Glossy Skins, Hidden Sins | Hariboz/Haoricky

Getting a secretary position at one of China's wealthiest companies should have been Hao Zhang's ticket to success. Instead, it plunges him into a life far stranger - and far more distracting - than he would ever have dreamed.

His new superior, the enigmatic and charismatic CEO Ricky Shen, is ideal on paper: successful, good-looking, and maddeningly self-assured. But under the well-tailored suits and charming grins, the office hides secrets no company handbook could ever reveal.

Amongst erratic colleagues, surprise scandals, and tension that he just can't get rid of, Hao is having to deal with more than just mundane paperwork on a daily basis. Unusual rituals, secret longings, and unspoken expectations swirl around him like a heavy mist - and being professional by the minute becomes increasingly difficult.

As Hao moves through business life where image trumps substance, an unlikely bond is created, one tentative brushstroke at a time. But when disaster strikes, and illusions are shed, nothing is left but the brutal truth - and perhaps, just possibly, love beneath it.

Some truths won't remain hidden forever. And sometimes, the most improbable catastrophes can go all the way to the heart.