[College Campus × Healing × Love Blossoms Over Time × Sweet Campus Romance] High-IQ heroine × cocky, handsome genius boy + cohabitation
After her family’s circumstances take a sudden turn, Xia Qiu Zhi goes overnight from being the most dazzling girl in the capital to driving a three-wheeled taxi in a tiny county town nobody’s ever heard of. From then on, she lights up the whole town of Wowo like a match, and meets the boy she’ll love and hate in equal measure.
Everyone says that her distant cousin, Lu Youyuan, is a scoundrel.
Lu Youyuan, my “cousin” in name only, threw my IELTS practice tests into the stove the first time we met.
He grabbed my chin and sneered, “A delicate flower from the city. You’d better hurry back and be a spoiled rich girl.”
He tore up my exercise books and threw my clothes into the pigsty, yet when I stayed up late working through problems, he’d kick the door open and roar, “If you don’t turn the lights back on, I’ll burn your homework!”
Then, one stormy night, my fingertips brushed the hideous burn scar on his lower back. It wasn’t a scar from some supposed “fight” at all. It was the mark left by a red-hot trophy from the Olympiad in mathematics.
“Does it hurt?”
“Lu Youyuan, you can even solve Fourier transforms. Why pretend you’re illiterate?”
“An international physics genius reduced to heating bathwater for me. Lu Youyuan, aren’t you tired of keeping up the act?”
He seized my wrist and pinned me against the wall, his breath brushing my neck. “Xia Qiu Zhi, if you try to uncover my secret identity again, I won’t mind using a wilder way to shut you up.”
He pinned me against a haystack, his hot breath turning the tips of my ears red. “Xia Qiu Zhi, get into college and get out. Never come back to this godforsaken mountain village that eats people alive…”
Later, the day I got my Harvard acceptance letter, that lunatic smashed through the school gate in the middle of the night. “The rose I raised? Why should I let some foreign devils have her?”
