Shocking! The Ice-Cold Professor Breaks a Ten-Year Vow of Abstinence for a Piece of Cake, also known as Professor Tangxin
[Love at first sight + older man/younger woman + devoted romance + healing and growth + happy ending]
[Abstinent chemistry professor × spirited cake shop owner]
One unexpected late-night treat brought him to her door. At the university, he was admired as an aloof “flower on a high peak” for his cool demeanor and academic rigor. His life followed the regular rhythm of experiments, lesson plans, and formulas, while desserts were his “academic blind spot.”
Late one night, the warm light of Tangxin Bakery at the end of the alley caught his eye, and he was drawn in by its sea salt caramel muffins.
Lin Xiaotang never expected a sudden customer to ask for the last sea salt caramel muffin of the day.
After tasting it, he used a scholar’s exacting standards to point out “academic flaws” in her creation.
As time went by, the professor, who always wore a white shirt, became a regular at the cake shop.
He went from accepting samples when offered to going out of his way to buy coffee. When she was short on rent and a sudden review blogger smeared her shop, he quietly handed over evidence: “the receipts for ingredient purchases and the production-date labels.”
When her Luoshen Blossom Mousse made the little shop a hit, she saw him outside the university classroom, standing at the podium full of confidence and spirit.
She proudly declared, “That man is my husband!”
To keep up with him, Lin Xiaotang turned her little shop into a cultural brand.
He took her to savor all the flavors of everyday life.
At last, amid the sweet aroma filling the shop, he said in the most restrained yet sincere voice, “Lin Xiaotang, I used to think the best experiment was one where you precisely controlled the variables and got perfect results. It wasn’t until I met you that I realized the heart’s uncontrollable flutter is even more precious.”
