Drifting Among the Stars in Slumber

Jiang Feng's life was ordinary and followed a predictable course: she graduated from a teacher-training college, squeezed into a second-rate school, and struggled to make ends meet.

That was until she met Lu Jinnian.

The youngest deputy division director in the Provincial Department of Education and a promising future vice dean, she was like a shooting star suddenly streaking across Jiang Feng's peaceful night sky, brilliant and impossibly far away.

She sat in on one of Jiang Feng's classes, and her advice made Jiang Feng's heart race.

She kissed Jiang Feng when she was drunk, but chose to forget it when she sobered up.

She said, "I can't commit to an intimate relationship with anyone."

Jiang Feng smiled. "All right. I won't bother you anymore."

She put away her humble unrequited love, quit her job, and took the graduate school entrance exam, only to unexpectedly be assigned to the university where Lu Jinnian worked.

The stars still shone brilliantly, but Jiang Feng had learned to stop looking up at them.

What she didn't know was this:

Every night Lu Jinnian lay awake, she fell asleep listening to Jiang Feng's reading livestream.

Whenever Jiang Feng ran into trouble, Lu Jinnian quietly resolved it behind the scenes.

When Lu Jinnian finally understood her own heart and cornered Jiang Feng in a library alcove, eyes red, Jiang Feng merely glanced up calmly.

"Dean Lu, didn't we already go our separate ways?"

[I tried so hard to reach you, light-years away, only to discover you had already come for me.]

Theme: Love life and study hard.