The CEO Falls for the SlackerUpdated at Feb 27, 2025, 16:43
As someone who just wants to lie flat like a salted fish, Shen Yan’s greatest ambition is simply to waste her days—eating and waiting for the end. However, her parents are dead set on her having a stable job.
After her parents’ constant prodding led to repeated failures in the civil service and institution exams, they finally took matters into their own hands and landed her a respectable desk job at a major corporation.
Under the envious gazes of her classmates, Shen Yan reluctantly embarks on her working life after receiving an offer from a well-known listed company in S City.
On Zhou Xing’s first day meeting Shen Yan, he was immediately impressed by such a motivated and down-to-earth young woman. She was nothing like those “connections” who dress up flashily, whose perfume wafts from the elevator entrance, and who only step into the CEO’s office with one ulterior motive.
Until one day, as they gradually got to know each other, Zhou Xing began to ask about her commute:
Zhou Xing: “It must be rough getting to work every morning, huh?”
Shen Yan: “It’s alright—I usually get up at eight-thirty.”
Zhou Xing: “But isn’t our workday at nine?”
Shen Yan: “Yeah, well, my home’s just around here.”
Zhou Xing: “Huh?”
Zhou Xing – Assistant to the CEO of Lu Group
Zhou Xing, an ordinary kid who went through public school all his life, couldn’t help but notice that by the time he graduated, every one of his friends had suddenly transformed into wealthy heirs with fortunes to inherit.
• Friend One: The one with a natural domineering CEO aura since childhood—unquestionably the heir to S City’s leading manufacturing enterprise.
• Friend Two: The one who dreamed of saving lives and healing the sick since he was little—turns out he’s the heir to S City’s largest private hospital.
• Friend Three: The one who only ever wanted to be a lazy slacker—his family had already set up an offshore trust for him so that, upon graduating, he’d receive a cool ten million a year as a stipend.
Only Zhou Xing was born into an ordinary family. Just when he thought he’d be stuck with a normal job doing normal tasks like any other working person, one day the CEO’s office received an intern. And though this intern appeared completely ordinary, it turned out she, too, was a “connected” person.