The Monsoon in Her Hair

Second-year graduate teaching assistant vs. first-year undergraduate

Two female leads / campus romance / secret crush / both with no past relationships / sweet romance

The whole class is afraid of Han Wanqing.

She’s the famously aloof teaching assistant in the finance department. She explains problems coldly, takes attendance without mercy, and grades assignments like an emperor reviewing memorials. Even a simple “Redo this part” is enough to send a chill through your heart.

Shen Zhifei is afraid of her, too.

But somewhere along the way, that fear turned into a crush.

When did it begin?

Maybe on an early autumn morning, when sunlight filtered through the osmanthus trees and fell across Han Wanqing’s hair.

Maybe after a Q&A session, when she lowered her head to explain a problem, her lashes casting a small shadow beneath her eyes.

Or maybe beneath the lights at the New Year’s Eve party, when she held a guitar and sang a song Shen Zhifei had never heard before.

Shen Zhifei couldn’t say.

She only knew that from then on, she started losing control.

She came up with one flimsy excuse after another to see Han Wanqing, and her feelings grew more obvious by the day.

Han Wanqing always kept a cool expression and pulled away quickly, as if one more step closer from Shen Zhifei would shatter the composure she had fought so hard to maintain.

Shen Zhifei didn’t understand.

Han Wanqing showed up when she was sad, remembered things she’d said, and always spotted her first in a crowd.

So why wouldn’t she take a step forward?

Only later did Shen Zhifei learn that Han Wanqing wasn’t born cold.

She had once loved passionately and thrown herself into love without hesitation. But an old relationship had left her stuck in place for too long, until she no longer dared to trust so easily.

One kept fighting to get closer.

The other kept fighting to retreat.

Until one day, Shen Zhifei asked her through reddened eyes:

“Han Wanqing, do you hate me, or are you afraid you might fall for me?”

This time, Han Wanqing finally…