The Number One Collector

● Glamorous, flirtatious, and haughty painter (bold and direct) x earnest, reserved, and old-fashioned physicist (secretly passionate)

● Upcoming novels: Marriage Before Love: I Really Love Older Men, After All [Marriage Before Love]; [Quick Transmigration] Saving the Down-and-Out Puppy; Love and Abandonment. Please add them to your reading list.

Pei Qingwu, a researcher who returned from abroad to work at the Beicheng Institute of Physics, is hailed as the "Son of Truth" for his extraordinary intelligence. Aloof and inarticulate, he is also breathtakingly handsome, with no equal in the world.

Liu Feixu, from Beicheng Academy of Fine Arts, is peerlessly talented and beautiful. Because she has had so many rumored boyfriends, people jokingly call her a handbook for collecting handsome men.

A friend of hers is a fan of Pei Qingwu and asks, "You're single now. Have you considered pursuing Professor Pei?"

Liu Feixu: "I'm not into bookworms."

In the car in the next lane, the man heard every word. His brows furrowed, his phoenix eyes darkening.

A spring evening, with plane-tree fluff drifting on the breeze.

At last, Pei Qingwu meets Liu Feixu, who approaches him first.

"Pei Qingwu, would you be my model?"

Rumor has it that every model Liu Feixu takes a liking to ends up sharing her bed and becoming her devoted admirer.

The earnest physicist feigns composure. "Sure."

In her private studio, Pei Qingwu sits stiffly on a carefully arranged velvet sofa, at a loss for what to do.

At Liu Feixu's direction, he obediently takes off his jacket. His broad shoulders and narrow waist are revealed beneath his half-open shirt, letting the spring sunshine peek through.

Liu Feixu leans in and tips up his chin, teasing him on purpose. "Professor Pei, you agreed so quickly. Are you short on cash lately?"

Pei Qingwu wears a newly purchased shirt worth five figures, his ears turning red.

"Yeah."

[Reader's Guide]

1. One-on-one, both leads' firsts; a universally adored heroine; romantic rivals; a groveling ex; childhood friends.

2. Painter x physicist. Not a teacher-student romance. The male lead is a researcher at a university institute, equivalent in rank to a professor but not a faculty member. The heroine calls him "Teacher" in the story just to tease him by bringing up the past.

3. Set in a fictional world, with no real-life inspirations. There is no underage romance in this story, and it takes a critical view of underage romance.

4. More details will be added if I think of any.

● Upcoming novel: [Quick Transmigration] Saving the Down-and-Out Puppy. Please add it to your reading list. Blurb below.

● [Quick Transmigration] Saving the Down-and-Out Puppy

Unlucky Wen Ci'en signs a contract with a System calling itself the [Save the World Project] to pay her mortgage. Her job is to travel to different worlds and save their down-and-out protagonists.

With no romantic experience, Wen Ci'en has read plenty of quick-transmigration novels. Worried, she asks, "I don't have to fall in love with them like the characters in those novels, do I?"

The System's icy mechanical voice is tinged with mockery: [You have a rather mistaken idea of your own charm.]

Wen Ci'en laughs awkwardly, relieved.

But then...

A gloomy young man kisses and bites her through the night, tears streaming down his face. A sword cultivator prodigy who has fallen into demonic ways kneels at her feet, begging for her favor...

The System's tasks grow increasingly outrageous:

[Respond to him]

[Kiss him]

As Wen Ci'en flees, she can't help demanding, "Didn't you say I wouldn't have to date them?!"

She's just doing a job. She doesn't want to sell herself!

Red marks cover her delicate neck, and an all-encompassing sense of surveillance closes in.

[Beep... Beep...]

The mocking mechanical voice vanishes, replaced by deafening static.

[Reader's Guide]

1. An episodic quick-transmigration novel, as the title says, focused on redemption.

2. A wild, unrestrained story written to indulge my personal tastes.

3. The title and blurb are provisional and will be polished later.

Theme: Dare to express yourself.