Height difference | Age gap | Difference in status
Lu Xiangchuan is handsome and has had everything go his way since childhood. He's an out-and-out rich young master, but just after getting into graduate school, he faces one of the most humiliating setbacks of his life.
The guy he'd just started dating thought he was broke, hooked up with a rich, handsome man, and dumped him.
Lu Xiangchuan resolves to get revenge. As luck would have it, his roommate is heartbroken over an online romance, and a brilliant idea strikes him: Right, he can use an alt account to trick his ex into an online relationship, then send the chat logs to the rich, handsome guy so his ex loses both his lover and his money.
His ex is every bit the scumbag Lu Xiangchuan expected. After going to all the trouble of adding him as a friend, Lu Xiangchuan discovers that online, the guy has also created an impressive elite persona for himself.
195 centimeters tall, Chinese-American, and a professor at M University.
Lu Xiangchuan sneers to himself and puts even more effort into his performance.
In the pictures his ex sends, he has eight-pack abs, a chest stretching his shirt so tightly that only a thin layer of fabric covers it, and arms as thick as calves.
Lu Xiangchuan smiles and sends over a carefully retouched picture of his legs.
Late at night, his ex sends a request to start a voice call. His voice, altered with a voice changer, is deep and husky, brimming with masculine allure.
Lu Xiangchuan lowers his voice and puts on a sweet, boyish tone.
Pinching his nose, he acts cute, plays games, and discusses coursework with the other man. As he watches the guy grow more and more serious, Lu Xiangchuan feels immensely satisfied.
Lu Xiangchuan's advisor is a very kind person. At the start of the semester, he arranges a dinner with the students in his research group and invites Les, a professor from the neighboring department whom he knows well.
At the table, Lu Xiangchuan freezes when Les speaks.
The man's voice is exactly the same as the one he'd heard on the call last night!
And according to his advisor's introduction, Les fits the online persona of the man Lu Xiangchuan has been catfishing perfectly.
Lu Xiangchuan scrambles to the bathroom and plays back the voice messages to make sure.
Listening to the identical voice in his ear, Lu Xiangchuan blurts out, "I'm doomed."
It seems he tricked the wrong person!
As a professor, Les is unexpectedly broad-shouldered and long-legged, his shirt stretched taut over his muscular build. His mixed-race face attracts countless students who sit in on his lectures.
But his teaching is brutal, earning him a reputation as a devil. He has none of the warmth people associate with the East, and students who have taken his class avoid him like the plague.
Even so, he never expected his good friend's student to run away in terror just from hearing his name.
Until he heard in the bathroom the voice messages he'd sent to his online love the day before.
Once, twice, three times; one message, two, three...
Les came to a halt.
On the afternoon he sent the breakup text, Lu Xiangchuan was caught completely off guard when Les cornered him in his dorm room.
The man was more than half a head taller than him, and his muscular arm blocked any chance of escape.
Lu Xiangchuan stammered on and on.
Les abandoned his usual cold demeanor, lowered his head, and gently coaxed him. "Darling, I don't agree to breaking up."
"W-why not?!"
Les took out his phone and opened a voice message. Lu Xiangchuan's lowered voice came through: "Your goodnight kiss for today, hubby! Mwah! We're going to be together forever."
Lu Xiangchuan's face turned red, but he stubbornly denied it. "Things online don't count!"
Les pressed him against the headboard. His deep blue eyes were dark and unreadable, the corner of his mouth curling with amusement. "Then let's make up for it in real life, darling."
Reader's guide: Modern alternate setting!
The love interest is 35, and the protagonist is 23 (179 centimeters).
The protagonist only dated his ex for a week. They broke up before they had any feelings for each other. The love interest has no exes for now.
Both are sexually inexperienced (if you don't consider having an ex to count, decide for yourself).
Blurb posted on 2026.08.16 and archived.
Theme: Treat people sincerely
