Name: South City on Paper
Author: kkokkiiiii

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【Teacher-student romance | nine-year age gap | slow and steady love | reunited after years apart | a little angst | devoted to each other | push and pull | happy ending】 When Shen Zhi was twenty, she knocked over someone’s flyers on the plane-tree-lined path at A University. He crouched to help her pick them up, his fingers long and his knuckles sharply defined. She looked up: broad shoulders, a slim waist, strong brows and bright eyes. He was so cool and detached, he could have stepped out of a painting. Only later did she learn that he was Lu Yanzhou, her new professor. He lectured without emotion; even his punctuation seemed restrained. Sitting in the third row with her chin in her hand, she thought: This man must be exhausted from living. But she never expected him to remember that she liked her soy milk with less sugar, secretly water the pothos in the study room, or stand outside her dorm on a feverish morning with a bowl of century egg and pork congee. He resigned and said, “I don’t want to be your teacher anymore.” She said, “Then I’ll wait for you.” But the winds of convention blew too hard. Rumors cut like knives, and her mother’s tears were like nails. She was the first to let go. He let her leave, saying only, “Shen Zhi, I’m sorry.” That was the only time he ever apologized. For the next two years, she nailed herself to the cross of academia, from North City to South City, from undergraduate to graduate student. The books he sent lay beside her pillow, their title pages reread hundreds upon hundreds of times. The words “South City on Paper” were a secret she wrote in her notes through countless sleepless nights. South City had sweet soups, fireflies, and the bus he had once ridden. There was no him on the page, yet she wrote an entire youth.

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This is a novel about the age difference between teachers and students on campus with a gentle and delicate atmosphere. It has a nine-year age difference and a setting of reunion after a long separation. It is a mixture of sweetness and abuse, and the whole process is smooth and flowing. The first encounter was fixed on Wutong Road in A University. Shen Zhi, a 20-year-old girl, knocked over a flyer and met the cold and restrained Lu Yanzhou. The image of a mature teacher with broad shoulders and a cold face was immediately struck by his heart. Shen Zhi knew that there was a huge gap in their identities and ages, but she still couldn't help but fall deeply in love. She tried to find out the news late at night and thought about his lonely past while admiring the cherry blossoms alone. The story has a strong sense of tension on both sides: on one side is Shen Zhi's stubborn pursuit of Lu Yanzhou, who he shouldn't be attracted to. She waits silently in online chats and carefully explores his past, which is full of restraint and sadness. On the other side is the passionate and straightforward pursuit of young Chen Yubai, which is a sharp contrast between cold and hot, and full of tension. The slightly sadistic plot in the novel is just right. The gap between age and identity, hidden jealousy, and suppressed secret love are unfolded in layers. In the early stage, the campus youth is worried, and in the later stage, they reunite after a long separation, and the two directions go to a happy ending. The text is light and healing, the way home alone under the parasol trees, cherry blossoms, and street lights. The campus scenery creates a long and gentle atmosphere, and the uneasy feeling of a girl's secret love and the restraint and forbearance of an adult are truly and heart-wrenchingly portrayed.
4 likes3mo ago
The text is very delicate, the characters are full-bodied, and the emotional portrayal is just right.
1mo ago
Super nice. Worth recommending
2mo ago
The writing is delicate and the characters are portrayed in a three-dimensional sense.
2mo ago
I just like reading this kind of novel, a long and steady flow
3mo ago
This novel is so sweet!
3mo ago

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