Co-Authoring a Paper with My Archenemy

Updates three to five chapters a week, depending on the rankings.

The blurb for the upcoming story is at the end.

The academic world’s most legendary public humiliation

A mass-sent breakup email from Lu Yizhi, Qingyu University’s youngest associate professor, sets off a campus-wide gossip storm:

She and Ke Guan, a rising research star who landed a position in the psychology department, had not only torn each other apart in top journals, but had also torn up the bedsheets.

Students go wild discussing the scandal on the anonymous forum. Every hot thread comes with a high-voltage warning:

“Professor L cited Professor K’s retracted paper today. Is this the academic equivalent of hair-pulling?”

“Anyone else notice? Professor K was smiling while Professor L was cursing her out...”

“Gossiping advisor: Why don’t you two just tear down my lab and get married? You even thanked each other in your acknowledgments back then!”

“My advisor’s too busy being lovesick, so I’ll do the research.”

“Are you citing me because you want to get back together?”

“May your p-value stay above 0.05 forever.”

A cold, sharp-tongued associate professor holds grudges so fiercely she uses papers as bathroom reading.

A reckless, straightforward puppy can memorize ten years of data but forgets Valentine’s Day.

They trade barbs in equations and wage cold war through peer reviews,

only to reveal their truest heartbeats in front of a multichannel physiological recording system.

Two powerful women collide. A broken relationship gets a second chance.

A make-up course that turns from data fluctuations to changes in heart rate is about to begin.

[All-female world|Research workplace|Second-chance romance|Academic battleground|Powerful leads trading barbs|Romance-centered with a workplace subplot|Happy ending]

Below is the blurb for upcoming story 1, Paper Romance

Younger devoted bodyguard top x older, talkative CEO bottom

When Xiang Huoyan took over as the group’s vice president, the family power struggle was reaching its peak.

She appeared to be allied with her father, but in reality he controlled her at every turn. Everyone around her had their own agenda. She was used to going it alone and never trusted anyone.

Then Jing Bai appeared

Her new secretary was quiet and efficient, with a spotless background and excellent skills. He helped her get through one business crisis after another.

She thought he was nothing more than a cool, professional tool, until the day Jing Bai stepped in front of her and asked quietly, “Should I take care of them?”

She teased him. “Did I hire you as a secretary, or was I assigned a personal attack dog?”

Jing Bai replied evenly, “Secretaries don’t need to bite.”

Only later did she discover that he didn’t just bite. He was loyal to his master, too.

She also never imagined that when he made his move, he would nearly cost her younger sister her life.

Misjudgment, apologies, and rebuilding trust. The Xiang sisters join forces to uncover the truth behind their mother’s death and begin preparing to fight back against the old patriarchal order.

Just as the power struggle reaches its most intense point, her father begins suppressing her private life and sabotaging her career.

That day, she finds a note on her office desk

The handwriting is familiar, the words brief:

“I only take orders from you, not them.”

Only then does she realize that this “secretary” was deliberately sent to her from the very beginning.

At last, she understands that she isn’t alone.

[Two powerful leads|Younger devoted bodyguard|Family power struggles|Emotional difficulties|Romance and workplace plots|Happy ending]

Upcoming story 2: Childhood Friends, Rivals, and the Secret Identities We Keep from Each Other

When Chu Qiu is cornered by her coworkers and bombarded with questions, she’s completely dumbfounded.

The author credited on a wildly popular, steamy GL novel that has taken the internet by storm is using the online handle she had years ago.

She opens the novel:

“Since childhood, she had been indifferent to the world beyond her books, mature beyond her years, ”

...Wow.

The more she reads, the more the bottom sounds like her.

Who did this?!

She immediately thinks of her childhood friend, the one she spotted at the airport just now, who left without saying goodbye years ago.

The address hasn’t changed, so Chu Qiu heads straight over and bangs on the door. “You have the guts to write it, but not to open the door?”

Inside, Yan Qing clutches her secret identity and vows not to delete the story: It’s under contract, and the numbers are soaring!

Outside, Chu Qiu acts outraged, but she’s panicking inside. That online handle is almost identical to her name in the voice-acting community. What if her fans find out? Her public image would probably collapse on the spot.

Then Chu laoshi’s house springs a leak, and a battle of secret identities begins under one roof.

She reads the chapters with her eyes practically popping out of her head:

How does she even know I wet the bed until I was six?!

The whole internet knows I like to use the bathroom naked?!

Fans cheer: After reading this novel, every last bit of Chu laoshi’s privacy has been exposed!

[Childhood friends|Dual secret identities|Unrequited love becomes mutual|Rational voice actor x ailing writer|Happy ending]

Blurb to be continued.

Theme: Building a harmonious, loving society.