Spend Christmas Eve with Me (Cui Ying X Lian Huai)

At the F University cafeteria, the crowd stirred, and everyone's eyes turned toward the escalator.

A student in a white shirt led a visitor upstairs for a meal. As the escalator carried them up, his profile appeared for a fleeting moment.

But that glimpse was enough to make almost every diner stop eating.

He was handsome and refined, cool and mature, yet still had a youthful air. The white-moonlight male lead from a novel had suddenly taken on a face.

Then the people who didn't know him were filled in by those around them: he was Lian Huai from the School of Economics and Management, the heir to a publicly traded corporation, ranked first in his school. Every year, new students saw his photo on the campus forum and asked for his contact details. He was the ultimate aloof, untouchable heartthrob...

Cui Ying was eating with a friend, who was telling her all the stories about Lian Huai: how disciplined he was, how he never wasted time on social media, how he checked WeChat at set times each day, and how he had never dated because he managed his time so efficiently...

But while her friend rambled on, Cui Ying was typing in a chat window.

“You look good in a white shirt, but it's still not enough.”

“Maybe I should tear the buttons off for you.”

And the supposedly phone-averse prodigy, who never wasted time on pointless socializing, replied instantly: “...”

Lian Huai and Cui Ying were both popular topics on the campus forum, but no one would have guessed they knew each other.

One was a white moonlight, the other a black lotus. One was an outstanding, humble model student, the other a genius who could sleep through an exam and still get full marks. Their personalities seemed like total opposites.

Yet not only did they know each other, they were close enough that the first thing they did when opening their phones was check their chat with each other.

Cui Ying's thoughts before and after meeting Lian Huai:

1. All men in the world are ** (censored profanity)

2. He might be an exception

3. He's a good friend. How could I have other feelings for him?

4. Whatever... I do have other feelings for him

Lian Huai's thoughts after meeting Cui Ying:

1. Could she think of me as something more?

2. What exactly are we to each other?

Since they couldn't answer the second question, they decided to get a marriage certificate first. Whether they were roommates or lovers, making it legal was the best option.

[Reader's Guide]

1. An incredibly sweet little story, all romance and everyday life, with the main appeal being that they date behind the whole school's back

2. The heroine's lines in the blurb are just playful teasing. She likes to flirt with the hero, who always flirts back even harder.

3. A modern parallel-world version of the author's other novel, The Demon Cult Maiden x The Righteous Young Hero

Theme: Soulmates with wonderfully delicious romantic tension