I Just Want to Slack Off, but the CEO Keeps Telling Me to Take the Graduate School Exam

Coming soon: the new everyone-loves-me novel, My Socially Anxious Self Gets Read After My Thoughts on a Dating Show. Scroll down for the blurb. A dream makes overbearing CEO Gu Yunshen realize that he is the great villain in a novel. His half-brother and girlfriend are the true protagonists of the story. In the future, his half-brother will fight him tooth and nail in the business world to seize the family fortune. Gu Yunshen's gaze darkens. He lets out a cold laugh. Ding, ding, ding! Graduate School Entrance Exam System successfully bound! "Ms. Jiang Yu, you have only 268 days left until your entrance exam! Start memorizing twenty English vocabulary words right now!" "Penalty for failing the task: randomly lose an ability for a limited time." Gu Yunshen: ? This System... bound to the wrong person? It doesn't take long for him to realize that the System really did make a mistake. The one doing the tasks is a woman named Jiang Yu, but when a task is failed, he is the one who gets punished. - Jiang Yu, a wage slave, has only one principle in life: lie flat. Just as she is about to take a nap, an order comes down from the CEO's office: "Everyone, memorize twenty English vocabulary words for the graduate school entrance exam right now." Jiang Yu: ? Jiang Yu is so sleepy that she memorizes only two words before dozing off. On the way to meet a client, Gu Yunshen hears the System's penalty alert. [Task failed. Host is about to lose the ability to move!] The next second, Gu Yunshen's nearly six-foot-two frame lies stiffly on the cold floor, his entire lower body paralyzed. He gets into a wheelchair with a dark expression. - Jiang Yu is inexplicably transferred to become the CEO's assistant, then discovers that her CEO is even scarier than her high school homeroom teacher. For example: When she takes a nap, Gu Yunshen suddenly appears behind her and urges her to hurry up and work through the graduate school entrance exam political science question bank. When she slacks off in the break room, Gu Yunshen quickly tracks her down and drags her to the CEO's office to study graduate school entrance exam math. Jiang Yu has had enough. Even if you're the CEO, you can't exploit me like this! So she lets loose and gives up completely. Meanwhile, Gu Yunshen's daily life goes like this: "Task failed. Host is about to lose the ability to speak!" "Task failed. Host is about to lose the ability to sleep!" One day, as Jiang Yu is getting ready to leave work, Gu Yunshen, worn down until he has no fight left, forces a stiff smile and softens his voice. "Assistant Jiang, could you watch half an hour of English documentaries with me?" Jiang Yu furrows her pretty brows. "But it's already quitting time." Gu Yunshen patiently coaxes her. "I'll pay you extra. Double." Only then does Jiang Yu sit back down. "All right, then." That night, Gu Yunshen finally hears the pleasing alert: "Task successful." * A goofy, sweet little story * The CEO's motto: "You work hard to get into grad school, and I'll work hard to pay you." Coming Soon My Socially Anxious Self Gets Read After My Thoughts on a Dating Show Xu Jiayi is an insignificant passerby in a Mary Sue comic. As the plot dictates, she is selected to appear as an ordinary dating contestant on a popular dating show. She is introverted and socially anxious, and makes no impression on the show, so none of the male contestants choose her as their romantic interest. Her only task is to quietly serve as background scenery for the comic's true heroine, force a smile, and play a supporting character consumed with envy. [Die! All of you, just die! Aaaah! When is that damned author going to kill me off!] The noisy Love Cabin instantly falls silent. The contestants turn in shock toward where Xu Jiayi is sitting. Xu Jiayi smiles brightly. Inside, she thinks: [In my last life, I dug up someone else's ancestral graves, and now I've got terrible luck and ended up as a comic's background character!] [Why are you looking at me! I'm exhausted, and I still have to fake-smile along with you!] [When is this god-awful plot going to end already?? Author, I'm going to kill you! Kill you!] Everyone who can hear her thoughts is shaken to the core: ? What is going on? And so, over the next few episodes: Xu Jiayi goes on a one-on-one date with Male Contestant One. She shyly cuts into the dessert. "It tastes pretty good, haha." [It's so sweet it makes my teeth hurt! I've never had anything this awful in my life! Male Contestant One has terrible taste in restaurants. No wonder the other three female contestants all reject him coldly in the end.] Male Contestant One's hand pauses. That very day, he drives all over the city center himself to buy her all kinds of high-end desserts. The audience, unable to hear her thoughts but totally shipping them: "Aaaaaah, Male Contestant One is so thoughtful! I'm shipping them!" * Male Contestants One and Two compete fiercely for the chance to date Xu Jiayi, and in the end all three set off together. Xu Jiayi goes to a haunted house with the two male contestants. "Ah, that's so scary." Xu Jiayi raises a hand to her mouth, then shyly and nervously hides in a corner. [Useless! Both of you are useless! I'm scared out of my mind, so hurry up and hug me!] The next second, Male Contestant Two pulls Xu Jiayi toward him and holds her in a bold embrace. "Don't be scared. I'm here." The audience ships them too: "Whoa, Male Contestant Two is so cool. Jiayi and him would make a good couple, too." "Aww, no! What about Male Contestant One? How about all three of them get together?" # This story is also known as Everyone Falls for Me Theme: Growing through adversity