After Becoming Neighbors with a Gentle Professor

Jiang Lie is radiant and cheerful, with countless admirers.

But she has never fallen for anyone, and has been single for twenty-one years.

At a friend's birthday party, Jiang Lie turns down a confession from a friend.

As she makes an excuse to leave, a drunk woman collapses into her arms.

In a foul mood, Jiang Lie blurts out, "Don't fake an accident."

Jiang Lie is about to push her away and leave her there, but the instant she gets a good look at the woman's face, she shamefully falls for her.

Kindheartedly, she takes the woman to a hotel and waits on her hand and foot. Even when the woman kisses her by force, she doesn't complain.

But when she wakes the next morning, the woman has left without a word.

Jiang Lie flushes with anger and embarrassment. "What a heartless woman!"

When they meet again, they become neighbors.

Jiang Lie calls out provocatively, "Hello, big sis."

As they spend more and more time together, Jiang Lie gradually falls for Su Yunci's tenderness, and can't help but develop feelings for her.

On Valentine's Day, Jiang Lie can't hold back and confesses. Su Yunci is so startled that she moves away that very night.

*

Su Yunci considers herself detached from love, and her life is as bland as plain water.

Then Jiang Lie appears like a ray of sunshine, illuminating her gray, colorless world.

Jiang Lie loves to laugh and fool around, and brings her a "surprise" every day.

When she's with Jiang Lie, happiness seems to come effortlessly.

Su Yunci craves that feeling.

She lets Jiang Lie draw close, clear-eyed as she sinks into feelings that are slowly slipping out of control.

After Valentine's Day.

Everything returns to how it was at the beginning, and she thinks she can accept it calmly.

Until she sees a drunk Jiang Lie reach out to someone else, and realizes she was never prepared to lose her.

She grabs Jiang Lie by the wrist. Her long-suppressed possessiveness can no longer be contained. "Jiang Lie, come home with me."

*

It is May, and graduation is near.

Jiang Lie and Su Yunci walk side by side across the campus of Jiang University.

Thinking of their promise, Jiang Lie smiles. "Professor Su, the endless summer hydrangeas are about to bloom."

Su Yunci doesn't understand what she means, but calmly answers, "Mm."

Inside, though, she is a bundle of nerves. When she gets home, she searches for "endless summer."

"Hope, happiness, romance, love..."

[Flustered Fourth-Year Art Student * Gentle, Reserved Math Professor]

[Nine-Year Age Gap, 1v1, Happy Ending]

[Same-Sex Marriage Setting]

Theme: Love cannot be calculated with reason