[Welcome to the story of a straight man's seven-year secret crush]
Ever since Wen Qianlai joined Zhizhen Technology, one mishap after another had cropped up, along with all sorts of reasons for taking time off.
In just one month, she'd suffered a burn, been in a car accident, sprained her ankle, gone through a breakup, gotten hives, and been trapped in an elevator. She'd amassed a whole collection of rare misfortunes.
The HR manager had finally had enough. During a work report, they laid out her "offenses" in righteous indignation.
The man at the head of the conference table glanced up impassively and took the file.
Pei Jinyan, founder of Zhizhen Technology and a hotshot young entrepreneur in the field of intelligent control, had made his mark with independently owned intellectual property. In just five years, he'd built a company worth hundreds of millions.
Everyone at the company knew their boss was a perfectionist who nitpicked everything and wouldn't tolerate a speck of dust. He was like a block of wood with no feelings.
"All right, let me take a look."
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A month ago, Wen Qianlai had landed at his company by sheer coincidence.
A month later, his employees had joined forces to denounce her.
It was the seventh year since Pei Jinyan had met her.
It was also the seventh year he'd put up with one unexpected mishap after another.
Back at university, they were the two people in their research group who got along the least.
One was a trouble magnet who couldn't stay still for a moment. The other was the cold-faced senior who followed behind her to clean up her messes.
Wen Qianlai forgot to clean the lab bench, so he did it.
Wen Qianlai used up the last pipette, so he replenished the supply.
When the people she'd wronged romantically came looking for her, he stood in their way...
Wen Qianlai had gone through seven or eight partners, yet everyone assumed Pei Jinyan was her real boyfriend, since he picked her up after class without fail and walked her back to her dorm day after day. In truth, no one knew better than Pei Jinyan that they could be teacher and student, or friends, but never a couple.
After all these years apart, she was getting into trouble even more often.
People said she could make up any excuse to get time off, but only Pei Jinyan knew she really was capable of all those mishaps.
Later, Wen Qianlai not only kept her job, but her situation improved considerably. The R&D staff thought she'd finally turned over a new leaf. When they learned the truth, their jaws dropped.
To keep her from getting into an accident on her way to work, Pei Jinyan personally drove her. To stop her from staying up too late and affecting her work, Pei Jinyan personally soothed her to sleep.
For a moment, it was hard to tell who was working for whom.
Eventually, word got around that the boss was living and eating with Wen Qianlai to keep an eye on her progress.
Everyone calmly watched the spectacle and gossiped: Whatever, it's just the boss and the boss's wife having their fun.
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If you asked Pei Jinyan how he'd put up with her all these years, it wasn't as if he'd always been so patient.
Then one day, he started thinking of her as a kitten, and everything made a lot more sense.
Cats are natural home wreckers, so he had to give her something nicer to sharpen her claws on.
Cats get rebellious and refuse to listen, so he had to cuddle her gently, not scold or hit her.
Taming a kitten was easy enough.
Little by little, Pei Jinyan discovered an even better method.
With a disobedient kitten, all you have to do is keep kissing and cuddling her, and hold her while she sleeps every night.
"The cat is the only animal that has finally domesticated humans."
The accident-prone one × the fake blockhead who's actually devoted
Theme: Love yourself
