Don't Touch Him

Back in high school, everyone knew Lin Yinhuan, the school bully, was carefree and bold, with a fiery temper and no rivals for miles around. Who wouldn't respectfully call her Sister Huan? For some reason, in her sophomore year, she mellowed out and changed her ways, putting on the mask of a well-behaved girl.

Nanan Private High spent a fortune building a new science lab specifically for research by the ISN laboratory. On the day the principal introduced it in the auditorium, the man onstage won the secret admiration of a crowd of high school students with his striking looks and brilliant mind.

But no one dared make a move. Only Lin Yinhuan was audacious enough to pursue Xu Qingyi. She changed her old domineering ways, stuck to his side all day, and was sweet as could be, embodying the phrase "give an inch, take a mile" to perfection:

"Big brother, I can't get up."

"Big brother, could you carry me upstairs while you're at it?"

"Big brother, will you come with me to the bookstore to buy reference books?"

The day before her eighteenth birthday, she chose to confess her feelings, like a condemned spirit waiting for judgment. He chose to send her plummeting into the abyss. Lin Yinhuan swore she would never like Xu Qingyi again, not in this lifetime.

Years later, he came back into Lin Yinhuan's view because of a trending topic on Weibo:

#The Otherworldly Good Looks of the ISN Research Team

In the photo, he and the woman beside him were hailed by netizens as a perfect match, and a wave of shippers sprang up around them.

She scoffed. They were still ranked below her trending topic, after all.

Later, at a dinner gathering, Xu Qingyi pulled the woman into the private room next door and pinned her against the table, kissing her fiercely. When she finally asked him the question she had asked years ago, his eyes reddened and his arrogance vanished. After a long pause, he rasped, "I do like you."

The woman chuckled. "You're answering pretty quickly today."

Then she walked away without looking back.

Xu Qingyi's little shadow struggles with her grades and needs tutoring; she gets upset and needs comforting. Hearing her call him big brother is enough to drive him crazy.

"I was once like a lonely ghost, with a hole in my heart and a mass of rotten flesh decaying inside. I never imagined that one day a faint ray of sunshine would shine through that broken hole and tell me to start here, to learn to live in the sunlight."

Notes:

1. School life and workplace

2. Age gap

3. The male lead has a skin-contact disorder

4. The female lead becomes a powerful singer later in the story

Theme: Love and growth