Sleepless Nights of Counseling

兰亦Oct 2025

Rating 3.2
Word count
230K words
Chapters
78

Tags

War and Military Fiction Consulting IndustryBusiness StrategyWorkplace ManipulationWorkplace RiseUrban WorkplacePath to PartnerStruggle and StrivingLove and CareerWorkplace RivalryFemale Perspective

Summary

After earning her MBA from Harvard, Song Joey returns to Main, a top global strategy consulting firm. Under the high-pressure "up or out" rule, she endures workplace PUA, a nude-photo frame-up, sidelining, and leading her team head-to-head against rivals. Yet with guts and unyielding grit, she rises from junior strategy consultant to top partner. Along the way, Joey lets go of a ten-year secret love and finds love and understanding with Ji Jin, cold on the outside but warm within. Ji Jin: "Song Joey, if you can't find your direction, walk toward me."

Editor's review

This is a workplace coming-of-age novel set in the strategic consulting industry. The protagonist, Song Qiaoyi, returns from a Harvard MBA to rejoin the top consulting firm Main, where under the high-pressure rule of "up or out" she faces workplace manipulation, framed sabotage, and marginalization, ultimately rising to top partner through sheer resilience. The novel's readability comes from two interwoven threads: a workplace thread that captures the project rhythm, competitive ecosystem, and office politics of consulting with tight tension; and a romantic thread that, through letting go of a ten-year crush and finding understanding with Ji Jin, brings warmth to the hard-edged workplace narrative. It suits segmented reading on commutes or before sleep, offering both emotional catharsis about work and a view of how one person preserves her sense of self within a high-pressure system. A caution: conflicts are dense and the antagonists' tactics are dramatic, so readers should treat it as a fictionalized observation of the workplace rather than an industry manual.

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Reading tips

  1. Track the workplace and romance lines separately, revisiting the protagonist's changing choices after each project stage.
  2. Pause at conflict scenes to distinguish fictionalized treatment from real workplace boundaries.
  3. Keep notes on how Song Qiaoyi responds each time she is marginalized, building your own workplace review.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 第一章 花事了
  3. 第二章 怪兽劫
  4. 第三章 戳猪员
  5. 第四章 苦杏仁
  6. 第五章 秋意浓
  7. 第六章 呆木头
  8. 第七章 大冤种
  9. 第八章 惊叹号
  10. 第九章 踩过界
  11. 第十章 无情祸
  12. 第十一章 空酒瓶
  13. 第十二章 初雪夜
  14. 第十三章 老洋房
  15. 第十四章 闻花香
  16. 第十五章 单行道
  17. 第十六章 小小兵
  18. 第十七章 空架子
  19. 第十八章 免娇嗔
  20. 第十九章 掩面走
  21. 第二十章 择日疯
  22. 第二十一章 少年时
  23. 第二十二章 乱鸳鸯
  24. 第二十三章 深夜星
  25. 第二十四章 转弯口
  26. 第二十五章 路人某
  27. 第二十六章 长一智
  28. 第二十七章 得庇佑
  29. 第二十八章 祝君好
  30. 第二十九章 旧情愫
  31. 第三十章 谢师恩
  32. 第三十一章 向前走
  33. 第三十二章 垫脚石
  34. 第三十三章 炸毛猫
  35. 第三十四章 地雷线
  36. 第三十五章 正经事
  37. 第三十六章 观后感
  38. 第三十七章 爱情题
  39. 第三十八章 镜花月
  40. 第三十九章 必杀技
  41. 第四十章 炼丹炉
  42. 第四十一章 启明星
  43. 第四十二章 乙方苦
  44. 第四十三章 要加钱
  45. 第四十四章 一盏灯
  46. 第四十五章 报销款
  47. 第四十六章 慈悲语
  48. 第四十七章 心底事
  49. 第四十八章 看月亮
  50. 第四十九章 玫瑰花
  51. 第五十章 我可以
  52. 第五十一章 渐佳音
  53. 第五十二章 流水席
  54. 第五十三章 浇冷水
  55. 第五十四章 后继者
  56. 第五十五章 开小灶
  57. 第五十六章 升职季
  58. 第五十七章 徐徐追
  59. 第五十八章 故人来
  60. 第五十九章 辩论会
  61. 第六十章 风吹过
  62. 第六十一章 竞赛日
  63. 第六十二章 八卦眼
  64. 第六十三章 送别离
  65. 第六十四章 强手腕
  66. 第六十五章 避难所
  67. 第六十六章 不讲理
  68. 第六十七章 想见你
  69. 第六十八章 小哭包
  70. 第六十九章 再来过
  71. 第七十章 成就感
  72. 第七十一章 沼泽地
  73. 第七十二章 化干戈
  74. 第七十三章 她是谁
  75. 第七十四章 休止符
  76. 第七十五章 来不及
  77. 第七十六章 千帆过
  78. 第七十七章 万物生

FAQ

Is this a workplace guidebook or a novel? It is a novel. Set in a strategic consulting firm, it follows Song Qiaoyi's promotions and relationships. Although it depicts industry atmosphere, its purpose is to build characters and conflict, not to offer consulting methods or workplace guidelines that can be copied directly.
Can readers without consulting experience understand it? Yes. The book explains project workflows and company hierarchy at a basic level, and the main line is the protagonist's choices and growth under pressure; industry jargon is not a barrier. Readers with relevant backgrounds will feel the office politics more directly.
Does the romance line take up much space? The romance line is a parallel subplot, mainly about letting go of a ten-year crush and finding understanding with Ji Jin. It takes up less space than the workplace line but helps regulate pacing and shows the characters' softer side; readers who dislike romance can focus on the workplace portions.

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About the author

兰亦 Author

Lan Yi is a web-fiction author about whom limited public information is available. Three of her works are currently included in the collection: Rouge Shop, Sleepless Consulting Nights, and Hong Zhao. Judging from these works, her writing spans such genres as time-travel and alternate history, war and military fiction, and otherworldly continents, suggesting that her creative output is not confined to a single type but moves between ancient imagination, military narrative, and otherworldly settings. The representative work Rouge Shop presents a title imbued with a marketplace atmosphere, while Sleepless Consulting Nights and Hong Zhao each hint at different narrative directions. Since the author's nationality, dates of birth and death, English name, and personal experience are not clearly recorded, her biographical background cannot be described in detail; readers can only approach her choice of subjects and writing style through the works themselves. Overall, Lan Yi's writing is primarily genre-based narrative, building stories within alternate-historical and military settings. Although her body of work is not large, it already displays a certain range of subjects.