[One heroine + teacher and student + campus life + everyday urban life + bickering couple]
[Carefree, straight-laced underachiever] Zhou Mo × Shangguan Yue [cool, gentle teacher]
“An encounter at a scallion pancake stall somehow led to the two of them living together.”
Shangguan Yue: “Go stand outside. Don’t you need your textbook and workbook? Don’t you use chopsticks to eat?”
Zhou Mo: “You don’t need chopsticks to eat a hand-pulled pancake!”
Later, when they met again, they were at each other’s throats. They both tried to get back at the other.
Zhou Mo hid her lesson plan so she’d make a fool of herself at a meeting the next day.
Shangguan Yue hid Zhou Mo’s homework. In English class the next day, she deliberately checked whether he’d done it.
Shangguan Yue: “You didn’t do it? Go stand outside!”
Later, on Zhou Mo’s eighteenth birthday, he watched Shangguan Yue lower her head and make a wish for five whole minutes.
Zhou Mo: “Hey, what are you wishing for? You’ve been at it for five minutes. You still haven’t finished?”
Zhou Mo glanced at her carelessly.
Shangguan Yue: “I’m wishing you’ll finish five years of past exam papers, three years of practice tests, and your English workbook and booklet. Stop dragging down our class’s English scores. One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel!”
“Rotten apple”: ...
Later still, on a pitch-black night during Zhou Mo’s first year of college,
Zhou Mo, fresh from his shower, ran into Shangguan Yue at the door just after she’d returned from a blind date.
As usual, Zhou Mo launched into his teasing.
Zhou Mo: “You’re so violent, you can’t cook, and you’re not as gentle as other girls. Who’d ever marry you?”
Shangguan Yue looked up, her eyes red...
Zhou Mo was at a loss for words.
After a long pause!
Zhou Mo: “I was just joking. If nothing else... I’ll marry you.”
