(200,000 words completed before launch)
At a party, Shen Jiwei is asked what her fiance is like.
Speaking as a teacher, Lu Zongheng is the sort of student every teacher would like. His personality is so normal that he seems completely out of place at the Imperial Capital Military University, where the children of all sorts of powerful families gather and melodrama is everywhere.
His sunny, comforting charm is not something he puts on deliberately.
It is a quality found in a child raised beneath the protection of impenetrable dark wings, amid the rare warmth of a cold-blooded family.
From birth, he was destined never to know the kind of despair that makes you worry about your future until you want to die.
After all, while she was losing sleep every night over her associate professor tenure review, he was already being fawned over at parties by the dean and professors, one after another.
"He's the kind of sanctimonious white lotus I hate most," Shen Jiwei says.
Teacher Shen is my fiancee. That's our secret.
She's gentle and graceful, and an outstanding teacher. Her classes always have the highest attendance, and she's beautiful, with teaching skills to match her dazzling resume.
Everyone loves her, but some people take advantage of her kindness and push their luck.
The disgust on her face when a message pops up on her brain-computer in the middle of class, the helpless way she heads to the underground parking garage as soon as class ends, the broken pen in the office trash can: they all tell me one thing.
Maybe my fiancee needs some time after school to unwind.
I send her an invitation on her brain-computer to go shopping with me that afternoon. As always, no matter how busy she is, she won't turn me down.
"So don't bother Teacher anymore." I wipe the blood splattered across my face and speak as pleasantly as I can, but the man at my feet seems unable to hear me.
No matter. The obstacle that might have kept her from enjoying her time after school has been removed. Now, we can look forward to a relaxing, pleasant afternoon.
[Ambitious commoner with a top-dog complex x sunny, secretly twisted celestial aristocrat]
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1. Interstellar aristocratic military academy, with everyday melodrama.
2. The main story is in third person from the heroine's perspective. It opens with the woman at 28 and the man at 18.
3. Everyone-is-smitten Mary Sue, female lead is not a virgin, all male leads are virgins. Includes star-crossed love, brothers at odds, male rivalry, and mad dogs tearing each other apart, among other things. There are many male admirers, all intensely devoted, though she may not return some of their feelings. There is an official male lead.
4. No romance while the teacher-student relationship is ongoing.
Theme: The people you meet while growing up will influence you forever.
