Reverse Growth, Girl-Boy Love

When Your Edge Becomes My Armor

Shen Xubai is the sharpest blade in the finance world, undefeated at merger and acquisition negotiation tables. No one knows that locked in his desk drawer are medical reports that grow worse year after year. Then myocarditis lays him low in a hospital bed.

Wen Ya was never a naive, sweet girl. She remembers the first time Shen Xubai slammed a report covered in red marks onto her desk and said, "If this is all you can manage, don't bother coming in tomorrow."

So she stayed up all night redoing it, until he couldn't find a single fault. Later, she learned more than just precise data analysis. She learned the subtle rhythm of his pauses during negotiations, the pressure of his pen when he signed a contract, even the way he unconsciously rubbed his platinum cuff link when he was irritated.

She learned too well. So well that even he failed to notice her understanding of him had long since gone beyond the bounds of an "assistant."

When the doctor announced that Shen Xubai had to take six months off work, Wen Ya took his access card. The moment their fingers touched, she saw anxiety in his eyes for the first time.

"Mr. Shen, you taught me that value determines whether someone stays or goes." She smiled and repeated his own words, but after turning away, she gripped the card until her knuckles turned white. Of course she would take over his projects, clear every obstacle for him, and show everyone what she could do.

But she would never let anyone, not even him, believe she would really leave.

Both characters have typical biological sex characteristics.

GB novel

Theme: Loving life