After Treating My Boss Like My Girlfriend

Upcoming novel: What Happens When You Tempt a Psycho. Blurb below.

Once you treat your female devil boss as your girlfriend, you'll find every problem suddenly has a solution.

After breaking up with her ex-girlfriend, Xia Wei returned to her hometown and interviewed at a company. Her boss was a difficult woman, and on her very first day Xia Wei wanted to quit. A friend gave her some terrible advice: treat her boss like her girlfriend, and none of it would be a problem. They bet that if Xia Wei stuck it out for six months, the friend would buy her favorite collectible figure and give it to her.

When her boss called in the middle of the night and demanded a ride, Xia Wei thought: She's my girlfriend. It's my duty.

When her boss moved into the apartment across the hall and Xia Wei drove her to and from work every day, she thought: She's my girlfriend. It's a privilege.

Her boss got angry easily, threw tantrums, and loved ordering people around. Xia Wei took it all in stride. She only had to last six months to get her favorite collectible figure.

"Xia Wei, how do you put up with Director Song?" a coworker asked, fishing for gossip.

Xia Wei was bold enough to answer directly. "It's simple. Treat her like your girlfriend, and can any of that really count as a problem?"

The coworker considered it and decided she had a point. But then she spotted someone behind Xia Wei and hurried back to her seat.

Song Qiao had been about to leave and came to ask Xia Wei to drive her. She had heard everything.

Girlfriend?

Song Qiao was speechless. She thought Xia Wei was getting ahead of herself, so she deliberately avoided her from then on, hoping that way she could stop thinking about what Xia Wei had said.

Xia Wei would be lying if she said she wasn't sad. After all, she and Song Qiao had been through thick and thin together. Still, she enjoyed the peace and quiet, counted down the days until she could quit, and planned to travel once she got her collectible figure.

"You're quitting?" Song Qiao was surprised and instinctively objected. After that, Xia Wei noticed Song Qiao had changed. She had become very... very gentle... so gentle that Xia Wei thought someone had possessed her.

Especially after Xia Wei's ex-girlfriend showed up, Song Qiao got drunk and blocked the doorway to Xia Wei's home. "Didn't you say I was your girlfriend? How can you go back on your word?"

Upcoming novel: What Happens When You Tempt a Psycho

[Two female leads + sweet on the surface, dark underneath + possessive romance + beautiful psycho + getting back together]

Gu Miao had only ever rebelled against two things in her life: refusing to come home and inherit the company, and dating Yan Qing.

Her mother didn't stop her. She even smiled as she wrote Yan Qing a check. "Make her fall in love with you, destroy her faith in love, and deliver the final blow on the day of her art exhibition."

On the day of the exhibition, the venue was vandalized and the paintings were splashed with paint.

Before Gu Miao could react, her mother walked in on high heels. "You think Yan Qing really loves you? I paid her."

Gu Miao turned to look at Yan Qing.

Yan Qing stood behind her mother without saying a word.

Later, Gu Miao really did return home. Dressed in a designer suit, she took her mother's seat, and the first thing she did was transfer Yan Qing to her office as her assistant.

Yan Qing had a sick younger sister, debts she could never repay, and feelings she didn't dare confess.

Gu Miao insisted on hearing them.

"Say you love me."

"Say you don't regret it."

"Say that even though you took the money, you still like me, just a little."

Yan Qing bit her lip and said nothing.

Gu Miao flung the contract down in front of her. "I paid for you. Don't pretend to be above it all."

But when she turned away, she was the first to tear up.

[Obedient painter at first, then a psycho heiress x gentle and restrained, sweet-on-the-surface fake girlfriend]

[Content warnings: 1. Two female leads. 2. Imperfect characters. 4. Happy ending.]

A close friend's upcoming novel, already being written: She No Longer Plays Chopin

Elegant, alluring older pianist x clingy, possessive younger woman who cries easily

[Xu Hanshi's perspective]

Xu Hanshi hated young girls and hated people who cried. Bai Zhihui was both.

She had been sent abroad and was living in London without a soul to rely on. She stayed at Xu Hanshi's house and often cried, sometimes for an entire night.

Xu Hanshi couldn't take it, so she took Bai Zhihui to concerts, brought her to the opera, and introduced her to friends. Sometimes others teased Bai Zhihui and asked, "Hanshi, who's this?"

Xu Hanshi took a sip of wine, her red lips glistening, beautiful as a knife. "A friend's kid."

Later, Bai Zhihui pushed away her approaching kiss and tapped her lips. "Xu Hanshi, I'm nothing but your friend's kid."

[Bai Zhihui's perspective]

Bai Zhihui had been prepared for the truth to come out from the start.

Everything was for revenge. Anyone could be a pawn, even herself.

But when the truth finally came out,

when Xu Hanshi said, "Loving you has made me this desperate, of all things,"

Bai Zhihui found herself heartbroken and in tears.

[Reader's guide and content warnings]

1. The protagonists are imperfect characters.

2. Set in the real world.

3. The plot is fiction and does not represent the author's values. Some villains' words and actions are only there to develop their characters.

Theme: Pursue what you want bravely and live life on your own terms.