Forcing It Down

I’ve heard of people hardening soft candy by chewing it, but never of someone insisting on chewing hard candy too. Doesn’t that hurt your teeth? [Blurb] Zhou Yan has worked at this outsourcing company for three years and seen all kinds of chaos. But when her team leader quit and they got a new one, she realized just how little she knew about the world. Still, she didn’t first meet her new team leader at work. She met her at a bar... Someone put an arm around Zhou Yan and kissed her. The other person was dead drunk, but Zhou Yan was no pushover. After freezing for a moment, she slapped her across the face, hard enough to split her lip. A few days later, the new team leader, Jiang Lian, joined the team. She turned out to be the drunk woman Zhou Yan had slapped that night... Zhou Yan tried desperately to duck her head, wishing she could dig a hole and bury herself in it. Jiang Lian is a rare case of a hopeless romantic. She’s been in love N times, been cheated on every time, and always fallen for the same type of person. Then she goes right back to looking for someone new to get hurt by, never learning her lesson, losing every time. She likes women who seem all sweet and innocent on the surface. Jiang Lian may look like a thousand-year-old iceberg, but she can’t resist the deadly triple attack of a woman acting cute: “Won’t you?” “I want it.” “You’re the one I love most.” Then she hands over a house, a car, and jewelry, while those women use her money to build themselves a whole new pasture of lovers behind her back. Now she’s got her eye on someone again. This one’s a little hard to pursue, though. She’s so tough she makes Jiang Lian’s teeth ache, and that only gets her more excited. * The independent woman who insists she’s better off alone and doesn’t need a partner gets proven wrong in spectacular fashion x a secretly wealthy heiress who looks aloof but is passionate inside and hopelessly lovesick. * Zhou Yan was made to fall for women by our team leader, using sheer merit. Message: Keep striving toward the future!