Happy ending | Childhood sweethearts | Reunited after a long separation | Younger gong | Both virgins | Healing | Mutual secret crushes
You Shizhen x Gu Nianshi
A cool, aloof, flirtatious beauty of a shou x A silly, puppy-like gong who charges ahead without thinking
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Gu Nianshi is unlucky enough to graduate straight into unemployment.
Countless resumes disappear into the void, until a top company unexpectedly hires him.
He thinks his luck has finally turned, but it turns out he's jumped into a fire pit.
His direct supervisor, You Shizhen, is a perfectionist with a fearsome reputation in the industry.
While other people are worked like oxen, Gu Nianshi is worked like a mule, and an inexhaustible one at that.
That is, he works around the clock, twenty-four hours a day.
Dark circles are permanently etched beneath his eyes, and he guzzles coffee like water.
Staring at the mountain of paperwork, Gu Nianshi cries out from the depths of his soul:
"You, when the hell are you going to die?!" (grits teeth.jpg)
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You Shizhen has been a little annoyed lately.
The look in his new assistant's eyes is all wrong.
It's not awe or admiration, but something... complicated, mixing resentment, curiosity, and a burning emotion he can't quite understand.
It gives him the creeps and leaves him feeling strange.
To relieve this inexplicable discomfort, President You coldly waves a hand.
He hurls paperwork at the assistant and fills up his schedule.
As long as the assistant is too busy to keep his feet on the ground, he won't have time to distract him with those big, dewy eyes.
Besides, it's kind of amusing to watch him get pushed to the brink by work and try to hold it together.
That's what President You thinks.
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That night, Gu Nianshi goes to pick up You Shizhen, who's dead drunk after a business dinner.
The usually aloof and dignified man clings to him like a giant dog.
His burning breath brushes Gu Nianshi's neck as he murmurs again and again, "Linlin... Is that you, Linlin? I miss you so much..."
He still remembers?!
Gu Nianshi's heart pounds like a drum. He tentatively whispers, "Shizhen, do you still remember..."
Before he can finish, a burning kiss silences every word.
"Linlin, I miss you so much..."
A spark sets off an inferno, and old love rekindles into desire.
One reckless night, tangled together until dawn.
Morning sunlight spills into the messy room. Gu Nianshi looks at his handsome boss asleep in his arms, utterly hopeless:
I'm done for. The boss really does seem to be "dead."
On his bed, in his arms.
"Slept to death" by him.
Reading guide: Important content warnings
1. Happy ending, childhood sweethearts, with scenes from when they were kids.
2. Both leads are pure in body and mind, and secretly love each other.
3. Still a puppy romance, but this time the puppy is a silly one.
Theme: To be determined
