Withdrawal

Zhao Tingming broke up with her girlfriend of two years.

Her ex-girlfriend tried to win her back again and again, but Zhao Tingming, who was usually gentle and considerate, stood her ground for once.

The reason for the breakup was that her girlfriend wanted a lavender marriage, and Zhao Tingming didn’t want to be the other woman.

Zhao Tingming swore she would never date another woman in the closet for the rest of her life.

But before long, she got drunk at the wedding banquet of an elementary school classmate and ended up in bed with someone.

Her one-night stand was a math teacher at County No. 1 High School, and her coworker.

Her shirt buttons always fastened to the very top, every strand of hair combed perfectly into place, and those unfashionable square glasses never off her face. She was County No. 1 High School’s most notorious “iron-fisted headmistress”

Zhou Yin.

Without her old-fashioned glasses, a drunk Zhou Yin looked beautiful when she cried. Her voice was lovely too, and her body was much softer than Zhao Tingming had imagined.

After keeping Zhou Yin busy all night, Zhao Tingming cuddled the sleeping woman before bed, quite pleased with herself as she decided to take responsibility.

But the next day, Zhou Yin coolly got dressed and sneered, “How is a woman supposed to take responsibility? Can we even get married?”

Zhao Tingming: “...How is she in the closet too?”

*

The good news was that Zhou Yin wasn’t in the closet. The bad news was that she couldn’t forget her ex.

As it happened, the bride at the wedding banquet where the two of them had ended up in bed was Zhou Yin’s ex.

Zhou Yin had pretended to be straight to seduce her, using her as an ATM, a nanny, and a little plaything.

Even so, Zhou Yin still couldn’t let her go.

Zhao Tingming and Zhou Yin’s relationship went from a one-night stand to a every-night stand. There wasn’t a bit of genuine affection in it; Zhou Yin was only using Zhao Tingming to get over her ex.

They could sleep together, but the moment they got out of bed, Zhou Yin acted like they didn’t know each other.

At school, she ruthlessly docked points from Zhao Tingming’s class, stopped the takeout Zhao Tingming had ordered from being delivered, and called her out by name at meetings: “Teacher Zhao’s teaching methods are inadequate.”

Zhao Tingming was furious, but still had to keep smiling.

After work, she pinned Zhou Yin to the sofa and rumpled that neat shirt of hers.

She narrowed her eyes and asked softly, “My teaching methods are inadequate, and Teacher Zhou needs kissing. Doesn’t that make us a match made in heaven?”

Zhou Yin’s gaze wavered, but her voice remained stiff and proper.

“You... You stand too close to your students. It could get you into trouble.”

Zhao Tingming was delighted. Zhou Yin was starting to care about her. That meant she couldn’t be far from falling in love with her, right?

*

Zhao Tingming had kept Zhou Yin warm for so long that she thought even a block of wood would have warmed up for her by now.

But Zhou Yin wasn’t wood. She was stone, a damn hard-hearted rock that wouldn’t show a mark even if you took a chisel to it.

Zhao Tingming planned to give up. Loving someone was just too exhausting; she was better off on her own.

As it happened, her ex-girlfriend’s lavender marriage ended in divorce. Zhao Tingming had weathered many storms and long since moved on, so she and a few close friends got together to congratulate her ex on escaping a living hell.

When she got home, though, someone rushed out of the darkness and kissed her, their voice thick with tears.

“Zhao Tingming, don’t leave me...”

Gentle, beautiful biology teacher vs. stern, old-fashioned math teacher

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship.