[Upcoming story! Take a look!]
Zhao Zhiyi is a corporate wage slave.
The kind who works nine to six, gets blamed for everything by department heads, meekly nods along to her superiors, then curses them out after work. At the end of the month, she looks at her paycheck and realizes it doesn't even match the rent her property could fetch in its neighborhood.
One day, after her boss gives her a thorough dressing-down, she angrily spends a fortune on a knockoff Disney trinket to seek supernatural good luck. But after venting, she still has to meekly go back to work.
Jiang Rulin is a former executive director of a publicly listed company.
The kind of overbearing CEO you find in novels, ordering Americanos with extra shots. Every day, he has endless briefings to sit through and decisions to make, while juggling pressure from shareholders and arguing with people everywhere.
After suffering from insomnia for far too long, he once again watches the sun come up without sleeping and decides he's done.
One day, Zhao Zhiyi discovers that a new neighbor has moved in beside her family's old Western-style house. The day they happen to meet, the new neighbor is wearing a crisp white shirt and black straight-leg trousers, buying a little duck at the lemon tea shop... no, lemon tea.
The incongruity of an overbearing CEO buying lemon tea leaves Zhao Zhiyi hesitant. She only wants to trade ducks with the new neighbor. His duck clearly has a crown and wings, while hers is pitch-black.
After that, Zhao Zhiyi keeps running into this idle CEO. When she's rushing to catch the bus at the last minute every morning, he's in silk pajamas, lounging by the second-floor window with a cup of coffee and watching her hurry.
At that moment, the resentment of a wage slave takes over!
He doesn't have to work! Not only does he not have to work, he keeps trying to talk Zhao Zhiyi into skipping work too!
To tempt Zhao Zhiyi to quit, the new neighbor says all sorts of outrageous things: a handsome man as your travel companion, with flights and hotel included!
If their elders didn't know each other well, Zhao Zhiyi would be afraid Jiang Rulin was luring her away to sell her!
This isn't a new neighbor. He's a little devil who knows how to wear people down!
Jiang Rulin takes a sip of the Chinese medicine in his coffee cup and smiles with a nod. "Want to quit? Let's do it together."
Zhao Zhiyi is moved to tears. Stop trying to persuade me. If you keep going, I really will quit!
Diligent, genuine wage slave × genuine big shot who quit and ran away
A series about working yourself half to death!
Theme: Rest well so you can work well.
