The Author of a Fandom-Defining Masterpiece Abandoned Writing for Engineering

A mature man falls in love. A long, long-distance romance. Younger man/older man. Couple: A flirtatious reporter who still cares for his first love, the top, x a cold, beautiful engineer who is the real-life version of his first love, the bottom. The crew behind the famous dating show A Month Together ran out of ideas for its fourth season, so they turned their attention to niche professions, hoping to create some interesting contrasts. Jiang Yankun had no intention of finding a partner on the show. He had been hung up on his first love for ten years, and just as he was about to confess, that person vanished without a trace. He was only joining the show to use its publicity to find him. Yu Ting wasn't there to find a partner either. The mechanical intelligence and humanitarianism factions in his research field were at each other's throats, and he was simply there to promote his work. Zhang Yutong was the same. He'd just broken up with someone, and when his research institute assigned him a task, he took it as a chance to unwind. Zhao Yihan was the same, too. He'd been single for twenty-one years, and his long-suffering roommate finally couldn't take it anymore and signed him up. The audience soon realized: Good grief, it's a dating show, but not one of them came to date. Still, they all ended up dating. The director simply called this season Matchmaker. Yu Ting has a secret: that's not even his real name. His former career was about as far removed from research as could be. He'd kept his secret identity hidden for ten years, never expecting to run into an old flame as soon as he joined the show. And he'd heard that this old flame had come to find someone. So he tried even harder to keep his secret identity under wraps. When Yu Ting's secret identity was finally exposed, the audience only then realized: Wow, the engineering hotshot used to be a hugely famous reporter, famous enough for his articles to break out of their usual niche. Theme: Let the sciences and humanities both flourish.