At eight thirty in the morning, Li Lanxiang sat down at her desk on time and opened the day's work schedule.
Two hours into the workday, the office gradually grew livelier. Several female coworkers huddled together, murmuring in low voices, until they lost control of their volume.
"Tang Heihu posted new videos! Two at once!"
"I saw them, I saw them! Wei Zijin woke up. The part where he bowed to the camera made me burst into tears..."
"Why can't I have a man like that..."
Li Lanxiang kept her head down over her documents, underlining passages with her pen, her ears pricked up.
She knew these female coworkers had long since made Tang Heihu their idol. A devoted man-and a talented one at that. It wasn't hard to understand. What woman didn't like seeing that?
She didn't touch her phone.
The deputy section chief position was secure, practically in her grasp, but this was precisely when she couldn't let up. She never touched her phone at work. That was one of the details in her plan.
But today, she really couldn't resist.
She stood up and headed for the end of the corridor.
She locked the bathroom stall door, put in her earbuds, and opened her phone.
Two new videos sat at the top of Tang Heihu's profile.
The first one.
Facing the camera, Wang Xiaoliang shared the good news with his fans-Wei Zijin had woken up. He bowed to the camera, pressed his palms together, and thanked everyone for their prayers and well wishes. Finally, Wei Zijin appeared in the frame too, saying a few words to the camera as tears fell. They bowed together, and the video ended.
Li Lanxiang leaned against the partition, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly.
Just as expected.
Putting on a