The Algorithm of Love: I Heard You Have a Crush on Me?

"The System wants me to win over an aloof professor, but why has his affection rating been at 100% for three years?" Mathematics prodigy Lin Tingwan is bound to the [Heart-Fluttering Algorithm System]. Mission: Make Jiang Che, the ice-cold professor in the arts department, say "I like you" out loud. Failure penalty: Lose her mathematical talent forever. She begins building models and running analyses: "Strategies to increase the odds of chance encounters," "A matrix linking shared interests," "Control variables for accelerating heartbeats"... Then one day, the System suddenly glitches: [Warning: The target's true affection rating differs from the displayed rating by 99.99%.] [Data retrieval: Three years ago, at their first meeting in an art gallery, the peak rating had already reached 100%.] Lin Tingwan freezes. "So this mission..." The man steps close behind her, his breath brushing her ear. "So this mission..." "Was something I designed so you'd discover I've had a crush on you all along."