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Su Yue's Counterattack

Rating 3.0
Word count
385K words
Chapters
121

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Summary

[Workplace Women + Office Politics + Real Estate + Comeback Against the Odds + CEO's Pursuit of His Wife]

Either stand out or be out—how could she resign herself to being a pawn discarded at will?!

Su Yue, a workplace novice, is at an event when the celebrity endorser suddenly dies; she takes the blame and loses her job, and her job search stalls.

A chance encounter with a benefactor who recognizes her talent gives Su Yue the opportunity to turn things around against the odds...

Over five years, starting as a project planning manager, she fights her way up to marketing director—no longer the workplace rookie who was dismissed by Yishi Real Estate five years ago.

But then a massive upheaval strikes: the company is acquired and a CEO is parachuted in, and everything seems to return to square one...

But she will never admit defeat!

And then there is... her love life!

Editor's review

This is a women's coming-of-age novel that sets workplace survival and a romance thread side by side. The author places the story in the real estate industry, beginning with the unemployment crisis caused by an event accident, and has the protagonist Su Yue fight her way from planning manager to marketing director over five years, only to return to square one when the company is acquired and a CEO is parachuted in. The plot rises and falls tightly, with concentrated conflict. The book's readability comes mainly from two threads: the workplace thread's real pressure from accountability, position competition, and corporate change, and the romance thread's CEO-pursues-wife setup, which provides emotional relief and dramatic tension. Su Yue is not a flawless character who wins all the way; her taking the blame, being blocked, and starting again form the core appeal of her comeback against the odds. It suits fragmented reading time such as commutes or before bed, and also suits readers who like workplace struggle and women's growth themes for light reading. One reminder: the business-battle and workplace details serve plot momentum and should not be taken as an industry operations guide.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Readers who like workplace women's comeback themes and want emotional inspiration from the protagonist's struggle
  • Readers interested in the real estate workplace ecosystem who prefer business-battle and personnel-struggle plots
  • People who need light reading for commutes or before bed and prefer fast-paced, conflict-dense stories
  • Readers who like the CEO-pursues-wife romance line and want workplace and love threads advancing together

Not a good fit for

  • Readers expecting rigorous industry realism or deep business-battle analysis
  • Readers who dislike the CEO-pursues-wife setup and prefer purely realistic workplace narrative
  • People uninterested in the protagonist's comeback-satisfaction formula and seeking literary experimentation

Reading tips

  1. Can be read in sections by workplace stage, paying attention to Su Yue's choices and costs at each position change.
  2. Look at the workplace thread and the romance thread separately: first clarify character motives, then judge whether the plot is reasonable.
  3. At the point where the company is acquired and a CEO is parachuted in, pause and look back at earlier foreshadowing to appreciate the structural echo.
  4. If used for a book club, design discussion questions around "how to rebuild professional credibility after taking the blame."

