《Days of Messing with the CEO》 by Yun Qing
Preface
Recently, I read a book that made me understand the importance of breakfast for women, which is greater than for men.
Yun Qing thought this might explain why women are more prone to morning grumpiness. Physiologically, women are naturally more inclined to eat a bit more and be more emotional.
Take Yun Qing, for example!
She must eat something in the morning, like buying a meat bun nearby or drinking an energy soup (of course, bought outside, as Yun Qing is a foodie who’s too lazy to cook). Otherwise, she’ll unconsciously wear a sour expression all day and find everyone irritating! Although Yun Qing usually doesn’t see anyone after waking up, with just herself sitting in front of the computer, breakfast is absolutely crucial. Eating well and eating enough is essential for her.
Perhaps because Yun Qing herself loves food, even to the point of being obsessed with delicious cuisine, the book’s female protagonist – the omnipotent and gluttonous Ke Xin, who would even sell out her marriage without hesitation – is a reflection of Yun Qing’s own desire for life. Of course, she’s one of the few characters Yun Qing is reluctant to sell to a publishing house.
Because she originally wanted to write many stories about her gluttony. Those stories might include various foods: like first meeting a male lead who’s expert in delicate Japanese cuisine, then meeting another who’s great at sushi, then perhaps encountering a male lead skilled in Manchu Han Imperial Feast, and soon after, another who’s proficient in French cuisine…
Ah! Just imagining this, Yun Qing would want this female protagonist to have seventy or eighty different romances, just to taste cuisines from around the world! Finding a legitimate reason, pretending to be gathering material, and then spending money to enjoy good food – isn’t that one of life’s greatest pleasures?
But… oh…
This dream is crushed because Yun Qing is just a poor, poor little writer. So… she’ll have to turn her adorable glutton princess into a poor thing satisfied with just bak kut teh noodles!
Hmph… So, Pu Cang Jie, let me tell you – no matter how super handsome, charming, or talented you are, in Ke Xin and Yun Qing’s eyes, you’re useless if you can’t cook delicious food.
So consider yourself lucky! This time, the perfect, beautiful, clever little Ke Xin has still chosen you!
Who told Yun Qing to be so poor… sigh…
But, speaking of which, if the female protagonist became a gluttonous, fickle princess, not to mention others, the male lead would probably chop the little author me into pieces…
So! My adorable, beautiful, and clever Ke Xin! Don’t blame me for selling you out so quickly… I really, really didn’t want to…
He did nothing wrong, so why… why must he bear the guilt of a life?
So, he decided to abandon the name Ying’pu Cangxie and the face that had garnered all the world’s favor, to search for… what exactly is what he wants!
“It’s because I don’t understand that I must go and find out.”
He caressed the swollen scar on his left cheek. This was the thing that made people avoid him, yet beneath this scar and his beautiful skin, the “glory” that was nothing more than responsibility and duty to him, sparked fantasies, endless desire, and worship from others.
Therefore, he couldn’t help but wonder, without his face and background, who was he really? What did he truly want?
Yun Qing, “Messing with the CEO’s Days”
Chapter One “N-Not good!”
A sharp scream suddenly rang out, startling Shang Keixin’s coffee cup, causing hot coffee to splash directly onto the contract worth tens of millions of dollars spread out on her right hand.
The two young men standing beside her first froze for about a second, then, with remarkable tacit understanding, took a step back, moving about a meter away from Shang Keixin.
In the slightly distant area, the beautiful woman sitting behind the expensive office desk, who had just screamed, apparently unaware of the impending disaster, was still staring intently at the newspaper.
Shang Keixin raised her delicate willow-like eyebrows and tossed the contract behind her—
As she walked towards the woman behind the desk with a graceful, swaying posture, the two men immediately rushed to rescue the contract they had spent two months preparing, worth tens of millions of dollars.
“Ting Li, are the financial highlights out today?”
Her soft, sweet voice was sickeningly sweet, and those who knew Shang Keixin knew this was a prelude to “trouble.”
The two men rescuing the contract exchanged glances, then, holding the contract, quietly and very “vulgarly” disappeared into this high-end, luxurious assistant’s office.
“Ah? Financial highlights?”
A somewhat dazed Bai Ting Li looked up, still somewhat confused when she saw Shang Keixin, then blinked, “Oh! Right, financial highlights… well…” She suddenly looked at the empty office behind Shang Keixin, “Did you finish discussing the contract?”
Shang Keixin’s beautiful eyebrows twitched slightly, “I’m asking about the financial highlights.”
“Oh! Yes… Financial highlights are…”
Bai Ting Li hurriedly lowered her head to look at the financial section, and then became distracted again…
“Ugh…”
Seeing Bai Ting Li’s grief-stricken expression as she stared at the newspaper, Shang Keixin, who was about to scold her, became curious.
She leaned in to look and saw the bold headline—
Asia’s White Knight Representative—Ying’pu Cangxie, Vanishes Overnight!
She quickly glanced at the text and then read aloud: “The incredibly handsome, more noble than the Japanese royal family, the famous prince Ying’pu Cangxie has confirmed leaving a note and running away, and will not appear in the short term…
A modern Japanese white knight, born into the Ying’pu family, though second in line, he is the potential heir to the Ying’pu Group. Inheriting his mother’s royal blood and his father’s cultural elite lineage, Ying’pu Cangxie is considered the top figure in Japan’s cultural circles, a genius-level master in flower arrangement, tea ceremony, kendo, pottery, calligraphy, chess, calligraphy, musical arts, painting, and incense ceremony… with annual tuition from students seeking to learn from him approaching 10 billion yen…”
“Wow!” Shang Keixin’s eyes lit up, suddenly understanding the commercial potential described in the text.
“A money tree!”
“I… I also learned from him! I paid 400,000 yen to learn guzheng, I’m telling you, he’s really handsome… so handsome and so gentle! How can he disappear? How can he run away from home?”
“Oh…”
Handsome? Gentle? Shang Keixin’s beautiful, sharp eyes showed a look of disdain.
The only person in the world who could be called handsome and gentle was her dad!
She didn’t even glance at the beautiful photo, and thinking that her most capable female assistant was actually infatuated with a man far away in Japan who had nothing to do with her, causing her to soil the contract, no… not being able to drink her coffee, made her angry!
Her plump, red lips curved into a dangerous, beautiful arc, “So… did you learn cleaning from him?
She saw Shang Keixin’s originally sweet and rosy face suddenly turn sinister and evil, “Stop whining! Since you made me miss my coffee, you deserve to be punished. As for the punishment… don’t say I’m cruel, you can choose for yourself! Listen carefully! One, clean the men’s bathroom on the 14th floor. Two, come to my house and help me sweep the floor for a week. Three, both of the above!”
“Ah?” Clean the men’s bathroom? Sweep the floor? Both?
There… there was no fourth option? She was heartbroken. How could this boss, who usually treated her like a younger sister, be so cruel?
