A Nobody at the Crematorium

After being suspended, Lu Ren finally realized that the world was a novel starring his boss.

His boss was a playboy and a shameless womanizer who enjoyed abusing his wife for a while, then went through hell trying to win her back.

After stirring up bloody chaos and ending up in the ICU several times, he finally got together with the one he had set his heart on and found his happy ending.

It was a love war that lasted two and a half years and ran to more than half a million words.

And Lu Ren was a bit player with fewer than three lines, who appeared less often than a waiter.

The biggest difference between him and a waiter was that he had a name in the book.

Thinking about it, he felt oddly flattered.

Still, if he had a choice, Lu Ren would rather have that honor go to a coworker.

After all, his boss paid him far too much.

He couldn't bear to lose the job.

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After being gloriously fired, Lu Ren had no choice but to take all kinds of side jobs to make ends meet.

On his first day of moonlighting, he saw the boss kick his wife out of a luxury car. She looked especially miserable in the pouring rain, so he kindly gave her a ride.

On his second day, his boss was flirting with the lounge singer at a bar when the boss's wife showed up, murder in her eyes, to catch him cheating. The two of them got into a fight, and Lu Ren, who was mixing drinks, got caught in the crossfire.

On his third day, Lu Ren read his fortune and decided it was a bad day to go out. As luck would have it, while working as a gaming companion, he got picked by the boss's wife.

The noob across from him, whom he had killed several times, was his boss.

On his Nth day of moonlighting,

Lu Ren ran into them at the hospital.

His boss looked like he wanted to say something, but stopped himself.

Lu Ren figured he might be thinking, "How old are you? Why is it always you?"

He was also puzzled as to why he kept running into this couple.

"I knew you couldn't let me go," his boss said with a complicated look. "...Forget it. Come back to the company with me first."

Honestly, Lu Ren didn't understand what his boss meant.

But that didn't stop the words "back to the company" from filling his mind.

His boss paid far too much.

Lu Ren was just about to nod when someone gave his hand a gentle squeeze.

The boss's wife spoke coolly as she stepped forward and shielded him:

"Allow me to remind you: Xiao Ren is mine now."

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...Hello? Is something going on?

[Reading Guide]

1. A lighthearted, sweet story told in first person. This is something new I'm trying, and I'd be thrilled if it makes you smile!

2. The love interest is cool on the outside but warm-hearted, a gloomy, sardonic office worker with no worldly desires, a Schrödinger's straight man whose one true love is money.

3. The original novel's main couple have no love for each other at all. They only put on an act and are purely at each other's throats.

Aspiration: Work hard, and you'll have a future.