The Transfer Student Is a Two-Faced Black Belly

Next up for preorder: Don't Come to My Office After School Blurb: Zou Baichen sets his sights on a college student working part-time at an all-day tutoring center. The nineteen-year-old teaching assistant has a soothing voice, a gentle temper, and endless patience when explaining problems. But Zou just loves that faint melancholy between his brows, and spends all day tripping him up on purpose, so the poor guy can never leave work on time. Then one day, after Zou leads the others into trouble, he runs into Zhan Han in the stairwell, fresh from putting in eye drops. Without his glasses, the older student seems like a different person. His eyes are as tender and vast as an ocean, and his damp lashes tremble in a way that makes Zou's heart race. The little punk freezes, at a loss for words. Did I bully him so badly he cried? To make up for it, Zou takes the guy under his wing from then on. He starts turning in his homework and tests first, and even takes the initiative to help keep the class in line. Until one day, he hears from his own mother that the always-accommodating teaching assistant is actually a ruthless fighter who can take on six people at once. - In the second month of the school year at Beizhong, a transfer student arrives in the senior year. He dropped out of a prestigious school, is handsome and brilliant, and is immediately recruited by the school's discipline dean to join the Student Self-Discipline Committee. Faced with someone like that, the campus troublemakers close ranks. Another repeat student in the class, who's been held back for two years, warns them with a frown: "Leave him alone. Don't say I didn't warn you. That guy knows exactly how to deal with anyone who won't behave." During the first week's morning uniform inspection, Zhan Han stands in front of Zou Baichen with an armband on. He reaches out and ruffles Zou's bangs, which hang just past his eyebrows. His beautiful eyes give nothing away. "Get it cut." The school bully's smile is complicated. That's it, I'm done for. This kid's sheep's clothing really was fake. - Over time, the students at Beizhong realize Zhan Han is actually a decent guy: straightforward, easy to talk to, and only at odds with one person. He once dragged that guy to the disciplinary office three times in a single day, until he finally gave in. His best friend can't stand to watch and earnestly advises him: "If nothing else works, why not just apologize?" Young Master Zou half-lifts his eyelids. "You don't know jack. If I didn't stick by his pillow and wake him up every morning, he'd be late for morning duty. Do I have to tell you everything?" A free-spirited, fiercely protective northern wolfhound X a gentle-looking, proud falcon (Cover art used with permission from artist S) [Reader's Guide: Check for your own dealbreakers] 1. Both characters' perspectives appear, but most of the story is told from the top's point of view. 2. Age gap: the top is two years younger than the bottom. They are equals in this strong-strong school romance. Read with care if that's not your thing. 3. The bottom is moderately nearsighted. His glasses conceal his good looks, and he gets surgery to remove them later. 4. The story takes place before the education burden-reduction policy was introduced. The characters' region uses the 3+1+2 college entrance exam model. Both characters are adults when they fall for each other. Preorder blurb for Don't Come to My Office After School: After graduating with a master's in education, Chu Cheng gets hired directly by a decent high school in his city through its campus recruitment program. When one of the teachers goes on maternity leave, Chu Cheng is given the difficult task of taking over the school's most challenging elite class. His co-teacher is Yu Siting, the legendary "math and science demon": a cold, blunt, sharp-tongued teacher who turns out top scorers year after year. Chu Cheng thinks dealing with rebellious teenagers will be the biggest challenge of his teaching career. He doesn't expect the class's homeroom teacher to be even harder to deal with. On his first day at work, Yu Siting openly criticizes him in the school administrators' office. "Our class was already weak in Chinese, and there's only two years left until the college entrance exam. You assign me a clueless kid who's just graduated to teach them? What kind of decision is that?" Later, Demon Yu strides into that same office carrying a math textbook and a ruler. His dark, unfathomable eyes cold, he laments that the students are beyond help. "Those little brats really need a good beating. I had just stepped out to attend an exam-planning meeting, and the moment I left, they started picking on my wife in the classroom." A hypocritical, shameless old flirt X a sunny boy from a family of scholars Chinese teacher (Chu Cheng/bottom) Math teacher and homeroom teacher (Yu Siting/top) Theme: Young people carry dreams and keep kindness in their hearts. One day, they will find the place they long for.