Chapter 1 – So Miserable, It’s Hilarious

Every overbearing CEO novel has a certain character. They’re not very important, but absolutely indispensable—like the condiments in food. You might not eat them, but they have to be there.

That character is the “secretary.”

And if you had to add an adjective before it, it would probably be “pitiful.”

When the heroine comes to visit the domineering CEO looking all bedraggled, the secretary must arrogantly say, “Sorry, without an appointment you can’t see our CEO,” only for the CEO—who dotes on the heroine—to appear and slap the secretary in the face verbally:

“How dare you stop her?!”

The next time the heroine comes, the secretary no longer dares to stop her. Then the heroine barges into the office and catches the evil supporting female character hugging the CEO in an ambiguously intimate pose. The CEO turns around furiously and once again verbally slaps the secretary in the face:

“Why didn’t you stop her?!”

Whenever the CEO and heroine have a lovers’ quarrel, it somehow becomes an unspoken rule that “the entire office is under low pressure and every employee is afraid to breathe too loudly.” As the person closest to the CEO, the secretary naturally suffers the most!

When the CEO and heroine are flirting affectionately in the office, the secretary will, like an idiot, rush in and interrupt them—at which point the CEO practically kills them with a glare.

…

Tell me, isn’t that miserable?

And every time the secretary suffers, readers happily laugh:

“Hahahaha the secretary has it so bad!”

What the hell is wrong with you people? The poor guy’s miserable—why are you laughing?!

Yan Dun was currently that pitiful secretary in a CEO novel.

Originally, he really had been a CEO’s secretary. But after getting into a car accident, he was dragged into the world of a domineering CEO novel to work as a secretary there too.

The experience severely shook his worldview.

The domineering CEO declared:

“Buy! Buy all the gold! Put all our money into gold!”

Yan Dun trembled nervously. “Shouldn’t we consider risk hedging, President?”

“What risk?” the CEO frowned. “There’s no way my decisions could involve risk.”

Yan Dun cautiously replied, “Of course, your decisions are exceptionally wise, President, but it’s always safer to be cautious…”

The CEO flew into a rage.

“Are you teaching me how to do business?”

Yan Dun could only shut up and prepare to update his résumé.

Who would’ve thought that the gold the CEO bought would skyrocket into outer space the very next day?

The CEO then said:

“AI is really profitable right now. Let’s develop AI.”

Yan Dun swallowed hard. “But we don’t have any related experience…”

“When I do business,” the CEO declared, “I don’t need experience. I only need intuition!”

Yan Dun shut his mouth again and prepared to revise his résumé.

Who would’ve thought that just one month later, the company would launch an insanely powerful AI project and rake in tens of billions in profits?

Yan Dun: ???

Yan Dun had already lost all hope in the logic of this world.

He finally understood.

The CEO’s role was to be awesome.

His role was to suffer.

In the end, Yan Dun realized an important truth:

Never try to reason with a domineering CEO.

Yan Dun worked for the An Group. Readers probably already understand that this kind of corporation must control the lifeline of the global economy, and its CEO must naturally be extraordinarily handsome—with sharp, sculpted features that make people drool, a nose more steadfast than a warrior’s, eyes deeper than the ocean, devastatingly attractive and also absurdly young, because he’d already finished an MBA at the world’s top university by age eighteen and had an IQ of 250.

This CEO’s name was An Chi, Yan Dun’s direct superior.

However, An Chi wasn’t even the most powerful one. The truly overpowered person was the chairman of the group—An Chi’s older brother, An Zao.

Yan Dun thought this family was terrible at naming their kids. The older brother was called “Early” (Zao), the younger brother “Late” (Chi)—was there a middle brother named “Just Right”?

Curious, Yan Dun asked the “Transmigration Assistant Customer Service”:

“Why isn’t the domineering CEO the strongest one? Why is his older brother even stronger?”

Customer Service replied:

“Because the romance between the domineering CEO and the Mary Sue heroine must be opposed by family members. Therefore, there has to be a family member even more powerful than the CEO in order to create obstacles. If the CEO’s family weren’t more powerful than him, they wouldn’t be able to oppose the romance.”

Yan Dun nodded.

“I understand.”

Customer Service continued:

“Your current mission is to help advance the plot between the Mary Sue heroine and the domineering CEO, Customer.”

“So if I complete the plot,” Yan Dun asked, “I can revive in the real world?”

“Yes, Customer”

Yan Dun immediately became full of ambition.

“This world is so stupid. I can definitely succeed.”