Everyone knows that Fu Yuzhou, the young doctoral advisor hailed as a god of academia, is cold and aloof, devoting himself entirely to the starry sky of scholarship.
And Lin Shun is the most dazzling beauty who should never have appeared in that sky.
When they first meet, Lin Shun is a notorious heartbreaker, beautiful and amorous, changing boyfriends more often than the monsoon winds. At a symposium, he falls in love at first sight with the young doctoral advisor known only through rumors and headlines, then promptly dumps his current boyfriend.
Everyone thinks it's a joke.
A playboy thinks he can pluck that untouchable flower?
Lin Shun pursues him with fanfare: roses, love poems, and public declarations of affection.
Fu Yuzhou turns him down without hesitation. "My time belongs to my research. I don't play games with love."
But the colder Fu Yuzhou is, the more fascinated Lin Shun becomes.
And the iceberg seems to be gradually melting. Lin Shun even thinks that giving a little more of his heart to someone like him might... not be such a bad deal.
Until the celebration banquet, when Lin Shun talks about Fu Yuzhou with his business rival, Li Tuoming. A casual "I'm just playing around" is overheard in full by Fu Yuzhou outside the door.
The man disappears without a trace.
When he appears again, he is surrounded by stars who truly stand as his equals. He looks at Lin Shun more coldly than he would at a stranger's data.
For the first time, Lin Shun learns what heartbreak feels like.
He reins in all his sharp edges and clumsily learns how to love, even wagering his entire fortune just to keep Fu Yuzhou safe and sound.
Holding out his heart, laid bare, he waits in the pouring rain until he is soaked through.
"Fu Yuzhou... I only want you. You, and no one else."
The answer is the man's long-awaited kiss, and a cold pair of handcuffs locked around his wrist.
Fu Yuzhou presses his forehead to Lin Shun's. Behind his glasses, his eyes are as deep as a frozen abyss. Where is the cool self-restraint he used to show?
"I had my eye on you even before the symposium. Every time you 'fell for me,' every step you took toward surrender..."
"It was all a trap I carefully designed for you."
"Lin Shun, the game is over."
"The hunter is ready to close the net."
[Reading Guide]
★ A truly calculating hunter who is warm on the outside and cold within, the academic god as the pursuer x a beautiful, flirtatious menace of a heartbreaker as the pursued. Both are strong and top students.
★ Maximum sexual tension: a stunning reversal in which the hunter gets hunted, full of control and mind games.
★ Deep emotional transformation: from "just playing around" to "it has to be you," with a playboy turning over a new leaf and chasing his love through hell, though the pursuer is actually in control of everything.
★ One-on-one romance, happy ending, two strong leads, intense push and pull.
If the premise is this captivating, the story itself is even better! Add it to your reading list~
Theme: A reformed playboy is worth his weight in gold
