The Iceberg Professor Stole the Grass from His Own Backyard

Wealthy, cool professor V mischievous genius young teacher

Also known as The Cool Professor's Cat-and-Mouse Game, The Little Cat Goes Fishing Only to Be Hooked by the Ice-Cold Beauty, and The 007 Boss's Daily Quest to Win Her Wife Back

Four years ago:

"Professor Ye, will you take me on as your first-ever student?"

"Sorry, our research areas aren't a good match."

"Really? What you actually mean is that a student-teacher relationship wouldn't be appropriate, right, Professor Ye?"

"Xiao Wan, you're crossing a line..."

"I didn't say anything... Fine, take care. Goodbye."

Four years later:

At the young talent recruitment meeting, Ye Feichi's phoenix eyes brimmed with tenderness as she spoke in a steady voice: "Associate Professor Mu, come join my group."

Mu Wan replied politely, yet distantly: "Director Ye, that wouldn't be appropriate. Our research areas aren't a good match."

"We share the same pace, and a married couple should pull together. I think it would work," Ye Feichi said, domineering and decisive.

Mu Wan's eyes rippled with warmth. "Oh, I'll get the wedding candy ready as soon as possible. I hope you'll honor us with your presence at the wedding, Director Ye."

Gossip filled the room as everyone speculated about which talented man in the group had managed to win the gifted Mu Wan as his fiancee.

Mu Wan simply lowered her eyes and said nothing.

Ye Feichi, however, looked utterly lost...

Had she really been too late?

Years later, the two walked hand in hand along Jiang University's gingko-lined road in late autumn, just as they had at their first meeting.

Mu Wan smiled and said, "Everyone fears the beauty fading with age, but that setting sun at dusk, on that day so long ago, warmed the eighteen years of darkness in my life."

Ye Feichi's long, narrow phoenix eyes brimmed with tenderness. "But we have nothing to fear. It isn't a beauty growing old, but a beauty longing for Mu Wan, beneath both the morning sun and the setting sun."

Five-year age gap, mutual crushes, first love for both (starts in July, completed manuscript)

Enters the paid serialization period on August 23, updates daily

[Next up] A sweet, all-female tale, The Max-Level Boss and the Pretty Beggar

Five years ago, a country girl picked up a beggar.

Five years later, Great Chu had a new empress.

Lin Yanmei was coming down the mountain after chopping firewood when she stepped on a soft lump of something. Its shape... looked like a person!

"What are you doing?" she asked, frowning at the woman on the ground, whose face was full of despair.

"Waiting to die. Leave me alone..."

Jiang Wanli only wanted to "walk until the stream ran dry," but a country girl forcibly carried her off, making her...

plant beans on the southern hill!

To Lin Yanmei, picking Jiang Wanli up was no different from picking up a rabbit. She simply couldn't bear to let such a beautiful, pitiful-looking woman die on her own.

But she never expected this beggar to be skilled in three hundred and sixty trades. Apart from being frail, she had no flaws.

"Hey, I struck gold!"

Jiang Wanli rolled her eyes and muttered, "What a treasure."

Cool-faced but soft-hearted, she turned the country bumpkin into a female prime minister.

And then, she took her for herself!

Lin Yanmei took care of a frail beggar for three years.

On the day the crown princess, missing from the court for three years, returned, Lin Yanmei fainted right in the throne hall.

When she woke, red candles were burning beside her, the air smelled of wine, and a soft, warm body was in her arms.

Jiang Wanli's phoenix eyes gleamed. "You took care of me for three years. I'll repay you with three lifetimes."

[Guide] A growth story moving from the countryside to the city streets to the imperial court, with a nurturing relationship.

Emperors, kings, ministers, and generals can all be women. Women can marry women in this setting. Includes a secondary couple.

Theme: True love is never too late.