Stop Pretending to Be So Cold, Deskmate. Your Teacher Sees Right Through You

Luo Cixin, a top student at Qinghua University, is forced to take a leave of absence and go undercover. With a face like a “well-behaved transfer student,” all he really wants is to chop up the Yi family members who threatened him and stir-fry them with chilies.

His new deskmate, Chu Li, is the aloof heir to one of the top families in City A. Beneath his icy expression lies monstrous strength: he can crush a desk with his bare hands. He looks at Luo Cixin like he’s trash.

“Stay away from me,” Chu Li says, his voice frozen over.

“Sure,” Luo Cixin says, twirling his pen as ice crystals form at its tip. “First, pay me back for saving your life with a meal. That bite the Demon Fiend took out of your neck just now? That one’s on me.”

In a world undergoing a spiritual qi revival, Demon Fiends run rampant. Everyone at school pretends to be an ordinary high school student, while Luo Cixin attends class and quietly wonders:

Should he teach the icy-faced guy to control his rampaging dragon power with his “ice lotus soup” theory, or just smack him on the head with a wok spatula?

Ling Tangnuo, a fox with a beauty mark who he happened to save, offers him a biscuit laced with a tracking talisman.

His remote supervisor, Yi Yanghao, a bespectacled man with gold-rimmed glasses, seems to enjoy watching him go berserk more than negotiating mergers.

The principal, a petite girl with the soul of a mature woman, hugs a teddy bear and gives an order in a childish voice: “Find out what’s going on with that ice lotus!”

As his secret identity begins to crack open…

The green lotus longsword leaves its sheath. Its cold light skims Chu Li’s throat, and the Demon Fiend’s filthy blood spatters across his icy face.

Luo Cixin flicks the blood from his blade, grinning like a madman. “Why are you putting on that cold, top-student act? Call me Master, and I’ll teach you how to survive.”

Chu Li’s throat bobs. The sword mark on his neck is glaring. “…Master.”

The countdown to his secret identity being exposed has begun. This school, which trains those born with spiritual roots, is about to become the eye of the storm.

Madcap chef-god master, bottom × cold, arrogant dragon-hero top who becomes a loyal puppy