(Sweet, adorable artist × cool, aloof math teacher | mutual pining | six-year age gap + sweet, healing romance)
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Ning Ruanruan learns that he’s been dancing intimately with a beautiful woman. Clutching a beer, she squats in the hallway of her new apartment, drinking and crying. Then she realizes she left her keys inside.
At eleven at night, the door across the hall opens. Shen Yunqing steps out, her Chinese teacher from senior year of high school. With her picture-perfect features and gentle, distant manner, she was the unattainable dream girl every student wanted.
She brings Ning Ruanruan inside, covers her with a blanket, and stays up all night to look after her. Blushing, Ning Ruanruan thanks her. Shen Yunqing says mildly, “Don’t drink in the hallway again. It’s not safe.”
Ning Ruanruan nods furiously, screaming inwardly: How is Teacher Shen even prettier than she was in high school?
What she doesn’t know is that Shen Yunqing kept the doodle she drew on a whim when she graduated, hidden in a drawer for six years. Nor does she know that the teacher who seems gentle with everyone had already unlocked her heart completely the moment Ning Ruanruan crouched on the floor in tears.
“I’ve spent my whole life distant and indifferent. Only with you am I gentler than I ever thought I could be.”
Good-looking and good-looking (^ω^)(≧▽≦)