The New Intern in the CEO's Office

As someone who just wants to lie flat, Shen Yan’s greatest ambition is to waste her days, live off others, and wait to die. But her parents insist that she get a stable job. After pushing Shen Yan to try and fail to get a government job, her parents take matters into their own hands and find her a respectable office job at a major corporation. With her classmates looking on enviously, Shen Yan gets an offer from a well-known publicly listed company in S City and reluctantly begins her working life. Zhou Xing takes one look at Shen Yan on her first day and thinks highly of this hardworking, modest young woman. She’s nothing like the other privileged hires, who dress up to the nines, reek of perfume from the elevator, and have only one reason for going to the CEO’s office. Until one day, after they’ve gradually gotten to know each other, Zhou Xing asks Shen Yan about her commute: Zhou Xing: It must be awful having to commute to work every morning. Shen Yan: It’s all right. I usually get up at eight thirty. Zhou Xing: But we start work at nine? Shen Yan: Yeah. I live nearby. Zhou Xing: Huh? Zhou Xing, executive assistant at Lu Group. Zhou Xing is an ordinary person from an ordinary family who attended public schools all his life. For some reason, by the time he graduates, all his friends have somehow turned into rich heirs with family empires to inherit. Friend One, who’s had the air of a domineering CEO since childhood: Turns out he’s the heir to S City’s leading real estate company. Friend Two, who’s wanted to be a doctor saving lives and healing the sick since childhood: Turns out he’s the heir to S City’s largest private hospital. Friend Three, who’s wanted nothing but to lie flat since childhood: His family set up an offshore trust fund for him long ago. The moment he graduates college, he can start collecting ten million a year in spending money. He’s the only one from an ordinary family. Just as he thinks he’ll have an ordinary job, do ordinary work, and be an ordinary wage slave, an intern joins the CEO’s office that day. She seems completely ordinary, but she turns out to be another privileged hire. Theme: Self-reliance