[Cool senior × sweet junior | Mutual Redemption | Pure Campus Romance]
Jiang Yan falls for Tan Song’s cool, handsome face on the first day of school. A white T-shirt, silver-rimmed glasses, aloof and restrained, quiet and distant.
She thinks he’s hard to approach, until
He buys her caramel milk tea and says, “I remembered you like this.”
He gives her star-shaped earrings, his ears turning red as he says, “…They suit you.”
He waits for her in the lab. When he sees her, he looks away, but the corners of his mouth lift.
Only later does she find out that he isn’t aloof. He has social anxiety. In a crowd, he stammers; under someone’s gaze, he can’t get a word out.
Then comes the final-round defense, where he has to speak in front of more than a hundred people for fifteen minutes.
“Senior, I’ll practice with you.”
From two people to twenty. She sits in the front row. “Just look at me.”
On the day of the defense, he looks at her the whole time and gets through every word of his speech.
After practice, in an empty classroom
“Senior, I like you.”
He freezes, his face turning red all the way to his neck. After two deep breaths, he says, “…I like you too.”
The next day, he asks his friend, “What are you supposed to do after you start dating?”
His friend bursts out laughing. “You two finally got together?”
He’s a brilliant young man whose eyes light up when he’s coding, but he’s also a boy whose ears turn red when she smiles.
She is his courage, his light.
[Socially anxious STEM guy × healing girl | Subtle flirtation → Mutual Pursuit] [Sweet from start to finish! No angst! Guaranteed happy ending!]
