[Strong heroine / heroine isn’t chaste, male lead is / second male lead wins her over]
Shen Zhiwei is the celebrated genius beauty of Peking University’s School of Life Sciences.
She can run experiments, publish in top journals, and make peer reviewers question their lives, but she has never understood why dating has to take up so much time.
Her ex-boyfriend wants her to give up pursuing her PhD in China and move abroad with him. After carefully calculating the time costs of a long-distance relationship, Shen Zhiwei makes her decision on the spot: break up immediately.
But her ex refuses to leave the picture.
Just then, Lu Chen, the computer science senior she once rejected without hesitation at a mixer and now a rising star in AI, comes looking for her.
“Let’s pretend to date. I’m busy with work. I won’t check up on you, cling to you, or interfere with your studies.”
Shen Zhiwei believes him.
Later…
He’s the one keeping her company during late-night experiments. He’s the one funding her research and providing computing power. He’s the one who records his voice for her research AI. And he’s the one reposting her papers every day, wishing the whole world knew his wife could publish in Nature.
When he learns she likes muscular chests, Lu Chen even secretly joins a gym.
At last, Shen Zhiwei realizes something is off. “Didn’t you say you wouldn’t get in my way?”
The man who has been plotting this all along hands her a complete research support proposal without batting an eye.
“I never planned to get in your way.”
“I just want to apply to join your long-term research project.”
She once thought love was a distraction from her scientific career.
Only later did she understand that someone who truly loves her won’t ask her to give up on distant horizons. He’ll help her push the limits of the world even further.
Of course, studying is still all she cares about.
But now, there’s someone by her side while she studies.
