[Sharp-tongued, soft-hearted, tsundere bottom x Gentle, wealthy, deceptively dark top]
[Investment banking hotshot x Startup CEO]
Sex first, love later. A sweet modern romance.
Lin Yuhe has been having an unusually bad run of luck.
His lease expires, and the landlord insists on ending it, leaving him temporarily homeless.
His work hits a bottleneck at the same time. Pressure pours in from both his boss and his coworkers like a rising tide, making it hard to breathe.
To make matters worse, one day he gets blackout drunk and sleeps with a man at a hotel.
When he wakes up with a hangover, Lin Yuhe discovers that his one-night stand is the executive from the partner company he worked so hard to sign, and the person he hates most for exploiting workplace power dynamics.
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Later, Lin Yuhe takes his project team on a business trip. His coworkers all say the executive from the partner company is stern and difficult to approach, and he wholeheartedly agrees.
No one knows that, at night, after work is done, the two of them are closer than anyone else in the penthouse suite atop a skyscraper in the bustling city.
Lin Yuhe's face is red with fury and embarrassment.
"Didn't we agree to keep work and private life separate? Who said you could flirt with me here?"
Xu Heng pins him against the floor-to-ceiling window and holds him tight.
"Vice President Lin, how about we add each other on WeChat?"
From the top's perspective:
Xu Heng has kept himself pure and untouched for decades, never imagining that one day his reputation would be ruined by a man sent to his hotel room after a business dinner by a prospective partner whose contract was about to be signed.
The deal fell through, so he turned to another prospective partner that had long expressed interest in working with him and offered them a chance. But he never imagined they'd pull an even bigger stunt:
They used underhanded tactics to send their own vice president to his bed.
Though that's not quite what happened.
Xu Heng somehow wound up in Vice President Lin's bed.
He tells himself to keep his cool and focus on the bigger picture as he stares at the photo on partner-company Vice President Lin Yuhe's résumé. The partnership comes first, and besides, it was all just a drunken mistake.
A one-night stand, then they keep it secret and part ways. That's the end of it. It's not like it could turn into a long-term relationship.
What a joke.
So Xu Heng coldly has his assistant send Lin Yuhe his work email, agreeing that from now on they'll discuss work matters by email.
But he never expected it would be so hard to add Vice President Lin on WeChat.
Hard enough that, in a luxurious suite, he ends up offering himself up again, gift-wrapped with a ribbon.
[Reading Guide]
Both are each other's first and only partners (the other company tried to send a man, but it never went through). One-on-one pairing. Happy ending.
Theme: A chance encounter can become a lifelong bond.
