[A morally upright, older wolf-dog type × a love-starved, sharp-tongued, broken girl. Twelve-year age gap, forbidden teacher-student romance, a sweet-and-angsty romantic comedy.]
The moment I bought the DR diamond ring, I knew I was done for in this lifetime.
Ke Guxin
Her name is Yi Bixiao. She’s eighteen, from a family so rotten to the core it’s beyond saving, prone to crying at the drop of a hat, and always threatening to die.
His name is Ke Guxin. He’s thirty, the youngest advanced mathematics teacher at X University, cool and self-controlled, with a stronger sense of morality than self-preservation.
In her senior year of high school, she latched onto him in a gardening-and-retirement game and insisted they date online. He said they could just chat, since he was too old for her. They made a pact: whoever started dating someone would tell the other, and they’d delete each other from their friends list.
Later, she got into X University and became his student. She deleted him and got a new boyfriend. He watched her from the lectern, outwardly calm while jealousy churned inside him.
He said, “I pursued her for two years before she finally said yes.”
Her ex said, “If anyone’s to blame, it’s the academic advisor for being so good at pursuing her. It has nothing to do with her.”
Caught between two men, she felt two little people in her head fighting. In the end, she threw in the towel.
“You two can decide for yourselves who’s staying and who’s leaving. I’m done getting involved.”
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