What Goes Through My Mind When I Fall for You

In his sixth year teaching at the province's top high school, Wen Ci was reassigned by his superiors to teach in a small place near Lijiang, Yunnan, with mountains and rivers all around.

There was also a strange bar.

Wen Ci first had a drink with the bar's owner, Bian Zhiliang, at a friend's introduction.

"You're the new teacher from Nanxiao?"

Wen Ci wasn't good at socializing. He nodded. "My name is Wen Ci."

Among these passionate young people, his reserved manner made him feel awkward, especially when faced with that warm, blazing smile.

"What do you teach, Mr. Wen? Art?" Wen Ci said, "Chinese."

Bian Zhiliang studied Wen Ci's face, then let his gaze settle on his lips and chuckled.

"I stand corrected."

"The Chinese teachers we had back then didn't look like you."

Wen Ci smiled, but quietly resolved to keep his distance.

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But from then on, Bian Zhiliang stuck to him.

They kept running into each other at dusk in the old town. He brought an umbrella just in time when Wen Ci was outside the school building in a downpour. When Wen Ci was about to collapse from exhaustion, one hand braced against his aching back, Bian Zhiliang slid a stool over beside him...

Wen Ci took one step back, and he came ten steps closer.

"Won't you give it a try?"

"Try what?" Wen Ci smiled faintly, seemingly without emotion. "The result will be the same either way, won't it?"

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In his thirty-odd years, Bian Zhiliang had never fallen for anyone. The idea of falling in love had always sounded like a joke. Then he met Wen Ci and fell for him in the most ordinary, hopeless way.

Wen Ci always seemed to drift like a cloud, keeping him at arm's length. Bian Zhiliang thought that perhaps he simply didn't like men.

Until he saw a man enter Wen Ci's dormitory. The next morning, he heard Wen Ci hadn't gone to school.

Later, he learned that the man was Wen Ci's ex.

In a fine, slanting rain, Bian Zhiliang picked Wen Ci up from school right in front of that man.

Under the eaves after the rain, Wen Ci's shirt was soaked. Bian Zhiliang reached up and wiped the rain from his chin. "Mr. Wen, stop looking at him."

"Look at me."

Rational, reserved beauty of a teacher bottom x proactive, seductive, calculating, and irresistibly charming top

· A highly educated man "marrying up": watch this refined, long-time bachelor strut his stuff and win over his guarded, love-shy darling!

tips:

1. Both are virgins. The top is a virgin; the bottom has an ex, but they never had sex and there's nothing unresolved between them. A sweet, healing story with a slow pace. If you like fast-paced stories, this may not be for you.

2. The top appears first. For plot reasons, there is more from his point of view before the two begin their flirtation.

Theme: Keep striving to live.