FRIENDLY RIVALS(GL)
Liu Kai Ying is a senior manager known for her cold precision and absolute control. At twenty-eight, she has everything—wealth, authority, and a reputation that keeps people at a distance. Emotions are inefficiencies she learned long ago to suppress.
Chen Le Xin, a twenty-five-year-old project manager, meets her as an equal—and a problem. Sharp, unyielding, and quietly stubborn, Le Xin refuses to bend under Kai Ying’s authority. Their professional rivalry is immediate, intense, and personal.
When a critical project is sabotaged from within, Kai Ying and Le Xin are forced into close collaboration under relentless pressure. Fourteen exhausting hours strip away pretense, revealing competence, integrity, and unexpected care. When Le Xin collapses from exhaustion, Kai Ying’s controlled world fractures—and she chooses action over authority, finishing their work and protecting her without a word.
What begins as reluctant respect deepens into something far more dangerous: want.
Kai Ying’s fear of losing control manifests as quiet jealousy and emotional withdrawal, while Le Xin struggles between patience and self-protection. Distance, accidents, sleepless nights, and unspoken feelings test them repeatedly, as fate seems determined to keep them apart.
Alongside them, two unlikely souls grow closer—Xiao Lan, Kai Ying’s reserved assistant, and Wong Tian Rong, a charismatic bar owner whose persistence is matched only by her sincerity. Their slow-burning connection mirrors the main couple’s journey toward trust and choice.
In a story driven not by grand gestures but deliberate decisions, love becomes something neither power nor fear can dictate. Kai Ying learns to soften without surrendering herself, and Le Xin learns that being chosen—fully and freely—is worth the wait.
Set against boardrooms, late-night bars, and quiet domestic spaces, this is a GL romance about restraint, growth, and the courage to choose love every day.
