[Modern romance + happy ending + marriage first, love later + love grows over time + secret relationship + childhood sweethearts + sweet romance + long-planned romance]
[Arrogant, celibate math professor who favors logic over literature] ✖️ [Impulsive, radiant second-year journalism student who loves literature and can’t stand math]
For the first twenty years of her life, Jiang Zhi had been stamped and claimed, even promised to a Japanese pirate she’d never met. Apart from that, her parents doted on her, her little brother listened to her, and life had been pretty smooth.
Then college brought her three strokes of bad luck!
1. She’d picked journalism to avoid advanced math, right? The major wasn’t supposed to require it, but this school made her take it! What a pain!
2. Her fiancé, who hadn’t been heard from in twenty years and seemed as good as dead overseas, came back to marry her? What awful luck!
3. The university math professor who failed her every time became her neighbor? The worst luck of all!
At the school’s tenth-anniversary distinguished alumni event, the pair unexpectedly lost control of the conversation.
Professor Liang curled his lip. “Her exam was on my desk at the time. I got 146 in math; she got 23. I wanted to see what was going on in her head.”
Reporter Jiang gave a series of cold laughs. “His mother said he got 15 in history, while I got 95. All I could think about was what kind of Japanese pirate he must be!”
