After I Started College, My Campus Belle Senior Became Love-Struck

On a stormy night in Yicheng, Nie Hao opened the door to his rented apartment and found a girl in a celadon qipao, barefoot and curled up on his router as she typed code. Su Zhixi’s jade hairpin glowed blue as she tossed him a string of IP addresses. “Your junior’s firewall still reacts slower than you blush.” Three months later, standing outside the computer science department at Yicheng University, he saw the cool, elegant Jiangnan beauty on the new-student livestream and realized she was the “hacker neighbor” who’d stolen his Wi-Fi to binge-watch shows that night.

“This is your nineteenth cup of milk tea.” Su Zhixi poured out the taro boba tea a rich kid had given her in front of everyone, but hid the half-finished cola Nie Hao had left behind in the wide sleeve of her hanfu. “Your bubble sort, junior...” She rose onto her toes and leaned close to his ear. “It’s prettier than the curve of your heartbeat when you sneak a peek at the slit in my qipao.”

The programming world was abuzz that AI goddess Su Zhixi’s graduation project could win the Turing Award. But Nie Hao found her in the computer lab, crying as she deleted her code. “They say I only understand algorithms, not romance!” He snatched the keyboard and typed a screenful of hearts. “When you pretended to be drunk and crept into my dorm, didn’t you even feed the number of times my eyelashes fluttered into your neural network?”

At the hackathon finals, Su Zhixi’s terminal suddenly went black. Nie Hao grabbed her programming wristband. “Mind if I borrow that folder in your cloud drive named ‘Hao’?” His breath warmed the tips of her ears. “After all, you’re the one who pretends to run into me every day just to bring me osmanthus cakes. That’s not something a humanoid robot you programmed would do.” As the countdown hit zero, the winning code burst into a screenful of fireworks. At its heart was an entwined pair of Möbius strips.

[Genius, lovestruck campus beauty × Sly but pure-hearted junior / Code as a love letter / Keyboards hotter than kisses] As Jiangnan’s misty rain mingles with cyberpunk neon, every bug is a sweet trap.