Falling Amid the Fragrance of Tea

Upcoming novels: Years of Joy and Starlight in My Arms. Please add them to your reading list! Blurbs below.

After leaving a major corporation, Jiang Weiyu opens a milk tea shop next to her alma mater. She brings sweetness to the students' everyday lives, enjoying a youthful and carefree existence.

One day, after making a delivery, she's caught right outside a classroom by a young professor who's ridiculously good-looking.

Too bad his words are as cold as his face: "Skipping class in front of everyone. What were you thinking?"

When you're out in the world, you can sacrifice yourself, but you must never betray your customers.

She keeps her eyes straight ahead and puffs out her chest. "Youth means you have to be brave sometimes."

Without changing expression, he walks past her. "Come to my office after class. Be brave and write a three-thousand-word self-criticism."

Jiang Weiyu's hands tremble slightly. "I messed up. I was so busy looking at his face, I forgot to dodge."

Most of the students in Li Huaifeng's physics classes are men, but his lectures are always packed with women. This is the first time he's seen someone try to run away.

Only after punishing her does he learn that she's simply a small business owner focused on making money.

Perhaps because she resents being unfairly caught up in the whole thing, she fills her self-criticism with allusions and sarcastic jabs at him for three thousand words.

Professor Li, who normally dislikes sweets, decides to make an exception and patronize her shop, hoping consumerism can smooth over their differences.

He never expects to fall for her.

Later, Professor Li, who knows all the laws of the universe, sets aside his quantum mechanics and shows up at the milk tea shop, blushing.

It turns out that in this world, no one can escape the law of giving in to temptation.

Also known as Professor Li Falls Flat and Gets a Taste for It

Blurb written: October 20, 2022

Weibo: Chi Li Ya

Upcoming campus novel: Years of Joy

The first day Jiang Suisui transfers to No. 1 High School, she offends Xu Zhounian, the school's notorious big shot.

Everyone knows Xu Zhounian is arrogant and volatile, the sort who always gets even. Rumor has it he once broke the leg of someone who offended him, then got them expelled.

When Jiang Suisui hears this, she trembles with fear.

To make it through her senior year at No. 1 High School, Jiang Suisui resolutely decides to apologize to Xu Zhounian. She brings him breakfast every morning, buys him water between classes, and even takes notes for him when he's recovering at home from an injury he got playing basketball. All so he won't take revenge on her.

Because of this, all the hangers-on around Xu Zhounian start saying that the class's top student has a crush on him.

As time goes by, Xu Zhounian starts to believe it too.

Later...

Xu Zhounian gazes intently at the girl before him, looking a little embarrassed. "Jiang Suisui, I accept your advances. I'll be your boyfriend."

Jiang Suisui stares at him in horror. "I... When did I ever pursue you?"

Xu Zhounian: "If you don't like me, why do you bring me breakfast every day and fuss over me?"

Jiang Suisui: "I was afraid you'd get back at me, so I was trying to keep you happy."

Xu Zhounian is furious. Through gritted teeth, he says, "I don't care. I'll take it as you pursuing me, and now I'm agreeing to be your boyfriend."

Jiang Suisui is close to tears. "Please stop coming over. Don't distract me from my studies."

Later, everyone notices Xu Zhounian has completely changed. He stops skipping class and starts sitting in the classroom every day, paying close attention.

"May every year bring you joy, and every year bring you success."

A scheming, vengeful boy with an active inner monologue x a timid, absentminded girl devoted to studying

Starlight in My Arms

In college, Shen Huaizhi and Song Xinghe had a passionate romance.

Everyone thought the two of them would end up together after graduation, but no one expected them to break up so suddenly and go their separate ways.

Years later, they meet again.

She's a patient, and Shen Huaizhi is her attending physician.

A little awkward, Song Xinghe greets him with a polite smile on her pale face. "Long time no see."

He remains expressionless and coldly tells his assistant to schedule the surgery.

Before the anesthetic takes effect, Song Xinghe looks terrified. "I can explain what happened back then! Please spare my life!"

Shen Huaizhi sneers. "Too late."

This time, he'll not only keep her appendix, but keep her too.

*

After she's discharged, Song Xinghe attends a college reunion and spends the whole evening venting:

"What do you call a wolf in sheep's clothing? This is exactly what you call a wolf in sheep's clothing!"

"Dr. Shen is absolutely inhuman. He looks like some untouchable beauty, but in reality..."

Everyone feels her pain but doesn't dare say a word. They sit perfectly still, watching the man in a white coat approach behind her, his face darkening with every step.

She doesn't notice him until he suddenly snatches her wineglass away. She looks up blearily, drunk and confused.

The man she'd just called a wolf in sheep's clothing smiles at her. "Looks like Ms. Song just had her appendix removed. Do you want to lose your liver and gallbladder this soon too?"

Song Xinghe: ...Someone save me!

Theme: Have the courage to pursue your own love.