Going to work.
Ma Haoran had lived for over twenty years without working a single day. That section of his résumé was blank.
Getting up early.
For the past two years, his body clock had been set to finish editing videos at three or four in the morning and sleep only after dawn. Seven thirty? He would normally still be snoring at that hour.
Yet last night, he had barely slept.
It wasn't nerves. It was that feeling he used to get the night before a school outing as a kid. He tossed and turned, his head full of jumbled images-how should he introduce himself? What if he stuttered and got so nervous he shook? Standing in front of a row of people, giving his name, his hobbies, his hopes for the future...
Just thinking about it made his palms sweat.
He forced himself not to scroll through his phone and just lay in bed, kicking the covers off and pulling them back over himself, restless for most of the night.
And in the end?
Not one of the scenes he had feared came to pass.
Wang Xiaoliang and Luo Bisheng took him to the backyard for breakfast that morning. He couldn't even remember how long it had been since he last ate breakfast.
Then they led him into the office and stood him in front of a pretty woman.
Wang Xiaoliang said only, "Jiahui, this is our new hire, Ma Haoran. Video editing."
Then he turned to him. "Ma, this is Yi Jiahui. When we're not here, listen to her. She handles attendance. If you need anything, go to her too."
Ma Haoran managed two words.
"H... hello."
Done.
That was it.
The company only had a handful of people, and three of them were bosses. But that was