[Corporate HR x Professor of Human Resource Management]
1.
You Xizhen worked in HR at a company with a stingy boss known as the King of Empty Promises. Then the boss started making trouble again, claiming that their biggest competitor had hired a professor as a human resources consultant, and would definitely poach their target talent during campus recruitment.
The boss handed her the professor's information and declared grandly, "To eliminate future trouble, poach this person for me!"
Such a bold declaration made You Xizhen think the company was ready to spend big on this candidate!
"Seven thousand a month. Get her for me."
"How much???"
To show her sincerity, You Xizhen personally went to meet Jiang Chuizhou and discussed the company's strategic development and corporate culture with her.
Jiang Chuizhou asked, "What about the salary? You do seem to have a habit of saving the most important thing for last."
"Um... How does seven thousand sound?" You Xizhen said with an awkward smile.
"Per session or per week?"
"Per month..."
Unsurprisingly, Jiang Chuizhou showed You Xizhen the door.
2.
Jiang Chuizhou was a renowned graduate advisor at her university, as well as a professor of strategic management and human resource management.
Her career was stable, but her family kept pressuring her to go on blind dates. Left with no choice, Jiang Chuizhou agreed to meet the match her family had praised to the skies.
Three months after their previous meeting, Jiang Chuizhou and You Xizhen sat down at the same table again.
This time, however, negotiations went smoothly. They hit it off and agreed to a marriage of convenience: they'd marry and live together in public, helping each other keep up the act for their families, but leave each other alone in private.
On their wedding night, after they'd each gone back to their own room, You Xizhen was bombarded with calls from her boss.
"Have you lost your mind?! I told you to get her for the company, not to get with her!!!"
3.
Somehow, one room in Jiang Chuizhou and You Xizhen's two-bedroom apartment went unused. Watching the woman who stole her blanket night after night, Jiang Chuizhou felt a splitting headache.
Two beds became one, and their two companies were locked in fierce competition.
Though they were wives, everyone in the industry knew they were rivals. They glared at each other every day, each plotting to poach the other's employees.
One day, after they couldn't resist and crossed the line, Jiang Chuizhou posted a photo of them holding hands on her social media for her family to see.
The next second, a leader at one of their partner companies cautiously asked, "Wasn't this supposed to be a fake marriage so you could get information out of her? Don't tell me you've really fallen in love with her?"
Jiang Chuizhou bent down and kissed You Xizhen's peaceful sleeping face. As You Xizhen blinked sleepily at her, Jiang Chuizhou smiled and said,
"I don't love her."
[They clash at work, but they're devoted to each other at home.]
[She doesn't love her: the ultimate love confession.]
Faux-cool, genuinely gentle, black-hearted sweet dumpling top x says one thing but means another, tough and flexible bottom
[Read this before you start!]
1. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting. No characters are discriminated against in the story. The professions are based on research and accounts from friends in related fields.
2. They switch roles, though Jiang Chuizhou is more often the top.
3. There are occasional sweet daily-life interludes, and the plot may move more slowly during those scenes.
4. Includes a secondary pairing: model x designer.
5. Happy ending, one-on-one.
Theme: When you've met your match, you can bring out the best in each other
