After a Socially Anxious Racing Driver Falls in Love Online with a Boxing Champion

*19-year-old prodigy racing driver × 26-year-old Chinese-Russian professional boxing champion

*Height difference: 176 × 196 | Older-partner spoiling | Online romance, identity reveal | Both virgins, one-on-one, happy ending

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Li Li (Miles Li), an F2 driver fighting for a spot on the F1 grid.

After becoming a legend in a rain race, his post-race interview earned him a barrage of criticism from the media. They called him arrogant and a diva because he was so sparing with his words and so stone-faced. Even after winning, he couldn't be bothered to smile, showing no respect for the audience or his fans.

But the prodigy who wore a pink helmet, drove a pink race car, and had absolute control over speed on the track was actually a major social phobe in private.

His manager slapped a tablet down in front of him. "F1 teams need drivers who can at least communicate normally. If you keep this up, no one will want you even after you get your super license."

Li Li shrank into his chair. "...I'll try."

His manager sighed. "Use the summer break to practice getting over your social anxiety on a sports forum. Start with typing, then work your way up to video chats. That should be doable, right?"

With no other choice, Li Li obediently registered on a forum under the username [Bunny Doesn't Talk].

Some time later, his manager noticed Li Li grinning oddly as he chatted on his phone. He glimpsed a chat window filled with "Baby," "Sweetie," "Daddy," and "Darling," and felt his world go dark. "I told you to get over your social anxiety, not to get a partner."

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Jin Zheng (Klim Jin), a Chinese-Russian professional boxer. He was ruthless and merciless in the ring, with a punch powerful enough to shatter an opponent's jaw.

He had just won his fifth WBA super middleweight title defense when he nearly got hit in the chin by a short young man tying his shoelaces in the rehabilitation room.

Acting on instinct, he raised his guard to block, and the other guy immediately teared up.

"I'm not going to hit you." After letting go, Jin Zheng caught the other guy by the collar and pointed at the pink bunny charm on the floor. "You dropped this."

"Th-thank you."

"Anything else?"

"I-it's fine."

"..."

Later, on the racing board of a sports forum, Jin Zheng found a Chinese user named [Bunny Doesn't Talk] saying he'd run into boxing champion Klim in the rehabilitation room and had been scared by his deadly aura.

[K]: As far as I know, Klim only seems deadly in the ring.

[Bunny Doesn't Talk]: Are you a boxer too?

[K]: I'm... a boxing coach.

After that, Li Li ran into Klim in the rehabilitation room every day, then came back at night to complain about him to his online friend K.

"He's so huge. He blocks a third of the light in the room."

"He stretched me today. I almost got dislocated."

"His hands are way too big. His fists could probably shatter my skull."

K patiently listened to him every time and comforted him.

K's gentleness and attentive care made Li Li more and more dependent on him, until the day he found out K was Klim himself.

Li Li was so scared that he immediately deleted his account and blocked him, making a clean getaway.

Later, Jin Zheng cornered him in the rehabilitation room and hoisted him over his shoulder. "Why are you running? Didn't we agree to date, baby?"

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[Reader's Guide]

1. All the sports competition scenes are made up by the author and may feel unrealistic. I'll do my best to keep the logic consistent, but please don't compare them to real life! None of the characters are based on real people. This is entirely fictional!

2. The racing hierarchy is based on formula racing: F1 > F2 > F3 > F4 > karting, with F1 at the top.

3. They're both top competitors in their respective sports. I haven't tagged this as a power couple because their personalities are quite different.

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Theme: A good partner is the best medicine for a wounded heart