[Aloof professor with social anxiety & workaholic office worker obsessed with chasing manuscripts]
She got the wrong person on a blind date. That was bad enough.
Her thesis advisor was always pestering her to turn in her work.
And the author she was responsible for kept coming up with excuses to delay updates.
Gu Yue felt like she'd had nothing but bad luck this year, but she never expected all of it to come from the same person.
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Professor Lu Yuqing: Gu Yue, please submit your thesis on time.
Fed up with chasing submissions, Gu Yue went straight to the author who was giving her a hard time: Hi Shui Hen Tian, please update your story before the end of the workday.
Award-winning writer Lu Yuqing looked at himself being hounded for an update and laughed in exasperation.
Was this karma?
It's a short story, it's sweet, and there's a lot in the second half [Read carefully]