Hello, Professor Xu (A Super Sweet Growing-Up Romance)

After Zhou An'an left the orphanage, she found a job waiting tables. When a customer berated her for no reason, she crouched in a corner and cried. Xu Boyan took her in.

Xu Boyan was a teacher at X University. Although he was handsome, he was always serious and stern, with a cold expression that made all the students afraid of him. Every day after work, he would teach Zhou An'an to work hard, strive to improve, and study diligently. She took every word to heart. And because she was terrified of thunder, she also taught herself a new skill:

Crawling into Xu Boyan's bed during a rainstorm.

When she blushed and awkwardly met his gaze under the covers, he found himself momentarily spellbound.

A year later, the two fell out and parted on bad terms. Xu Boyan thought they would never see each other again, but on the first day of graduate school, he saw her in the classroom: no longer insecure and sensitive, but confident and poised in a bright yellow dress.

"Hello, Professor Xu."

"Hello, Zhou."

He adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, not knowing when his eyes had grown red.

Xu Boyan, thank you for this fateful encounter. Though I had no one to rely on and a life full of hardship, I was able to grow and improve alongside you.

Theme: Keep working hard and never give up