Workplace Stories

Every woman probably experiences such a time: ordinary, obedient, well-behaved, someone without a name in the eyes of passersby, a dim star that may or may not be by his side. But it's just a phase, after which she shines like the sun-scorching, bright, but she doesn't love you anymore. Luan Nian stands in the icy snow of the northern country, the cold frosting his hair and eyebrows, his breath forming clouds: "Shang Zhitao, let's get to know each other again? Starting from our first meeting."

Reiji is a freelance sound engineer tasked with what should have been impossible, remixing twenty-two songs in time for HoloCon after a last-minute disaster threatens the event. Working alone through sleepless nights, half-empty coffee cups, and forgotten meals, he pushes himself past his limits for the sake of the fans and the idols who poured their hearts into their performances. Among them is Ceres Fauna; she is gentle, teasing, and unexpectedly attentive. What begins as brief encounters in quiet hallways and recording rooms slowly turns into something warmer, something grounding. As Reiji struggles with exhaustion, responsibility, and a past he isn't ready to face, Fauna becomes the one person who notices and refuses to let him destroy himself for the sake of perfection. Set behind the scenes of HoloCon, this story follows long nights, soft conversations, and the quiet moments between effort and rest. A story about dedication, burnout, and the unexpected comfort found in someone who listens. Sometimes, the hardest thing isn't finishing the impossible, it's allowing yourself to rest. __________________________________________________________________________________ Hello everyone! Thank you for checking this story out, and I know it has been a while since she has graduated but I finally have the courage to release a fanfiction containing her. I have been a fan of her for a while now so unlike my other works this won't be a one shot. I plan to write more chapters for this but it will be slow because I want to write other stories as well. Hopefully you enjoy this fanfiction as well as I did writing it. The cover I used does not belong to me, I do not claim it as mine. Ceres Fauna is her own person and I did not make her. All rights for the cover and the character of Ceres Fauna goes to their original artist.

She draws fantasy worlds. He's struggling to survive the real one. Between grueling retail shifts and late-night art sessions, Angel Santos doesn't have time for distractions. But when she meets Levi--a tired, charming The Shack worker with a chaotic family--her carefully planned life takes an unexpected detour. A story about late shifts, digital canvas light, and the unexpected warmth of finding your person in the middle of a crowded food court.

Clara spent years building the professional life she had always dreamed of: a stable job, an average salary, little work, and coworkers who enjoyed having her around. All of this required years of developing the perfect personality. Sweet and kind, but never enough to make anyone uncomfortable or suspicious. Helpful and available, but never quite in time to take on more demands. The important thing is to get home in time to read her novels, watch her series, and, most importantly, leave her worries at work. But that changes when Henrique arrives with a new set of performance targets designed to finally put an end to the Section's low productivity.

A seemingly tragic new arrival at runway is just another nuisance dumped onto Emily Charlton's desk, and a harsh, pretentious job in the city is a mere stepping stone for Andy Sachs journalism career, until the two assistants world's collide and something in them begins to spark...

I can't stand Cameron Sterling. And before you ask, yes, I've tried. I've tried being nice. I've tried making conversation. I've even tried taking my momma's advice and giving him a chance. But Cameron makes it impossible. I've worked my ass off to get where I am. I didn't walk into this company expecting anything to be handed to me. I earned my position, earned my respect, and earned every opportunity that came my way. Cameron? He makes everything look effortless. He walks into the office, does his job, turns on that stupid charm, and somehow everyone is impressed by him. Meanwhile, I'm over here wondering how a grown man can be so damn irritating. He's cocky. He's sarcastic. He's rude. And he always has something to say whenever I'm around. We've worked together before, so I already know what happens when Cameron Sterling and I are put on the same project. Arguments. Eye rolls. Petty competition. And me counting down the minutes until I can finally go home. So when our boss assigns us to work together again on one of the company's biggest projects, I'm not exactly excited. But I've done this before. I know how to deal with him. At least, I thought I did. Because this time, something feels different. We're spending more time together. We're talking more. I'm seeing sides of Cameron I've never bothered to notice before. And somehow, the man I've spent so long complaining about is becoming the man I can't stop thinking about. The problem? **I've never looked at Cameron Sterling that way.** Not once. He was just my coworker. My competition. The man I couldn't stand. Until suddenly... **he wasn't.** And now I have to figure out what's worse: Working with the man I hate... or realizing I might actually be falling for him.

Fired from her job at the coffee shop and evicted from her shared apartment, Roslyn Fernandez applies for a job as a live in shop assistant at the Cosy Hoodie Shop on LinkedIn. She meets the Cosy Hoodie Shop team in person, including her boss the alluring Katrina Rhenea. With a goal to sell as many hoodies as they can, will this pull the two closer or further apart?

