Zhang Linghe fanfiction | One-on-one happy ending | Two brilliant, powerful leads | Five-year age gap | Please don’t conflate this with the real person
⚠️ Extensive fictional liberties, just for fun, all characters are out of character. If you’re sensitive, read with care!
32-year-old unhinged professor × 27-year-old clear-headed expert | He is five years older | Two strong leads heal each other
Xie Wei, the imperial tutor of the Great Qian, is transported into the body of a “mad professor” feared by everyone in the modern world.
At 32, he is highly intelligent but poor with people, brimming with hostility and treating rules as meaningless.
Faculty and students alike avoid him. Only Lin Ting, a 27-year-old psychological expert, dares to enter the eye of the storm alone.
Facing Xie Wei’s imperial authority, she adjusts her glasses and scoffs:
“Drop the act. In my office, you’re just Patient 001. Don’t try to manipulate me. Your microexpressions have already given away your anxiety.”
At first, he was a man alone, and she was the doctor wielding the scalpel.
He set traps to test her, and she countered every move. He flew into an uncontrollable rage, and she gently brought him back under control.
Two mature souls meet as equals in a battle of wits, their connection perfectly matched.
Later, the unhinged imperial tutor, eyes reddened, pinned her against a wall and rasped:
“Lin Ting, I have let the world down, but I don’t want to let you down. If you don’t want me, I’ll destroy this space-time and go mad with you.”
Lin Ting smoothed his furrowed brow and said softly, “Xie Xueya, don’t be afraid. I’m here. I’ll give you a lifetime of peace.”
✅ Truly equal leads: Both remain intelligent throughout and work together to build their careers.
✅ Intense romantic tension: From testing each other to falling deeply in love, a romance between adults.
✅ A long-suppressed passion catches fire: Once the 32-year-old, celibate male lead falls in love, his devotion is earth-shattering.
✅ Healing and redemption: Her modern warmth heals his thousand years of loneliness.
