Give Me a Little Heart

[This novel has been extensively revised. Stolen copies circulating online contain the original version and differ greatly from the current text. The complete version is available only on Jinjiang.] "Time has claimed all my devotion, but you alone remain buried deep in my heart.", Lin Ruobai 1. After the college entrance exam, Xu Xin thought she had finally escaped the oppression of her class monitor and deskmate. She was determined to keep her distance and revere Lin Ruobai as if he were a god. But at a friend's wedding, she drank too much and accidentally defiled her god. Terrified out of her wits, she ran away. Years later, they unexpectedly crossed paths again. He had become the youngest professor, while she was an obscure nobody who had come to study. 2. In the year of the college entrance exam, Lin Ruobai gave up his guaranteed admission to Tsinghua for Xu Xin. When it came time to choose a university after the exams, Lin Ruobai, the top scorer in the province, once again gave up invitations from Tsinghua and Peking University for Xu Xin, choosing instead the city where she lived. Xu Xin would never know that Lin Ruobai had filled page after page of his scratch paper with the character for "heart." As the college entrance exams drew to a close, those words became an eternal secret buried in his heart, waiting for the day she would find the key and unlock it. 3. Everyone in the department knew that Professor Lin, the cool, taciturn, celibate heartthrob, kept his distance from women. That was until one day, someone accidentally caught him in his office, holding and passionately kissing the beautiful, fair-skinned new doctor. Everyone was stunned. In the office, Xu Xin stammered nervously, "P-Professor Lin, there's no need to take clinical teaching this seriously." "Oh?" The man took off his white coat and walked toward her step by step. Xu Xin plopped down on the bed and gazed up at him. The man lifted her chin: "Professor Lin? Xin Xin, that's not what you called me that night." Xin Xin, my precious sweetheart. A shameless, goofy heroine who flirts without taking responsibility x a scheming, smoldering hero who insists she take full responsibility once she flirts with him Reunion after years apart / high school flashbacks / college flashbacks / goofy heroine with skin thicker than a wall and a serious itch for trouble / hero who's sweet on the inside but two-faced, a beast in gentleman's clothing Theme: To be added