Moving In with My Crush

[Please be sure to check the content warnings at the bottom of the blurb and in the author’s note for Chapter One]

Lu Hui has had a crush on Professor Xun from the university next door for five years.

She’s just one introduction away from dating her.

But Lu Hui doesn’t dare. She’s terrified of being rejected.

Until one day…

Xun Lianzhi has an accident and nearly dies.

Lu Hui unexpectedly comes to her rescue. From then on, Xun Lianzhi knows her, remembers her, and even adds her contact information.

But Lu Hui changes her mind.

She no longer hopes to become her lover.

Lu Hui thinks that as long as she’s safe and well,

as long as Lu Hui can stay by her side forever as a friend, protecting and caring for her,

that’s enough.

…

But things seem to be taking a turn Lu Hui never expected.

One day, Lu Hui suddenly receives an invitation from Xun Lianzhi to move into her crush’s home.

Couple: A two-faced, vicious graduate student who’s sunny only for his wife × a cool, aloof professor who saw through this dog ages ago but remains emotionally unruffled

Before you read:

1. The cover is exclusive and must not be reused. Respect creative work; do not feed it to AI.

2. Happy ending. This is probably a short, romance-focused story. The leads have a seven-year age gap and attend different universities and study different subjects. There is no teacher-student relationship between them. If you see any strange forms of address such as “senior,” “upperclassman,” “teacher,” or “professor,” Lu Hui is just talking big and claiming nonexistent relatives.

3. The universities, degrees, and academic programs in this story are all the author’s made-up inventions. The setting is entirely fictional, so please don’t compare it to reality.

A completed story in the same series is available in my collection: “Lu Lives Like a Two-Legged Beast (Mermaid).” It can be read on its own; the stories just share a setting, each focuses only on its main couple, and neither has a secondary couple.

4. Overall, this isn’t really a story about saving someone.

5. Blurb written on 231005; revised on 250327. Thank you for preordering.

Content warnings

[One of the leads has experienced sexual assault and a miscarriage.] Once I’ve filled in this plot point, I will never again include this kind of crime in any of my stories.

One of the leads in this story was originally a supporting character in my previous novel. Two years later, I looked back at the story I wrote then and couldn’t understand why I’d written that plot point. It did have some narrative logic in the previous novel, but if I were writing it now, I would choose to keep it out of the fictional world, no matter how logical it might be or how much the plot seemed to need it. So I won’t include this kind of plot in my future stories, whether the crime is committed against a protagonist, a supporting character, or an unnamed passerby. If this makes you uncomfortable, please stop reading.

Theme: Independence and self-reliance