Professor Lin's Fiancée

My Years with Her has begun serialization. The blurb is below. Please add it to your reading list!

In the second semester of her senior year, an elegant, scholarly professor from another university came to give a lecture at the history department.

Her roommate couldn't stop gushing. "He's not only handsome, he's young and highly educated. I heard his family is loaded, too. And his name is so beautiful: Lin Zhaojian."

"The Heart Sutra says, 'When one sees that the five aggregates are empty.' Hey, Su Yun, your name is connected to his."

Su Yun: "Oh."

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Professor Lin stayed two extra days for an academic collaboration. A group of girls went to make conversation and fish for gossip.

Professor Lin smiled faintly. "I'm not engaged, but my heart belongs to someone. She's beautiful."

Everyone saw the ring on his slender finger and came to the obvious conclusion: "That's an engagement ring. Professor Lin already has a fiancee!"

Su Yun was speechless when she heard. That's not an engagement ring. Don't invent a fiancee for him.

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After graduation, the professor really did have a fiancee. He began formally and creatively showing her off to his students in class.

"...That is why Song Dynasty emperors referred to themselves as 'guanjia.' The term gradually spread among the people, and wives began calling their husbands 'gu anren.' Of course, my fiancee doesn't call me guanren, but the way she addresses me does include the word 'guan.'"

"What does she call you?"

"Cat servant."

Su Yun frowned. She was starting to miss the two cats at home.

*

At last, the 500-day trial period was over, and the professor couldn't wait to make their relationship official.

Su Yun: "But according to our agreement, either of us can call off the engagement if we don't agree."

The professor slipped an arm around her waist and kissed her tenderly.

"That's fine. I'll start pursuing you all over again."

Handsome, flirtatious professor x cool, adorable heroine

#When the five aggregates are empty, you are the only thing that's real#

@Notes:

1. This is not a teacher-student romance. The leads have known each other for years and are not in a teacher-student relationship. Nothing romantic happens while they're at school.

2. Seven-year age gap. Both are each other's first love, and both are virgins.

My Years with Her: Blurb

As the current owner of Su City's private classical garden, Liyuan, twenty-one-year-old Jiang Yu has spent everything she has and can no longer afford to repair or maintain the garden...

The landscaping bureau is putting pressure on her, and the nanny who raised her is worried sick, but Jiang Yu calmly sips her tea.

Her relatives have arranged plenty of blind dates, but none have worked out. Instead, word has spread through wealthy circles, along with their mockery: "She won't sell the garden, but nobody's stupid. Who'd volunteer to be a sucker?"

Then Xu Sinian, a mysterious man in the investment world who has been searching for her for years, appears out of nowhere.

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In everyone's eyes, Xu Sinian is a man of refined elegance on the outside, and aloof reserve on the inside. He's never treated a girl this well before.

He brings her home and takes meticulous care of her, commissions custom opera costumes for her, hires a Kunqu opera master to teach her, gives her hair ornaments and Taihu stones, brings in veteran craftsmen to restore the garden, and helps her clean up the mess caused by her earlier blind dates...

But Jiang Yu thinks he's pretty strict, and always trying to manage her.

"I'm evaluating your internship. Don't try to coast through it."

"Don't stay out too late. Curfew is ten thirty."

"If you like Kunqu opera, then study it properly. Don't embarrass me."

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Even passersby can tell that the handsome man's eyes are full of affection, but Jiang Yu keeps pretending not to notice.

Until one day, Jiang Yu feels that she has seen him somewhere before...

After being "missing" for 24 hours, Jiang Yu is caught by Xu Sinian. "Think you've grown wings, huh? You won't answer my calls or reply to my messages. Do you think I've only been good to you to repay you for saving my life?"

Jiang Yu: "..."

Unable to contain himself, he pins her against the wall and kisses her deeply. "You little ingrate. You don't come home, and now you don't want me either?"

A little note:

@Both leads are virgins, with a seven-year age gap.

@Refined tycoon x a ray of light

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