Duan Xizhou is handsome and good-natured. After graduating from a prestigious university, he naturally became an outstanding corporate drone, hardworking and highly capable.
But in reality, his emotional intelligence is zero, and his life skills are zero. He often manages to mess up absolutely everything outside of work while maintaining a perfectly serious expression. Fortunately, no one has found out yet.
Then one day, after secretly fixing the printer he’d broken, he was preparing to sneak away the misprinted stack of paper as soon as the workday ended when he accidentally walked in on the company’s famously chaste CEO, Pei Zhixian, having a secret affair with his male secretary.
His promising future was about to go up in flames. He waited in fear for the inevitable retaliation, but one colleague after another either quit or got laid off. In the end, Duan Xizhou not only failed to get fired, he was transferred to work directly for Pei Zhixian as his personal assistant.
He went with the flow and continued working himself to the bone for Pei Zhixian, but his usually punctual paycheck kept getting delayed. Drawing on his hard-earned experience, Duan Xizhou saw all the signs that his boss was probably on the verge of bankruptcy.
To get back what was rightfully his, he began fussing over Pei Zhixian and taking painstaking care of him, afraid the man might snap, take the money, and run.
And then, by yet another accident, he somehow ended up taking care of the man in his own bed...
He woke up hungover to find his bruised and battered boss lying beside him.
Duan Xizhou: The sky is falling.
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To outsiders, Pei Zhixian is a cool, meticulous workaholic. No one knows that beneath his cold exterior, he has a wild side.
Until that man barged into his lounge with company secrets in plain sight, heedlessly ruining his fun.
At first, Pei Zhixian just wanted to keep him close and see what else he might get up to. But the man’s clumsy attempts to care for him left him utterly confused.
Then, during one unexpected incident, the man lost consciousness. Looking into his hazy, desire-filled eyes, Pei Zhixian asked with an inscrutable expression, "What is it you want, exactly?"
Duan Xizhou rubbed his face against Pei Zhixian’s and mumbled, still half-asleep, "Um, when are you paying my salary...?"
Pei Zhixian: "...Damn it. He was here to collect a debt."
Duan Xizhou is the seme, Pei Zhixian is the uke.
A straight seme with a broken thought process x a CEO who seems aloof but is actually a libertine
Seme-focused story. Stealing company secrets is a misunderstanding. Pei is not bankrupt and isn't deliberately withholding Duan's salary. It's all a misunderstanding.
The blurb already contains all the potential dealbreakers, so I won't list them separately.
Theme: Treat others with sincerity and kindness
