon fodder forced to play a creepy stalker

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More to come

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One-on-one, both leads' first and only

Imperfect characters

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship