A Guide to Winning Over Your Gloomy Coworker

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Sleep-aid streamer Xie Yu uses his camera to document a sound therapy clinic filled with all kinds of musical instruments.

A man in a white coat suddenly steps into his shot and tells him photography is prohibited here.

When Xie Yu lowers the camera, he recognizes the refined-looking young man. It's Xu Qinghe, the piano major he'd had a crush on for years.

Years later, Xu Qinghe has left the stage after developing a heart condition, and even his personality is completely different from when they were students.

Back then, Xu Qinghe onstage was like a warm sun melting an iceberg.

Now he's become a sound therapist. Xie Yu, whose career is on the verge of collapse, becomes his colleague, hoping to find success in both love and work.

But he discovers that Xu Qinghe has become an immovable iceberg.

So Xie Yu only gets more determined with every setback.

Xu Qinghe lightly plucks the strings, while Xie Yu follows the melody and sings lyrics to guide the patients.

Xie Yu's deep voice lingers by Xu Qinghe's ear, making his heart itch.

What Xu Qinghe refuses to admit is that this colleague's singing has an inexplicable, irresistible appeal to him.

A few days later, the music therapy skit they create together goes viral, and patients drawn by their reputation crowd outside the little clinic.

Xu Qinghe's workload surges. One night, as he works late and sleepiness washes over him, the sleep-aid streamer he's liked for years suddenly announces a hiatus.

Listening to his sleep-aid livestream before bed has become part of Xu Qinghe's daily routine.

Losing him so suddenly leaves Xu Qinghe tossing and turning for days.

Xie Yu can't help noticing how dark the circles under Xu Qinghe's eyes have become since then.

Then one day, Xie Yu receives a song file backstage from a devoted fan.

"Could you sing this song on your stream? I really like your voice and want it to be my lullaby."

Xie Yu freezes. He wrote this song after going off the air, and only Xu Qinghe has heard it.

When he realizes the devoted fan is Xu Qinghe, Xie Yu's face instantly turns red to the tips of his ears.

He scrolls back to Xu Qinghe's earlier posts.

Post: Could the streamer please stop wearing a mask? He could make a living off his looks, but chooses to rely on his talent instead.

At the time, Xie Yu hadn't streamed for so long that his mask had gathered dust, so he was wearing an ordinary face mask instead.

Xie Yu: Wearing a mask is the real me.

Xu Qinghe: Without the mask, he's my ideal type.

And back then, Xie Yu had actually turned Xu Qinghe down!

Loyal, sweet-talking, wolf-in-sheep's-clothing x sharp-tongued, soft-hearted, sheep-in-wolf's-clothing

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