I've Had a Crush on You for 20 Years. What a Coincidence, So Have I

[Mutual pining as students + bold pursuit in the working world + angst before sweetness]

Twenty years ago, Song Zhi was born into a distinguished family and lived by its strict rules: no dating, no indulgence. He practiced self-denial like a monk, reaching the heights of an immortal scholar, until Yu Yuyou swam into his mind and the order of body and soul he’d painstakingly built came crashing down.

Twenty years later, just as he thought he’d rebuilt that order into something unbreakable, the same fish swam back into his life, and it collapsed all over again with ease.

Yu Yuyou, once a pretty underachiever and now a glamorous city professional, VS Song Zhi, once a genius immortal scholar and now a renowned professor