How to Keep Your Relationship with Your Employer from Changing in Nature

An anthology, combining new and old stories, with the older stories at the end.

Not sure how many stories I'll write. I'll start by posting the blurbs for two new ones.

#How to Keep Your Relationship with Your Employer from Changing#

#His Beauty Left Me Helplessly Fuming, but I Still Said Yes#

· "Putting on a Brave Face" / "The Clear Edge of the Moon"

Zheng Yuemian: a name that sounds gentle, refined, and elegant, though he himself is sharp-edged and utterly tactless.

Some say he's ruthless and intolerant. Others say his public virtue is an act and his private morals are lacking. Regrettably, all of these judgments are true, and if anything, they're merciful and quite objective.

Thirty-three-year-old Zheng Yuemian recently took a lover, young enough to look like he might melt at a touch. Just how young was he? Considering Zheng Yuemian's wild and disgraceful past as a teenager, he could easily be the father of this nineteen-year-old university student, who is also a classmate of his own son.

Fourteen-year age gap, older top.

A straight man falls into depravity and escapes the abyss.

Top: Zheng Yuemian. Bottom: Li Fengwan.

· "Late Bloomer" / "A Late Journey Through Snow"

When Zheng Baoduan was twenty-three, he graduated with a direct doctorate. He pursued no further studies and took no job. He simply returned to his family and stayed in his own courtyard, waiting for nightfall and sunrise, so silent he seemed the greatest outsider in the family.

Zhang Chun was the same.

He, too, had once been an outcast in this traditional family.

At thirty-five, Zhang Chun was pale, gaunt, silent, and melancholy. He had once been the lover of the most powerful person in the family, and rumors of his affair with Zheng Yuexi had caused a scandal. Later, Zheng Yuexi died suddenly. The coroner's report was vague, saying that Academician Zheng's illness was suspicious. Zhang Chun, the person most closely connected to Zheng Yuexi, became the prime suspect, unable to defend himself amid the storm of accusations.

The Zheng family ensured he would be cared for for the rest of his life, with food and clothing in abundance, but they could not make Zhang Chun willing to live out his days in peace.

He tried to kill himself countless times, wept as he held the belly Zheng Yuexi had altered, and retched over the sink. In the end, he drifted through life half-dead and dazed. No one knew that Zhang Chun was Zheng Yuexi's most perfect creation.

One night, the flowers in the courtyard bloomed. Zhang Chun opened the door and saw someone standing beneath a tree covered in snow-white blossoms. Hearing the sound, the man turned around. Through his own hanging hair, Zhang Chun saw a face as beautiful and serene as Zheng Yuexi's, with a faintly tipsy look in his eyes.

The bottle in his hand fell to the ground.

That night, they slept together.

Twelve-year age gap, younger top.

Pseudo-uncle romance, with the bottom bearing a child.

Top: Zheng Baoduan. Bottom: Zhang Chun.

· "Sparks" is undecided.

· Not sure whether to include "Marrying Up" in this collection.

· "Thirty Days of Passion" is an older story, or rather, part of the original work.

Theme: Love can overcome every obstacle and cross mountains and seas.