[Mature, Abstinent, Controlling Top × Cool, Contrasting, Sweet-Faced-but-Dark Bottom + Equally Matched + Reunion + Older Man/Younger Man + Mutual Pining]
Three years ago, Ji Wang's personal training instructor suddenly disappeared.
Ji Wang only remembered his long, strong hands, the faint calluses at the base of his thumb, and his final words:
“Always hold fast to your principles, and protect the people around you.”
Three years later, at a presentation in the university auditorium.
The S-rank instructor known as “King of Hell,” Lu Zhi, returned without warning after being missing for three years. Standing onstage, he read Ji Wang's file aloud:
“Ji Wang, top overall score in the preparatory division, rated an A-rank reserve team member.”
The whole room erupted.
Lu Zhi took off his glasses, his gaze fixing on Ji Wang like a falcon locking onto its prey.
“Ji Wang, I hear you're the most promising student in your year.”
“You want to be my partner? Fine.”
“First, compete against me.”
“If you win, you call the shots.”
“If you lose, ”
His thumb brushed the corner of Ji Wang's mouth, his voice dropping to a whisper:
“If you lose, you'll let me teach you all over again, from head to toe.”
Ji Wang gradually discovered that this man, rumored to have torn open a sandbag with his bare hands, kept a virtual cat on his phone and fed and dressed it at the same time every day.
And he always had Ji Wang's favorite strawberry lollipops in his pocket.
Everyone at the university knew they fought over braised pork in the dining hall.
Everyone at the university knew Lu Zhi looked at Ji Wang in a way that wasn't quite right.
What Ji Wang didn't know was that Lu Zhi had disappeared for three years to shield him from a deadly danger during a mission.
And Lu Zhi's gaze had never once left him.
