The Assistant Has Something on Her Mind

◎A guarded, scheming general manager x an easygoing assistant he finds pleasing

1. Yu Yang grew up without parents. Her adoptive father rescued her from a fire and raised her. Though she endured plenty of ridicule from others, her family's love kept her optimistic and positive.

After returning from studying in France, she joined a foreign-owned company. Her direct supervisor was the boss himself. He seemed perfect in every way: handsome, highly educated, young, successful, and warm and courteous to even the most junior employees.

Except with Yu Yang, he was demanding and cold-tongued.

When someone took credit for Yu Yang's work, he said, "Did you not do the work, or did you not have a mouth?"

When Yu Yang called him scheming, he said, "Don't worry. You're not worth plotting against."

But at important events, he always brought her along, and he entrusted the most important tasks only to the person he trusted most: her.

When her coworkers abandoned her outside a bar late at night during a company retreat in Vietnam, the boss was the first to come looking for her.

She casually mentioned wanting a huge box of stuffed animals as a New Year's gift. On the first day of the new year, she received an enormous box of them, anonymously sent by her boss...

2.

Lu Ming's social media profile had always featured a childhood photo of him with his childhood friend and the friend's little sister. Everyone believed the little girl in the photo had died in the fire when she was three.

After they had taken care of his little sister's funeral, his childhood friend's mother, Lu Ming's godmother, took her son and Lu Ming to study in the United States. He stayed with his friend's family in Los Angeles. Combined with his parents' failed marriage, the experience made him the kind of person who kept everything bottled up and was always guarded around others.

Then Yu Yang came along, someone who made everyone around her feel at ease. Plenty of people liked her, including Lu Ming's childhood friend...

By chance, he discovered that the little girl in the photo had survived. She was his own assistant.

His childhood friend's father, Lu Ming's godfather, was furious. "I want to kick the two of you! Your little sister was right beside you, and you didn't even know. All either of you could think about was dating her!"

[Reading Notes]

1. The heroine's backstory has some over-the-top melodrama. It's a little cheesy, but comforting.

2. The heroine and her biological older brother are only drawn to each other because of their genes. The heroine only loves the male lead, and her brother has no inappropriate feelings for her.

3. The setting is a modern workplace. All companies and brands mentioned are fictional, so please don't try to match them to real ones.

Theme: Everything is fate