Overworked marketing specialist Xia Meng walks into her company’s all-hands meeting buzzing with giddy excitement, ready to finally meet the legendary new CEO whose reputation as a sharp, hardworking, well-respected leader has dominated office gossip for weeks. But she’s still reeling from a mortifying, chaotic gynecologist appointment she rushed through days earlier, mid-panic over a sudden, scary reproductive health scare. So frazzled she barely registered her doctor’s face half-hidden under a surgical mask and cap, Xia Meng babbled a string of oversharing, wildly silly offhand comments, then sprinted out of the exam room before her consultation even wrapped. Her whole world freezes the second the new CEO steps up to the stage: it’s that exact quiet, surprisingly gentle doctor she assumed she’d never run into in her professional life.