Bugs Bunny has spent decades making chaos look effortless. On camera, he always lands on his feet and gets the last word. Off camera, his charm is simply another well-rehearsed routine; one polished enough to keep anyone from noticing how much of him is still performing. Then an auditioning fox comes crashing into his set on a defective ACME rocket. Vera Voss has spent years being cast as everything except funny. When she turns the accident into the best performance Looney Tunes Studios has seen all day, she earns a trial contract with the Road Runner unit-and catches the attention of an audience already eager to see her beside its most famous rabbit. Bugs tells himself his interest is professional. He is a creative consultant. She is promising new talent. The fact that he keeps visiting her set, interfering with her rehearsals, and resenting how easily she fits beside Wile E. and Rhodes is entirely beside the point. But as Vera fights to become more than any studio's poorly written femme fatale, Bugs finds himself working with someone he cannot charm, manage, or predict. Sharing the spotlight may prove harder than surviving any anvil-especially once he begins to suspect that the part of him Vera is getting to know off camera may not exist without an audience. Cover by @ukulei

Theodore Sterling had one job when he entered Horizon Media under a fake identity.. find out why the company was failing before he officially became CEO of Sterling Global. Falling for Billie Reed was never part of the plan. To Theodore, Billie was too loud, too colorful, too distracting. She talked too much, smiled too easily and somehow made herself impossible to ignore. But while Theodore was busy hiding his real identity, Billie was slowly becoming the only thing that made his cold world feel alive again. Until one night changed everything. Because some secrets don't just break hearts. They destroy entire lives.

Your character is realizing that they are someone's favorite person... and they should be terrified by that.

Thea came to Halcyon Sound with one goal: build a future through music. Staying invisible was simply part of the plan. Ethan doesn't hand out opportunities. He demands everything, pushing people until they either walk away or discover what they're truly capable of. She wasn't supposed to stand out. She definitely wasn't supposed to become the one person he couldn't ignore. Then one night changes everything. Now Thea is caught between the career she's always wanted and a connection she can't explain with the man who's spent years keeping everyone at a distance. At Halcyon Sound, talent is tested, ambition has a price, and every choice echoes long after the music fades. Some connections aren't chosen. They simply find you.

ဘဝတစ်လျှောက်လုံး အလုပ်လုပ်ရင်း ကိုယ့်ဘဝကိုယ် မေ့လျော့ခဲ့သူတစ်ယောက်... သေဆုံးခါနီးမှာ သူ့ရဲ့နောက်ဆုံးဆန္ဒက ရိုးရှင်းလွန်းလှသည်။ "နောက်ဘဝရှိခဲ့ရင်... အေးအေးဆေးဆေးပဲ နေချင်တယ်။" ဒါပေမဲ့ မျက်လုံးပြန်ဖွင့်လာတဲ့အခါ သူရောက်ရှိနေတဲ့နေရာက သူဖတ်ခဲ့ဖူးတဲ့ ဝတ္ထုထဲက ကမ္ဘာတစ်ခု ဖြစ်နေခဲ့သည်။ ဒီကမ္ဘာဟာ စာအုပ်ထဲက စိတ်ကူးယဉ်ကမ္ဘာတစ်ခု မဟုတ်ဘူး။ တကယ်တည်ရှိနေတဲ့ ကမ္ဘာတစ်ခု။ သူဟာ ဒီကမ္ဘာမှာ ဘယ်သူမှမရေးသားခဲ့ဖူးတဲ့ လူတစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်နေသည်။ ဝတ္ထုထဲက ဇာတ်ကောင်မဟုတ်သလို ဇာတ်လမ်းထဲမှာလည်း သူ့အတွက် နေရာတစ်နေရာမှ မရှိခဲ့။ သူသိထားတာက အနည်းငယ်ပဲရှိသည်။ သူရောက်ရှိနေတဲ့ ကုမ္ပဏီဟာ အခုအချိန်မှာ ပျက်စီးခါနီးဖြစ်နေပေမယ့် နောင်တစ်ချိန်မှာတော့ ပြန်လည်ရပ်တည်လာပြီး အရင်ကထက် ပိုမိုအောင်မြင်လာမယ်။ နာမည်ကြီးလာမယ်။ ဝတ္ထုအသေးစိတ်တွေကိုတေ

Jessica Vance never asked the gods to interfere with her life. But six of them did-and together, they turned her life into a disaster. Now Jessica's wrath is growing, and the High Council has punished the six gods responsible by sending them to Earth to fix what they broke. Cupid, Death, Beauty, Violence, Sleep, and Wisdom must stay close to Jessica while obeying one impossible rule: They cannot interfere. But with Cupid determined to repair Jessica's love life, Beauty caught in her sister's transformation, Violence causing chaos, and the others struggling with humanity, fixing one woman's life may prove harder than ruining it. Because sometimes... even gods make mistakes.

"My comic became a K-drama. My ex became my boss. And somehow, that's not even the craziest part of my life." Han Ye-ji is a successful writer surrounded by family chaos, crazy coworkers, and neighborhood aunties who know everyone's business. But when her biggest project reunites her with the man who broke her heart, Ye-ji discovers that some love stories refuse to stay in the past. (NEW EPS ON EVERY THURSDAY!)

