Cold and abstinent vs. Elegant and graceful
[Running in both directions | Secret love | Pure love | Shuangjie]
Distinguished Professor Shen Zhiyu landed in University A. Everyone knew that he had profound academic attainments, but they did not know that his eyes had already been set on Wen Yu, an English translation major. When she first met him in an academic setting, the secret thoughts he had hidden for a long time were about to quietly bloom in the collision of translation and academia.
"Next week..." Shen Zhiyu suddenly spoke, fingertips unconsciously rubbing the band-aid on the back of her hand, "I gave a lecture on light and shadow aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts, and I lack a... Special audience." His voice was a little lower than usual, and his warm breath swept across her red earlobes, "Classmate Wen, are you willing to listen to Shen's lecture on an anonymous elective course?"
In the dome lecture hall of the Department of Architecture at University of C, when Wen Yu, a graduate student majoring in English translation, was handing over academic materials as an assistant to her tutor, her fingertips accidentally passed over the pen of Architecture Professor Shen Zhiyu. The moment the man lowered his eyes, she smelled the faint scent of cedar on his sleeves, but she didn't know that those cold eyes reflected the pearl hairpins shaking in her hair, which became the softest moonlight in her heart.
Every evening after that, Shen Zhiyu always appeared in the English Translation Teaching and Research Office on the pretext of academic exchanges, silently correcting the Gothic pointed arches on the drawing when she was translating "Notre Dame de Paris"; on rainy nights, she pushed the umbrella in her direction, and walked into the night in the rain; even the annotations of the academic report were filled with tenderness: "The translation here is like an arch, supporting the emotion just right."
