Su Qingyan has worked tirelessly at Xingmang Technology for four years. The brand-upgrade proposal she refined over countless sleepless nights is secretly stolen by Lin Weiwei, whom she considered her best friend. Her direct supervisor, Director Zhang Cheng, teams up with Lin Weiwei after Su Qingyan refuses his sexual advances. They fabricate charges against her, credit Lin Weiwei with all the work, and pin every project failure on Su Qingyan.
Betrayed overnight, stripped of her achievements, and passed over for promotion, she is plunged into a workplace hell. Su Qingyan once believed that hard work would be recognized, but despair strips away her weakness. She wipes away her tears and begins calmly gathering evidence, lying low as she prepares to strike back.
She asks to transfer to a marginal division that no one believes in. Despite scarce resources and the mockery of her colleagues, she delivers hit projects one after another with her professional skills, gradually climbing the social ladder. Her former enemies repeatedly try to suppress her, while office factionalism, capital-backed opposition, and gender discrimination pile on.
Su Qingyan depends on no one and plays no games of romance. She uses her talent as a blade and turns the rules to her advantage. She tears apart her hypocritical colleague’s facade, brings down a corrupt leader, takes on capital factions and pressure from senior management, and breaks through the workplace barriers faced by women over thirty.
She cuts her way through every obstacle and settles every old score, rising from a junior employee to an executive at the group. Only when she reaches the top of her industry does she understand: the best revenge is not destroying your enemy, but taking charge of your own future.