To Jingting

Blurb:

Zhou Jingting · Ming Fo

A sickly, aloof, dark literature professor as the top, and a glamorous, illiterate young heiress as the bottom.

The first time Ming Fo saw Zhou Jingting, she rolled her eyes so hard they nearly disappeared into the sky. She told her friend, "A woman like that, acting all high and mighty. She thinks putting on a white shirt will make lesbians fall for her. I wouldn't look twice at her."

But the first time they met officially, they ended up in bed.

Ming Fo wanted to tie Zhou Jingting's hands with a necktie like she'd seen other people do, but she couldn't manage the knot.

Professor Zhou looked up, then used her teeth to tie it herself.

After that, Ming Fo posted in the part-time jobs group at Tinghang University:

[Looking for notes on Chinese literature. Generous reward!]

A little while later, she posted again: [Looking for all the key points on Chinese and foreign literature, plus Professor Zhou Jingting's lecture notes! Extremely generous reward!!!]

Later, when Zhou Jingting casually told Ming Fo about Meng Lijun's struggles in The Tale of Rebirth, Ming Fo only stared at her. Her big, blinking eyes said, I don't understand. I want to kiss you.

So Zhou Jingting put down her book, lifted Ming Fo's chin, and kissed her. "You idiot."

In this secret, strictly defined relationship, Ming Fo was at Zhou Jingting's beck and call.

Her friends couldn't understand it at all.

Ming Fo thought: If you'd heard Zhou Jingting call you a "good little puppy" in bed, you'd be perfectly willing to be her dog, too.

You'd want to pluck this flower from its lofty peak, too.

But Zhou Jingting had clearly told her over and over that she didn't like her.

Ming Fo wrote in her notebook: I'll leave after Zhou Jingting hurts me a hundred times.

When Zhou Jingting saw it, she even smiled and asked, "What number are we at now?"

When Ming Fo's mother was critically ill, Zhou Jingting didn't even send her a word of comfort.

No matter how unwilling she was, it was time to end things.

Ming Fo quietly left.

Two years later, when Zhou Jingting knelt before Ming Fo and begged her to be with her, a dazed look crossed Ming Fo's face. Zhou Jingting was thinking: Could we go back to a time when Ming Fo still loved me?

She was close to breaking.

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Reading guide:

15-year age gap / melodrama, melodrama! / Older lead has long loved someone else, her unattainable white moonlight

The younger lead suffers quite a bit early on / older lead's wife-chasing crematorium: maybe I didn't make it intense enough (kneels)

The older lead has serious character flaws / Stop reading if it makes you uncomfortable

At first, the older lead is 0.1 and the younger lead 0.9; later, they switch roles.

The "Green Clothes" volume features a third female character. The younger lead will get engaged to her (they are only affectionate enough to hug, nothing else. The younger lead does not love her), so please be aware!

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Upcoming story:

Shen Changying · Wen Xu

Dignified and composed, unshakable · Romantic, youthful, and a little crazy

When they were eighteen, their Chinese teacher tossed out name sticks to choose students to answer a question, and the sticks bearing Wen Xu's and Shen Changying's names landed together.

Their classmates started teasing them.

Wen Xu thought at the time: How is this not fate bringing us together for life?

Later, as adults, Wen Xu and Shen Changying fell in love, broke up, and became a bitter couple.

After Wen Xu returned to the country, her cool, distant ex-girlfriend Shen Changying, who had been absent from her life for a long time, suddenly messaged her to ask if she could come sign the papers for her surgery.

Wen Xu had once said, "I'd rather die than see you again."

Shen Changying: "Please."

Wen Xu went.

As she signed the consent form, her hands wouldn't stop shaking. Crying, she asked the doctor if Shen Changying would be okay.

Shen Changying was wheeled out of the operating room before the anesthetic had worn off. When she saw Wen Xu, she started talking nonsense: "Xiao Xu, I love you."

Wen Xu thought: As if you do.

Later, during a humid summer, Wen Xu held Shen Changying by the leg, rubbing her thumb over her pale ankle as she murmured, "Xia Xia, don't hide."

The corners of Shen Changying's eyes glowed like a gorgeous sunset. She leaned forward, smiling, and said, "I won't hide. I'll make it up to you."

Theme: Treasure the person in front of you.