The Miserly CEO's Beautiful Assistant

Wang Xushan's right-hand assistant, Ruan Jiangwu, handed in his resignation.

Watching him pack his things with such a resolute air,

Wang's eyes held no admiration for a beauty, only the heartache of losing a bargain workhorse!

After all, for three years, Ruan Jiangwu had done the work of three people.

Wang had long grown used to the assistant's immaculate suits and cool, composed profile. He was both easy to manage and a pleasure to look at.

"No! You can't leave yet!"

He domineeringly held on to his right-hand assistant's suitcase.

Ruan Jiangwu looked up, a flicker of surprise passing through his eyes.

But the man across from him said, "You have to hand things over first! I still have to hire someone!"

He slowly lowered his gaze, his voice once more calm and composed.

"Two weeks. I'll hire someone and handle the handover."

Wang Xushan's heart sank. Ruan was determined to leave.

Over the next two weeks, the new hire was clumsy, while Ruan Jiangwu changed completely.

The dependable, composed professional look he usually wore was nowhere to be seen.

He stopped wearing suits to work and showed up in a pink cartoon bunny outfit.

"Mr. Wang, that's Hello Kitty, not a bunny."

He even crossed his legs and played a match-three game during meetings!

"Is there a company rule saying I can't play a match-three game during meetings?"

Wang Xushan went frantic. Who was this rebellious punk? Get out of my right-hand assistant right now!!

After the new hire had ruined his only bespoke suit with coffee for the Nth time, Wang Xushan finally realized:

His world could no longer do without Ruan Jiangwu.

But Ruan Jiangwu had already made up his mind to leave.

Even stingy Wang Xushan painfully put together a "lavish" farewell dinner:

Street food with beer.

Then... cheap booze led to disaster, sparks flew, and the two of them ended up in bed.

The next morning, Wang Xushan was struck as if by lightning:

The chaste monument to his thirty years of moral integrity... had crumbled!

"It was just a drunken mistake, Mr. Wang. You don't need to take it to heart."

The other man held his shirt with long, slender fingers, as composed as if he were reviewing a document.

Following his gaze, Wang Xushan looked at that long, delicate neck and lost his focus for a moment.

In his muddled mind, a few hazy, heated scenes came back to him.

It seemed he'd been rather rough with the man last night.

His lingering guilt overcame his stinginess, and he gritted his teeth. "I feel terrible about this. How much do you want..."

He never expected Ruan Jiangwu to say, "Ten million."

Wang Xushan: ...Didn't you say I didn't need to take it to heart?

"If you don't mean it, don't say things like that." Ruan Jiangwu placed a stack of red banknotes by the bed and left without looking back.

"..."

Wang Xushan had never imagined that one day money would be used to insult him.

His right-hand assistant immediately jumped ship to a rival company.

When Ruan Jiangwu was always by his side, Wang Xushan had never noticed how important he was.

Now that he had lost him, he couldn't take his eyes off him.

Watching his sworn enemy dress Ruan up like a doll, making him look polished and beautiful in a different outfit every day, even affectionately straightening his collar and pinning on a diamond brooch

the stingy CEO's last nerve snapped!

P.S.:

● Stingy, old-fashioned, straight-laced, foolish gong x shou who seems like a cool professional but is actually a quirky anime fan

● Older gong / handsome gong and beautiful shou / flirtatious beauty shou / shou has a crush on gong, but gong confesses first

● A face-slapping comedy romance with a sweet ending; the stingy gong will become extremely devoted to spoiling his wife later on

● One-on-one, both are each other's first and have only ever been with each other

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