The Crazy Romance Between Two Love Strategists

“Two people who didn’t believe in love ended up becoming each other’s most devoted believers, caught in one another’s schemes.”

I’m Gu Yan, the Computer Science Department’s “handsome, roguish strategist,” and a master of logical deduction.

She’s Su Qingqian, the Law School’s “ice-cold judge,” untouched by human feeling.

Through two hopelessly clumsy “agents,” we waged a proxy war from one corner of Jiangcheng University to another.

From choosing seats at a bubble tea shop to timing the lights at a music festival, every contest was as precise as a program running its code.

I used to think that people like us had cold hearts and dry blood, and that love was nothing but redundant code produced by dopamine.

Then, on New Year’s Eve, beneath a sky full of fireworks, I left my useless buddy behind and reached through the packed crowd to take her hand.

“Stop hiding, Teacher Su.” Leaning close to her ear, I watched the tips of her ears quickly turn red. For the first time, I abandoned every tactic and calculation. “You knew I’d come, and I knew you wouldn’t leave.”

Neither of us won that round, but neither of us lost, either.

Because when two people who are utterly rational decide to fall in love, it’s the most romantic madness in the world.