Unequal Unrequited Love

Fang Nianchen had a secret crush on a senior back when she was seventeen.

The senior was intellectual and mature, the perfect catch in the lily circle. Just as Fang Nianchen was about to kick down the closet door and confess, she heard that the senior had gotten a boyfriend.

Fang Nianchen instantly sealed her heart with mud: “Stay away from straight girls for a lifetime of happiness!”

A few years later, they reunited, and the former senior had become her boss.

Yu Wan was icy cold to everyone, but she showered Fang Nianchen with all kinds of care—bringing her food and drinks, checking on her when she was sick, and even “coincidentally” running into her every day on the commute to and from work.

Fang Nianchen couldn’t handle this kind of attention. Afraid of repeating past mistakes, yet unable to resist the gentle offensive, she fell into endless entanglement.

One time, when a colleague casually asked about her sexual orientation, Fang Nianchen blurted out: “I’m straight!”

Yu Wan, passing by: ?

That night, the two bumped into each other at a lesbian bar.

Yu Wan: …Do all you straight girls act like this?

Fang Nianchen: …Turns out you’re not straight!

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Colleagues were all whispering that Fang Nianchen clashed with the new HR director in some five-elements incompatibility—who else gets called into the office for a talking-to every single day?

Once again, Fang Nianchen entered the office and didn’t emerge for a long time. When she finally did, her face was flushed red.

Her colleagues stared at her in a daze, thinking she’d been scolded into stupidity, and all chimed in to stand up for her.

But they didn’t know that Fang Nianchen’s mind was entirely filled with: Does getting bitten by your boss count as a work injury?