The Moon Isn’t Beautiful

Lin Miaomian came across this job posting when she had nothing better to do:

[I'm the heir to a publicly listed company, but my younger brother schemed against me and drove me out of the family!]

[My childhood friend betrayed me, my trusted aide turned on me, and I had to hand over a fortune worth billions!]

[I'm urgently looking for a COO to help me make a comeback and bring down the traitors.]

[Click to chat and hear my revenge plan.]

Lin Miaomian: He sounds kind of pitiful. I'll help him out.

*

Lin Miaomian pushed open the glass door of Yusa Media, tucked away in a neglected corner of the startup building.

The so-called heir to a publicly listed company sat in an office chair with his back to her, dressed in a sharp suit. The fingers of the hand he held out were pale, long, and finely boned.

"A fresh graduate with a bachelor's and master's in journalism and communications from a top-tier university?"

"That's right."

"Three thousand a month base pay. Take it or leave it."

Lin Miaomian immediately snatched her resume from the heir's hand, turned smartly around, and reached for the door...

"Room and board included, plus a mansion!"

Lin Miaomian gave the weary smile of an office drone. "Hmm, interesting."

*

Later, when Lin Miaomian's father arranged for her to marry the heir of the ZK Group, whom she'd never met, she spotted her stingy boss at the engagement banquet.

Amid the clinking glasses and flowing red wine, her boss looked elegant and aloof, utterly unlike the so-called heir to a publicly listed company who insisted on printing on both sides of every sheet of paper at the office.

Everyone was wary of the Lin and ZK families joining forces, which would give them control of half the business world. They also envied the perfect match between a noble heiress and a business prodigy. Little did they know that inside the minds of the two people at their engagement banquet, a thousand horses were stampeding:

The "heir to a publicly listed company": "Aren't you an office drone who can't find a job?"

Lin Miaomian: "Aren't you the avenger who got kicked out of your family and handed over a fortune worth billions?"

Lin Miaomian and the "heir to a publicly listed company": Oh wow, our covers are blown.

[Bonus Scene]

In middle school, Lin Miaomian came down with hives, and her whole body was covered in tiny bumps.

Her classmates shunned her, and no one wanted to play with her, so she often went out to the school field at night to look at the moon by herself.

Then a basketball hit her, and the boy who ran over to apologize was clean-cut and handsome.

Her inferiority complex surged, and she instinctively covered her face. She never expected the boy to recognize her anyway.

"Lin Miaomian from Class 6, Grade 8?"

Lin Miaomian looked up in a daze. "You know me?"

The boy straightened up and introduced himself. "I'm Zhou Qilan from Class 8, Grade 9."

He looked up at the moon and smiled. "Why look at the moon? It's nowhere near as pretty as you."

P.S. The blurb was inspired by a viral internet meme.

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