A cocky Chinese-American guy x a sweet international student
With his impossibly cool face, Jiang Yi was secretly photographed and plastered all over study-abroad forums as soon as the semester began.
The whole school talked about him for half a month, and he was instantly hailed as the top celebrity on the international campus.
After his contact information was dug up, his social media was flooded with friend requests in just half a day.
Among all the reserved approaches and subtle confessions in his verification messages,
one outrageous English request stood out:
“I want to come on you.”
I want to f*** on you.
Jiang Yi: ???
Lin Nuo had just arrived to study abroad, and her English was so bad she relied entirely on translation apps to get by.
With the group project deadline looming and her on the verge of a breakdown, her mind was a mess. She copied and pasted, changed the wrong word, and ended up translating “I want to get in touch with you about the group project” into a wildly obscene sentence in English.
As soon as she sent it, she put her phone facedown on the table, panicked enough to want to withdraw from school, then hurried off to wash up and calm down.
When she came back, red-faced and clutching her phone, two messages had popped up:
The first: Your friend request has been accepted.
The second was an extremely brief message from Jiang Yi, cool and flirtatious:
Come where?
For the next few months, they worked on the project online and awkwardly chatted by text. She got by with her terrible English, while he occasionally switched to Chinese to save the conversation.
Finally, the day came to meet in person and work together on their presentation.
Before heading out, Jiang Yi even imagined: a girl who was this bold from the start must be daring and good at flirting.
But throughout their meeting, Lin Nuo kept her head lowered almost to her chest. Her ears stayed red from beginning to end, and she was so nervous she didn’t know what to do with her hands or feet. Her speech was halting and soft, and she was unbelievably innocent.
When it was finally over, Lin Nuo made a lightning-fast escape, but he caught her.
It was raining at dusk, and he cornered her until she was so upset she nearly cried. Jiang Yi handed her an umbrella and lowered his head, his voice deep: “I’m giving you an umbrella. What are you afraid of? I’m not going to eat you.”
Lin Nuo gripped the hem of her clothes, too scared to speak.
“You were so bold in your first message, and now you’re chickening out?”
“Who was it that sent me an English message at the start, saying she absolutely had to team up with me?”
Blurb written on April 6, 2026
One-sentence pitch: [Lin Nuo Teaches You English]
Theme: Love the world, love you
