Biting into a Tart Fruit

Obsessive, Unhinged Romance / She Runs, He Chases

[The male lead is aloof and hypocritical at first, loses his mind in the middle, and goes completely off the rails later...]

Zhi Xia has caught someone's eye.

If she could, she wished she had never moved into the Gu household.

And she certainly should never have walked over to Gu Jinchen on that summer afternoon and handed him a piece of candy, telling him, "Happy birthday."

After those two words, "Happy birthday," the way Gu Jinchen looked at her changed.

His gaze was dark and heavy, filled with longing and greed.

Countless times, Zhi Xia told herself she was just imagining things.

How could an untouchable young master from a powerful family, the unattainable campus heartthrob of Jing University, possibly care about the daughter of a housekeeper?

That was until one day, she caught Gu Jinchen leaning over the bed, his fingers lightly twisting and tugging at the long slip dress that had gone missing from her wardrobe days ago.

From then on, Gu Jinchen grew more and more unhinged.

In the dimly lit attic, he suddenly appeared and pinned her hard into a corner, his eyes dark and menacing.

"Zhi Xia, why were you talking to that guy today?"

"And what was the deal with that bastard who sent you a love letter last time?"

As soon as the words left his mouth, before she could offer any explanation, a hot, stinging pain came from the base of her neck.

He said it was punishment for not behaving.

That was Gu Jinchen: cold and seemingly chaste in public, but possessive, twisted, unhinged, and cruel in private.

The moment she graduated from university, Zhi Xia seized her chance and ran.

She remembered the day she truly left. Rain poured down as Gu Jinchen chased her to the airport, grabbing her and threatening her, even as he pleaded with her:

"Xia Xia, do you want me to die?"

Two years later, a work assignment left Zhi Xia no choice but to return to Bincheng.

But the instant she swiped her card and pushed open her hotel room door, she froze completely, her eyes trembling with shock.

It was Gu Jinchen.

He sat on the sofa facing the door, legs crossed. Dressed in a suit, he looked noble and aloof, yet beneath the surface, a storm was brewing.

The next moment, he stood and walked over, pressing her against the wall. With a faint, knowing smile, he said those crazed things:

"For two years, I let you go and live freely, though every day felt like a year.

Now that you're back, I think it's time we got married. Don't you agree, Zhi Xia?"

Reader's guide: 1. School life at first, city life later

2. Both leads are each other's first and remain faithful

Screenshot: 2025-5-10

Theme: Loving someone is like tending a flower...

2. Chu Chen, of Class 7, Senior Year 3, is famously hopeless at math. His life motto is "Math can go die," and there's always half an unfinished math test hidden in his schoolbag. Then, on the first day of the new term, the brilliant teammate he works so well with in online games, "Long Live Physics," suddenly turns out to be his new deskmate and neighbor: Cheng Yang, a science whiz who scores nearly full marks in every subject and buttons his shirt all the way to the top.

"You played well in last night's match." Standing at the front of the classroom, Cheng Yang fixed his eyes on Chu Chen, who was sneaking out through the back door.

As the whole class erupted, the toast in Chu Chen's mouth dropped to the floor with a plop. Seeing Teacher Chen's murderous glare, Chu Chen thought, I'm doomed. Looks like there's no escaping math tutoring this term.

"I'll always leave the last question on my physics test for you to answer."

"Then I'll give you half the squares on my composition paper to write a love letter."

It turned out the hardest math problem was calculating how much your heart rate had to accelerate to fall in love with someone.

A collision between two top students: a science prodigy and a little genius in the humanities. They solve problems differently, but their hearts beat in sync.

(Sweet school romance + lighthearted comedy + delicate coming-of-age)

Theme: Proving with a report card that falling in love doesn't have to get in the way of your future