I Joined a Dating Show and Got Hired by the Boss

Romance-clueless college girl × green-tea puppy boy studying abroad (Next up: Road to a Beautiful Reunion, currently drafting; The Things She Didn't Know is a short, sweet story)

Unable to find an internship, accounting student Cheng Xun decided to try a different route: go on a dating show to find a job.

After all... what dating show doesn't have domineering CEOs and executives?

She didn't expect the production team to give her an important role: a flirtatious heartbreaker.

So Cheng Xun happily counted her 150,000 yuan and went on the show!

Every day, she remembered to work her job-hunting needs into the script, too.

"What kind of... employee do you like?"

"Could you give me a chance to... refer me internally?"

"Could I ask about your company's... benefits? Do you get weekends off? Is there social insurance and a housing fund?"

When the show first aired, the comments were nothing but insults, calling her a player and a gold digger.

Gradually, they turned into: #SheReallyTurnedTheDatingShowIntoBossZhipin

As it turned out,

She really did meet a rich guy, Ming Cong, on the show.

He couldn't offer her a job, but he gave her all his love.

At an altitude of 4,000 meters,

Ming Cong pulled out a family heirloom ring that his butler had just hauled up there on his back.

Whoosh! He dropped to both knees and confessed his love.

Cheng Xun burst into tears.

"Are you proposing to your ancestors? I mean, sure, but... I! Need! A! Job! Can a man put food on the table?"

Bonus Scene/

After Cheng Xun's best friend found out that she and Ming Cong had become a real couple, she specifically warned her: "A rich kid studying abroad like him looks like the type to play around. Be careful, or you might see him on a PDF someday."

Cheng Xun thought about it. He really was a flirt.

Had anyone ever seen a guy who had to video-call his girlfriend to report in even when he was eating or showering?

Well, Cheng Xun had now.

Whenever she tried to hang up, Ming Cong would gaze at her with puppy eyes and blink. "Are you already sick of me? Didn't you say you love puppies most?"

With a male model's face and a pitiful expression, he always wore Cheng Xun down in the end.

All she could do was curse him silently: "So you're the damn green tea guy!"

*Can't find a job? Go on a dating show :)

It's already this hard for new graduates to find work during fall and spring recruitment. What's wrong with going a little crazy and finding a new way in?!

New story out now! A campus unrequited-love story, The Things She Didn't Know, with a high school boy who'll make you fall for him :)

Click to read the warmest older-sister-and-cat story :)

Reserved senior × younger student who takes advantage of her vulnerability

One day, Ji Miao came across a post: #TellUsAboutYourCraziestHighSchoolCrushMoment#

The top comment came from an account called cjy:

"I climbed over the school wall in the middle of the night, stole the photo of the senior I had a crush on from the honor roll, and got chased by security guards for three blocks."

"Also, I deliberately made her catch her boyfriend cheating, so she could splash the jerk and I could take his place as her childhood friend."

The comments were full of exclamations:

"A new arrival beating the childhood friend! Are they still together?"

"Does she know?"

Ji Miao glanced at the person in the kitchen, currently flustered as he made soup for her.

Smiling to herself, she replied with a photo she'd just taken of the bedside table.

A pair of wedding rings lay close beside a pair of watches, with half a wedding photo visible in the background.

"She knows now :)"

Before she turned eighteen, Ji Miao was like an old-fashioned green train trapped on its tracks.

She obeyed her parents' plans and accepted the life laid out for her.

From her major to her engagement partner, her answer was always, "Anything is fine."

Until she met Chen Jingyuan.

That train went bang and turned into an off-road vehicle that smashed the tracks to pieces.

He told Ji Miao, "It's not that you don't have a choice. You're just too polite, even when you say 'no.'"

Chen Jingyuan never tired of figuring out everything she liked and disliked.

He taught her to say loudly, "I want to choose the life I love, forever!"

The embarrassing secret Chen Jingyi remembered about Chen Jingyuan was from the summer between his second and third years of high school.

He claimed he was hiring a tutor for his older sister.

In reality, he hung around the doorway every day like a clingy little cat, just to sit in on the lessons.

His math was clearly excellent, but he pretended to be hopeless at it.

He would always look at his senior with sparkling eyes, his voice soft and pitiful:

"I did a page of math today. Can I have a piece of candy as a reward?"

"Senior, the midterm results are out. Could you go over the problems with me this weekend?"

One day, Chen Jingyi told Ji Miao the old story as a joke.

When she got home, she pinched someone's ear and asked with a laugh, "You little liar, what else don't I know? Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

Chen Jingyuan just smiled, turned his head, and kissed her palm.

"It's enough that I know."

How much I love you.

After all, back then,

She was always walking too fast,

And he hadn't dared to call out,

"Unrequited love doesn't come true by a miracle. It takes him patiently digging her out of fate, bit by bit."

Next up: Road to a Beautiful Reunion

Once-stubborn young master, now an honest pharmaceutical company owner who took over after going bankrupt × once-anxious small-town exam ace, now a hospital worker who takes on the whole world

"I hope you're doing well, but not too well."

Chen Jiaqi had imagined countless times how she would run into her ex-boyfriend again.

She should be wearing a huge fur coat and carrying a luxurious LV bag.

At the very least, her hair should be smooth and shiny.

She never expected to show up with two-day-old greasy hair, wearing Crocs,

with some unidentified stains on her white coat.

Her mask and surgical cap were the last line of defense for her self-respect.

But that wasn't even what infuriated her most.

It was that her ex-boyfriend was still so damn handsome.

In a full Prada suit, he looked like a chaebol heir from a Korean drama.

A single diamond from his watch was worth more than what she'd make in ten night shifts.

But...

Why did he still smile at her the way he had when he used to tutor her in high school?

He said exactly what he'd said back then: "Chen Jiaqi, what would you do without me?"

What would she do? She'd earned her doctorate, gotten her certifications, and treated patients.

She answered stubbornly, "I haven't thought about you even once in the last seven years. I've been doing great."

But Lu You looked at the sweat on her face from performing CPR on a patient,

and at the deep dark circles under her eyes after yet another overnight shift.

Her eyes, however, were still bright and shining.

Suddenly his eyes reddened. "But I've thought about you so many times."

At last, he understood Chen Jiaqi's silence back then.

He understood what she meant when she said, "We're from two different worlds."

This time, Lu You said, "Chen Jiaqi, what am I supposed to do without you?"

Rekindling an old flame, but not a playboy's redemption arc. They broke up over no fundamental incompatibility. Each other's first love, and neither dated anyone after the breakup.

Theme: Fate is always wonderfully mysterious.