The CEO Is Eighteen This Year

The first time I saw Shang Yiguang, I thought he was a real pain.

He looked like a well-behaved model student, but some thugs were following him. I stepped in to help, and he didn't even thank me. He just ignored me.

I couldn't stand it, so I stopped him and told him, "This road is mine, and these trees are mine. If you want to pass, pay the toll."

He silently looked at me, making me feel like an idiot.

The second time we met, he'd just finished his college entrance exams and was dressed in a suit. I wore ripped jeans and had a lollipop in my mouth.

The moment I saw him, I wanted to roll up my sleeves and teach this ungrateful brat a lesson.

But then his secretary came over and asked with a smile, "Would you like to work for our young master? Room and board included, with an annual salary of one million..."

I became the canary in his gilded cage. He found fault with everything I did. He slept with me, then called me loose and uneducated.

Much, much later, that bastard told me he'd actually fallen in love with me at first sight.

Is there really such a thing as love at first sight that starts with keeping someone?

Shang Yiguang had been coddled and adored all his life. He got everything he wanted, and as soon as he came of age, his family funded him to become a CEO.

When he first set his sights on someone, he took the matter seriously and sent his secretary to negotiate with him directly.

As their relationship progressed, he worked hard to learn how to treat Sheng Youshi well.

Yet he still felt Sheng Youshi drifting further and further away. The feeling that he was about to lose him grew stronger by the day.

Running a company only takes good hiring and strategic planning, but love doesn't work that way. You can't leave love in the hands of a third party.

Their relationship had been wrong from the very beginning.

A thug and a rich young master

Next up: the companion novel, The Boy I Once Loved

Xi Jiachi has someone he really likes. He fell in love at first sight in middle school.

As a soon-to-be college freshman, Xi Jiachi had one more thing to do before school started: find a job for one of his underlings.

The kid had only just graduated from junior high and needed to earn money to support his older brother's repeat year.

While waiting for the brothers to arrive, Xi Jiachi was scrolling through his old junior high group chat.

Someone in the chat broke the news: the person he'd had a crush on had dropped out a year ago!

Li Yuanhai had always been one of the top students in junior high and high school, and he was also the person Xi Jiachi had a crush on.

Once, Xi Jiachi had secretly slipped a love letter to him while he was playing basketball, only to get caught...

The group was lamenting that the dream boy of countless girls had disappeared into the vast sea of humanity.

Then Xi Jiachi looked up and saw him.

The boy in front of him was tall and skinny, wearing black-rimmed glasses. He was hideous!

And it turned out he was the repeat student whose younger brother had to support him!

Unforgivable!

Love turned to hate in a single glance.

Xi Jiachi wanted nothing to do with Li Yuanhai. He wouldn't even look him in the eye and made things difficult for him at every turn!

For example:

Li Yuanhai: "Let's talk."

Xi Jiachi: "No!"

Li Yuanhai: He's shy?

He wouldn't even accept a gift from Li Yuanhai. Xi Jiachi grabbed him by the collar and snarled, "You're taking it whether you want it or not!"

Li Yuanhai: He made me cry!

Li Yuanhai's hair was too long. Xi Jiachi couldn't take it anymore, so he swept his bangs back, then froze.

Xi Jiachi: He's so handsome! Damn, can I take back all those times I gave him the stink eye?

Li Yuanhai: He's blushing!

Later...

Xi Jiachi: "Li Yuanhai, I'll keep you."

Li Yuanhai: ?

Xi Jiachi shouted again, "Li Yuanhai, I'll keep you!" The roar of a passing car drowned him out.

Li Yuanhai: "What?"

Xi Jiachi yelled, "I said I like you! Stop pretending you can't hear me!"

Li Yuanhai: He ran away in tears!

When Li Yuanhai handed Xi Jiachi 2,000 yuan and said, "I'll support you," the little rich second-generation kid replied without hesitation, full of excitement: "Okay!"

Li Yuanhai: He likes me that much?

At New Year, Xi Jiachi invited the two brothers to stay at his house. On New Year's Eve, he chased away the younger brother who was sharing a room with Li Yuanhai, then crawled into Li Yuanhai's bed himself.

His plan worked. Xi Jiachi: "Hehe!"

Li Yuanhai: He's so happy?

The little fox wanted them to be inseparable for the New Year, or he'd cry.

Naughty young master vs. cunning, impoverished repeat student

Theme: If you can't clean your own room, how can you put the world in order?