Awakening from the Embers

[Modern Romance + Campus Nostalgia + Female Growth] He could solve the most difficult mathematics final question, but he couldn't calculate the girl's heart rate hidden on the scratch paper. Ai Yi was always lecturing Gu Zixi in the third row of the library. The tip of his pencil scratched her sticky note filled with English words, and circled "indifference" into a skewed oval - just like the emotional fill-in-the-blank question that he could never answer correctly. Thirty-eight sets of test papers taught her Lópida's Law, but she couldn't figure out why he would teach others how to draw auxiliary lines after teaching mathematics. Until she saw him tying a scarf for the girl in the next class on Christmas Eve in the same manner as when he taught her about space vectors last week, Gu Zixi finally understood the standard answer to this unsolvable equation. Later, on the day when the IELTS score report arrived, she was organizing notes in her usual place in the library. Hearing familiar footsteps behind her, the pen drew sharp horizontal lines on the English essay - this time it was her turn without raising her head: "Sorry, this seat now charges an hourly rate."