Tao Xun never expected to become Huo Jinglan's personal assistant.
He'd heard that his boss was notoriously difficult, prone to sudden outbursts and fits of rage. Tao Xun started the job trembling with nerves, only to find the rumors weren't entirely true.
His boss could be a little too decisive, but he was remarkably easy to get along with.
Still, for some reason, there seemed to be something in Huo Jinglan's gaze that Tao Xun couldn't understand.
Later, Tao Xun learned that his boss had an obsessive, troublesome childhood friend. The man was the son of the Huo family's chauffeur, and the two had grown up together.
Because he loved Huo Jinglan and dreamed of becoming the true master of the Lu family, the obsessive childhood friend tried to seduce him and drugged him. He even used his father's life-saving debt to the Lu family as leverage.
He would stop at nothing to get Huo Jinglan.
Everyone in their circle knew that Huo Jinglan loathed this man, to the point where even looking at him made him sick.
The childhood friend's name was Tao Xun, pronounced the same as Tao Xun's, but written with different characters.
Tao Xun: "Got it. No wonder my boss gives me such an inscrutable look every day."
*
Later, Tao Xun, who had spent every day pestering Huo Jinglan, suddenly seemed like a different person. He entered the entertainment industry, became an overnight sensation thanks to his superb acting, and racked up awards one after another.
Before long, everyone who had once hated Tao Xun was drawn in by his charisma. Huo Jinglan seemed to be among them.
Tao Xun: "Got it. My boss is following the 'chase your wife to the crematorium' script!"
Tao Xun wanted to quit. He'd realized that not only was his name nearly the same as Tao Xun's, but the two of them looked almost identical, too!
*
Huo Jinglan was hospitalized, so Tao Xun went to pick up his scans for him.
To his surprise, the doctor stared at Huo Jinglan's chest X-ray in bafflement. "How strange. He was born without his third rib!"
That's right: Huo Jinglan had no third rib.
As Tao Xun walked out with the scans, he overheard a nurse gossiping: "The third rib is closest to the heart, and it represents the person you love most. In the Bible, Adam used his third rib to create his beloved."
- One-on-one pairing, happy ending
Theme: Defy the powerful and start a new life
