Su Yue'an, known as the Ultimate Workaholic, lands a job at an industry-leading unicorn company after graduating from college. She plans to make a good impression (working herself into a pretzel), become an executive before she turns thirty, and drag the company onto the stock market.
Then she'll be sitting on a mountain of stock and living her best life.
But on her very first day, she's bound to an anti-overwork System and forced to become a slacker.
Everyone else: Volunteering for more work + working overtime like crazy + all kinds of enthusiastic displays
Su Yue'an: Does nothing but her own work + bolts at quitting time like an Olympic athlete + disconnects the moment she gets home + always has her phone line tied up
Veteran employees: This intern won't last two weeks.
But when the internship ends, Su the Slacker is still there.
Not only does she get hired full-time, she also transfers to a core department and takes charge of an important project.
Onlookers: She must have connections!
Later, Su Yue'an gets promoted.
The System gets upgraded too, and orders her to keep slacking and lead her whole team in slacking as well.
Su Yue'an: This is a huge responsibility! I'll work five extra minutes!
System: Five minutes of overtime means tears from your loved ones.
Su Yue'an: Let's talk this out. Put down the knife...
And so, as soon as the workday ends, Su Yue'an's whole team races out and goes completely off the grid.
Yet their clients can't praise them enough.
Rival companies: She must have saved the client's whole family!
Later still, Su Yue'an becomes a department head, takes her team on company-funded vacations, starts a business, and runs ever farther along the road to financial freedom (getting rich) and lying flat...
Everyone: I'm jealous! I want to go work at their company and slack off too!
Employee: Sorry, the boss is on a long vacation, off having a romance!
[Hardworking, sweet little human cinnamon roll X mildly sadistic fake System]
One-on-one romance, both leads devoted only to each other, happy ending. Plot-focused at first, romance comes later.
[The System is the male lead in disguise! His identity is revealed later!]
The Fake Marriage is complete. Here's the blurb:
On their wedding night, Xi Miwei has to sign a divorce agreement before she's allowed into the bridal suite.
Her husband, Shi Lu, is handsome, stern, and abstinent. He takes the agreement and leaves without a backward glance, showing not the slightest interest in her.
But for Xi Miwei, this wealthy marriage in name only is perfect:
A detached villa in an upscale residential neighborhood, with room and board included;
She only has to see her wealthy in-laws once a month;
No pressure to produce a son;
Her husband's only demand is that she play the role of Mrs. Shi convincingly whenever she has to.
Xi Miwei doesn't love Shi Lu and treats him like a boss. She happily accepts this incredible deal, stays alone in their empty house, diligently plays Mrs. Shi, and waits to collect her divorce settlement and leave.
A month later, Xi Miwei dresses to the nines for a secret meeting with another man. The media catch her, apparently cheating on Shi Lu, and the story trends online.
That night, Shi Lu blocks her at the bedroom door and kisses her until she can barely breathe.
Xi Miwei: Do fake spouses need to kiss for real?
Shi Lu holds his blushing wife, her red lips slightly parted, and takes a candid couple photo to post on Weibo. With a cold expression, he orders her to wear her wedding ring whenever she goes out, and not to disgrace the title of "Mrs. Shi."
Xi Miwei blinks her catlike eyes and wipes her mouth. So that's how it is.
Well, Mr. Shi is handsome, long-legged, and a good kisser.
Can't complain about this deal.
Two months later, Xi Miwei hits a creative slump and asks her boss, Shi, for leave to travel abroad and clear her head.
The next day, Shi Lu hands his work over to the company executives and shows up at the airport with his wife's suitcase.
Xi Miwei: Oh well. Mr. Shi has practiced martial arts since childhood and speaks good English. I'll just consider him a bodyguard and translator.
Can't complain about this deal either.
Later, Xi Miwei injures her leg and has to hop around to get anywhere.
Shi Lu uses helping her upstairs as an excuse, scoops his wife up in his arms, carries her into the bedroom, and stays the night.
Early the next morning, Xi Miwei scrambles out of there.
Wasn't married life supposed to be off the table???
Shi Lu, you lying, sly, shameless bastard!
This deal was a terrible mistake!
Shi Lu rolls over, looks at his wife's fleeing figure, and stretches with satisfaction.
He fell in love at first sight and went to great lengths to marry the young woman he wanted. Everything about her is wonderful, except that she never takes him seriously, proud as a cat that can't be tamed.
She only calls him "dear" sweetly when she has to play Mrs. Shi.
Later, Shi Lu realizes that if he keeps a respectful distance and waits patiently, his girl will gradually grow used to having him around, then come to him of her own accord and curl up in his arms for a peaceful, comfortable sleep.
[A free-spirited, catlike artist + a scheming, abstinent (more or less) rising business star]
The heroine falls in love after marriage; the hero secretly loves her and grows; one-on-one romance, happy ending.
Theme: Working hard is so you can live well.
No, I can't stand it anymore. Although I am a salty person myself, and the author's setting is quite novel and I have never seen it before, but I like reading novels very much, and the more I read, the more depressed I feel. If there is such a system that forces me to do things I don't want to do every day, I may really choose to untie and quit. It's so scary.
It would be really disgusting if the system had a male protagonist.
I feel like the heroine is a bit frustrated at the moment~ If such a person in real life would have been eliminated long ago. I wonder if the heroine in the following article can still make a lot of money?
Ahhhh, why did I fall asleep when it was obviously free!
I just started watching it at almost 12 o'clock last night. I felt so bad that I had to spend money to watch it! It was obviously free but I didn't catch up! Crying in the toilet
I'm really envious of such a system. Don't go to the boyfriend who transformed in the end. Just this 424 is enough. Wow, the brains are amazing.
Wow wow wow, such a good system, give me one too
I was thinking of shopping around for free, and found a nice article. Very nice!
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good
Ahhhh, it looks so good!