Sinking into Heartbeats

[Please don't relate this novel to real life. The story is complete. Thank you for your support.] Blurb: Qi Bai, the most handsome guy in the art department at Nanda University, has the looks of a celestial being and a fiery temper. A professor once said his hands were born to hold a paintbrush, and he has no shortage of admirers. After being harassed repeatedly by his most obsessive pursuers, he has no choice but to hire a sex worker as a fake boyfriend to fend them off. His fake boyfriend, Jiang Jianzhi, is tall and elegant, with an air of scholarship. He looks just like a young nobleman stepped out of an ancient painting. Aside from being a little old-fashioned, Jiang Jianzhi is practically the perfect fake boyfriend. Later, after Qi Bai falls for him, he wants Jiang Jianzhi to change jobs. Jiang Jianzhi refuses. “I like my job as it is.” Qi Bai gets angry. “Now that you have me, you can't keep doing this line of work.” Jiang Jianzhi asks why. Qi Bai plants his hands on his hips and glares at him. “Because you aren't being a virtuous boyfriend!” Jiang Jianzhi takes off his glasses, confused. “Being a professor and doing research means I'm not being a virtuous boyfriend?” Qi Bai is at a loss for words. “??? What professor? Aren't you a sex worker?” Jiang Jianzhi: “???” Seeing Jiang Jianzhi's stunned expression, Qi Bai belatedly realizes that there might be a rather enormous misunderstanding between them... Jiang Jianzhi has always been indifferent by nature. He graduated from university at eighteen and became the country's youngest full professor and researcher at twenty-one. He believes that eating and sleeping are both a waste of life. Students: “All he does is research. Professor Jiang is like a machine that only knows how to work!” “He's a cold-blooded tyrant, strict and old-fashioned, with no warmth at all!” Professor Jiang, whose mind is occupied by nothing but experimental data, meets someone who takes up more of his thoughts than his experiments on his twenty-sixth birthday... When news spreads that Jiang Jianzhi is dating someone, the entire university is shocked: “Professor Jiang has ordinary worldly desires after all?!” Nobody believes it until they see Professor Jiang holding hands with a boy so exquisitely handsome he hardly seems real. The entire university: “!!!” [Free-spirited genius painter, bottom × meticulous research powerhouse, top] Please add my upcoming novel, False Crush, to your reading list. Click through my author page to find it. There are lots of completed sweet romances there, too! Blurb: Shi Guanxia is an overworked employee at a major company with the face of a cool beauty. In reality, to trick himself into going to work, he pretends to have a crush on the company president. The president, Lu Youheng, was born with every advantage. He has a model's physique, a top-tier star's face, and is seen by his employees as a cold-hearted tyrant. But that doesn't matter. Shi Guanxia cares about just one thing: The tyrant will never fall for him. To make his fake crush seem more convincing, Shi Guanxia goes out of his way to get close to Lu Youheng. He even writes a little program to keep a diary of his unrequited love and fool himself. A miserable Monday: “Even the wind feels sweet on my way to see the one I love!” Working overtime until the middle of the night: “I get to spend a few more hours with the one I love. What a bargain!” Shi Guanxia is completely immersed in his fake crush until an accident leads the person in question to discover his little program. The program's page displays the kind of unhinged things he wrote while losing his mind over work: “My husband's so hot my legs go weak. He'd be even hotter with no clothes on. I want to sleep with him, hehehe.” “Lu Youheng, you know I've never had a husband since I was a kid.” “Honey, stop working and work on me instead!!” His diary is wildly explicit. He turns everything, whether innocent or not, into something dirty, completely at odds with his usual image. Lu Youheng raises an eyebrow at him. Shi Guanxia struggles to explain. “President Lu... please let me explain.” After learning that the diary is made up and the crush is fake, Lu Youheng says, “...I don't want to hear it.” Shi Guanxia: ? Lu Youheng hires a new junior employee. The young man is handsome and cool, clever and quick-witted, and can perfectly handle any task he's given. Too bad his eyes are no good. He's got a crush on someone who's blind to his feelings and blind to everything else. At first, President Lu says casually: “As long as it doesn't interfere with work, you can like whoever you want.” Later, President Lu grits his teeth: “What on earth is so great about that blind man? Do you really like him that much?” Shi Guanxia: “???” Are you jealous of yourself? Wait, no... I'm faking it, and you're serious? Bonus scene: After Lu Youheng puts every line of the diary into practice, Shi Guanxia says, “...” Is this what people mean by learning from books being no substitute for experience? Why hasn't the vice squad against vice arrested Lu Youheng yet? :) Theme: Stay pure despite being surrounded by darkness