The Nurturing Girlfriend: Flirting with My Landlady

[Cool older woman + older landlady + one heroine + reunited with an old flame + young online romance + no System] When Chen Ran started his freshman year, he rented an apartment nearby. His landlady lived right across the hall. She was as cool as ice and so taciturn that she seemed almost robotic. Whenever they happened to run into each other, she would be sitting alone in a nearby park or on campus, lost in thought. Chen Ran was a good cook and made himself a lavish meal whenever he came home from class. But he had never seen his landlady buy groceries. She always came home carrying a big bag of instant food. Then, one day, Chen Ran noticed that she kept following him after class. ? What was she up to? Living across the hall meant their paths were bound to cross. As time passed, Chen Ran realized that his landlady wasn’t as aloof and distant as she seemed. On rainy days, she would brave the downpour to bring him an umbrella at school... When she found out he was short on money, she offered to lower the rent and invited him to her home... When Chen Ran was burning with a fever and unconscious, she broke down his door and stayed by his side, at a loss for what to do. She even clumsily followed a tutorial to make him nourishing porridge... “Maybe she’s just so lonely that she has to act this cold.” After that, Chen Ran started making an extra serving of food every day. He would chat with her over dinner and cheer her up whenever they ran into each other after class. She remained cold toward everyone else, but with Chen Ran, there was a tenderness no one else ever saw. He always felt there was something strangely familiar about her. But he never imagined that this taciturn, cool woman, so sparing with both words and smiles, was the same online friend he had secretly loved for two years in high school, until circumstances forced him to delete her. With only a door between them, they were both carefully inching closer, unaware that they had already reunited with someone from their past.