As everyone knows, the domineering CEOs in wealthy-family novels can’t pull off their forceful pursuits without the help of a convenient accomplice. Usually, this is the best friend who loves watching the drama unfold and dishes out malicious advice that sends them straight to the crematorium.
Ji Kecheng transmigrated into the role of that terrible friend. He also ended up with four CEO friends, becoming a melon-eating bystander chosen by fate.
The first is the domineering, aloof, and arrogant straight-man type, an autocrat who always gets his way.
He falls for a cold beauty for the first time, uses his power and status to bring them to his side, and then imprisons, coerces, and threatens them with violence, all while pathetically begging for love. Gripping the cold beauty’s chin, he snarls, “I’m having you, whether you like it or not. You’ll never get away from me.”
Ji Kecheng: Tsk. Even dogs are shaking their heads!
The second is an isolated, brooding type who declares he’ll never marry or have children, just to put an end to his family line.
After a brief fling, he keeps a young celebrity as his lover. The two men attend banquets together, looking like the picture of marital bliss. But six months later, he shows up alone. When asked about it, his face, hidden behind a haze of smoke, looks faintly blue and pale as he sneers coldly, “He ran away. All because I wanted him to have my child. Since he wants to give birth so badly... then we’ll drag him back and keep him pregnant until he can’t run anymore.”
Ji Kecheng: ???
Wait, is this world completely insane?!
The third is a lazy, flamboyant, unconventional CEO who dares to think big and act on it.
One day, Ji Kecheng visits his home to pay respects to the dead. Deep inside the funeral hall, behind layer upon layer of curtains, he sees him gripping someone’s wrist and pinning them in front of his brother’s memorial tablet, enjoying the sight of the person struggling helplessly beneath him... He chuckles softly. “I told you, I’d inherit everything my brother had, including you... dear sister-in-law!”
Ji Kecheng: Good heavens, that’s intense!
Ji Kecheng diligently plays his role as their crematorium accomplice: helping the first CEO’s cold beauty escape his control, providing medical care and emotional support to the second CEO’s pregnant young celebrity, sending the third CEO’s sister-in-law abroad to study and build a sense of self, and then sending the CEOs off to the crematorium one by one.
Thanks to his efforts, everyone gets a bright future.
Fortunately, not all CEOs are scum. The fourth is the only decent one: a refined, gentle CEO who wears gold-rimmed glasses. His nearly perfect face is always adorned with a warmth so tender it melts you to the bone. He likes chatting with Ji Kecheng to pass the time, though sometimes he asks a few too many questions:
“You don’t like being locked up?”
“You don’t like having children, either?”
“And you don’t like being forced?”
He thoughtfully slips the plan for his crimes off the table and hides it, his gaze gentle and sunny. “That’s right. I don’t like those things either :)”
Theme: Having the right values really matters.
