[Modern City | GL | 12-year age difference | Sadomasochism HE | Power difference in the workplace]
They started with the distance between "seniors and newcomers":
A line of signature that was changed back, a line of approval that was returned as "appropriate", a half-step closer - all became the tide that repeatedly rose and fell in Shen Zhishui's heart. She slowly realized: It turns out that jealousy, grievance, and depression are not diseases, but love.
Lin Shengyue, however, regards gentleness as responsibility and temptation as crossing the line. Family expectations are fulfilled, expatriates and job rotations tear people apart, and love ferments into hate in silence: I hate that she always quits, I hate that it hurts, and I hate that the real order forces people to always be right.
It wasn't until Lin Shengyue took off the armor of "respectability" for the first time, and Shen Zhishui didn't regard love as everything for the first time - that they restarted each other on the same level.
Intention: happy ending