About the publisher

Tianjin Boji Xinmei Technology Co., Ltd. is a publisher focused mainly on literature and general reading. Public information about the company is limited, but its catalog of nearly one thousand titles indicates publishing directions that include mystery and detective fiction, foreign literature, classic works, health, and Eastern philosophy. Representative publications include The Complete Dark Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the works of Jo Nesbø, Nobel laureates John Steinbeck and Yasunari Kawabata, the collected works of Shi Tiesheng, and the healing books of neurologist Oliver Sacks. Its author resources combine foreign classics such as Poe, Steinbeck, and Kawabata with contemporary mystery writers like Nesbø, supported by translators including Cao Minglun and Lin Liren, reflecting a publishing profile that balances retranslated classics with genre reading.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 第1章 被公司开除
  3. 第2章 神秘的访客
  4. 第3章 曲线救国
  5. 第4章 被践踏的自尊心
  6. 第5章 难啃的骨头
  7. 第6章 热情奔涌的岁月
  8. 第7章 原山台大捷
  9. 第8章 谢经理,好久不见
  10. 第9章 新总裁见面会
  11. 第10章 盯上装修公司
  12. 第11章 办公室里的交锋
  13. 第12章 各怀鬼胎
  14. 第13章 离婚
  15. 第14章 离职宴
  16. 第15章 砍掉装修公司
  17. 第16章 魏楠的身世
  18. 第17章 暗访物业公司
  19. 第18章 坠楼
  20. 第19章 鸿门宴
  21. 第20章 收买人心
  22. 第21章 物业公司运营会
  23. 第22章 卖惨
  24. 第23章 定一个小目标
  25. 第24章 悦澜湾的工程进度
  26. 第25章 做局
  27. 第26章 梁县看地
  28. 第27章 飞来横祸
  29. 第28章 防火门风波
  30. 第29章 悦澜湾开盘前夜
  31. 第30章 应急方案
  32. 第31章 有惊无险
  33. 第32章 峰东组织架构调整
  34. 第33章 降职
  35. 第34章 棋子
  36. 第35章 修罗场
  37. 第36章 为了更好的城市
  38. 第37章 你是我的人
  39. 第38章 去开县考察
  40. 第39章 钟先生的吻
  41. 第40章 失控
  42. 第41章 试探
  43. 第42章 难题
  44. 第43章 地王
  45. 第44章 拜访江老板
  46. 第45章 谈判
  47. 第46章 怪癖
  48. 第47章 烧烤摊遇熟人
  49. 第48章 劝酒
  50. 第49章 表白
  51. 第50章 作弊
  52. 第51章 惊喜
  53. 第52章 约会
  54. 第53章 无法拒绝的条件
  55. 第54章 狼狈
  56. 第55章 踩盘
  57. 第56章 林董事长莅临
  58. 第57章 午宴
  59. 第58章 敌意
  60. 第59章 理想之地
  61. 第60章 暗访悦澜湾
  62. 第61章 冲撞的会议
  63. 第62章 分歧
  64. 第63章 人力经理的小心机
  65. 第64章 深夜探班
  66. 第65章 看不见硝烟的战场
  67. 第66章 申媛媛的小九九
  68. 第67章 化解江董怒火
  69. 第68章 晋升面试
  70. 第69章 新的猎物
  71. 第70章 蔡小华出招
  72. 第71章 有些底线不能破
  73. 第72章 庇护
  74. 第73章 惩罚
  75. 第74章 暗中操作
  76. 第75章 临时变卦
  77. 第76章 被堵死的路
  78. 第77章 上下级对峙
  79. 第78章 合谋
  80. 第79章 调虎离山之计
  81. 第80章 意外开盘
  82. 第81章 新商机
  83. 第82章 客户闹事
  84. 第83章 受辱
  85. 第84章 平息
  86. 第85章 问责
  87. 第86章 女人间的对峙
  88. 第87章 总裁的愤怒
  89. 第88章 林总的白马会所
  90. 第89章 求助
  91. 第90章 解救
  92. 第91章 入局
  93. 第92章 杀机
  94. 第93章 突变
  95. 第94章 七宗罪
  96. 第95章 触底
  97. 第96章 谢智磊上位
  98. 第97章 隐晦的表白
  99. 第98章 橄榄枝
  100. 第99章 申媛媛离职
  101. 第100章 陈俊杰现身
  102. 第101章 背后主使
  103. 第102章 方传富简历造假
  104. 第103章 峰东内部大地震
  105. 第104章 被伤害的女人
  106. 第105章 曾琳的反击
  107. 第106章 苏樾复职
  108. 第107章 示范区开放
  109. 第108章 神秘的买家
  110. 第109章 未婚妻
  111. 第110章 苏樾失踪
  112. 第111章 求救信号
  113. 第112章 获救
  114. 第113章 求婚
  115. 第114章 观点冲突
  116. 第115章 摊牌
  117. 第116章 林董的欣赏
  118. 第117章 父子争执
  119. 第118章 接班人
  120. 第119章 元凶
  121. 第120章 一起往前冲(完结篇)

FAQ

Is this a pure workplace novel or more of a romance?
Both, but workplace struggle and women's growth are the main skeleton, while the romance thread provides relief and drives character relationships. If you want pure workplace realism, you may find the romance scenes too many; if you want only sweet romance, you will also find workplace conflict takes a large share.
I haven't read other works by this author. Can I read this one directly?
Yes. This book is a standalone story and does not depend on prior background. It opens with the event accident and unemployment crisis, and character relationships and industry background are gradually explained as the plot advances, so new readers can enter directly without an obvious barrier.
Are the real estate workplace details in the book professional?
The work prioritizes plot and character conflict; real estate industry elements are mainly used to build the workplace stage, involving marketing, projects, company acquisition, and similar plot points. Ordinary readers will have no trouble understanding the story, but if you read with the aim of learning industry practice, it is advisable to consult professional materials alongside.
Is it suitable for fragmented reading time or does it need continuous reading?
Both ways work. Chapters are conflict-dense and fast-paced, suitable for segmented reading on commutes or before bed; if you want to see clearly the cause and effect between Su Yue's five years of position changes and the company upheaval, continuous reading makes it easier to grasp the character growth line and the payoff of foreshadowing.

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Coffee Aroma (Kafei Xiangfen) is a Chinese author who writes under a pen name on an online literature platform. Publicly available information is limited: their real name, nationality, and dates of birth and death have not been disclosed. The library currently holds one work by this author, the modern romance novel Su Yue's Counterattack, which is also their representative work. Based on the available information, Coffee Aroma's writing centers on the common category of modern romance, with the story unfolding emotional narratives against an urban backdrop. The word "counterattack" in the title suggests confrontation and turning points, possibly involving a character's response to and growth through emotional or life difficulties. Because verifiable public information about the author is very limited, it is not yet possible to systematically outline their writing style, creative trajectory, or the influence of their work, nor to determine whether they have other pen names or works. For readers, understanding this author currently depends mainly on Su Yue's Counterattack; should more works or author information emerge, their creative profile and thematic direction may become clearer.

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