Natalie escapes an abusive past to become the personal assistant for global rockstar Axl Stone. Halfway through his world tour, her life shatters when her stepfather murders her mother. Natalie leaves the tour, takes custody of her traumatised seven-year-old brother, Leo, and moves them into a tired LA fixer-upper for a fresh start. One night, she meets Cole, a rugged local handyman who offers to help with her renovations. But when she returns home, she finds Axl waiting on her porch. Trapped in grief, Natalie must manage the "noise" of both worlds, choosing between the magnetic pull of the rockstar or the safe, dependable foundation of the handyman.

She built her life around never needing anyone. He is determined to make her feel everything. Akosua Mensah has spent three years turning heartbreak into discipline. As one of Accra's most respected communications strategists, she knows how to control a narrative, manage a crisis, and keep people exactly where she wants them-outside her walls. Then she meets Kojo Asante. Wealthy, influential, dangerously perceptive, and carrying secrets of his own, Kojo sees through the polished woman everyone else admires. Their attraction is immediate, inconvenient, and impossible to ignore-especially when a high-stakes business project forces them to work together. Akosua knows better than to trust a man who can read her so easily. But Kojo isn't asking her to trust him. He's asking her to stop running. As buried secrets surface and old wounds begin to reopen, Akosua must choose between the safety of the life she built and the terrifying possibility of letting someone love the woman behind the armor. Because sometimes love doesn't wait for morning. Sometimes it finds you in the dark, and asks you to stay until dawn.

Sage Marshall's job isn't saving the city. It's saving the superheroes' reputations. Between awkward press conferences, impossible deadlines, and heroes who treat public relations like an afterthought, she's determined to earn the promotion she's worked herself to exhaustion for. The only place she can breathe is with her boyfriend, Everett; a charming law student who somehow always knows exactly what to say. What Sage doesn't know is that while she spends her days protecting legends... She's falling in love with one of the city's most dangerous villains.

ONGOING | Forced Chemistry - part of the 'Starstruck Series' This forced chemistry is never too good for people made to be enemies for life. A dating-reality show could either make or break the two of them. Scripted, fake love team, just for show-one last time. Masasalba pa kaya ang mga pangarap at puso nila? Date Started: August 28, 2026 Date Completed:

I had nothing to do really. I just sat on my desk looking around the office. I still hadn't gotten used to the new environment. It was way more lavish than my previous office. The tables are made of wood, but they are colored white. There are walls separating all desks from one another, but they aren't as high, so you can at least see your co-worker's forehead. Though, because of my height, I could see Ms. Marsvin's eyes. She was looking at her screen, too engrossed in her work to even notice that I was staring into her eyes. Despite being the Vice President of Marketing, she volunteered to do this big task, which could've been done by us workers, and I just want to know why. Due to this task, she is stuck in the office at 8pm. I just stuck around to find out why and because there is nothing good I have to do back home. Looking at her eyes, I realized how watery they are. They seemed shinier, glossier and a lot more watery than any eyes I've ever put my eyes on. And I couldn't help but blurt, "Are you crying?" Her eyes suddenly shot up and met mine, eyebrows furrowed. Now that they were directly on mine, I noticed that I was right, they were so shiny. Shiny in a way that I could get lost in them. But her words broke me out of the trance that I was about to get in. "Huh?" *** Hunter Howard just got his job at a multi-billion dollar construction company. He expected to meet stern and serious bosses, and he was right. Claire Marsvin is the VP of Marketing, the department Hunter got the job in, and is very serious. You can crack the funniest joke, and you'll find that she doesn't react at all. She just has an expressionless face. But Hunter can't stand this. He is anything but serious. And after a co-worker dares him to make Claire laugh for $100, he makes it his ultimate mission. This results in him staying late at the office, and having unusual conversations with her. And he soon realizes, he may feel a little connected towards her. Towards his boss...

Jeong "Ian" Lee An is the sharpest, most cynical relationship columnist at Elysian Vellum, New York's premier women's luxury magazine. To Ian, love isn't a fairy tale-it's a game of strategy, psychology, and manipulation. When her editor demands a groundbreaking dating column and her hyper-logical roommate, Rora, calls her a romantic coward, Ian makes a wild, wine-fueled wager: she can find a completely ordinary guy, make him fall head over heels for a totally fake persona, and ruthlessly dump him on Day 10.Her target? "Kevin," a seemingly broke, incredibly clumsy, and unstyled hipster art student she spots in a quiet Greenwich Village cafe. Ian immediately introduces herself as "Bella," a naive, sweet kindergarten teacher.But "Kevin" has a secret of his own. He is actually Ahn Keonho, South Korea's biggest K-Pop/R&B sensation and multi-brand global ambassador, hiding out in New York for ten days of absolute anonymity. Relieved that this quirky girl has no idea who he is, Keonho plays along, claiming to be an unemployed freelance dog-walker.As the lies multiply, their best friends clash, and a 10-day countdown ticks away, a chaotic web of fake identities threatens to blow up in a global media storm. Can a cynical journalist outplay her own heart when the masks finally come off?