Three Drops of Water

[The next book, available for pre-order, is about the side couple. Cuties, visit my profile and add it to your favorites~]

Lin Shuxun, the top student and workaholic in A University's physics department, is elusive. Rumor has it the library is her second home, she commutes with nothing but a backpack, and you can only run into her at bonus-credit activities.

She tops her department's rankings year after year and makes the list of the university's most beautiful women every year.

She's beautiful and emotionally intelligent, too, a versatile all-rounder who can take hits or carry a team. She's the department's public face and its beloved treasure.

In the science building, full of ascetics, she's like a fresh and elegant flower.

Just when outsiders thought the physics department had too few men and too many women, a new student arrived. He was a fine, upstanding young man, tall and striking, with an innocent-looking face and impressive grades.

At the time, they each went about their own lives. Apart from regularly "meeting" at the top of the year rankings and on posts on the confession wall, they didn't interfere with each other.

Then a popular post showed the two top students entering and leaving the library together, their words and gestures seeming unusually intimate.

For a while, the confession wall was swept up in a wave of discussion.

One day, someone ran into the rumored female lead on the street and nervously worked up the courage to ask about their relationship. Lin Shuxun thought for a moment, then replied approvingly, "He's serious and has a lot of potential. He's a promising talent."

At the same time, Lu Yanxing, asked the same question, scratched his head, his ears turning red as he stammered, "For now... I'm still working hard."

Sensitive, aloof cat-like beauty x earnest, enthusiastic younger dog

Both are top students.

[Love makes the timid brave]

An older woman and younger man are always in the honeymoon phase.

Subtitle: [I'm not afraid of a workaholic working himself to death. I'm afraid of working so hard that I want to die.]

Synopsis for the next pre-order (title not decided yet):

After the semi-reality show Fake Life became a hit, a long thread appeared on a certain forum late one night.

[Did the top male pretty-boy in the entertainment industry fall for his co-star for real on the show? That look in his eyes is too passionate to be acting.]

The post included a screenshot from the show. In the dim light, a masked man stared intently at half of a woman's face as she turned partly away from the camera. His gaze was passionate and complicated.

The poster added: Jiang the pretty-boy is famous for his wooden acting. His face was still expressionless in his most recent drama, so why does he suddenly look so emotional on a variety show? Only real couples don't have to act, right?

Jiang Yuming's fans who came after hearing about it piled on in the comments:

[Fan 1]: It's so dark, and he's wearing a mask. How did you even get this screenshot? That's obviously just the studio lights reflecting.

[Fan 2]: You're dragging up a drama from two years ago to bash him... Jiang has been taking acting lessons for the past two years, okay? The variety show was just filmed. An expressive gaze means his training worked, man.

[Fan N]: We're taking Ming-ge away, no shipping. He has a non-celebrity girlfriend. They've been together since university, and their relationship has been stable all these years. Don't try to piggyback on him.

Of course, some fans of the couple also spoke up amid the chaos.

[Have You Seen Love Announce Their Relationship Today?]: Boohoo, even though this is obviously a hate post, we're sneaking a bite anyway. We came here to find sweetness in a hater's post. Who has it rougher than us?

Three months later, the long-dormant post suddenly set the trending topics ablaze.

The reason was simple. The woman in the picture, Su Jianxia, formerly an anonymous streamer who barely had any followers, became an overnight sensation after the variety show and platform revealed her identity, and is now a singer-songwriter who can both sing and dance. She posted a screenshot on Weibo with the caption:

"Who's the non-celebrity girl he's loved all along? @JiangYuming_zr"

The hashtag shot to number one in an instant. Not long afterward, the other pretty-boy in question reposted it:

"You already know."

*The side couple's names have been changed, so they differ from the ones in this book.

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Theme: Heaven won't let hardworking kids down.