Late Summer, Burning Heart

[Cool, restrained prosecutor x sweet, sunny girl] [Nine-year age gap + guiding lover | Both each other's first and only love, both secretly in love | He runs, she pursues, with intense push and pull at first / later, an old flame bursts back to life] Three years ago, he rejected her confession with a cold expression and left for Britain. It was the most painful defeat of her youth! Three years later, they meet again. He has become the youngest professor at the University of Political Science and Law, while she has become the ostrich in his class, burying her head in her legal code. Feng Yunting is the most aloof and frosty figure among the capital's elite, like a snow-covered jade mountain: a distant professor in the classroom and an unsparing judge in court. No one knows that a cold artificial heart beats in his chest, and even fewer know that he has secretly loved her for many years. Qi Miao is the sunshine of the law department. Just like her name suggests, she is quick with a clever remark and always has another trick up her sleeve! The sincere feelings she gave him at seventeen earned her nothing but his words, “Absurd,” and his disappearance for three years. Now, looking at that even colder, more restrained face at the podium, Qi Miao bares her little tiger teeth: “Professor Feng, can this law sentence you for ‘evading romantic feelings’?” He builds a towering wall of reason and armors himself in indifference, even wanting to “skip court” again! She becomes the most persistent “plaintiff,” using her directness and sunny charm to “break the rules” time and again, striking right through his defenses! Then, on New Year's Eve, the tipsy young woman bursts into his office and tugs open the top button of the shirt he always keeps buttoned to the collar. “How many years can this heart last?” Tears fall onto his jagged scar as she bites her trembling lip. “Feng Yunting, I want you to pay me back, starting now, this very instant, with every second of the rest of your life!” He grips her slender waist and pins her against the desk, his breath scorching her ear red. “Yaoyao, call me big brother again, hmm?”