(HP Draco) Professor, Stop Hitting Me!

Lin Xing has been voted Hogwarts' most popular professor for two years running. Those are also the only two years she has spent reigning over the Hogwarts faculty.

She's young and beautiful, assigns little homework, and teaches lively, engaging classes. On top of that, she has the glamour of being a "war hero" and the "youngest Auror." Who wouldn't want a teacher like that? (She's also the most lenient when it comes to granting excuse notes and permission slips.)

But ever since Draco Malfoy became her colleague, those honors have been in jeopardy. He's young and handsome too, his classes are lively and engaging, and damn it, sometimes he even gets to coach Quidditch!

Well, that's life for you. It always likes to hit you with its hardest punch. Your archenemy becomes your colleague, then your next-door neighbor, then your partner... Wait, did we skip a step?

Whatever. Lin Xing can no longer put up with that blond bastard bringing up her embarrassing school days in Potions class, or his daily habit of breaking into her home to mooch off her water and food.

Just like back at school, she got into a big fight with him. The bastard didn't even fight back. Instead, he went straight to the headmaster and reported her, leaving her no choice but to attend counseling once a week.

Ha! Just you wait, Malfoy. Hogwarts' youngest Charms professor is not someone you can mess with!

"Can I kiss you, Professor Lin?"

"How do you know it's not the alcohol talking?"

"I'm quite sure it isn't, because I get this urge when I'm sober too. Oh, don't hit me, you clumsy..."

"If I'm going to kiss you, I might as well kiss everyone at the staff table, so they think I'm completely wasted."

"Oh, don't. You know Longbottom's wife is not someone to mess with, right?"

"Look what you've done, Professor Malfoy."

"Mm-hmm. I think you'll have to get used to it, Professor Lin."

"Get used to it? I thought we were just a one-night stand."

"Oh? Don't think you can sleep with me and then dump me."

Lin Xing thought she'd have to carry her guilt alone forever. Then that annoying blond boy showed up again, teasing her just like he used to, and damn him, he made her feel lively and happy like a girl again.

The war changed many things, but some things are worth remembering forever.

This is a story about two war-traumatized madmen falling in love. It has three main plotlines, both overt and covert, and an outline.

Possible trigger: They are not each other's first love.

P.S. This follows a different timeline from The Arch-Enemy Swap. You can think of it as a parallel world. The two of them never switched bodies here.

Completed work: (HP Draco) What Do I Do After Swapping Bodies with My Arch-Enemy?!

After an ordinary little brawl, I woke up having swapped bodies with my arch-enemy, the school bully Malfoy.

The victim, Miss Lin, thought this was a case of bad luck's mom opening the door to bad luck. It couldn't get any worse!

The paper crane she'd made in first year to mock him was kept in his desk drawer. Well, probably so he wouldn't forget the humiliation he'd suffered that day!

He'd imitated her handwriting in his Potions textbook, writing "Lin Xing" over and over. Well, that was probably some new kind of curse. Maybe if he wrote it on a Dark Arts object, she'd die or something!

If they hadn't swapped bodies, Lin Xing would probably have gone on thinking that Malfoy hated her just as much as she hated him. But why did the words "I'm your very own star" make her heart flutter when the boy looked at her with his gray-blue eyes?

Will the brave lion and the timid snake ever find their happy ending?

Theme: Stay optimistic and live life wholeheartedly.